Dharvy wrote...
If you're refusing because of ignorance and distrust I can understand that. If you're saying I couldn't trust the catalyst and I didn't know what would happened and I didn't want to make a mistake and speed up the reaping and I thought it was some kind of elaborate trap I can understand that line of thinking. I can understand refuse based on them thoughts.
But the simple fact is we are all fighting a hopeless battle in that we are all going to die and we can only choose how we are going to die, fighting, running, or lying down. The Crucible is glimmer of hope that'll we make it out of this battle alive. Scared maybe, dirty maybe, damaged maybe, but alive. Do you go down the path of hope? Well you built the thing so you're at least making it reality choice.
Now onto what the catalyst wants. Its already reaping, and its been doing it for thousands of cycles. Now it specifically tells you that if you refuse the cycle would continue. Now since its been reaping for all these years I guess reaping is also what it wants to a certain degree. So you effectively have 4 options that the catalyst wants and now you just must choose what do you want?
So I ask you, what do you want? And what are you willing to sacrifice to get it?
I want what is best for the galaxy. Not best for just organics, synthetics, the catalyst, Shepard or any specific group or person, but what is best for the growth of the galaxy as a whole, this is something worth sacrificing an entire cycle for.
Yes I know that sounds absolutely crazy, and I will do my best to explain (Although there are others who can and have worded it much better then me)
Life continues with or without the reapers interaction, and it is always changing. The reapers are like a child stuck on the final fight of a game without any chance to win, they just click reload over and over again and change nothing, their existance alone impedes on the natural evolution of the galaxy in every possible way, and has caused nothing but suffering for both organics and synthetics. Its solution was terrible, no other way to put it. And once the reapers are gone, the problem it was created to fix will still exist, unchanged.
Now it has a new solution, and asks you to choose between sacrificing yourself, or your allys for a cause I don't even agree with, and it uses my motives to do so. To the catalyst even his own destruction and the ability to continue on with our cycles lives is nothing more then a means to an end. And as I have said earlier his goals go beyond simply disagreeing with. It would rather make the universe a static place then risk the chance that synthetics and organics may end up killing each other, and even believes that a husk is a higher form of life despite having no free will.
Others say it is worth the risk to stop the threat, but the reaper threat goes beyond trying to save one specific cycle or group of people for me. If Sacrificing one cycle meant the next would have a chance, and the galaxy would be a better place for it then my Shepard would have done so (and did)
Its not a fun choice to be made but it is one I feel is important. The Catalyst is a poison to the galaxy, its goals are imposed on the natural evolution and because of it there has been more suffering then the problem it was trying to stop could ever cause. And it does not feel sympathy or regret for it, even at the end of its own cycle, it will stay true to the same goal and motivation that led to the start of the cycles.
For me I see the reaper cycle failing before mass effect 1 even started, and I wanted it to fail, not only because I personally don't agree with it, but because it
must fail. The crucible may stop the reapers, you may be aloud to continue your lives and eat those yummy grilled cheese sandwiches but you did exactly what the catalyst did, you imposed your will on something that should not have been messed with in the first place. An action can't simply be judged by the immediate effects it has on the people around you, theres more to it then that.
I look at the reapers entire existance, the effect they have had on the galaxy and believe that anything that fits in line with those goals, will only end up causing the same thing.
I want the galaxy to move forward without the influence of the reapers, and you already know what I will sacrifice for that.
Modifié par Isichar, 16 août 2012 - 04:26 .
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