ArcherTactlenecks wrote...
Synthesis is the final step towards evolution, but it doesn't necessarily keep the peace the Leviathans envisioned. People will still kill people no matter how mixed their genes are, the only difference is that in synthesis, everyone would just be fully evolved.
If my idea of synthesis is correct, meaning equal parts synthetic and organic, that means the self-interest trait of organics will still be present. If that thing disappears, then they are more synthetic than organic, which makes Synthesis not a viable solution given that synthetics will have the upper hand in the relationship. But if it's still there, chaos will still happen.
I don't think there's even a perfect solution to the Leviathans' problem. Which is why the Reapers are doing what they're doing.
The main problem is "Preserve life at all cost" right? Which essentially means absolute everlasting peace between Organics & Synthetics. That can never happen - ever. There's no such thing as absolute peace. Balance is the key, but the catalyst being a synthetic, he doesn't get that. So he keeps repeating the same bs for a million years but never reaching his goal.
I don't know exactly what happens to organics in the Synthesis ending (aside from what ME3 shows) but it's supposed to be a solution to the Reaper threat, not the solution to the Leviathans' problem.
Which is, if you think about it, pretty stupid. You're trying to solve TWO drastically different scenarios with ONE solution. The Reaper threat & the synthetics vs organics threat, but the thing is, there's no solution for the second one - but the Catalyst thinks there is - so he makes you choose one out of 4 solutions.
If Synthesis really is the final step towards evolution, how come the Leathans, who claim to be the apex of life in the galaxy show no signs of having that odd DNA in them? If it doesn't provide the peace the Leviathans requested the Catalyst to create, why is the solution ideal?
You are right, however, the self-interest traits of organics will still be present, but what you don't understand is with the Synthesis DNA being the Leviathans' new means of controlling and protecting organics and synthetics, they will be able to prevent all outcomes of a chaotic conflict, keeping tabs on the activities of all life. Eons ago, the Leviathans could not protect organics from themselves because there was no connection established between all organic life, their crystal balls only enable them to control who is near the ball. Remember how the mind control of the Leviathans work like a Quantum Entanglement Communicator? The device Shepard uses to speak to Illusive Man in ME2 and Anderson and Hackett in ME3?
The Reapers are doing what they are doing because the Leviathans requested them to find an ideal solution to their cause at any cost, and what they didn't anticipate is the Catalyst needed to harvest most of them so that he can create the Reapers, an enemy that is difficult to defeat by conventional means so that the organics the Reapers attack will be forced to fight for their survival and build a machine the Reapers themselves designed: The Crucible. However, before the Crucible can be deployed, the Reapers need to make sure the organics don't use the Crucible to destroy them without removing the Crucible's ability to destroy all synthetic life, so they resort to indoctrinating a group of organics, like the splinter faction of the Prothean empire and Cerberus, and convince the non-indoctrinated faction that either surrendering to the Reapers and helping them build a utopia for oganics and synthetic to live in peace (Synthesis) or controlling a powerful foe (Control) are the best courses of actions to stop the harvest rather than killing the Reapers, and if that failed, the fact there's still the possibility that the individual who will use the crucible won't choose Destroy once they know what happens, because the Catalyst knows most organics can't swallow the grim truth that sometimes the right choice is not always the easy ones.
You can't see the deception the Catalyst and Reapers put around Shepard in the end, can you? This is how the Reapers win-- tricking you into choosing Synthesis and sending all life in the galaxy into an illusion of peace, or choosing Control so that the Reapers still live to one day break free from Shepard's control and continue harvesting organic life until someone in a future cycle completes the Crucible and chooses Synthesis, they don't win by allowing the harvest to continue, that was never their true goal, contrary to popular belief.
Modifié par N7Gold, 11 janvier 2014 - 01:33 .
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