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[Snoopy1955]

I think we can agree that with the number of threads about plot holes here on the boards, that a lot of this plot looks sketchy if you look at it really closely. A lot of things seem very chaotic and don't make sense...but what if they aren't, and they do?

What if everything that happened since the beginning of ME2 was part of the grand Reaper plan to get Shepard onto the Citadel and making one of those three choices?

We know that the Reapers think there is something special about Shep. What if what is special about Shep is the fact that he/she is actually the key to making the Crucible work?

Lets say, for argument's sake, that TIM (The Illusive Man) is indoctrinated since day one. He spends no expense finding Shep's body and building it back into a living breathing person (with who knows what kind of tracking and information gathering implants burried deep inside). Why go through this? The Reapers know that there is something special about Shep, but they don't know what it is. They want to try and find out, so they pull their ressurection plan to put Shep in the one place where they can observe him/her with a whole bunch of people who report right back to TIM, and thefore, the rest of them. They set up Shep with the leftovers of the last cycle as an antagonist, because, after all, you need an antagonist if you are going to put Shep through his/her paces and find out what makes him/her tick. They send Shep into battle against Harbinger multiple times, probably gathering information and scans every time they cross paths, looking for that key that makes Shep so special. Whether or not they find out is irrelivent at the end of ME2, because the Harvest must go on, after all, we have a deadline to meet.

Enter ME3. Through careful manipulation of circumstances, Shep ends up on Mars to find the plans for the Crucible, a Prothean device that everyone from the Aliance side seems to think is a super weapon capable of killing Reapers. When Shep is about to download these "death star" star plans, enter TIM to say, "Now hold on a minute. I would like to put the idea of control as an option into your head." and then 'steal' the plans. Now, knowing hos much tech and credits Cerberus just leaves lying around Shep probably would have evneutally gotten the plans back and the Crucible would have been underway.

But why not just let Shep have the plans there? If you where Shep and TIM didn't try that kind of sneaky plan, would that have not seemed...odd? Suspicious even? The Reapers don't want to tip their hand. They need Shep to be on the Crucible at the end of the game, but they can't let Shep know that is what they need, or the whole plan comes to a screeching hault.

So Shep recovers the plans, and the work on the Crucible begins. Cerberus leaves out a whole lot of tech and credits and scientists for Shep to find, and recover in order to help with the Crucible plan, and sacrifice one of their big ol' reaper ships to a thresher maw, just so that Shep thinks a good job is being done and victory is attainable. Plans go into motion to prepare the Citadel to dock with the Crucible properly, hence priority Citadel, and everything keeps going swimmingly, except that those Alliance brass keep pusing the idea of using the Crucible for the destroy option, which is not really what the Reapers want out of this big ol' plan of theirs. So begins the guilt campaign, to adjust Shep's choice.

The Geth and EDI.

The Geth are the guilt campaing. They are a race of synthetics, which while not traditionally considered life, are still very much alive. The Reapers shoot down to Rannoch and break them, turn them into something they aren't, and leave the code that will turn them from enemies to alies inside of the Head of Legion (assuming we didn't hand Legion over to Cerberus in ME2). Now Legion is one of those characters that we have had a chance to get close to, one of those characters that we have an opinion about and feelings for. Legion is possibly one of our best buddies, so when Legion pulls a Jesus and makes all of the Geth even more people than they already are (assuming we allow this to happen), we know that the Geth are no longer just machines. They are a race of people that Shep has played a part in the development of.

But what about EDI? Well, EDI has been with us for two games. We have seen that she is very much different than your average machine, and is very interested in being more. She is the soul of the ship, and it is hard to argue that we don't find ourselves very close to her by the end of the game. We've seen that she wonders about how she fits in with organics, we've helped her figure out how best to ask Joker to move into her, we really get the sense that she is more than just a space ship.

These are clever pieces put onto the board because while the Reapers know that they can't stop Shep from pushing the red button instead of the Green or Blue buttons, they can make the choice hard by tying a squadmate and best friend, and an entire race of people who have been shaped by  Shep into the whole decision.

The only question that remains are why would the Reapers pick an option like control over an option like destroy? Why push that as a suggestion every time TIM and Shep have a conversation?

The answer could be simpler than you might think. If we assume that what control does actually isn't putting Shep in control, but instead is breaking him/her down to the very core and giving the Reapers all of the information, physical, psychological, emotional, and moral, then it gives them something that they truly didn't have before, a soul. It also gives them all of the information on what makes Sheppard special, which if we accept this theory as true, is what they have been after since the start of the second game.

Now the question might be made, "Isn't that a bit risky?"

The answer to that question is, "It might be."

Unfortunately, our knowledge of the Reapers is limited. We don't know for sure that they only harvest this galaxy. What we do know is that none of the mass relays in this galaxy go to any other galaxy, so it is not unreasonable to assume that this is just one galaxy that they are risking, and the benefits that could be had by sharing the information with Reapers that patroll other galaxies so that they can make an army of Shepards and an army of Crucibles to instantly turn an entire galaxy into synthesised being are enormous. It could definitely be worth the risk.


So there you have it. A brand spanking new theory that explains the three choices and doesn't involve anyone being indoctrinated who we don't already know is indoctrinated.