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[ShepnTali]

Twist? What if Shamalamadingdong wrote the ending?

[Mcfly616]

Minus your "twist" on the Crucible.....the Catalyst already does acknowledge the fact that organics are ready to decide their own solution due to the fact that Shepard is the first organic to stand before him....

Which is why I love the EC and the way it explains everything.....

Your twist is cool though and I would've liked it just as much as the current ending....

[Andrew_S]

 Didn't the VI say the crucible didn't work and in turn the addition of the catalyst was implemented? So the crucible all on its own was supposed to do one of the endings, but lacked the power to do so. So synthesis (the beam coming down) was the goal and purpose of the crucible, while the destroy tube and control panel are just things on the citadel?


It would also explain why organics are "now ready" for the synthesis option, since they came up with it and it is functional.

Modifié par Andrew_S, 30 juillet 2012 - 03:52 .

[MegaSovereign]

Andrew_S wrote...

 Didn't the VI say the crucible didn't work and in turn the addition of the catalyst was implemented? So the crucible all on its own was supposed to do one of the endings, but lacked the power to do so. So synthesis (the beam coming down) was the goal and purpose of the crucible, while the destroy tube and control panel are just things on the citadel?


It would also explain why organics are "now ready" for the synthesis option, since they came up with it and it is functional.

Perhaps the organics of previous cycles were hoping to upgrade themselves in order to fight the Reapers.

Synthesis cures people of diseases and combines the strengths of both organics and synthetics.

It could also be a "cure" to indoctrination. The Reapers would lose their ground forces.

[sth128]

Nonsense. The Crucible works just fine without the Catalyst (ie. Citadel). However its range would be limited to maybe just a few sectors.

By incorporating the Citadel, the Crucible energy can be repeated by every Relay into every system. This process however consumes the Relay Eezo core hence their shut down.

[Andrew_S]

^Right, that would be the lack of power. Use the citadel as a relay, which it is, and bam, that sweet magic.

I just think that wild speculation is interesting in that the synthesis option would actually be what the organics of the past wanted, or saw as the only or ideal solution to end he conflict, rather than it being only what holokid and the reapers want. It gets hooked up and holokid says, "damn, that's a great idea, let's roll with it."

[sth128]

Well I'm not trying to interpret differently what the ending means. This thread is just straight up "what if" possibilities.

I'm basically throwing out headcanon ideas... I've got dozens of them, most of which don't even involve the Catalyst.

[Ticonderoga117]

My preferred twist?
The Crucible is a GIANT paperweight and does absolutely nothing because of a compression error 1.35 million years ago and now that one power relay causes a short in the system. This happens because NO ONE BLOODY TESTED IT.

Galaxy dies because the engineers were morons.

[wantedman dan]

o Ventus wrote...

Nope. Because then you would be asking yourself "Why would the Reapers construct a device that can destroy them?"

This.

The Catalyst would still be stupid.

[teh DRUMPf!!]

sth128 wrote...

^ Ok I agree. But what we got about the origins of the Crucible is "You would not know them, and there's little time to explain".

That to me sounds even more "tricky" than just a plain explanation. Willful omission of facts is just as misguiding as flat out lying. If the Catalyst isn't going to explain the Crucible, then either NOT include that particular line of questioning or just have the Catalyst say "I don't know, clearly the organics are more resourceful than we thought"

There's another explanation for it: people are dying, and so it's not the best time for a history lesson that provides you no valuable information towards the decision you will be making.

What more does one need to know about the creators other than the fact they came up with the idea for it?

[Chashan]

wantedman dan wrote...

o Ventus wrote...

Nope. Because then you would be asking yourself "Why would the Reapers construct a device that can destroy them?"

This.

The Catalyst would still be stupid.

Or maybe suicidal? Given how erratic the thing is, I would not put that past it, leaving the option wide open for someone at an unknown point in the future to push the button and end its malaise.

[sth128]

wantedman dan wrote...

o Ventus wrote...

Nope. Because then you would be asking yourself "Why would the Reapers construct a device that can destroy them?"

This.

The Catalyst would still be stupid.

Only if you assume the Catalyst was programmed for self-preservation having a greater priority over its main purpose. The Catalyst clearly allows its own demise in two of the options: destroy and control.

If the Catalyst truly did not want to die, it could very well have just not raised those two platforms. It could have just not raise the damn elevator for that matter.