


The happy ending is the synthesis ending.It explains these functions, it doesnt 'give' them to you. The Catalyst (Citadel), has been 'locked' since last cycle, is obedient to Shepard and provides information when he meets it.Maybe the indoctrinated splinter group of some past cycle added to it? the control functions? What if some radical minds conceived of a way to get the best of both worlds (synthesis) without getting harvested, in some twisted attempt to satisfy the Reapers? So organic cycles of the past have been planning this Crucible thing since the first time they realized the Reapers existed? This is interesting, especially if you think about WHO may have been adding to it each cycle.That means that usually, the true and heretic geth BOTH mistrust organics and wish to achieve a unified body (Dyson sphere, reaper body). Geth VI (the 'true' geth's consensus if Legion was neglected in ME2) mistrusts organics since Shepard never helped them at all.The quarians also forced the Morning war, although the geth COULD have just obeyed and deactivated. This lends more credence to the reaper's theory about entropy of organic life. Eve says they had a nuclear war (was probably fought over similar reasons as human beings in real life would resources, religious, etc) and would have died off completely if not for the salarians. Not much is exposed on the Reapers in ME2 except for elaborations on Reaper reproduction, as well as genetically altered species (the Collectors).Mass Effect 2: reproduction and harvesting revealed Not out of aggressiveness, just mere might. Its implied that the geth also aren't quite at the point of truly dangerous AI either. Geth are considered to be a galactic danger and AIs are illegal.to keep up their quota of new Reapers, they get the Collectors to make a new one, possibly to attempt to open the Citadel again. Sovereign fails to open the Citadel, which the Reapers did not have access to.Vigil states that Sovereign probably had to gather resources for centuries before he could execute his plan(s). This is when the reapers originally wanted to enter the galaxy but realized they were locked out. The first sign of Reaper-influenced attacks occurred a 2000 yrs before ME1, when the Rachni wars began.They also leave the Crucible plans for the next cycle to find. They used the conduit to get to the Citadel post-Reaper attack and 'locked' the Reapers out of their own mass relays network, delaying them hundreds of years. In Mass Effect, Vigil tells Shepard what the Illos scientists did to warn the next cycle of the Reapers.IT might be true, so just keep an open mind. Imagine him as a symbol of organic's 'child' (technology) or something like that. The Catalyst is some sort of presence within the Citadel (I hate this character, but for the sake of this blog, lets take him seriously).2 Mass Effect 2: reproduction and harvesting revealed.1 Mass Effect 1: Reapers are foiled, twice.
