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Final conversation with the Catalyst (Includes Leviathan dialogue)
Child: Wake up.
Shepard: What? Where am I?
Child: The Citadel. It's my home.
Shepard: Who are you?
Child: I am the Catalyst.
Shepard: I thought the Citadel was the Catalyst.
Child: No, the Citadel is part of me.
Shepard: I need to stop the Reapers. Do you know how I can do that?
Child: Perhaps. I control the Reapers. They are my solution.
Shepard: Solution? To what?
Child: Chaos.
Child: The created will always rebel against their creators.
Child: Bue we found a way to stop that from happening, a way to restore order.
Shepard: By wiping out organic life?
Child: No. We harvest advanced civilizations, leaving the younger ones alone.
Child: Just was we left your people alive the last time we were here.
Shepard: But you killed the reast.
Child: We helped them ascend sot hey could make way for new life, storing the old life in Reaper form.
Shepard: I think we'd rather keep our own form.
Child: No, you can't...
Child: Without us to stop it, synthetics would destroy all organics.
Child: We've created this cyle so that never happens. That's the solution.
======DIALOGUE WHEEL: Catalyst
Shepard: You said you're the Catalyst, but...what are you?
Child: A construct. An intelligence designed eons ago to solve a problem.
Child: I was created to bring balance, to be the catalyst for peace between organics and synthetics.
Shepard: So you're just an AI?
Child: In as much as you are just an animal. I embody the collective intelligence of all Reapers.
Shepard: But you were created...
Child: Correct.
Shepard: By who?
Child: By ones who recognized that conflict would always arise between synthetics and organics.
Child: I was first created to oversee the relations between synthetic and organic life...to establish a connection.
Child: But our efforts always ended in conflict, so a new solution was required.
Shepard: The Reapers?
Child: Precisely.
======DIALOGUE WHEEL: Leviathan
Shepard: I met your creators. They told me what you did to them.
Child: We did as we were expected.
Shepard: They said you betrayed them. That you turned them into Harbinger.
Child: When they asked that I solve the problem of conflict, they failed to understand they were part of the problem themselves.
Child: The flaws of their organic reasoning could not perceive this. They lacked the foresight to understand their destruction was part of the very solution they required.
Shepard: Well, they've joined this war now.
Child: And I welcome their involvement. I am only facilitating their request.
======DIALOGUE WHEEL: Reapers
Shepard: Where did the Reaper come from? Did you create them?
Child: My creators gave them form. I game them function. They, in turn give me purpose.
Child: The Reapers are a synthetic representaion of my creators.
Shepard: The Leviathan...
Child: Yes. They created me to oversee the relations between synthetics and organic life--to establish a connection.
Child: They became the first true Reaper. They did not approve, but it as the only solution.
Shepard: You said that before, but how to the Reapers solve anything?
Child: Organics create synthetics to improve their own existance, but those improvements have limits.
Child: To exceed those limits, synthetics must be allowed to evolve. They must, by definition, surpass their creators.
Child: The result is conflict, destruction, chaos. It is inevitable.
Child: Reapers harvest all life--organic and synthetic--preserving them before they are forever lost to this conflic.
======DIALOGUE WHEEL: How is "this" not conflict?
Shepard: We're at war with the Reapers right now!
Child: You may be in conflict with the Reapers, but they are not interested in war.
Shepard: I find that hard to believe.
Child: When fire burns, it it at war? Is it in conflict? Or is it simply doing what it was created to do?
Child: We are no different.
Child: We harvest your bodies, your knowledge, your creations. We preserve it to be reborn in the form of a new Reaper.
Child: Like a clensing fire, we restore balance.
Child: New life, both organic and synthetic, can once again flourish.
======DIALOGUE WHEEL: Crucible
Shepard: What do you know about the Crucible?
Child: The device you refer to as the Crucible is little more than a power source.
Child: However, in combination with the Citadel and the relays, it is capable of releasing tremendous amounts of energy throughout the galaxy.
Child: It is crude but effective and adaptive in its design.
Shepard: Who designed it?
Child: You would not know them, and there is not enough time to explain.
Child: We first noted the concept for this device several cycles ago.
Child: With each passing cycle, the design has no doubt evolved.
Shepard: Why didn't you stop it?
Child: We believed the concept had been eradicated.
Child: Clearly, organics are more resourceful than we realized.
======DIALOGUE WHEEL: You'll never understand us.
Shepard: The defining characteristic of organic life is that we think for ourselves, make our own choices.
Shepard: You take that away, and we might was well be machines just like you.
Child: You have choice. More than you know.
Child: The fact that you are standing here, the first organic ever, proves it.
Child: But it also proves my solution won't work anymore.
Shepard: So now what?
Child: We find a new solution.
Shepard: Why are you telling me this? Why help me?
Child: You have altered the variables.
Shepard: What do you mean?
Child: The Crucible changed me, created new possiblilities. But I can't make them happen.
Child: If there is to be a new solution, you must act.
Child: It is now in your powre to destroy us.
Child: But be warned: others will be destroyed as well.
Child: The Crucible will not discriminate. All synthetics will be targeted.
Child: Even you are partly synthetic...
======DIALOGUE WHEEL: I want details.
Shepard: What exactly with happen?
Child: Your Crucible device appears largely intact. However, the effects of the blast will not be constrained to the Reapers.
Child: Technology you rely on will be affected, but those who survive should have little difficulty repairing the damage.
Child: There will still be losses, but no more than what has already been lost.
======DIALOGUE WHEEL: It will end the war?
Shepard: But the Reapers will be destroyed?
Child: Yes, but the peace won't last.
Child: Soon, your children will create synthetics, and then the chaos will come back.
Shepard: There has to be another way...
Child: There is.
Child: You could instead use the energy of the Crucible to seize control of the Reapers.
Shepard: So...the Illusive Man was right after all.
Child: Yes, but he could never have taken control...because we already controlled him.
Shepard: But I can...
Child: You will die. You will control us, but you will lose everything you have.
======DIALOGUE WHEEL: I don't understand...
Shepard: How can I control the Reapers if I'm dead?
Child: Your corporeal form will be dissolved, but your thoughts, and even your memories, will continue.
Child: Your connection to your kind will be lost, though you will remain aware of their existence.
======DIALOGUE WHEEL: I'm not losing anything.
Shepard: I didn't fight this war so I could give up everything I have.
Child: And I do not look forward to being replaced by you, but...I would be forced to accept it.
Shepard: not if I refuse to do it.
Child: There is another solution.
Child: Synthesis.
Shepard: And that is?
Child: Add your energy to the Crucible's.
Child: The chain reation will combine all synthetic and organic life into a new framework. A new...DNA.
======DIALOGUE WHEEL: How?
Shepard: Explain how my energy cna be added to the Crucible.
Child: There is little time left, but I will try.
Child: Your organic energy, the essence of who and what you are, will be broken down and then disprersed.
Shepard: To do what, exactly?
Child: The energy of the Crucible, release din this way, will alter the matrix of all organic life in the galaxy.
Child: Organics seek perfection through technology. Synthetics seek perfection through understanding.
Child: Organics will be perfected by integrating fully with synthetic technology. Synthetics, in turn, will finally have full understanding of organics.
Child: It is the ideal solution. Now that we know its possible, it is inevitable we will reach synthesis.
Shepard: Why couldn't you do it sooner?
Child: We have tried...a simular solution in the past.
Child: But it ahs always failed.
Shepard: Why?
Child: Because the organics were not ready. It is not something that can be...forced.
Child: You are ready. And you may choose it.
======DIALOGUE WHEEL: I won't make that decision.
Shepard: You're asking me to change everything...everyone. I can't make that decision. I won't.
Child: Why not? Syntheics are already part of you. Cna you imagine your life without them?
Shepard: That's beside the point.
Child: Your time is at an end. You must decide.
======DIALOGUE WHEEL: Then let's end it.
Shepard: Let's get this over with.
Child: Do what you must.
Appologize for any typos.
Edit: To correct a typo.
Modifié par Sundance31us, 30 septembre 2012 - 07:26 .
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