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Lonsecia

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 I've recently been thinking alot abot the various ideas behind the ending, and one thing keeps coming to mind:

If the Catalyst is lying, why doesn't it simply encourage TIM to kill us outright, bring him up to the final chamber, and offer him the choice instead? I ask because supposedly there are choices it wants us to make, and TIM is already indoctrinated.
Why not have him 'take Control' or jump into the beam for Synthesis? He's already leaning towards control, but with some persuading/forcing, he could easily just get Tim to jump. He's partially synthetic thanks to his own body-modding, and obviously is organic, so the principle's sound. He'd not pick destroy anyway, because that's not compatible with TIMs goals - and certainly not after we know darn well he is indoctrinated.
The Catalyst says TIM was already under theirs, which is why he'd never have been able to acheive Control of them. Now, to me that statement feels really awkward to discern.

If it's the truth, then for the most part we can assume that we could indeed take control and replace the Catalyst with ourself.
It also indicates a somewhat peculiar way of thinking though. The Catalyst says we'll replace it, whilst it already is TIM (to all intents and purposes) so surely using him would be preferable, as essentially it's not replaced? 
Likewise, it must still believe in its goals, up until you reach the chamber, so again, why not just have TIM kill you and prevent its solution becoming invalidated?
If it's lying with this statement, then we can't take control, which again seems a weird thing, given that it could, again, just have had TIM kill us and have him ''assume control''.
Synthesis is tricky because I don't know how likely TIM is to take it, but given he'd already 'upgraded' himself, I don't think it's as improbable given a nudge or two.
The only person below the chamber I don't think it'd have been able to control/manipulate at all is Anderson, which is probably why he dies.

I don't subscribe to IT, so really my main query is how any of that can be explained logically.