RiouHotaru wrote...
Who's to say that peace and preservation are mutually exclusive options? Maybe the Catalyst tried peace to begin with (after all, when faced with someone who doesn't like you, trying to talk them down is usually the first thing to come to mind), only when that didn't work, extreme measures were necessary.
They are not. Re-read what I said. My point was, the Catalyst didn't say it was made for preservation and tried peace. It said it was made for peace, then tried preservation.
Hence the contradiction.
Remember, the "peace" explanation was added in the EC. So they had "designed to preserve" in the original, retconned it to "designed for peace" in the EC, then backpedaled to "designed to preserve" again while keeping the EC dialogue, resulting in a total mess.