First we find the Leviathan and get him to join our resistance; it's him that has the Crucible's blueprint, and has been passing it and saving it each cycle when he thought they stood a chance of building it.
He also explains to our scientists how it's supposed to work: for now, it only has what will be the Destroy option.
Next we need to start gathering the resources, so we try to form an alleance: the Turians are in if we can get the Krogan to help them (as is now in the game).
Next we go to the Migrant Fleet, trying to get their mechanical expertise for the Crucible, and do the Rannoch arc.
Then we go to Thessia, to find what the Catalyst is supposed to be (the Leviathan doesn't know, as it was the Protheans that added it).
Next the Citadel coup; after it's over, we find out it was just a decoy, a distraction to draw attention away from the Crucible while Cerberus attacked and stole it.
Since it was originally an human "official" organization, we go to Earth to look for clues to find their base.
Then we attack TIM and kill him in his "office".
He had Cerberus modify the Crucible, essentially adding the Control ending; before departing we take the password to the override commands TIM had installed, just in case they were now needed for Destroy too.
While we were attacking TIM, he fell for the indoctrination and alerted the Reapers of the existence of a plan to stop them by using the Citadel, so they finally decided to bother taking it even though they don't need it for a surprise attack that wasn't done.
Now we assault the Citadel: the Crucible escort force is there to protect it and distract the Reapers from the Normandy, which is to use her state-of-the-art stealth technology to board the Citadel and activate the Crucible after it docked.
Since the dock isn't available, Joker gets us as close as possible to the console and we crash land nearby with the shuttle.
Since we don't know which way is the console, the squad separates to look for it in different directions.
Inside we find no resistance, every door opens, and at one or more points maybe the Starchild interacts with Shepard, commenting on the harvest and finally telling Shepard to hurry, as the boy's waiting to speak with him.
So we reach the console, it doesn't work, and we get elevated to the Starchild.
Follows most of the extended cut conversation, and we get told that from the moment the Crucible docked the Starchild has been studying it, wondering if it could be modified and used to achieve Syntesis.
He says that being an AI he cannot truly understand an organic mind, and Shepard being an organic cannot really understand how an AI thinks.
But maybe, if he used the interface added by TIM, he could upload Shepard's mind in a form he could merge to, and then disseminate as Legion did, so that Syntesis might be possible.
Now we get the three choices: we can make a run for the Crucible's trigger and have the Destroy ending, maybe being killed by the Catalyst in the process.
Or we can pretend to go along with Syntesis and use TIM's ovverride password to destroy the Starchild's conscience and upload Shepard's in its place, and have Control.
Or we can actually go through with it and have Syntesis.
Or we can tell him to sod off (or fail to trigger Destroy), and have Refuse.
Please note that this would still have problems, like Syntesis making no damn sense from more than one point of view, but... would this rearrangement make the ending at least more acceptable?
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