Ieldra2 wrote...
As for your general scenario, the sticking point is how the destruction of the relays is handled.
Relay destruction:
I think it is very much in the spirit of Destroy to destroy all Reaper tech, which may or may not include the geth (they only have Reaper code, not hardware) but which definitely includes the relays. It is in the spirit of Control that the relays are either not affected or damaged but repairable. As I see it, these outcomes are defining parts of these options. If you think that it unbalances the endings too much, why not mitigate it by adding something good somewhere else.
Hm, I actually approach this as being specifically a reaper code thing. The relays are reaper tech, sure, but they're not quite the same. They don't indoctrinate, the reapers obviously don't have full control over them (or they'd just shut them down whenever entering a system!), so I don't think there's necessarily an intrinsic link there. Of course that doesn't rule it out, either.
For simplicity, I figured the pulse would rather be looking for reaper-typical software signatures (explaining why the Catalyst thinks the geth are in danger), and the relay destruction would be more an artifact of the immense energies involved (explaining why they're also in danger in the other endings).
That said, I'm definitely not ruling out the galactic dark age – but I think it really does need to be a dark age, then. Or, well, I don't really see a point in declaring “the relays are gone but now we've functionally equivalent tech from salvaged reaper parts”, but I suppose it wouldn't hurt. It just seems a bit pointless.
Thanks for the link to your Synthesis thread. It's good and thorough (although leaves that persistence issue).
I don't really care about how the solution works, only that there's an option to have the Normandy crew saved from that planet, or not having them crash there in the first place.
I agree, in that if they can somehow make it work (and still keep a reunion possible), I don't have objections to it. I just think that it'll take a lot of resources to explain satisfactorily – all away from everything else – so the easy way out is preferable





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