Optimystic_X wrote...
Metallica93 wrote...
Synthesis: Moral suicide. You JUST got done having a conversation with the Illusive Man about earning knowledge. You think we suddenly deserve the combined intellect of the vast majority of civilizations that existed in previous cycles? Hell no. It was bad enough that we evolved the way the Reapers wanted us to (with mass effect technology). Plus, how are organics "ready" for synthesis this time around?
By collaborating to build and successfully install the Crucible. We were the first cycle to complete it, despite monumental odds (being brought back to zero every 50k years, and the Citadel trap that felled every other cycle before us.) We basically had to collaborate across time to pull this off; it's safe to say no other cycle managed that. Even the Leviathans confirm that we were the first to do some of the things we did.
By that logic, if Shepard chose "Refusal," then the next cycle would have been considered "ready," would they not? That next cycle would have paralleled this one: Civilizations long extinct take precautions to help the next cycle against the Reaper threat. They managed to find peace somehow, according to the second "stargazer" scene, and I'm pretty sure the would have been given the same options as Shepard.
Haven't played "Leviathan" yet, but my argument regarding earning that knowledge still stands. Aside from having a hard time believing we were the only cycle to take leaps and bounds concerning the unification of the galaxy, I don't think any of that justifies the amount of knowledge we would gain. This "amount" wouldn't be measureable by
anything we (in the game) had.
Plus, I feel a hell of a lot better putting those civilizations to rest (choosing "Destroy"). You've seen what the Reapers have done. You can guarentee they did the same for every cycle before.
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