I've never played the patched endings, so I'm not sure if it's still canon.)
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Replying to @BootlegSith @ireneista and
But that's less interesting than where I think Mass Effect was sort of headed
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before a change in the plot was decided upon sometime during ME3's development cycle.
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I'm not CERTAIN that Bioware actually thought through all of these implications; if they did, they didn't fully explain it.
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Replying to @BootlegSith @ireneista and
The thing that we know about the Reapers as originally conceived was that they are
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1) non-conscious, mind controlling automatons like the Berserkers;
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2) created by a biological progenitor species, which was probably always intended to be the Leviathans that were canonically introduced;
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3) were trying to protect the universe/galaxy from the destructive effects of faster than light travel.
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All of this is heavily implied by pretty much everything up until the part of the ending that pissed everyone off.
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Replying to @BootlegSith @ireneista and
It would even offer a more satisfactory, if depressing, explanation for why the Mass Effect relays had to be destroyed
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My understanding was the original creators of the Reapers were supposed to be dark matter beings native to deep space
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegSith and
Who hate both FTL and biotic powers because they're normal matter beings intruding into their realm
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And created the Reapers as avatars to interact with us in our world, which they find alien and repulsive
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