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Obviously this does not mean that the Catalyst's solutions are the best ones.
You had me until that part!

You still cannot trust the Catalyst given what it represents.

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The Catalyst is the very definition of what a mad AI looks like in science fiction. Just because he speaks calmly, offers you a hand up, and proclaims Shepard is the only one who can speak for organics, does not mean it fits the definition of sanity. It is searching for an answer to a question it cannot possibly comprehend even with all its advanced construction and intelligence to help it. It has been doing this for millions of years. Alone, in the dark, calculating the destruction of billions of worlds over and over again.

Maybe it started out like Shepard does in the Control ending, being optimistic and wanting to preserve a peace, but the result of so long in isolation is pretty clear. It's bat- insane.

The only reason it offers you Synth in the first place is because you're putting up more of a fight than any civilization that came before. It's backed into a corner and it knows the experiment is at an end. There is no benevolence in it's motives, no wish for the cycles or the wars to be at an end, it is only desperate because the order it has managed build over those millions of years is about to be shattered.

Leviathan makes it pretty clear that the Catalyst is something that cannot be trusted in any way, and viewing the Catalyst's words in the Context of Leviathan makes the AI completely untrustworthy.


Still, great DLC. Without a doubt he best Bioware has done in a while.