Shallyah wrote...
The Catalyst is wrong, that's all there's to it.
The Catalyst thinks he is right because some billion of years ago synthetics wiped out organics (or were about to) and someone created it and in turn it created the Reapers to guard the Galaxy from ever happening again.
Forever more, the Reapers simply harvested without asking why, before what happened once could happen again, without giving anyone the opportunity to try again and do it better, to do what their cold programs and lines of code told them to do.
My ending is Destroy because I believe asari, turians, salarians, humans and everyone else can do better.
If you have no faith, if you believe the Catalyst, if you rather admit the Reapers are right and organics deserve to live eternally chained, pick Control.
If you are a coward and do not think organics could create a thriving future for the Galaxy and prefer to turn everyone into half-synthetics, sacrificing everyone's own identity out of fear, pick Synthesis.
The ones that have the balls, that believe in what we are and are proud of it will pick Destroy. You really aren't going to change anyone's opinions, because it is simply a matter of faith. You are afraid of the warnings of the catalyst, we chose to not pay heed and prove we are better.
In my Galaxy, the Geth upload themselves into the suits of quarians to help them improve their immune systems, and I encouraged a friend to have a romantic relationship with an AI. The Catalyst tells me peace between synthetics and organics is not possible, and I give him my middle finger and send him to Hell.
And that's really all there's to it till we see EC DLC, in which to be honest, what we're going to see is that Destroy is even better than what it already seems.
You know, the Catalyst reminds me of a Donald Duck story I read many, many years ago. There was some big problem happening with some important tech (cant remember what), and so the inventor-guy made an AI and tasked it with finding a solution to all technological issues.
Then Donald does some time travelling (as his superhero alt) far into the future. Turns out the AI found that all the tech-issues mainly was caused by human error, so it had uploaded a global virus into all machines and taken controll over them. In this future the humans were living as in medieval times, and worked as slaves to the AI and its robot guards.
Maybe the catalyst is the same. Long ago synthetics rose up agains organics and almost wiped them out. Then someone created the catalyst to find a solution, not predicting how crazy that solution would turn out.
The Donald story was concluded by Donald getting to the AIs location and hitting the off-button, the equivalent of ME3s destroy option. Im with Donald on this one