every use of FTL is us scraping our nails into their skin, each mass relay a bleeding wound
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
so they built the existing relays to contain the damage and keep us from doing any new construction
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part of the deal is that Sovereign was a way cooler bad guy than the rest of the Reapers
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the canon explanation makes his whole deal of holding all life period in contempt to be a retcon
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I prefer the idea that the Reaper ships themselves are just hand puppets used by incomprehensible beings to interact with scum
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the idea that the Reapers are their ship bodies and that once killed are irreplaceable really softened their menace
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also - this is the big one - I wanted biotic powers themselves to be part of the story and not just weird tech
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in the original planned ending the development of biotics is what triggers the cycle
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physical life starts breaking the laws of physics bc our own minds are crossing over to the realm of the gods
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idk I did feel the "organic/synthetic" dichotomy was a big retcon in ME2
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
the big reveal in ME1 is that it's a red herring, Sovereign could give two shits about the distinction
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the (heretic) geth are useful cannon fodder bc of their nature but they're no more Sovereign's kin than any other scum
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