The Twilight God wrote...
spotlessvoid wrote...
Isn't there only 3 Leviathans left? How are they going to rule the galaxy?
There are three that you see. Before you saw the other two you would have assumed there was one.
Obviously there aren't enough to challenge the Reapers, but that doesn't mean there aren't enough to challeneg the "lesser races". I'm actually coming to believe that the Leviathans designed the Crucible as a double edged sword.
1. The relays are destoryed so out people are cut off. They didn't use relays. They presumably have a more Star Wars like FTL capability.
2. It destroys all synthetic life - they can't control synthetics so that complication is eliminated
3. No organic race can challeneg them head on - There powers of indoctrination are instantaneous and far superior to the Reapers indoctrination.
I think the Leviathans are just the reveal of the next villians (in later Mass Effect titles?) who sowed the seeds of resistance against the Reapers in the first place. In fact, the Prothians did as well (hello Vigil), but we then get the reveal that the Prothians were imperialistic jerks too. Leviathans are just a much, much, much more grand version of that concept.
Shepard ticked them off not because he's investigating them, but because he found their location ('breached the darkness' can be seen symbolically in several ways) and they now need to readjust their plans with him, though not in any very major way (the endings still happen, just with Shepard knowing the Leviathans exist now).
While the Reapers are their enemies, I do NOT think the Leviathans hold a ton of explicit malace towards the Reapers, and I think they in fact fit into their plans.
IT theory just morphed the whole London level from the 'Reaper plan' into a 'Reaper and Leviathan' plan.
I think in the end, both races are seeking a solution to something that will help them and only them. We're caught in the middle of a battle of gods. (thus my comment earlier of Shepard Saga/Trilogy turning from that, into something more like the 'Shepard Mythos')
Oh and I still think that the Leviathans are overall against the Reapers. Indoctrination itself it still more dangerous than thralldom, because it is more insidious and hard to detect. Thralldom is pretty damn easy to see in someone, but as we also know, it also doesn't need to always be active, and it doesn't damage the enthralled. In fact, I do believe that the Leviathan mostly ignored their lesser organics, but in doing so, it allowed the organics to try to create synthetics in the first place.
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