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The Fury said:
Kantor said:

The plot holes are really secondary here. I could live with those; they're a minor annoyance.

The idea that a race of organics miraculously turned itself into a killer race of demonic robots and decided to terrorise everyone forever is absurd, and it's even more absurd that the king killer demonic robot is suddenly fed up with the whole thing and decides to give you a bunch of nonsensical options which will solve nothing.

I've missed out most your post as it contains endings I've not seen yet but from before a choice is made, I don't see how this story is that far fetched.

How I understood this was the idea is that an extremely advantaced race found a way to preserve themselves in the form of AI and non-organic matter. It decided that other races around it would end up either destroying them or themselves so took it upon themselves to do the same to these other races as it did to themselves. This was the solution to the chaos created by different species, to bring order in the form of unification in a single race. Every 50,000 years they repeat, taking advance races away leaving young races to grow and develop before the advance races destroy them. The original race would have had incredibly advanced technology to do all this, after all, they did create the mass relays which was used to dictate new races developments.

The final choice was an odd one but I presumed the AI within the citadel essentially had decided that due to the presence of an organic, their  plan was no longer working as the organic races were fighting back. This part could have been more well thought out. 

I suppose it's possible that a race managed to turn itself into AI, because we don't know how long they had - perhaps millions of years of civilization.

However, this race is quite clearly extremely wise. They can't just assume that synthetics will always rise up and obliterate organics. It didn't happen to them. Don't they realise that they have become a race of synthetics who obliterate organics? They claim to be perpetuating life, but all they're really doing is setting it down a predetermined path and eradicating it before it can become advanced.

It is impossible for any sensible race to honestly believe this, so once again, that cannot possibly be an earnest statement of the truth.



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