smokingotter1 wrote...
spotlessvoid wrote...
question regarding control
scenario one: Starchild is in full control of the Reapers yet refuses to simply follow Shepards orders, instead forcing his annihilation as a human being. Clearly then he isn't benevolent towards Shepard
scenario two: Starchild is not in full control of the Reapers and cannot simply execute Shepards commands. In that case how these he even know control can work, since he can'teven control them
Also this from awhile ago I posted (with current edits), analysis of the control panels:
Shepard gets "control" of the reapers by grabing on to the control panels. My concern: why are there four handles?
1.First Shepard can't take full control of the reaper no matter how hard he tries. He does not have four hands. This hints that taking full control of the reapers is a impossible task, even for Shepard.
2. Second again we see doubling implying control is an illusion.
3. The positioning of the higher handles that Shepard is not grabing might imply subordination to the higher ups? If Shepard wants to take control wouldn't it be symbolic for him to grab the higher ones, not the lower ones?
4. Why the **** is there an active current going through controls? Implies a trap?
Symbolism! 
I can't resist going off topic, leaving the symbolism and metaphysics aside, and write a rather boring, dry and irrelevant techno-babble post, given this half-opportunity. Sorry - should be easy to ignore...
Let's, for the time being, say that the Ending-o-tron 3000 apparatus is real, that it looks just the way we see it and that Shepard is indeed there and interacting with it...
In this case, I'd say that the "control handles" are, in truth, exactly what they look like; Spark gap electrodes.
Why are they there, then?
-Well, there was one forumite (Can't remember the guy's handle, off the top of my head), who posited that the whole assembly, while affixed to the Citadel, is actually a new feature, which was brought by the Crucible and transferred to the Citadel during the docking procedure.
Let's assume this is true. Then let's try to come up with a guess as to what sort of function it could be there to fill.
The guy had an idea, which slips my mind, but for my part, I'd imagine what seems to me the simplest and most obvious one: It's an alignment device; there to "funnel" the beam, so that it stays centered.
It would putatively do this simply through some sort of Mass Effect equivalent of induction, with the beam inducing an opposing and repelling mass effect field in any sector of the alignment ring, that it might be straying towards. In addition to affecting the position of the beam directly, the force would extend up along it and physically correct the alignment of the entire Crucible, by "pushing" against its abutments (i.e. the four sparkly electrodes).
Any induced power that is too great for the aperture's buffer resistors to handle, would be diverted and grounded through the spark gap. The only thing you'd accomplish by touching it, would be to electrocute yourself.
The red tube could be part of a coolant circulation system for the eezo coil(s), or even house them, maybe we are dealing with a pipe toroid, filled with a suspension of eezo particles -- Either way, destroying it, would render the apparatus inoperable and result in the beam wandering around, potentially damaging both the Citadel and the Crucible and coming to "bounce" through any relay conduit and exit non-axially, like a signal in an optical fiber, rather than travelling along its core.
Phew... That should be enough trekkie-ism for the entire week.
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