In fact, I maintain that advancing through the Reapers is all we’ve done up to this point, and the only reason why victory through all three games is even possible...
1.) Mass Relays:
The Reapers’ “trap” in getting us to advance on the paths that they desire is the reason why we’re in the fight to begin with. Confined to our own systems, organic life would likely go the way of the drell. Earth is overpopulated in the ME lore even with space flight established. Per Thane, we found mass-relay tech before the problem could lead to overpopulation.
With that knowledge, the Protheans made all the success of ME1/2/3 possible by creating a mass-relay back to the relays’ control center (the Citadel) and rewriting the keepers.
In first using the mass-relays, we used a recovered piece of technology not created/mastered by us and used it without knowing completely what it would do... sound familiar?
2.) Keepers:
Originally part of the Reapers’ elaborate trap, the keepers have become valuable custodians of the Citadel after Prothean rewrite, and safeguarded against the cycle instead of assisting in it.
3.) EDI:
This creation is made possible by the study/mastery of Reaper tech.
4.) Thanix cannon:
See: #3.
5.) Seeker-swarm countermeasure:
The solution to this problem sure as hell wasn’t to destroy them, but to neutralize them with careful study of the tech itself, and to adapt accordingly by merging it with our own tech.
6.) Reaper IFF:
The losses of the Cerberus team studying it and possibly the Normandy’s crew are negligible. In truth, I’d attribute that more to Cerberus being incompetent, because both could have easily been avoided. In the end, what really matters is that the IFF helped make the mission to/from the Collector “homeworld” possible. No IFF, Collectors take humanity out of the fight before the war even begins.
7.) Object Rho:
Like the IFF, ‘Rho had its unfortunate consequences, but those were considerably outweighed by the success in taking away the Reapers’ advantage in the Alpha Relay.
8.) ME3 Geth:
They join you in the fight for Earth and assist building the Crucible - if upgraded through the Reapers’ code.
9.) Collector Base:
Whether recovered completely or salvaged from ruins, the tech from the ‘base is added to the Crucible after the assault on Cerebrus HQ.
10.) The Citadel:
Combined with the Crucible, the Citadel holds the solution(s) to the Reaper threat.
My point here is that while YES, we have been fighting to destroy the Reapers up this point in the series, we’ve mostly been accomplishing that through methods of control/adaptation of the Reapers’ own tech. So why is it so far-fetched to think that if given the option, Commander Shepard would choose Control or Synthesis? To me, it really isn’t. So let’s get off our “all things Reaper/Reaper tech is t3h eeeevviiiilllzz!” shall we?
Thread disclaimer: posters accusing OP of trolling and/or indoctrination hereby certify their own douchebaggery.
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Modifié par HYR 2.0, 30 mai 2012 - 05:20 .
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