Starchild by Wintersun Analysis Continued (Citadel!)

demersel wrote:Yes he does - it is Shepard spliting his memories of the failure away from him. Have you noticed, that if you bring javik to thessia - he says Shepard's renegade lines, while shepard himself is left with only paragone ones, or blindly reluctantly agreeing with javik? If Javik isn't there - he says those lines himself.

BansheeOwnage wrote:

MikeyTurvey wrote:

BansheeOwnage wrote:
@Mikey, what the hell did you just respond to?

Nobody, I just remember someone bringing it up here way back, and I only just read up on it. :)

http://sacredscribesangelnumbers.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/angel-number-183.html

Oh, okay. Haha, that's pretty creepy.

Here's the lyrics to Starchild. :) You won't get it, but what I'm trying to show that a game story could have both INCEPTION (dream) and MATRIX (simulated world) and MORE (like I said, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Point) concepts, in one story, together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm82gjZDIDU

(Starchild is also another word for Nephilim, the spawn of humans and angels.. or at least the idea that humanity mated with aliens, long ago. While Bioware never called anything 'Starchild', they did call one character 'Child' and the other character 'Stargazer', leading to most characters to immediately make the connection and name of 'Starchild' for the boy, in general (in the dreams, Catalyst, and ending scene))

((INSERT LYRICS))


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My idea is that Shepard already used the Crucible, but since he's trapped under rubble and under the whims of some entity (Harbinger?), the simulation he's in, is keeping him from remembering what happens on London and after.

Bioware employs the 'unreliable (self)-narrator' trope as the whole game consists of going through Shepard's memories, some fabricated, to make his choice. The dream is reality and the reality is dream, due to the possible nature of the crucible.

In possibly a 'first timeline', Shepard may have lost everyone. The woman on the Citadel desk may have died. Tali may have been lost on Rannoch. Etc. But, using the Crucible, you "But I will make the time run backwards and I'll make the stars shine again" You become the 'Creator' (Omega Point) and essentially write out the Reapers from the galactic equation. You break the Cycle.

Essentially, you make a universe where the Reapers lose, at least in Destroy.

But in the end, I don't think this has happened 'yet'. The hints at a time distortion caused by using the Crucible ("Published years ago by Dr. Conrad Verner, this doctorial dissertation on xenotechnology is a lengthy but intriguing argument that dark energy causes a minute but empirically observable difference in the passage of time. Hotly debated when first published, the paper's theory is supported by recent data.") may mean that Shepard uses this distortion in order to fuck the Reapers up, somehow. That's the part we're missing :)

"The powerful array salvaged from the Hercules system can be used for something much more ambitious: the Crucible tunes into the mass relays' command switches. Installing the interferometric array into the Crucible's systems results in a real-time map of the entire galaxy, including the position of each and every Reaper in the Milky Way."

I think it relates to this ^ :)
And it would explain...

http://www.theaveragegamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Mass-Effect-3-Art-Book-Cover.jpg

Reapers clearly don't look like they're landing, but instead are hitting Earth "at ramming speed".
(NOTE: Emily Wong died in an official Twitter Roleplay by Bioware, where her last words were: http://fuckyeahemilywong.tumblr.com/post/39725847949/emily-wong-go-on-make-your-noise-try-to-scare)

Just like disrupting Sovereign's connection to Saren's body caused his shields to go down, what if disrupting Harbinger's connection to Shepard caused a hacking of Harbinger's connection to all Reapers?

There is also a play called "The Crucible", and it's interesting to read the wiki article on it:
"The word crucible is contextually defined as a metal container in which metals or other substances are subjected to high temperatures. Each character is metaphorically a metal subjected to the heat of the surrounding situation. The characters whose moral standards prevail in the face of death, such as John Proctor and Rebecca Nurse, symbolically refuse to melt. "Crucible" can also mean a severe test, which most characters face in the play."

So the thing that 'ITers' missed, according to Bioware, would be that it's not just Shepard being indoctrinated, but in fact *everyone* is under influence. They all (Reapers, Leviathans, Alliance, Cerberus, your friends) all have plans for the Crucible, and because they do, it increases the importance of it, and traps them all within it, once it gets 'activated' (in the present, or future?). They ALL enter 'mind prisons', and are bound by its rules. We all make our own tests.

Even your allies may have gotten stuck in it, and that is the Homeworlds comic you bought me :)

Synthesis really does lead to synthesis, but Shepard is dead so his vision of it is false.
Control really does lead to control, but Shepard is dead so his vision of it is false.
Destroy really does lead to destruction, but Shepard is dead so his vision of it is...false? Wait, he's NOT dead, and he's breathing! He made it out ALIVE. But the Reapers? ... *shows ramming speed picture again*

So the Reapers are all dying (maybe not all of them), and that triggers the thing I showed you in the Homeworlds comic, of Shepard's allies around the London rubble, during daylight, possibly searching for your body. And you'll be alive, if you picked Destroy. The other endings already happened in the base game, but since Shepard isn't alive, it's not worth it for Bioware to show those alternate worlds (just as Shepard dying in ME2 means he won't import to ME3).
Destroy = 'winning'