Rhayak wrote...
"Hi, i'm the boss of your enemies. As you know you have no chance of defeating us conventionally, but i offer you three alternatives to annihilation, which include killing us all or even becoming the new boss. You have until you die from a combination of heavy bleeding and third-degree burns to decide."
That's one weird ultimatum O_O
Of all four endings, perhaps Control is the one that doesn't impose anything. In Synthesis, i impose a change that saves everyone. In Rejection, you impose death.
(and please don't mention the possibility of the Cata lying because there's nothing concrete pro or against it)
It's a Reaper. The possibility of it lying is there. You can't ignore it.
And yes, they're ultimatums, each with an arbitrary penalty to promote synthesis, it's true goal.
Also, Shepard is not bleeding to death, whether you consider it a handwave or not BioWare already said Shep lives after destroy (and is apparently explosion proof). Let it go.
Look, even if we set aside all discussion on how Synthesis affects both us and the reapers and how, the majority of people out there, both in Mass Effect and the real world, would rather be alive than free.
We are in no position to despise them.
Alive and subjigated by the Reapers?
You might argue that for destroy. I don't consider the lives of billions of innocents a price worth paying, but fine.
But synthesis? Changed forever to suit them? No thanks.
Again with the damn Zha'til. Javik says they were an example of what happened with the Quarians and Geth, but they are only one episode, one that doesn't prove the Galaxy isn't bound to kill itself via synthetics anyway.
(again, Cata possibly not lying)
Yes again with the Zha'til. They're everything the Catalyst says can't happen. Harmony. Synthesis by choice. And what did the Reapers do to them? Destroyed them, turned them into monsters to do their bidding.
The Reapers are the only problem.
The Reapers are not directly guiding us in Synthesis. No more than a crane rebuilding a skyscraper guides those who frolic in the park next to it. The fact that both we and the crane glow green is of little importance.
This gives a pretty clear image of how non-intrusive the Synthesis change is.
Synthesis itself is an act of permanent guidance. It sets all life on one specific, Reaper approved path.
The uplifting issue is an interesting one: if you give a medieval king a nuke, stuff can wind up.
But in Synthesis, all galaxy gets the same amount of tech at the same time. That is a HUGE war deterrent if you stick to the "still belligerant" vision.
How? All being equal is not going to solve everything. The Krogan were made "equal" to the Council species and look what happened there.
Ye of course, but in the Watchmen setting, nuclear war was inevitable and fabricating a common enemy worked. I say thank God Manhattan turnet Rorschac into Rorschac. O_O
Perceived as inevitable. For a while in our history, it was the same. Again, fabricating a common enemy works temporarily. How long until fear of that enemy vanishes? How long until they start pointing fingers at each other?
What then? More common enemies? More deaths to maintain false peace?
By the way, Watchmen ends with the possibility that the truth is exposed. It's not said one way or the other but left up to the reader to decide. It certainly isn't preached at us that YES! This is the solution! Puppies and ponies! Hooray!
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