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[CanadianGunshy]

I had two theories.

First one: The crucible is a trap. A oddly placed file that had never been found since the discovery of the Mars Archives or even the Asari archives turning up JUST as the reapers start knocking down everyone's door? If I was a highly advanced civilization leaving breadcrumbs behind to prevent a mass extinction - the first thing in the encyclopedia entries would be "Reapers" and "The weapon we tried to build to kill them.". Would not have hidden it under several thousand other entries for the sake of alphabetical order. Also would have mentioned what it did. Kept going through the game expecting the Crucible to be reaper red herring, a object that the organics create each cycle to stop a menace as their last ditch effort. But instead it kills organics to make reapers.

Second theory: Mass Effect nuke. The game's tech base is entirely on the Mass Effect, matter acceleration via Eezo. Reaper ships have it as their core. Thought the crucible (on the off chance it wasn't a trap) might blow up everything with a mass effect core. Effectively crippling the galaxy and killing virtually everyone on a ship or near a relay... but deals with reapers.

What did you guys think it did before you found out?

[Taleroth]

What any good plot device does. Malfunction spectacularly, forcing a last minute scramble to the true resolution.

Modifié par Taleroth, 10 avril 2012 - 02:43 .

[Asch Lavigne]

I thought it would do pretty much what it did in the Destroy ending; kill Reapers and all their technology.

[LucasShark]

I figured it would exploit some weakness in the reapers: their control over their forces maybe to free them up to being attacked conventionally.

[inko1nsiderate]

I figured it would come with a pretty steep cost, and that cost would probably be the life of Shepard and her squad (expected to press a button with Liara so we could die together) and probably the destruction of the Mass Relays in a way that wouldn't kill everyone. Other than that, I didn't really know. What I was sure, was that the Catalyst couldn't be anything conventional, otherwise how come the Protheans didn't find it? I was expecting some crazy twist like 'you've had it all along!' or something.

[incinerator950]

I thought it was an attachment to a Mass Relay that turned it into a giant cannon.

[firebreather19]

I honestly just didn't expect it to work at all. Like be a dud.

I'm surprised it did.

[The Charnel Expanse]

I always suspected that it would destroy the relays [or at least render them useless].
There must be something unique about reaper tech that the writers feel inclined to keep reminding you of that fact. And the relays are reaper tech. Therefore it stood to reason that it would be something like a galaxy-wide EMP that only affected reaper tech.

[Raiil]

Fire a disabling signal, and if you didn't get enough war assets or build it properly, disable most tech as well, or rather than disable, make everything grow haywire, resulting in exploding ships, data centers, etc.

[ripslip]

I thought it was either not going to do anything or that Shepard was going to be the catalyst and have to die to save the galaxy.

[thedancingdruid]

Shepard tells Kaidan in the renegade spot of the convo wheel during intimate time when he says Shepard gave people hope, she responds "that and a big bomb".

[blooregard]

An anti-Reaper pulse that uses the relays as conductors/distributors.

My idea was it would work similar to the way it did work by firing a beam at the relays and from there the relays would discharge their energy in an EMP like way. The EMP wouldn't destroy the relays simply disable them for a time (they'd be able to be reactivated from the citadel).

The pulse would effect anything that gave off an indoctrination field (Reaper artifacts, actual Reapers ect.) and overload their AI/core (think human reaper) ultimately "killing" them.The reapers now disabled totally would be able to be restarted in a "safe mode" and given basic commands (like a UAV) and from there you'd be able to do what you want with them weather you want them to overload their drive cores, fly into the sun or act as eternal guardians their indoctrination field wouldn't work because the "core" of the reaper was shut down.

Once the reapers were downed you had the option of doing either sending them into the nearest star, keeping them for study or "reprogramming" them to not want to kill everything (this would bring them back to 100% indoctrination field and all so the consequences of reactivating the reapers would have been quite negative)

With my idea of what the crucible would have done you would have had two options: activate it and disable the reapers or overload it causing the crucible to be destroyed (this was to assume the reapers had a real reason behind them)

To clarify my idea of its use. The "core" is the human-reaper style construct speculated to be the "real" reaper. What would have happened is that construct would have been permanently disabled (I also assume the indoctrination field is emitted/controlled directly from these constructs) and the "safe mode" would have been a mass control frequency that basically allowed the guy operating the crucible to move them around like one would with troops in an RTS allowing him to do what he pleased with him (again weather keep them for research or destroy them for good)

[Riion]

Some sort of Reaper EMP. EMS would determine effectiveness.

[Exeider]

I figured it was going to let loose some huge reaper wave, much like it did in the ending, and i figured it was going to be attached to the citadel as a means to spread the wave. I figured someone on shepards team, Liara would suggest it at some point.

However, I thought that after trying to chase down the catalyst, we would find out that the catalyst is basically a sacrifice, that the crucible requires a life form to start it up. And that Shep would be the one to start it up with himself.

-AE

[Xion66]

 Honestly? I prevented myself from thinking about it, and rolled my eyes at it the whole time it was mentioned, it seemed like such a contrived/cliche thing to add that late in the storyline that it irked me.

[christrek1982]

A pulse of energy EMP just send out a shut down command of just be a big F off Bomb

Modifié par christrek1982, 10 avril 2012 - 03:08 .

[Silvair]

I was honestly hoping it would be some kind of Mega Cannon.

Since its only one gun, it wouldn't be enough to kill all the reapers outright, but it WOULD be enough to give the galaxy a fighting chance. From there, it would be a fair fight of a war.

I was imagining the Crucible's first target being Harbinger, like the fight on Rannoch (I was hoping the Rannoch fight was foreshadowing on how to beat Harbinger with the Crucible). From there, it could wipe out one reaper at a time (unless there were several clumped together). Again, not enough to win the war outright, but enough to give our side a fighting chance.

I mean...we had plenty of foreshadowing on the Crucible being a megacannon. Back in ME2, the derelict reaper was taken out by a blast from the neighboring planet...maybe a field test of the Crucible, or a fascimile of it to decide if the Crucible was worth building at full strength. Then in ME3, the Rannoch reaper was taken out by targeting it for aerial bombardment...like from a Kill Sat.

Then in London....Harbinger itself was down on Earth, with the Crucible up above...it all seemed to add up. Having the Crucible activate and Harbinger be its first victim would have been perfect.

[Dresden867]

Contain a giant wooden badger...

[KevShep]

We do not know what it actually does yet...for all we know it could be used for the reapers plans and not ours.

Perhaps it blows up all the relays and all the systems with it and if Shepards indoctrinated then it makes sense that the reapers would make him/her think that it is control/synthesis/destroy is saving the galaxy when instead he/she is just killed it.

This explains why he/she is having the visions (like Joker running off) of what he/she thinks is happening.

Indoctrination!

Modifié par KevShep, 10 avril 2012 - 03:06 .

[Warrior Craess]

Given the ways that you gained EMS points for it? I thought it would be a version of the life ships equipped with even bigger main guns, and lots of other defensive weapons.

With the fact that Reaper superiority lay in their range and weapon types I always thought you've had one heck of a large glass cannon capable of destroying reapers from an incredible distance away.

[Illusive]

When I heard the Citadel was the Catalyst, I thought the Crucible was a nuke/bomb specifically designed to destroy the Citadel, which would in turn (somehow) cause all the Mass Relays to go supernova (i.e. Arrival). This destroys pretty much all the Reapers (since they are attacking homeworlds which are located close to the Relays), but also annihilates all of galactic civilization. I thought that would be the major plot twist of the game, and you didn't realize it until the Crucible docked with the Citadel.

[Menalaos1971]

I figured it was some anti- reaper EMP device. Fly it into a system, set it off, and all reapers, husks, and reaper tech would fry.

[ZombieChad]

I figured that it would be a device ending ME3. The manner I thought that it take would be a kind of EMP that screwed the Reapers over giving the allied fleet the defining moment in galactic history where either you stand or fall.

It would come down to whether or not you had enough allies and had made the right decisions in the final battle. Then if you had enough epic battle in which the Reapers are wiped out. If you didn't they are driven into Dark Space or if you charged in to the end with no one, critical mission failure the Reaper's win better luck next time.

Then I got there.

[UrgentArchengel]

From the artwork in the Universe artbook, I thought it would be a array or EMP like device.

[CanadianGunshy]

Alot of people thought it would do what it did...? lol