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Guest_Sareth Cousland_*
What I suggest is this.
The Catalyst is Harbinger as proposed by IT. However, it is more than that. The race Harbinger consists of is the very first race turned unwillingly into a Reaper (as stated by the codex, Harbinger is the oldest Reaper). That race faced extinction by a race of machines they created and their consensus, their networked AI, sought a way to "create synergy between organics and synthetics" (quote from the CE handbook, and also explained in a similar way by the Catalyst) instead of annihilating the race that created them. Like the geth still loved their creators in a way, so did this unknown race of machines still love theirs. At any rate, the networked AI thought that the best way to create synergy was equality and unity through assimilation. As it observed reality, it saw chaos. Chaos seemed to rise from diversity (a theme that is clearly contradicted in the ME series otherwise). So that networked intelligence, that we now know as the Catalyst, created the first Reaper, a hybrid of creators and created, and synergy was achieved. Thus, he is the Harbinger. He controls the Reapers, but not in a networked way – he commands them. Independent. Each a nation. Unfortunately, he controls the organic parts of his mind via indoctrination (forced unity of belief), enslaves them (like the Zha'til's organic parts were enslaved by their synthetic part), so Reapers are more synthetic than organic. Like Shepard said on Rannoch: "whoever they were, they died a long time ago".
The fallen Reaper on Rannoch points out the central theme of Harbinger's thinking: Order. To Harbinger, difference always results in conflict. Choose synthesis and you choose the solution of the leader of the Reapers. Choose control and you adopt the behavior of the Reapers by assimilating or destroying that which is different (on an ideological level), and subjugating your enemies. As renegade Shep says in the control ending, there is power in control. In domination. In "harnessing the strengths of your enemy" (Saren, TIM). His mission is "to put an end to the bickering of the many". To impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. With synthesis and control, Shepard becomes the enemy.
After I was initially disappointed by the EC, I now think it actually reinforces the IT and provides new valuable insights into the lore of Mass Effect.
P.S. So the Catalyst does not degrade the Reapers into puppets. It/Harbinger leads them as first among many, and they fulfill their mission out of free will – it is their choice to reap. This is reinforced by the rumors about the upcoming Leviathan DLC, which I am now really looking forward to.
Modifié par Sareth Cousland, 30 juin 2012 - 10:35 .
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The files must be indoctinating people, because the same thing happened with me, but with "Serve Us." When I listened to it, I not even once heard an A sound. Just an er sound. "Se-erve Us", to be specific.
