Mass Effect 3.5B: Taste the Rainbow (Story and Ending Discussion; Spoilers!)

[Luzahn]

I think the latter spun out of the former. My basic point for why I picked it is because the other options are unacceptable. Destroy kills the Geth, and hell no I'm not committing genocide on an entire species - one I struggled to save not too long ago - when there are alternatives available. Control is risky as all get out - there's no indication of how you'll maintain control over them given you'll be dead, and there's always the rather huge concern about them breaking free or someone less than totally responsible and moral getting their reigns and abusing them. You know, the things that would've lead to you arguing against it with the Illusive Man.

By contrast, the only real problem with Synthesis is that some people might not like becoming part robot. Which ranks far lower on my list of concerns than genocide or the risks of the control option.


Except for the part where you'd lose. You've known from the start that you can't defeat the Reapers conventionally, and it's not like the battle with them was going in your favor before you got the Crucible running.

Zevox

Oh, of course we'd probably lose. It's still worth it though. If every civilization would be extinguished, but the Reapers destroyed, it would be worth it, rather than offering some aspect of ourselves to the starkid as sacrifice in order to have him grant us victory.