star child

Me neither. What's depressing about destroying the Reapers? Sounds like a victory to me.

Lost potential, massive collateral damage, death and starvation of millions while Relays are being rebuild, extremely slow recover of worlds, depleted military force giving pirates and other such groups far more room to move and act on. Making money by price gouging for necessary items and stealing them from groups that need it to sell it to another group that has more money.

With the added bonus of never allowing the galaxy to come to terms with synthetic life and in fact the Reapers would further enforce the negative stereotypes of it on the general population to the point the conflict between S and O life would inevitably happen again. As organics not wanting another Reaper would stronghold any synthetic life in a way that were it an organic life we would call human right violations. And in return synthetic life not wanting to be restrained by organic life would rise up and more conflict, bloodshed and continuing the cycle of hatred and death.

Not the most optimistic outlook. Short term gain yes but long term loss.

I had no intention of controlling the Reapers (can't be done. TIM was proof of that) or implanting everyone with Reaper tech (eg. Saren, Paul Grayson, Kai Leng), so destroying the Reapers is the only sound option for me.

Playing the game, following the story, and paying attention to the details.



Perhaps I'm viewing the story through a different lens than you are. There's two sides to every coin.