SS2Dante wrote...
Well, several. One is that the entire theme of the game is the repeated cycle, in which we have been told several times that at some point there is a synthetic organic war.
The cycle is about the Reapers destroying organic civilizations. Yes, there were organic/synthetic conflicts in both the prothean and council cycles, but unless I'm very much mistaken, the protheans won the former and the quarians could have won the latter
had the reapers not intervened.
SS2Dante wrote...
Second is the starchild. You can either believe everything he says, or nothing. There really isn't a middle ground, because then you're just picking and choosing the stuff you like, and you can debate about it forever without any answers. Without IT there isn't a serious, practical reason to disbelieve a being MUCH older than you, that has seen MUCH more than you.
The point of what I'm saying is that
nothing the Catalyst says can be trusted or taken seriously, as its explanation and argument for the reaper cycle is inherently flawed. And there are practical reasons to distrust an ancient intelligence. It being active or complacent in the genocide of entire species being one of them. And being ancient and well experienced does not prevent anyone,
anyone from having mistaken beliefs, assumptions, or being immune to good old fashioned
insanity or malice. If the Catalyst survived so long then yes, I doubt that it's stupid. Doesn't mean that it's either lying or
frelling paranoid.
SS2Dante wrote...
Third is the basic nature of warfare. All species fight. However, synthetics are generally better at physical tasks like warfare. So they will win wars (just as they did when they rebelled). Even if they had no statistical advantage, all it takes is one synthetic race to win by accident, and organic life is done. The probability of this on a long enough timeline is very high.
Like I said, even if the odds are tiny, from a galactic timeline view, it's going to happen.
Even if we can assume that this is indeed the case, and we still have no evidence that it is. Yes it's a realisitc possibility as Project Overlord showed. BUT... We never hear of the Catalyst or the reapers trying anything to prevent this cataclysm except to burn galactic civilizations to the ground. I asked earlier, why didn't the reapers communicate their objectives? Why don't the reapers take an active affair in galactic affairs to prevent any race, organic or synthetic, from taking over? Why whip out the hammer every few millenia when they obviously have the time and power to oversee the galaxy and steee it's development in non-destructive ways? Instead, Sovereign, Harbinger, and Rannochdude don't communicate anything but their arrogance and contempt for organic life.
Yeah.Doesn't matter how good your reasons are. You can't claim the ends justify the means without proving that all other means weren't attempted. Ultiamtely, if we could even believe that the Catalyst believes what it said, then I see no other interpretation than that the Catalyst and the reapers are the very devils they claim to prevent.
Modifié par Simon_Says, 26 avril 2012 - 11:28 .