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[Redbelle]

Had a thought niggling at the back of my mind for some time and it finally came through. The Reapers have in the past been described as many minds inside of one body. From the human perspective this could result in a full blown case of multiple personalty disorder. Yet despite many minds being housed in the Reaper body they seem either united in the Reaper mandate of harvesting more to be like them or they are supressed in some form.

I should say before I proceed that I have no evidence to back up this idea beyond that niggling thought of how, if indoctrination theory holds, Shepard could beat the Reapers.

Here's the logic. The Reapers have been after Shep since ME1. They made a grab for his body before ME2 and showed substantial interest in him during ME2. The question is why and indocrination theory might hold the key.

Shepard can resist indoctrination. The power to resist indoctrination rests in Shepard and in a leap of faith and logic what if Shep him/her self is the catalyst? (Kind of downplays the citadels role but to be fair even when citadel and crucible came together it didn't do anything till Shep made a choice). Thus far the Crucible has been shown to have the power to send out energy waves that rewrite DNA, destroy synthetic life or rather the software/algarythms..... the spark that allows software to operate by it's own agenda or to send signals to the Reapers to withdraw. Those are 3 fairly unique options that got buried under the whole, "The cutscenes are just different colours," discussions.

This post boils down to hypothesis. If the Reapers are cages holding indoctrinated minds and DNA captive could Shep use the crucible to free those minds to be independent once more thus taking a Reaper and turning it into something which idealogically is not a Reaper.

Have to admit putting this down in words I'm sensing some logic gaps but the I believe the possibility of using the crucible to free all living things from indoctrination and allowing life to express itself in it's diversity is one of the things that made the Mass Effect universe great.

While the Reapers are big bads I see indoctrination as being the greater threat. The Protheans may have kept a viable gene pool to rebuild their civilisation and been in position to destroy the Reapers later if indoctrinated Reaper servents hadn't betrayed them. Soverign needed Saren to do his work to open the citadel to dark space.