Novate wrote...
First off, Catalyst didn't let you in, first you got marauder shields, then you got Illusive Man. all occuring before crucible attached to the Citadel.
Then the AI tells you that it betrayed the very creators that made it. And turned them into the first Reapers.
So what you are really telling me is to trust an AI that destroyed its own creators, liquify all previous organic civilizations for eons.
An AI that controls the very thing that is killing everyone, yet he has no stop button, he controls the reapers yet he can't control the reapers. While Shepard and Catalyst is talking, Catalyst could have just told everyone reaper to stop and all husks to stop, yet he won't, so while he is talking to you, it is killing everything everywhere.
And you are suppose to trust IT.
No the catalyst did not open the door, it probably can't control the maurader shields etc lol. My point was maybe that's why Harbinger took off (dunno).
Anyway.. the AI does not tell you that it betrayed it's creators at all, I am rewatching it right now.
It says that it was created to oversee the communication or link between organics (creators and synthetics), but it always ended in conflict, it basically said it got to a point that there was no working option other than to find a new solution, which was to create the Reapers. This required the creaters to be the first reapers, they did not approve the catalyst says, but that does not mean they did not accept it!! It makes me think basically synthetics were taking over and there was NO other option. That does not give me reason to not trust it, sounds quite plausable to me.
Al lthe catalyst is doing is keep the cycle going, it doesn't kow any better and it's doing the job it was created for. Life still evolves but when organics start making AI that starts taking over (Geth) it goes an hammers them all lol, to save the galaxy from synthetics and restore balance!
The reason the catalyst doesn't tell them to stop is probably because it can't? It thinks that's the best way and it's been doing that forever, however when the crucible plugs into it it changes the catalyst and its variables and it's presented with new options and it realises that the current one won't work anymore- cos Shepard is there!
It probably has some idea that if it doesn't let you chose then the next cycle will cos they will find something - ala time capsule etc.