Saren wanted to "rescue" the galaxy by being a slave of the Reapers. As his organic body dies on the Citadel, his mechanical appearance, used by Sovereign, attacks you. So Saren turns himself away from the Reapers influence and thus, the organic body is useless for Sovereign.
I want you to post some of your thoughts and suggestions about letting him ressurect and reappear in Mass Effect 3. Critiques are welcome, too.
The following part is my suggestion. Skip this if you don't want to read.
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As some of you probably know there is a concept for Saren as phisically weaker and older appearance which was made since the work on Mass Effect 1.
It always reminds me of Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars. :happy:
However, I always liked that concept some kind of and it maybe would fit, with some changes on the overall appearance, in Mass Effect 3.
Why not letting Saren return as an own unfaithful Reaper renegade who feels the great void of his life, his actions and overall behavior before and doesn't have a plan what to do in his new form of life?
Maybe there could be a Saren cult which exists since the events of Mass Effect 1. They are some kind of possessed to bring Saren back to the living. They were the ones who made the statue of him seen on Bekenstein in Kasumi's loyalty mission. They searched for ways to bring him back, collecting old Reaper tech and other mechanical parts. The greatest problem of all for them is to bring back his personality. So they need help from someone who can do this: Harbinger.
In fact this cult works for the Reapers, who want to get the knowledge of Sovereign, which is sealed in Saren's mind. The cultists think that Saren is their "golden target" and they don't know that they are working for Harbinger, whose target is gaining knowledge of Sovereign's fall.
However, with some help of Harbinger the cultists managed to rebuild a body for Saren, which has to be a techno-organic synthesis between a Reaper body and an organic body. As it's the medium for Sovereign's mind it needs to have Reaper tech. As medium for Saren's mind, which is the key to Sovereign's knowledge, it has to be an organic body for Saren's mind. For Harbinger Saren is only the key to Sovereigns mind.
So as the cultists managed to ressurect Saren, he could have the form shown above mixed with some mechanical Marauder parts or Reaper parts in general.
With the sucess of the cultists he awakes with the power of a Reaper but he does not stand under
their control. A necessary risk for Harbinger's plan to gain Sovereign's memory.
Saren also has no plan what to do with his new power and his overall new identity. He awakens as a some kind of old, broken techno-organical but powerful turian spectre.
Something like a hermit living on an ice planet passively watching the whole events without being directly included in the events around. That would add some nihilistic touch generally to the fact of being indoctrinated. Sometimes he just appears and helps Shepard without reason and without showing his identity immediately to him. He's the great unkown helper.
As temporary character this would be very interesting. Harbinger has his own plans with him, but Saren is just out of buisness at all. He is not indoctrinated by the Reapers and noone in the galaxy would trust him. So he has to be some kind of a hermit, searching for a sense in his new existence. In the course of the Reaper war he learns about his past and his mistakes in the past. He doesn't know about his new role at all.
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example when he fights Marauders he could say something like:
"I don't know what they are. They are... Like me. Are they brothers? Foes? Shepard, I don't know. As you freed my organic mind from indoctrination I was... dead. But now I'm just... there, neither dead nor living. My indoctrinated organic mind wanted power, I wanted rage on the Reapers for indoctrinating our galaxy... But I fell asleep following their unfailable call. Now I feel... nothing. No rage, no wounds, no pain of beeing indoctrinated. I'm brought back from the void into another void. And the Reapers... They still are. I don't belong to this realm, I don't belong to anything. There is no future, no beginning, no end."
He would be splitted between a Reaper mind mixed with shards of his old mind, before being indoctrinated by
Sovereign. He can't remember all things during being indoctrinated and thus he can't remember as reappearing machine after he kills himself on the Citadel. The whole sarcasm on the whole thing is, that he now has his power but don't know what to do with it. Maybe in the final moments he finds out his new place and influences the end of the Reaper war for good. Harbinger failed on his plans with Saren.
There also could be some funny moments with him. For example two geth (if saved) are looking at him, then both have a look at each other, then pointing their weapons to Saren.
- Shepard: Wait! He's not a danger!
- Geth (looking at each other): Shepard Commander?
- Shepard: Does this maze never takes an end?
- Saren: I could say that, too.
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Well, it's just a suggestion though. What do you think of Saren being ressurected in Mass Effect 3?
Modifié par Plejadenwolf, 17 mars 2012 - 03:56 .
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