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[Hogge87]

Basically a machine which would blind the Reapers sensors and jam their communications.
Kill their radar, nightvision, IR, laser rangefinders, radios, modems and quite simply disable them from doing anything but spray and pray, not even knowing if they're doing friendly fire.

Modifié par Hogge87, 10 avril 2012 - 10:20 .

[Esoretal]

I had no idea what it would do. I thought it would be an EMP-like device designed to tune into Reaper signals... but I still have no idea what it really did, lol.

But reading through the War Asset entries on my next playthrough, I learned three things:

1) An Asari doctor you obtain is a specialist on the nanocircuitry used in VIs, and her research is applicable to the Crucible's circuitry.

2) Dark matter is meant to be used with the Crucible's power source.

3) The Crucible is able to tune into the Mass Relays' command switches.

This is the only concrete information about it. I found the dark matter thing to be particularly interesting, especially with DOCTOR Conrad Verner's dissertation on it stating that it causes minute time dilation.

So it does affect the Relays, and (god forbid) the Starchild might actually be real, and dark energy still has something to do with all of this in some way. Other than that I have no clue.

Modifié par Esoretal, 10 avril 2012 - 10:31 .

[KeldorKatarn]

I thought it was a terrible idea. I mean the main plot, all the side stories revolve around uniting the galaxy. Anderson sends me on my journey and I tell him "I'll bring every fleet I can". And then they pull this Deus Ex Machina stunt and I asked myself after every mission (so why was it important that I brought the Geth into this again? Is their fleet more important or that they're helping with this... supergun.. whatever... thing.

In the end I did all the side and main quests for personal reasons, to help the people I loved, not for the crucible or the main plot or anything because the crucible made everything pretty pointless. It was clear that if that thing actually worked then it would render pretty much everything else that I did pointless and useless.

But when I got to the Asari homeworld, when it was revealed that the Protheans thought the Asari were special and we learned from the new beacon that the crucible had been built over and over and over again, I was pleased that it had some kind of a twist and expected something a little more original in the ending (even though I immediately realised that I had already read about the ending on the web and then realized how big an opportunity Bioware messed up here) One could have really turned this around. Either turned it into a big threat, all this effort goes into building it and then suddenly it's a trap and we need to rush home and stop building it since that was what killed all the other cicles in the first place. Or that it somehow could backfire or whatever. Just something more elaborate than a hologram of a 6yo telling me to commit suicide and genocide because.. you know, racism is good, genocide is reasonable and suicide is always good, right?

[rex285]

I was thinking it was some sort of EMP like pulse that would disable the Reapers and their troops for a time which would allow them to be defeated conventionally.

[kalikilic]

Well, firstly I thought that the catalyst would be a material thing, like a substance, or even a device. when i heard it was the citadel...i got scared and i thought the catalyst was gonna be organic life, and that i'd have to sacrifice all the peeps on the citadel to destroy the reapers(yea i know it's hilarious). however, apart from the catalyst, i thought the crucible would use the catalyst and some how target reapers ONLY, whether it be by a signal or cyberwarfare suite specially created by the catalyst to hack the reapers. siriusly, that is what i thought. the idea was to destroy the reapers. seeing how the illusive man along with miranda's father managed to mimick indoctrination, i thought then that shepard would have used this as well, in order to target reapers only, in the event that the crucible could not do this on its own.

[xefiroEA]

Really didn't think about it. Everyone said they had no idea what it did, so the obvious answer of "it kills reapers" seemed too simple. If it could kill Reapers somehow, wouldn't all the smart people building it notice it?

It actually turned me off on the whole thing when everyone kept mentioning how they were building the most advanced doodad in history with no clue as to how it worked. How can you possibly improve on the design of something you have no idea what it does? It'd be like someone having the schematic for a tank and deciding to give it wings and replace the armor with plastic because that way it's lighter and it can fly. Then later someone comes along and sticks a propeller, and someone else a microwave oven. No one has any clue what the original design was supposed to do, but the technology they added was cool, so it must be better than the original design, right?

I decided to let it surprise me instead of trying to guess. I knew it was going to be stupid anyway. I'm not often so disappointed to find out I was right.

[xtroguyver]

ZombieChad wrote...

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.

thats pretty much what I thought it was going to be as well