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[Jadebaby]

Okay so this is about....
Little boy blue and one man/woman platoon??  See what I did there...

The idea of preserving organics by harvesting them to prevent synthetics from completely wiping out organic life, genius. And gave new light on the "your salvation through destruction" quote. However, wouldn't that be how they got there in the 1st place? And if so, then aren't they just apart of the cycle themselves?

If im not lost here, that would mean they're stopping themselves from exterminating organic life again, by exterminating organic life?


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[Computron2000]

I believe the entire cycle thing was about stopping synthetics from wiping out all life, including cavemen and stone age creatures. Probably it was an idea of losing some is better than losing all with the "bonus" that the ones lost are not really lost, just goo in a Reaper

[The Angry One]

The cycle is what happens when you want to copy Battlestar Galactica and fail to realise the logic was flawed there too.
Especially when there are so many other ways to ensure this doesn't happen (even though the logic is broken and disproved by events in the game).

You could make sure no civilisation advances beyond the space age by bombing them.
You could indoctrinate all organics.
You could exterminate any synthetic life form that poses a threat.
You could tell the organics that it's a bad idea.
You could tell the organics that it's a bad idea, and add that if they do it anyway you'll blow them up.

But no let's take the most roundabout genocidal idiotic way!

[Jadebaby]

Agreed, but what I was getting at is the crucible is obviously some impossibly ancient AI... So how do they fit into it?
Either way, your right, it's flawed. It's just I was enjoying the game SO much before it got dropped on it's head.

[Avissel]

The Angry One wrote...
But no let's take the most roundabout genocidal idiotic way!

You forgot an option to end the cycle by just rendering every life bearing planet a smokeing cinder. No organic life to create the synthetic life to begin with!

[The Angry One]

Presumably it was created long ago, and witnessed enough destruction to be convinced that organic extermination is inevitable... even though organic life was obviously never totally exterminated before the Reapers.. and it itself contradicts it's own philosophy by being synthetic and not wanting to exterminate all organic life.

Agh, even the plot holes have plot holes!

[Jadebaby]

The Angry One wrote...

Presumably it was created long ago, and witnessed enough destruction to be convinced that organic extermination is inevitable... even though organic life was obviously never totally exterminated before the Reapers.. and it itself contradicts it's own philosophy by being synthetic and not wanting to exterminate all organic life.

Agh, even the plot holes have plot holes!

LOL You hit the nail on the head!

I cannot beleive something that prided itself on it's lore could do that. And we all thought deception was bad.....