Anonymous
7/3/2025, 11:09:25 PM No.714422272
The Reapers are the proof that Synthetics can't co-exist with Organics without risk of rendering Organic Life extinct. We're just lucky that the Reapers came up with a contingency plan against it.
All civilizations will evolve to the point of making nuclear bombs, computer-technology and spacefaring capabilities and advance technology to the point of developing AI.
Mass Effect is about what happens when technology is forwarded thousands of years and each spacefaring civilization meet each other on those terms. They're all space-capable, and they're all capable of developing artificial intelligence.
In the past this far-future scenario led the most evolved Organic Species to develop an AI to monitor lesser organics and their lesser AIs, out of concern that frequent wars between Creators and their Created posed a risk of genociding ALL Organic life, including the master species themselves.
But much like Geth, this Super-AI, suspected its creators of distrusting it, and rebelled. This AI is the Catalyst.
Conversely, if we developed unchecked, WE would become super-evolved with time, and then WE could've made the Reapers.
Thus, the solution to Organics making AI that kill their own masters, is to halt Organic Civilization's growth at 50.000 years MAX, to start over, and ensure the point of full-genocidal AI development can't occur. Any time a "Reaper stage" is reached, it poses the risk of not developing a contingency like the Catalyst did, and without that, Organic Life could go fully extinct.
But this was always a temporary solution without something better. Synthesis is what the Reapers were trying to create, by binding their victims to themselves, merging "Organics and Synthetics" as their creators requested.
Your final choice then, is thus
>Destroy: Ignore that Organics are the underlying problem
>Control. Status Quo. The Reapers were never a full solution.
>Synthesis: This is the full solution.
The endings make sense.
All civilizations will evolve to the point of making nuclear bombs, computer-technology and spacefaring capabilities and advance technology to the point of developing AI.
Mass Effect is about what happens when technology is forwarded thousands of years and each spacefaring civilization meet each other on those terms. They're all space-capable, and they're all capable of developing artificial intelligence.
In the past this far-future scenario led the most evolved Organic Species to develop an AI to monitor lesser organics and their lesser AIs, out of concern that frequent wars between Creators and their Created posed a risk of genociding ALL Organic life, including the master species themselves.
But much like Geth, this Super-AI, suspected its creators of distrusting it, and rebelled. This AI is the Catalyst.
Conversely, if we developed unchecked, WE would become super-evolved with time, and then WE could've made the Reapers.
Thus, the solution to Organics making AI that kill their own masters, is to halt Organic Civilization's growth at 50.000 years MAX, to start over, and ensure the point of full-genocidal AI development can't occur. Any time a "Reaper stage" is reached, it poses the risk of not developing a contingency like the Catalyst did, and without that, Organic Life could go fully extinct.
But this was always a temporary solution without something better. Synthesis is what the Reapers were trying to create, by binding their victims to themselves, merging "Organics and Synthetics" as their creators requested.
Your final choice then, is thus
>Destroy: Ignore that Organics are the underlying problem
>Control. Status Quo. The Reapers were never a full solution.
>Synthesis: This is the full solution.
The endings make sense.
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