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[AlanC9]

There's hardware that's capable of but doesn't always run software that's sufficienty complex to be synthetic life (geth uploading to quarian suits, conversely other geth platforms being described as shells just filled with Reaper code but not actual synthetic life). So it has to somehow distinguish what the software running on a completely alien platform is doing. In other words just try to forget about it, it's another thing chucked in there because the writers wanted something to happen and that thing happening is more important than it making any sense at all. Now of course fiction, especially science fiction is full of things that simply don't make sense or work if you dig hard enough but I expect to need to do at least a little digging before reaching that point, especially on such key, important events.

 

I've seen stranger things in SF. Ever read the Hyperion Cantos?

 

Actually, that series' resolution is applicable to ME3, since consciousness itself turns out to be a measurable and, more to the point, alterable phenomenon.

[Raizo]

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that the Citadel conveniently happens to have 3 beams of light in that Shepard can interact with that either allow him to destroy, control or magically fuse organic and synthetic life forms together to create new life forms.

The EMP theory only works if you pick destroy. If you pick Control or Synthesis then it becomes harder to explain how and why the beam only affects the Reapers.

[AlanC9]

Nah. Control is conceptually much simpler. Reapers have to be programmable or they wouldn't stick to the Catalyst's plan. It's obviously pretty effective programming since in millions and millions of years the Reapers haven't realized that the cycles are of no particular use to themselves.

[KaiserShep]

The Citadel doesn't have any beams of light; the only one I see is the one coming out of the Crucible into the Citadel's core. I wouldn't really say that the wave is an EMP blast either, because it's far too selective. Aside from that, whatever force is necessary to even create an EMP blast big enough to span across multiple AU from its point of origin in each system would probably just kill everything in sight no matter what because of the radiation. In any case, the fact that ships and other technology still function afterwards suggests that it's something weirder, like more dark energy voodoo.

[JasonShepard]

I did say similar to an EMP. Not exactly the same - after all, we're talking about tech that nobody really understands. It clearly isn't an EMP - EMPs don't travel at FTL, don't use up ridiculous amounts of eezo and are (as noted) fairly easy to block. (I'm also going to note that I can't make an FTL shockwave make sense. That's firmly under the handwave of 'fictional futuristic science makes it okay'.) However, I can accept that, whatever it is, it might act similar to an EMP.

 

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Anyway, synthetics do all have something in common - Quantum Blue Boxes. (It's never directly stated that the Geth have them, but it's never stated that they don't, and it is stated that Artificial Intelligence requires a bluebox.) So whatever the Destroy wave is, then it's fairly consistent if it's only affecting blueboxes.

 

That would suggest that the galaxy's QECs might have been knocked out as well, though.

[SwobyJ]

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