"Jartar is noted for the discovery of the "Leviathan of Dis," the apparent corpse of a genetically engineered living starship. The Leviathan was found in the bottom of a crater by a batarian survey team, and estimated to be nearly a billion years old. It "disappeared" after a visit to the system by a batarian dreadnought twenty years ago.Since then, the batarians have steadfastly denied that the Leviathan existed at all – and all the more vociferously when shown recordings of the corpse made by salarian researchers."
"...the Hegemony sent teams of scientists to study the Leviathan of Dis. The Leviathan turned out to be an inactive Reaper and the entire batarian science team was subsequently indoctrinated."
Given the above statements (taken from the codex, planet description and game play) along with the information regarding the
"Leviathan DLC" that was included in the EC, I think it is safe to assume that this is fairly significant item to explore/discuss.
First. given this statement from the Catalyst in the EC:
http://www.youtube.c...inEJIejw0w#t=0sWe know that the Catalyst was created as an AI designed to resolve conflict b/w organics and synthetics. And with this statement:
http://www.youtube.c...nEJIejw0w#t=67sWe know that the Catalyst created the first Reaper from its creators. Several interesting things here:
1. The catalyst forced this "evolution" on its creators.
2. The first example of the "created rebelling against its creators".
3. The Reapers are created in the "image" of the Catalyst's creators.
The next few points are things that we might be able to assume but not necessarily confirm (given the information that we currently have):
1. This forced evolution, could be the first example of "Control" - notice that this would suggest that the concept is synthetic in origin. Make what assumptions of that you will.
2. The first Reaper (being the first after all) may not have the same level of technological advancement as the majority of Reapers that we see in game (to this point).
And now we get into wild speculation. I remember from the old forums that the
Leviathan of Dis was a hot topic. Many of us believed that it could be a Reaper (some theorized that it could be Sovereign - a theory that at this point I think can be officially be put to bed). But the opposition argued that this statement from the planet description,
"
...corpse of a genetically engineered living starship...", suggested that it was too "organic" to be a Reaper and therefore likely to be an easter egg. But given the new information (being discussed here), we know that the
Leviathan was in fact a Reaper. It begs the question, why create a description that causes confusion? Perhaps, we were supposed to question whether or not it was a Reaper...perhaps, knowing for certain that it was a Reaper would give too much away?
Given the above statements (specifically point 2 of the assumptions), I propose this new theory. The
Leviathan of Dis is the
first Reaper created by the Catalyst from its creators. And considering what we know from the information that is included in the EC about the
Leviathan (being a "rogue" Reaper for those that have not seen the information), I think that this fits quite well. The bigger question then becomes just how dis-satisfied with its creation (the Catalyst) is the
Leviathan (after all it did fail in its initial task - given the "necessity" to create the Reapers; and then it forced this "solution via evolution" on them)? And what implications this has on the ending?
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