AngryFrozenWater wrote...
Tarkus 5 wrote...
anorling wrote...
The Angry One wrote...
I've wondered about this, and I think that it's pretty much inevitable that the synthesis hybrids will be hostile to extra-galactic organic life.
They believe organics and synthetics alone are chaos, and this belief is vindicated by synthesis.
I can easily see them becoming a green scourge on the rest of the universe, led by the Reapers. Forcibly hybridising all organic life, and killing them off if they can't.
It's a likely scenario
The Reapers only chose to play nice because everyone in the galaxy was synthesised, so they had no reason to keep murdering.
But what is there to say that their original reasoning is gone?
If they ever were to meet with a organic species from another galaxy unaffected by the green beam the reapers would most likely reboot and start up in to murder-mode again.
Only this time they would be assisted by the former organics and synthetics from the Milky Way.
Or perhaps the the synthesized organics with their synthetic friends now with a greater knowledge and understanding would try to prevent any type of genocidal war of this nature, knowing full well the outcome
and only if necessary defend themselves against a new type of organic or synthetic threat against their
lives or worlds....
This is Mass Effect it is not about the borg in Star Trek. Besides I believe Mr Spock might think synthesis would be a highly logical choice for advancing the cause of reason.
*Spock voice* Logic suggests that, given the violent nature of the reapers, it is unlikely they'll spread love across the universe. After all, they are specifically designed to reproduce themselves by "ascension through destruction" and the universe is a big place, so they have to multiply. Genocide is their thing. Unless you believe that synthesis involves some kind of mind control that changes them to law abinding citizens who help old ladies across the street. The idea of this thread is that this goes hand in hand with the "inevitable" synthetics threat. That rules out old ladies. 
spock would likely just say 'facinating', kirk would probably go bullistic on the reapers and win.
It makes me laugh when players/user hold synthisis in disdain, I don't necessarily totally advocate that choice, I figured it to be the most economical way to go. I don't believe that the reaperships have a nature, violent or otherwise, as they're not human (we generally tend to associate our own emotions to machines, like cars, computers,video game avatars, it's called transferral.) so the reaperships cannot but happen to simulate human/organic behaviour. As far as wars and decisions, the reapearship did a lot of terrible things, Sheppard took out a whole star system, just to eliminate one relay, so it's a matter of choice for Sheppard, a matter of programming for reapers. They don't hate, they don't care, they don't think, they only 'act'. In a sense, Sheppard had to 'be like that' to accomplish certain tasks, he had the reaper threat to justify it. The reapership don't "justify", the only 'nature' they have is priority directives, if you think of this as human trait, motivated by an emotional stimulie, I think you give the reaperships more credit than they are able to deserve.
Like the windshield wipers on your car knocks off bugs. Your windshield wipers don't long to meld with the bug either, niether does the driver of the car, who only wishes to see the road more clearly. I think that the situation with the reaperkid,as an advance life form of, apparently, pure energy, but with the simulated emotional programming, of a child(that may be why hes a kid avatar?) May have the same problem with life/existence as the geth, but awful power to back up what it seems to want (as it's programs, advanced to near sentience, the crucible may of stimulated something there, as it were designed by organic for a purpose, we don't really know what their motivation was, the synthesis, maybe they were of that ilk, part organic part synthetic.) as many children think they know. It was pretty good at demanding things, chock those up to programming. Many seem to think the kid was there because it was something Sheppard could identify with. I think that enity problematic could go either way. So in the end run, the MEU would benifit from the exchange of DNA. I don't think it would make or break the races involved, I don't like the idea of forcing it on them either, but I don't want anyone to go extinct because a race of super robots were technically insane, wasting millions of years just harvesting them to replicate themselves.The only benifit there, best case scenerio, is the knowlege bank the reapers obtained.If we destroy them, it's just gone, all those races vanish without a trace, non existant,wasted forgotten, not to mention the more will be added when the reaperkid returns, as t(he)y will unless everyone everywhere shuts off their computers, never touch another mouse or have anything to do with techology in any way.
but...
We can only be what we are, we'll decide what we think(and/or feel) is best with choices we have, so it's academic. But with/by the sheer order of magnitude, the reaperkid still calls the shots, like it has for millions of years, until someone finally actually changes the cycle. They never really explained how the cycle erupted, as the reaper didn't provide the data to describe the races that they destroyed as their makers. Only that the cycle started because of it. So we're stuck with the MEU that we have.
Combine with synthetic life,
or, become a Sheppardreaperkidship and control it along with the entire MEU,
or, destroy the reaperships/kid and go on until they become again, as the reaperkid warned if we mess around with technology and attempt to improve..our selves.
(I didn't list the walk away choice as it's counter productive for obvious reasons,nor mention that WE are probably an intergalactic threat, since organics set themselves up for the reaperkids apperance in the MEU
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