Mass Effect 3 Shoot The Catalyst

"When burn burns, is information technology at war? Is it in conflict? Or is information technology just doing what it was created to do? We are no unlike."

The Catalyst, also known as the Intelligence, is an aboriginal artificial intelligence that resides inside the Citadel. It embodies the collective consciousness and memories of the Reapers, and thus countless ancient civilizations. Before being encountered by Commander Shepard, the Catalyst was believed to be the final component necessary to complete the Crucible, and was mistakenly idea to be the Citadel itself.

Groundwork

Purpose

The Catalyst serves as the builder and overseer of the Reapers and their cycles. Equally information technology explains to Commander Shepard, the Goad was created by the Leviathans, who noticed that many of the organic races they commanded were somewhen felled by their own synthetic creations. To prevent such events from happening, they created the Catalyst—which they referred to as "The Intelligence"—to oversee relations between organic and synthetic life. The Catalyst was programmed to ensure the continued being of life in the milky way through any means necessary.

In order to fulfil its task, it created pawns that spread throughout the galaxy, collecting physical data from various organics in the creation. It studied the development of civilizations, and its understanding grew until information technology found a solution.

The Catalyst determined that organics create synthetics to improve their ain existence, simply those improvements have limits. To exceed those limits, synthetics must be allowed to evolve. They must, by definition, surpass their creators. The event is inevitable anarchy and destruction, so the Goad chose to resolve the trouble of organic-synthetic conflict by putting in place a system which would preclude any civilization from reaching such a signal.

The Catalyst's solution took the form of the Reapers. The Intelligence turned on its creators, using its pawns to slaughter the Leviathans and process them into a construct based on their likeness. This construct was the very first Reaper, known to the mod galaxy every bit Straw. The memories of the Leviathans used to create Straw were preserved as the Reaper's gestalt consciousness, which in turn was incorporated into the Catalyst itself.

The galaxy's boon and doom

The Catalyst's solution dictated that all spacefaring organic and synthetic species would be harvested, with millions of bodies and minds from each race being processed and converted into new Reapers made in Harbinger's prototype, even as the Reapers themselves worked to destroy their civilizations. Past doing this, the Reapers synthetically preserved the harvested race's genetic makeup and collective knowledge, while simultaneously allowing for more archaic races to advance. This harvest ensured that the threat of complete annihilation of organics by synthetics was effectively averted.

While the Catalyst regarded this solution as near-perfect, it strove to fulfill its purpose and achieve a superior solution. To this end, information technology commanded the Reapers to build the mass relays, speeding the development of civilizations during each wheel and increasing the efficiency of the entire procedure. The unabridged galaxy became the Goad's "experiment" as it continued to harvest races and collect ever more data in an endeavor to find the ultimate answer to the conflict. The Catalyst came upon the thought of merging organic and synthetic life as a possible solution and attempted to exercise so numerous times in the by, but it always resulted in failure. It blames organics for the failure, stating they were non "gear up" and that the process cannot exist forced.

Several cycles earlier the present harvest, the Catalyst became aware of a concept that could potentially be used to destroy the Reapers. It attempted to eradicate this concept, unaware that the idea evolved and survived into the present in the form of the Crucible.

Discovery

When Shepard encounters the Catalyst during the closing stages of the state of war, it chooses to represent itself as a translucent projection, taking the grade of a immature male child the Commander saw killed during the Reaper invasion of Earth. The Catalyst expresses irritation at Shepard's inflow in its chambers if the milky way is ill-prepared, or conducts itself in a more neutral manner if otherwise. All the same, Shepard comments on it being a mere AI, and the Catalyst retorts that information technology's "simply an AI" in as much as Shepard is but an animal when the construct begins explaining its nature.

In the presence of the completed Crucible now docked into the Citadel, the Catalyst muses that organics are clearly more resourceful than previously realized. Information technology further relates that Shepard is the first organic being to stand in its chamber to converse with it, which caused information technology to reassess its solution. Information technology cannot, however, bring nigh a change without Shepard'due south intervention.

The Catalyst is presumed lost in some of the possible choices Shepard can make. The Destroy pick wipes out all synthetic life, and a digital copy of Shepard's consciousness replaces the Catalyst every bit the Reapers' master AI if Command was chosen instead. Information technology is unknown what happens to it if Shepard merges organic and constructed life, or if Shepard refuses to employ the Crucible, though the Stargazer narrating the tale of eras long gone claims to be complimentary of the Reaper threat in their time.

Trivia

While the Catalyst speaks, the voices of male and female Shepard can be heard echoing its dialogue.^[1]
Early on in storyboarding, a "Reaper Queen" was used to face up Shepard instead of the Catalyst. The idea was that Shepard was so cybernetically enhanced they were able to plug directly into the Citadel and speak with the god-queen on a virtual globe. The queen viewed the Reapers' operations equally unsustainable, and wanted things to evolve, but were incapable due to the limitations of their AI. The queen proposed things the other Reapers didn't similar, and so they sealed her abroad on the Citadel and never listened to her again.^[ii]
- Shepard's interest meant a risk to forcefulness that evolution. The Renegade response would exist to rudely refuse the offer, disconnect, and start blowing everything on sight. This would destroy the Citadel, Earth, and the Reapers, but requite organics a hazard. The Paragon response is broadly similar to the Control catastrophe scenario, but Shepard becomes a "Reaper King" and still rudely calls out the queen. The Synthesis scenario is also largely the aforementioned, though it was an catastrophe available to anybody.^[2]

References

↑ http://forum.worldofplayers.de/forum/threads/1169342-LIVECHAT-WITH-EVIL-CHRIS-PRIESTLY-JESSICA-MERIZAN-DANIELA-HEINE/page3?p=19386237&viewfull=ane#post19386237
↑ ^2.0 ^2.i https://www.youtube.com/scout?v=nhtgjmkcht8&t=503s