Okay everyone I have spend enough time discussing other theories as to what the Crucible is or what happens, now I am going to post an idea of my own. Hang with me cause this is gonna be long.
To start of what do we know of the Crucible. Well, it is not much, but there is one thing we know for certain. It si capable of generating unquantifiable levels of energy and on that basis alone it is interesting, but let us keep that here for now.
Many have presented based on the convenience of the location of the Crucible plans that it is planted by the Reapers as a trap. I fully support this idea to an extent.
To sum this up I believe that the best lies always carry a grain of truth.I think the Crucible was indeed at some point a superweapon against theReapers, possibly the one causing the Klendragon rift, but the Reapers got their hands (tentacles) on the plans and saw an opputunity. Instead of just destroying them, they modified the plans, removed an important component (essentially the Catalyst) and made the describtions of it vague before leaving it for future cycles to find.
It would makesense that the plans are genuine to some degree because else I doubt the Sciencetists wokring on it would not have realized something was of.If you build something and yet it seemed to do nothing, would you not
get suspicious?
But without the Catalyst the Crucible dosent work and only the Reapers know what the Catalyst is and can freely leave fake Catalysts for luring enemy forces into traps or forcing direct confrontations even as the species of the Cycle waste resources buildinga weapon they cannot use.
But i believe victory at Earth comes from finding the true Catalyst and making the Crucible work. How are we
gonna do that? Well my idea lies with an old player in this game, one that was once a friend and now an enemy. The Illusive Man.
Now bear with me for a moment as I explain.
If the scene of TIM on the Citadel is a halucination we dont know where heis, in fact we dont even know if he has succumbed to indoctrination. Now I am not saying he has never been Indoctrinated, it is clear that he is to at least some degree, but how much?
How much did he know? Eva managed to get the Crucible plans , though how do we know she dident manage to transmit them to TIM as she ran? There was even other Cerberus forces still there she could have transmitted them too.
He alos steals the VI on Thessia from us, something it is allready curouis that he knew about and as such he
knows about the Catalyst, or at least what the VI says is the Catalyst. Same Vi that laters says he warned the Reapers and headed for the Citadel.
Before I move on another curouis thing is the surgery TIM goes through. If the TIM scene on the Citadel is fake then what did he get planted in his body there? Transmitters for that husk control signal? Possibly, but what it was more than that.
Remember what Miranda said about a control chip, that there was none in Shepard. Just because there is none in Shepard dosent mean that none ever had one. TIM already experimented with controlling people and with AI´s and he is no fool either.
Now you probably want me to get to the point, so here it is. I think TIM might be the key to making the Crucible working, that he possibly knows what the true Catalyst is and where to find it and has been preparing in more ways than one for what is coming.
Imagine he was truly on the Citadel, but had been prearing for the Crucible to be connected, either with the real catalyst or using some sort of bypass deviced by himself transferring the Crucibles power into different systems thus making it a weapon. Possibly fully Indoctrinated at this point, but thatis something he prepared for ahead of time in the surgery. A control chip in his mind along with a sophisticated VI or AI to seize control ofhim the moment a trigger is hit, like Shepard showing up. (I wont try to get into how Shepard gets there as that is different theory
souroudning that beam in London.)
At this point he would explain what would need to be done, perhaps even as the AI/Vi struggled with the
Indoctrinated body. This would culminate as Harbinger assumes direct control of TIM focing our "final boss encounter," after which you can activate the Crucible.
What does it do? Well that is a good question. You all know my idea of Mass Accelerator Cannon which could
feasibly even the odds without beeing a Reaper of button. Though i personally dont like it, it is possible TIM could use the Crucible to magnifyhis husk control signal to affect the Reapers, but i would personally find such an ending...well let us not get into that shall we, what the Crucible exactly does can be debated for a million times and we wont get any closer before EC.
This would give TIM a pupose in the ending, one that is not that of a complete villian, but still following
the Ideals he made Cerberus on right up until the end and we get our fight with Harbinger.
Also just a minor point about TIM. I personally beleive he is well aware of the threat Indoctrination
posses, he would be pretty stupid to be fumbling around with that exact kind of ressearch and never eevn consider that he might be affected. Offcourse considering the Normandy crew dosent do that, it is possible he really never gave it thought, but it would seem strange with his obsession with control that he never thinks that he can be controlled.
And that is where the idea of control chip for TIM comes. If he indeed gaveit a thought, he would probably have been prepared. Sacrificing even his own freedom for his ideals would be a powerful end for him, one way
more fitting than just Indoctrinated puppet if you ask me. Also it wouldprove that his ressearch of the Reapers in the end did pay of even if the cost was terrible.
But tell me what you think, it is your turn to hit me with your questions, but as always in this thread I point
out it is just a theory [smilie]http://social.bioware.com/images/forum/emoticons/wink.png[/smilie]
But no matter how you take this theory I beg that you remember that no matter what you think, the Crucible dosent do nothing. We know it is capable of generating unquantifiable levels of energy and that energy has to go somewhere.
Edit: Goddamn I dont know what happened but something ****ed up the layout of my post. Clearing it up.
Modifié par Raistlin Majare 1992, 12 juin 2012 - 09:38 .
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