(spoiler) Besides facial animations, we haven't talked about the MOST stupid thing so far (SPOILER)

He could. Those parts of Sovereign went somewhere.

The Keepers ate them.

If SAM truly has reaper tech in it then maybe I'll allow it. But get this: Alec Ryder invented him..Yes.

This dad. This one guy. He's not a quadrillionaire like The Illusive Man with entire scientific colonies dedicated nonstop to working out reaper tech.

Your dad simply admits to fuckin building SAM -a reaper-level AI.

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You're wrong: to the point, I wish you were right.
For starters it’s not a stupid bit of the plot: it’s one of its main pillars. But I suppose it could seem overreacting to people who don’t care. If you’re interested, I’ve tried to summarized some of the whys in this topic:


bsn.boards.net/thread/5224/sam-matter-entails

I'm sure they'll explain it during the "Ryder Family History" quest line, since it seems to be about how SAM was created. I wasn't saying that this was a stupid bit of plot tbh, I was talking in general

Didn't the Illusive Man have his hand on reaper teach prio to Sovereign? I don't remember all of his backstory at the moment.

I guess he did have Dragon Teeth via the indoctrinated geth from Mass Effect 1

Illusive's Man own backstory ties in with Reaper tech during the first contact war.

It's not outlandish to say he could've had tech from before Sovereign.

Also making an AI doesn't seem to be the hard part, there was that credit stealing AI from ME1 who was made from an AI that someone else made, it just depends on how smart said AI is. There's a company that specialises in making AI after all, remember? The Quarian indentured servant from ME2.

I have my own theories regarding SAM and his development... but I'm not saying anything.

Chances are after Alec got dishonorably discharged Cerberus hit him up. Then TIM gives him access to Reaper resources for the betterment of humanity. Makes sense.

And now that I remember, AI development in the ME:T universe was only allowed by the Council directly and only on a case by case basis. Even Saren himself only found the Sovereign after being deployed to investigate a rogue scientist who was developing AI without the green light from the Council.
Do we get this? In the Milky Way, if you developed AI without Council’s consent, they sent Saren after you.
Alec, with his idea of AI able to plug to organic brains, should have been quad deep in SPECTRES!
And even supposing he got the green light (blackmailing the Turian councillor?) he should have needed at least the funds of a major interstellar corporation backing him up just to procure the “blue box” needed to house the AI consciousness.

DO YOU HEAR THE VOICES TOO?

Ryder will end up worse than Manuel.