Except it's not just about me. I've been handed an earthshaking revelation about my enemy. The Reapers are controlled by the Catalyst. Not led. Controlled. They have, at worst, diminished capacity for their actions, and may be de facto indoctrinated themselves. They are victims. Killing them isn't justice. It's vengeance. A couple of major choices excepted, I'm a Paragon. I've tried throughout the series to steer people away from vengeance and offer redemption where I could. If I can't offer my enemy mercy, then I become a hypocrite. No matter what I do, the Catalyst is gone, either because I replaced him or because the Citadel blew up. The one responsible for the mass genocides has been dealt with. And the Reapers leave. They are free to do as they please. The geth who are now well and truly alive will live on and hopefully there will be true peace.
And what about the life that I fought so hard to save? I just altered them in a fundamental way. How dare I? Well, first, humility and seeking consensus really isn't an option here. All choices thrust an enormous change on life in the galaxy. The death of every single synthetic who has chosen to fight by my side. Usurping the power of the closest thing the universe has to a god. I have to choose and choose alone. I'm a Paragon, so killing synthetics when there are other options on the table is right out. Which means the Reapers are still going to be around. Free or under my control, they're still vastly more advanced than organics or the newly-ascended geth. Not only that, whenever I choose it is going to destroy the relay network (except maybe Control-- evidence is contradictory here). Things are going to be very rough for a long time. I choose the option that I believe will give life the best chance going forward. This whole partly-synthetic deal has worked out fairly well for Shepard, with enhanced strength and resistance to poison, and he seems to be the template for going forward. And if I the player go back to the leaked script, the fact that the Catalyst is trying to stop the technological singularity is made explicit. So Synthesis must make it possible for organics to keep up with synthetics. Since the Reapers are still out there, I consider that a very good thing. And just in case someone decides to create something else along similar lines ,organics can contend with them as equals. No more techno-gods cowing us and using technology we can't hope to understand. And we didn't do it by killing them. We took their power for our own and now they must recognize us as equals.
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