AlanC9 wrote...
OK. FWIW, I like the idea of the Crucible being a Leviathan design. It looks like it always was a Synthesis device since that's how it works at its best, so whoever designed it likely believed in the synthetic/organic problem. Destroy is an off-label application.
But were the Leviathan looking for a Synthesis-style solution? From the conversation we had with them, it seemed as though they were just looking for a way to maintain their existing apex-race status, without haivng to worry about their organic subjects creating a synthetic race that would be able to ignore their ability to dominate & overthrow them (or wipe out their creators and leave the Leviathan without tribute). Not saying it's
not a Leviathan design of course, I'm just unsure if Synthesis could be considered a Leviathan goal.
My major worry about the Cruicble is that it's a Reaper device. Not talking IT here as such, but there's so very little we know about the device's origins. (and when we question glowboy about it, he breezily ducks the question).
To reiterate an idea I posted elsewhere - I found myself thinking this morning about the Catalyst, the Crucible, the Reapers and Synthesis.
I know this has probably been discussed countless times before, but could it be that successful construction of the Crucible is the Catalyst's requirement for creating a new Reaper?
I mean - we know that the Reapers do not simply harvest advanced organicraces; they harvest and collect their technology as well, leaving almost no traces of their civilisation behind. Now look at the war assets required to construct the Crucible, and Shepard's hunt for them. Are we not actually collecting and compiling the most advanced technology the galaxy has available to use in it's construction? Are we not effectively "harvesting" this technology ourselves?
Then of course, we look at how we reach the Synthesis ending - it is not immediately available, it requires a LOT of war assets. In fact, that seems to be a reason why some people think it is the "best" ending - because it takes the most work to unlock.
The Reapers don't attempt to hunt down and destroy the Crucible; the allow us the opportunity to build it. They don't appear to deliberately target it during the battle over Earth; they let it dock with the Citadel instead.
We don't know who the original creators and designers of the Crucible were, only that the schematics have managed to survive and adapt through countless cycles, while all other technology was harvested or destroyed.
And of course, if other cycles have built the Crucible "modifying and improving upon it each time", then the Reapers will have encountered it in each of these cycles, and will be aware of the threat (or potential) it has.
Finally, consider the fate of the Protheans - the only other cycle other than our own we have first hand knowledge and understanding of. We are told that the Reapers apparently failed to create a new Reaper in the Prothean cycle... and we are also told that the Protheans were unable to complete construction of the Crucible device. Is this simply a coincidence?
So, we have a giant, mysterious device of unknown origins, assembled by the greatest scientific minds of this cycle, using the apex of advanced technology available to this cycle... and the more resources we put into it, the closer we get to the "ideal solution" of Synthesis. A gigantic power source, containing almost unimaignable power... and the Reapers do diddly squat to stop it's construction.
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