User blog comment:SilencedSkies/The Illusive Man: Good, Evil or just bad writing?/@comment-260563-20120730041142/@comment-4950455-20120730044404

There's two highly questionable things here. Firstly, I'm not sure what point you were making by your comparisons to the UNSC - actually, scratch that, I have no idea what point you were making - but I don't think the analogy really works anyway.

Secondly, the Illusive Man wasn't trying to help build the Crucible because that's not how he planned to control the Reapers. Frankly, I'm not entirely sure what his plan was, but it didn't involve the Crucible - until the end of the game, everyone thought it was a big Reaper-killing gun, not an all-purpose space magic amplifier.