balance5050 wrote...
Going from the in game evidence, everycycle has their own indoctrinated splinter group who wants to control the reapers, and by extension, every cycle has their own TIM that starts it.
Uh, no: we've had indications of exactly one other cycle that even attempted a Control strategy. That is not evidence of every cycle wanting to do so by any means.
TIM was just a reaper pawn in a larger scheme since the beginning.
TIM being a Reaper pawn since the beginning undermines all other lore in the Mass Effect universe, from the TIM origin comic (in which TIM is responsible for stopping the Reaper gambit), Retribution (when Cerberus is directly responsible for stopping a Reaper Avatar), Mass Effect 1 (when Cerberus was not working with Sovereign or Saren), Mass Effect 2 (when Cerberus was the only reason the Collectots not only failed to beat Shepard, but were destroyed), and Mass Effect 3 (when Cerberus is not providing direct support to the Reapers).
TIM's indoctrination was late, not from the start on Eden Prime.