The elephant in the room

Red is what Hackett and Anderson sent me to do, so I did it.

Red because it ends the problem for good.

The only way the quarians are dead is if they were wiped out by the geth over Rannoch. Destroy has nothing to do with that

Well yes and no both cases.


The statement is assuming the only problem was the Reapers existing. Without the Reapers there are no Mass Relay networks. Without the Mass Relay networks the Quarians post Morning War would take a good 2 years if not more to reach the next populated area. Maybe even longer since their home planet is pretty far away from the home planet of the other races.

Destroy targets all electronics though if I remember right EC kind of changed that to only Reapers because players got upset that there was consequences to the destroy option.  Either way Quarians suits rely on electronics to filter the air and keep them alert of any possible suit breaches. A pulse that takes them out even if they can be repaired would still put them at risk until every suit was repaired. There would be fatalities. Maybe not all of them but since being in the same room as another Quarian during birth was enough to cause a heavy reaction. If they are in the presence of other non Quarians or even on Rannoch there could be a fair amount of fatalities.

And that isn't even taking into account if the whole integrates technology into their very bodies as stated in ME 1 was kept up or dropped quietly. That stuff being disrupted would defiantly cause a lot of fatalities when stacked with suits.

Which is why the Shepard breath scene is the single most stupidest thing in the game that has ever or will ever happen in a Mass Effect game. Even if Shepard didn't bleed out from the beam run. Even if he was able to survive a point blank explosion and survive the resulting energy wave released.  The effect of the tech destroying wave would have fired every single cybernetic implant in Shepard. Those very implants are the things that are keeping him alive due to Cerberus pretty much rebuilding his body.  Best case scenario he is a vegetative state for the rest of his short life in no pain. Worse case he is conscious but unable to move or speak and in constant searing pain.  In either cases post Reaper War the galaxy would not have the time, money or man power to spare to rebuild him. And the nicest thing you could do is put a bullet between his eyes to end his pain.

I like to go renegade control these days, the creepy music gives me chills. Also, I wonder what Miranda is planning from that slide showing her studying Reapers. And if you're romancing Traynor, the relationship can continue as well, dating AI is her thing. Normally, and personal canon wise I go Destroy.

Haha, i went green on my very first playthrough. After the TIM conversation and the Catalyst conversation I was so confused, I just stumbled forward until Shepard fell into the beam. Cue the (non EC at the time) green ending, which just carried on with the confusing stuff. In a way, after those two conversations, it was the perfect ending.

Well...

Destroy is the only sane and moral ending no matter how you look at it.

From Shepard's (sanity) perspective:

• Shooting the thing that triggers Reaper destruction sounds less false since the Reaper Boss wants you to consider other options.
• Grabbing a conduit with massive amounts of energy is a suicidal move and you have no reason to trust the Reaper Boss on letting you replace him.
  
• Jumping on an energy beam in space is an even more blatant suicidal move and you still have no reason to trust the Reaper Boss about anything he says.
• Not doing anything or ragequitting after going through hell just to get to this point is pure OOC weak-willedness for COMMANDER SHEPARD.

From the Galaxy's (moral) perspective:

• Getting every other current AI liveform wiped out alongside the Reapers prevents their flawed tech from turning against organics again while organics can use their knowledge of Reapers to prevent new AIs build from following such path, unless they are suicidally stupid.
  
• The Geth and EDI had already signed down for a suicidal battle against the Reapers, they had no regrets.
• Nobody knows that Shepard became the new Reaper Boss and it would suck to live in a galactic dictactorship where giant metal cuttlefish with unknown intentions can watch your every move and control your mind without your knowledge.
• Synthesis is stupid space magic rape: a cyborg jumped into a beam of space magic that exploded into a wave of magical DNA surgery invading the bodies of every living being in the Galaxy without their consent.
• If the Crucible doesn't fire then we all died in battle for nothing and the Yagh will be laughing at our remains.

The only ending in which Commander Shepard doesn't commit suicide on a prayer and which doesn't result in everyone being robbed of their freedom and inviduality is Destroy. Every other ending just screws everybody.

Only if you view it from the sanitized Disney style ending that removes all consequences of your choice creating an even more fairy tale ending then refuse, control or synthesis.

Um, if anything is a sanitized Disney style ending it's Synthesis, right down to the glowing people and everyone being happy and shiny, as if they hadn't just had a war. 

To make is more clear, EDI and the geth are LITERALLY Pinocchio and are granted life by the fairy godmother at the end.

Reality is that evolution isn't some end point. It's an ongoing thing. When it stops it's because we're dying. This means the thing is most likely lying to get you choose the outcome it wants.

Yes, but not their some kind of synthetic/organic thing - everyone is, at the alleged "final stage of evolution" (talk about false statements).  So, yes, it is magic. You just like to pretend otherwise.  You have actually failed to provide anything resembling reason and argument for transforming inorganic material into somehow "living" material.  EDI somehow now has organs and cells - things which were never present before.  You fail over and over to explain how that is possible.

For my part, all I've said is that things get destroyed, such as Reapers and (based on the game itself) their technology.  You just don't like that it pokes holes in your argument.  You just don't want to accept that the Catalyst lied to Shepard so that it would get the outcome it wanted.  Finally, you fail to grasp evolution if you believe what it says.