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%%** Control the Reapers, destroying Shepard\'s organic body but letting Shepard ascend to effective godhood, with his/her personality controlling the Reapers. The new Catalyst based on Shepard\'s mind can now control the Reapers and use them for whatever purpose s/he sees fit, but there\'s always a chance that s/he may come to same conclusion as the previous Catalyst. On the other hand, the Catalyst started to see the Cycle of genocide as a failure after the Crucible\'s completion, which makes it likely Shepard would not resort to the same method. In Extended Cut, the Catalyst informs Shepard that s/he\'d remain aware of organics after the uploading, which suggests that at least some of Shepard\'s humanity would remain intact. The new Shepard!Catalyst is not a slave to the Leviathans\' directive, unlike the previous Catalyst. In this ending, Shepard dies; her or his name is placed on the Normandy\'s memorial wall, and the new Catalyst\'s narration includes the lines \
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** Control the Reapers, destroying Shepard\\\'s organic body but letting Shepard ascend to effective godhood, with his/her personality controlling the Reapers. The new Catalyst based on Shepard\\\'s mind can now control the Reapers and use them for whatever purpose s/he sees fit, but there\\\'s always a chance that s/he may come to same conclusion as the previous Catalyst. On the other hand, the Catalyst started to see the Cycle of genocide as a failure after the Crucible\\\'s completion, which makes it likely Shepard would not resort to the same method. In Extended Cut, the Catalyst informs Shepard that s/he\\\'d remain aware of organics after the uploading, which suggests that at least some of Shepard\\\'s humanity would remain intact. The new Shepard!Catalyst is not a slave to the Leviathans\\\' directive, unlike the previous Catalyst. In this ending, Shepard dies; her or his name is placed on the Normandy\\\'s memorial wall, and the new Catalyst\\\'s narration includes the lines \\\"Through [Shepard\\\'s] death I was created,\\\" and \\\"The [man/woman] who gave up [his/her] life to become the one who could save the many.\\\" If you romanced anybody in this game, and if they had hope that the two of you could make a life for yourselves together after it was all over, that hope is gone with Shepard.
** Synthesis, wherein Shepard\\\'s body and essence are disseminated through the galaxy. Early in the second game Shepard was resurrected with experimental \\\"bio-synthetic fusion\\\" technology; in this ending his/her nanotech turns organics into organic synthetic hybrids and his/her organic nature gives synthetics a full understanding of organic life, thereby greatly reducing (but not eliminating) the chance of conflict between synthetics and organics. The Reapers and all their forces turn away from combat, help to rebuild, share past knowledge, and EDI believes that together life is moving in directions she can\\\'t yet even imagine. But to make it happen, Shepard has to die, and becoming organic/synthetic hybrids doesn\\\'t mean those who were close to him/her aren\\\'t grieving. You can tell they\\\'re in pain when they put Shepard\\\'s name on the memorial wall. More importantly, this ending forcefully rewrites everyone against their will, surely traumatizing many, spares the Reapers and only relies on their goodwill to not start any trouble again, and brings back the husks- meaning we\\\'ll now have hundreds of billions of BodyHorror abominations that need to be mercy killed
The reason I have done so is because much of this is speculatory information. While speculation can be (and often turns out to be) true, for a story like this, we need to stick to what we know when troping. Even if something seems like a logical conclusion, we need to only state what happens in-game. For example:
# The assumption that the Catalyst was lying about Shepard dying in the Destroy ending. Mistaken is pretty much canon, but any further than that and it\\\'s getting into assumption territory.
# The speculation that because we don\\\'t see geth corpses that they didn\\\'t die. Saying that the Catalyst was wrong about Shepard\\\'s death is enough to get the point across that the Catalyst is an UnreliableExpositor.
# The speculation that geth have backups. As we have no idea how the Crucible works in the first place, we can\\\'t make assumptions about HOW it destroys synthetic life.
# The speculation that AI!Shepard is not beholden to the Catalyst\\\'s programmed directive. Not saying it\\\'s not true, but again, we can\\\'t make assumptions. We have to stick to what we know. We can say that the AI says \\\"[Shepard] guides me now\\\", and leave it at that.
# The speculation about love interests in the Control ending. Again, most likely true, but still speculation.
# The speculation about the traumatization and necessary mercy-killings of various people in the Synthesis ending. Nowhere is this stated. We can leave in the fact that it was done without letting the galaxy know first, but that\\\'s about it.
** Synthesis, wherein Shepard\\\'s body and essence are disseminated through the galaxy. Early in the second game Shepard was resurrected with experimental \\\"bio-synthetic fusion\\\" technology; in this ending his/her nanotech turns organics into organic synthetic hybrids and his/her organic nature gives synthetics a full understanding of organic life, thereby greatly reducing (but not eliminating) the chance of conflict between synthetics and organics. The Reapers and all their forces turn away from combat, help to rebuild, share past knowledge, and EDI believes that together life is moving in directions she can\\\'t yet even imagine. But to make it happen, Shepard has to die, and becoming organic/synthetic hybrids doesn\\\'t mean those who were close to him/her aren\\\'t grieving. You can tell they\\\'re in pain when they put Shepard\\\'s name on the memorial wall. More importantly, this ending forcefully rewrites everyone against their will, surely traumatizing many, spares the Reapers and only relies on their goodwill to not start any trouble again, and brings back the husks- meaning we\\\'ll now have hundreds of billions of BodyHorror abominations that need to be mercy killed
The reason I have done so is because much of this is speculatory information. While speculation can be (and often turns out to be) true, for a story like this, we need to stick to what we know when troping. Even if something seems like a logical conclusion, we need to only state what happens in-game. For example:
# The assumption that the Catalyst was lying about Shepard dying in the Destroy ending. Mistaken is pretty much canon, but any further than that and it\\\'s getting into assumption territory.
# The speculation that because we don\\\'t see geth corpses that they didn\\\'t die. Saying that the Catalyst was wrong about Shepard\\\'s death is enough to get the point across that the Catalyst is an UnreliableExpositor.
# The speculation that geth have backups. As we have no idea how the Crucible works in the first place, we can\\\'t make assumptions about HOW it destroys synthetic life.
# The speculation that AI!Shepard is not beholden to the Catalyst\\\'s programmed directive. Not saying it\\\'s not true, but again, we can\\\'t make assumptions. We have to stick to what we know. We can say that the AI says \\\"[Shepard] guides me now\\\", and leave it at that.
# The speculation about love interests in the Control ending. Again, most likely true, but still speculation.
# The speculation about the traumatization and necessary mercy-killings of various people in the Synthesis ending. Nowhere is this stated. We can leave in the fact that it was done without letting the galaxy know first, but that\\\'s about it.
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%** [[spoiler:Destroy the Reapers, with the side effect of [[GenocideDilemma destroying the geth and EDI along with them. It completely eliminates the Reapers as a threat forever- the only ending to do so for sure- but it requires that sacrifice]]. In this ending and \'\'only\'\' this ending, Shepard lives on as a human - but will have to live with the knowledge that s/he sacrificed an entire race to finally stop the Reapers.]]
%%*** [[spoiler: Notably, the Catalyst really tries to downplay this option and portray it as the worst, extolling the virtues of Synthesis and Control while stating that Destroy will not solve the problem (well, at least not by his \'unique\' breed of logic) and not saying anything positive about it. He possibly even outright lied to make it seem worse than it is (it depends on if he truly knew that Shepard would live or not). Perhaps non-coincidentally, the Destroy ending is the only one where the Reapers actually die.]]
%%** [[spoiler:Control the Reapers, destroying Shepard\'s organic body but letting Shepard ascend to effective godhood, with his/her personality controlling the Reapers. The new Catalyst based on Shepard\'s mind can now control the Reapers and use them for whatever purpose s/he sees fit, but there\'s always a chance that s/he may come to same conclusion as the previous Catalyst. On the other hand, the Catalyst started to see the Cycle of genocide as a failure after the Crucible\'s completion, which makes it likely Shepard would not resort to the same method. In Extended Cut, the Catalyst informs Shepard that s/he\'d remain aware of organics after the uploading, which suggests that at least some of Shepard\'s humanity would remain intact. The new Shepard!Catalyst is not a slave to the Leviathans\' directive, unlike the previous Catalyst. In this ending, Shepard dies; her or his name is placed on the Normandy\'s memorial wall, and the new Catalyst\'s narration includes the lines \
%%*** [[spoiler: Notably, the Catalyst really tries to downplay this option and portray it as the worst, extolling the virtues of Synthesis and Control while stating that Destroy will not solve the problem (well, at least not by his \'unique\' breed of logic) and not saying anything positive about it. He possibly even outright lied to make it seem worse than it is (it depends on if he truly knew that Shepard would live or not). Perhaps non-coincidentally, the Destroy ending is the only one where the Reapers actually die.]]
%%** [[spoiler:Control the Reapers, destroying Shepard\'s organic body but letting Shepard ascend to effective godhood, with his/her personality controlling the Reapers. The new Catalyst based on Shepard\'s mind can now control the Reapers and use them for whatever purpose s/he sees fit, but there\'s always a chance that s/he may come to same conclusion as the previous Catalyst. On the other hand, the Catalyst started to see the Cycle of genocide as a failure after the Crucible\'s completion, which makes it likely Shepard would not resort to the same method. In Extended Cut, the Catalyst informs Shepard that s/he\'d remain aware of organics after the uploading, which suggests that at least some of Shepard\'s humanity would remain intact. The new Shepard!Catalyst is not a slave to the Leviathans\' directive, unlike the previous Catalyst. In this ending, Shepard dies; her or his name is placed on the Normandy\'s memorial wall, and the new Catalyst\'s narration includes the lines \
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** Destroy the Reapers, with the side effect of [[GenocideDilemma destroying the geth and EDI along with them. It completely eliminates the Reapers as a threat forever- the only ending to do so for sure- but it requires that sacrifice]]. In this ending and \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' this ending, Shepard lives on as a human - but will have to live with the knowledge that s/he sacrificed an entire race to finally stop the Reapers.
*** Notably, the Catalyst really tries to downplay this option and portray it as the worst, extolling the virtues of Synthesis and Control while stating that Destroy will not solve the problem (well, at least not by his \\\'unique\\\' breed of logic) and not saying anything positive about it. He possibly even outright lied to make it seem worse than it is (it depends on if he truly knew that Shepard would live or not). Perhaps non-coincidentally, the Destroy ending is the only one where the Reapers actually die.
%%** Control the Reapers, destroying Shepard\\\'s organic body but letting Shepard ascend to effective godhood, with his/her personality controlling the Reapers. The new Catalyst based on Shepard\\\'s mind can now control the Reapers and use them for whatever purpose s/he sees fit, but there\\\'s always a chance that s/he may come to same conclusion as the previous Catalyst. On the other hand, the Catalyst started to see the Cycle of genocide as a failure after the Crucible\\\'s completion, which makes it likely Shepard would not resort to the same method. In Extended Cut, the Catalyst informs Shepard that s/he\\\'d remain aware of organics after the uploading, which suggests that at least some of Shepard\\\'s humanity would remain intact. The new Shepard!Catalyst is not a slave to the Leviathans\\\' directive, unlike the previous Catalyst. In this ending, Shepard dies; her or his name is placed on the Normandy\\\'s memorial wall, and the new Catalyst\\\'s narration includes the lines \\\"Through [Shepard\\\'s] death I was created,\\\" and \\\"The [man/woman] who gave up [his/her] life to become the one who could save the many.\\\" If you romanced anybody in this game, and if they had hope that the two of you could make a life for yourselves together after it was all over, that hope is gone with Shepard.
%%** Synthesis, wherein Shepard\\\'s body and essence are disseminated through the galaxy. Early in the second game Shepard was resurrected with experimental \\\"bio-synthetic fusion\\\" technology; in this ending his/her nanotech turns organics into organic synthetic hybrids and his/her organic nature gives synthetics a full understanding of organic life, thereby greatly reducing (but not eliminating) the chance of conflict between synthetics and organics. The Reapers and all their forces turn away from combat, help to rebuild, share past knowledge, and EDI believes that together life is moving in directions she can\\\'t yet even imagine. But to make it happen, Shepard has to die, and becoming organic/synthetic hybrids doesn\\\'t mean those who were close to him/her aren\\\'t grieving. You can tell they\\\'re in pain when they put Shepard\\\'s name on the memorial wall. More importantly, this ending forcefully rewrites everyone against their will, surely traumatizing many, spares the Reapers and only relies on their goodwill to not start any trouble again, and brings back the husks- meaning we\\\'ll now have hundreds of billions of BodyHorror abominations that need to be mercy killed
The reason I have done so is because much of this is speculatory information. While speculation can be (and often turns out to be) true, for a story like this, we need to stick to what we know when troping. Even if something seems like a logical conclusion, we need to only state what happens in-game. For example:
# The assumption that the Catalyst was lying about Shepard dying in the Destroy ending. Mistaken is pretty much canon, but any further than that and it\\\'s getting into assumption territory.
# The speculation that because we don\\\'t see geth corpses that they didn\\\'t die. Saying that the Catalyst was wrong about Shepard\\\'s death is enough to get the point across that the Catalyst is an UnreliableExpositor.
# The speculation that geth have backups. As we have no idea how the Crucible works in the first place, we can\\\'t make assumptions about HOW it destroys synthetic life.
# The speculation that AI!Shepard is not beholden to the Catalyst\\\'s programmed directive. Not saying it\\\'s not true, but again, we can\\\'t make assumptions. We have to stick to what we know. We can say that the AI says \\\"[Shepard] guides me now\\\", and leave it at that.
# The speculation about love interests in the Control ending. Again, most likely true, but still speculation.
# The speculation about the traumatization and necessary mercy-killings of various people in the Synthesis ending. Nowhere is this stated. We can leave in the fact that it was done without letting the galaxy know first, but that\\\'s about it.
*** Notably, the Catalyst really tries to downplay this option and portray it as the worst, extolling the virtues of Synthesis and Control while stating that Destroy will not solve the problem (well, at least not by his \\\'unique\\\' breed of logic) and not saying anything positive about it. He possibly even outright lied to make it seem worse than it is (it depends on if he truly knew that Shepard would live or not). Perhaps non-coincidentally, the Destroy ending is the only one where the Reapers actually die.
%%** Control the Reapers, destroying Shepard\\\'s organic body but letting Shepard ascend to effective godhood, with his/her personality controlling the Reapers. The new Catalyst based on Shepard\\\'s mind can now control the Reapers and use them for whatever purpose s/he sees fit, but there\\\'s always a chance that s/he may come to same conclusion as the previous Catalyst. On the other hand, the Catalyst started to see the Cycle of genocide as a failure after the Crucible\\\'s completion, which makes it likely Shepard would not resort to the same method. In Extended Cut, the Catalyst informs Shepard that s/he\\\'d remain aware of organics after the uploading, which suggests that at least some of Shepard\\\'s humanity would remain intact. The new Shepard!Catalyst is not a slave to the Leviathans\\\' directive, unlike the previous Catalyst. In this ending, Shepard dies; her or his name is placed on the Normandy\\\'s memorial wall, and the new Catalyst\\\'s narration includes the lines \\\"Through [Shepard\\\'s] death I was created,\\\" and \\\"The [man/woman] who gave up [his/her] life to become the one who could save the many.\\\" If you romanced anybody in this game, and if they had hope that the two of you could make a life for yourselves together after it was all over, that hope is gone with Shepard.
%%** Synthesis, wherein Shepard\\\'s body and essence are disseminated through the galaxy. Early in the second game Shepard was resurrected with experimental \\\"bio-synthetic fusion\\\" technology; in this ending his/her nanotech turns organics into organic synthetic hybrids and his/her organic nature gives synthetics a full understanding of organic life, thereby greatly reducing (but not eliminating) the chance of conflict between synthetics and organics. The Reapers and all their forces turn away from combat, help to rebuild, share past knowledge, and EDI believes that together life is moving in directions she can\\\'t yet even imagine. But to make it happen, Shepard has to die, and becoming organic/synthetic hybrids doesn\\\'t mean those who were close to him/her aren\\\'t grieving. You can tell they\\\'re in pain when they put Shepard\\\'s name on the memorial wall. More importantly, this ending forcefully rewrites everyone against their will, surely traumatizing many, spares the Reapers and only relies on their goodwill to not start any trouble again, and brings back the husks- meaning we\\\'ll now have hundreds of billions of BodyHorror abominations that need to be mercy killed
The reason I have done so is because much of this is speculatory information. While speculation can be (and often turns out to be) true, for a story like this, we need to stick to what we know when troping. Even if something seems like a logical conclusion, we need to only state what happens in-game. For example:
# The assumption that the Catalyst was lying about Shepard dying in the Destroy ending. Mistaken is pretty much canon, but any further than that and it\\\'s getting into assumption territory.
# The speculation that because we don\\\'t see geth corpses that they didn\\\'t die. Saying that the Catalyst was wrong about Shepard\\\'s death is enough to get the point across that the Catalyst is an UnreliableExpositor.
# The speculation that geth have backups. As we have no idea how the Crucible works in the first place, we can\\\'t make assumptions about HOW it destroys synthetic life.
# The speculation that AI!Shepard is not beholden to the Catalyst\\\'s programmed directive. Not saying it\\\'s not true, but again, we can\\\'t make assumptions. We have to stick to what we know. We can say that the AI says \\\"[Shepard] guides me now\\\", and leave it at that.
# The speculation about love interests in the Control ending. Again, most likely true, but still speculation.
# The speculation about the traumatization and necessary mercy-killings of various people in the Synthesis ending. Nowhere is this stated. We can leave in the fact that it was done without letting the galaxy know first, but that\\\'s about it.
