3DandBeyond wrote...
Enthalpy wrote...
Ah, back to this again. What players think the Catalyst thinks. Losses due to war occur in every ending. As for what the Catalyst can/cannot and will/will not do with synthesis tech after the war (and whether it still exists at all), that's ripe for headcanon. So by all means, full speed ahead. Goodnight.
I never was talking about the kid controlling people after synthesis. But the inserted tech would be just like tech he constantly had the reapers seed throughout the galaxy-to create the path for advancement.
Um... I don't think so.
I am listing all the major Reaper tech that have been shown in the series off the top of my head.
1. Artifacts: Arca Monolith, Object Rho, dragon's teeth, Abandoned Mine artifact in Mass Effect 2
2. Nanites and implants: the cases of Grayson, Saren, and the Illusive Man
3. Reapers: Sovereign-class, Destroyers, and destroyed/crippled Reapers
Out of the artifacts, everything except Object Rho quickly reduces victims to husks, without
any free will and with drastic physical changes. Unless one subscribes to the indoctrination line of thought, neither of these are true in the ending.
Out of the second category, every case except the Illusive Man's involves at least micro-scale technology. That is, they started as more conventional injections and implants, not the instantaneous picoscale (or smaller) insertions.
Out of the third category, all of those are capable of slow indoctrination. Object Rho can also do this. However, it is unknown if indoctrination can affect genetic makeup. It has only been shown to affect mental processes.
So, unless I am missing something, the most pertinent case is TIM's. He received his cybernetic eyes near-instantaneously through contact with the Monolith. It is unknown whether these eyes have been a factor in his indoctrination (as opposed to all the other Reaper tech he voluntarily put into himself much later). It is also unknown whether his genetic makeup was changed by these augments.
Therefore, the synthesis tech differs from all these known cases. That is not to say that the synthesis tech cannot be pernicious in some other way! Only that it is not the same as what we have seen before. If bits of silicon, copper, and other elements are assembled into a motherboard, then you can build a computer with it. However, if you have individual atoms of silicon, that's not possible. I think we are more familiar with the motherboards, not the atoms.
And I never thought for a moment that you believe the Catalyst would control people in the common interpretation of the word. I've always gotten the gist that you believe that synthesis tech can manipulate people's genes according to the Catalyst's wishes. But I think that whether the tech is capable of doing this, and whether the Catalyst is willing to do this, and whether the process depends on the Catalyst, are all speculative questions.
For example, the tech could be capable of eliminating diversity (say, by discontinuing all genes carried by less than 10% of the population), and it could start to do this already. The Catalyst, being synthetic, now understands organic priorities and sees this as a bad thing but there's nothing it can do to stop it from happening.
Or, the tech could be capable of eliminating diversity, but it stays dormant. The Catalyst wants to activate this capability, but it cannot because the organic-designed Crucible didn't implement the tech in such a way that the Catalyst can interact with it.
Headcanons swap the answers around and around.
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