Okay bring this back up.
Okay as we all know TIM doesn't want to kill Shepard right. You can see this happen on several times in ME3. Yet in the beginning TIM tells Shepard to stay out of his way, yet at the end of the game ( not the end if IT is true) TIM needs Shepard to believe.
Okay so TIM goes from Shepard get in my way and I will kill you, yet in the end it's Shepard please help me/ join me. TIM's character actually changes alot especially the Videos on TIM's base.
When TIM learded about the Reaper implants he tested them on Grayson, yet Grayson died, but it was a great succes for TIM. He then soon implanted Reaper tech in his troops, and soon begain ubdoctring colonines of humans to create his army.
Also I have been thinking every cycle had to have a Shepard inorder to create capital class Reaper ships. I mean Harbinger wanted Shepard in ME2 retributionbut for what purpose. Unless it was his/her mind he wanted. Think about it the brain of Shepard was intact, so Harbinger could have used Shepard's mind and upload it to the new Reaper the Collectors were building.
Also it makes sense in Control Shepard becomes a Reaper not god Shepard not ruler of the Reapers, but Harbingers new General. Ever since Nazar died Harbinger the Leader had to step up and take charge.
Now in the Prothean cycle the Reapers couldn't find a Shepard because Javik was in stasis. Also I say that he is because He had a ship and a crew like Shepard's, but his crew became Indoctrinated and he killed them by cutting their throats.
Now for the Leviathans cycle it was the Catalyst that was Shepard.
Harbinger is the first Shepard in a sense. Only our Shepard is actually Harbinger's other side.
As we know Harbinger ways created to stop Organics, and Synthetics from killing eachother Harbinger couldn't so he harvest them in order to save them, but he didn't that's why he created more of him like agent Smith.
Now Shepard can make peace with our Synthetics, but Harbinger couldn't. So if you look at it Harbinger and Shepard are the same.
Both are leading their forces. Both hate eachother. Harbinger and Shepard get pissed of when their plans don't go well.
Harbinger is Shepard's darker side, while Shepard is Harbingers light side. In a sense this is how it could have all happened I mean everything.
From Leviathans to the thralls to Harbinger to Protheans to the councile cycle all of it happened before. The Crucible I think is the beginning of the end of all life.
The Leviathans know about what the Crucible is because you can tell they are not telling the truth. So I say this the Crucible will cause the Citadel to target the Reapers and use the relays to fire element Zero into the Reapers or ezzo. But somebody has to make a hard chocie. Shepard could have to sacrifice his friends/ his crew or his/her memorys inorder to fully take Control of the Crucible if he/she is the Catalyst ( which we all think he/she is) or Anderson or a squadmate will push Shepard out of the way and take Control of the crucible.