User blog comment:Ironreaper/Problems with the Catalyst/@comment-99.141.162.99-20120513172213

Here's a few good ones:

1) Are the Reapers actually intelligent? The Catalyst implies that the Reapers are VI with no free will....i.e they are not acting on thier own instincts but because of the Catalyst and whoever created them--for thier specific purpose. Or is the Catalyst the same "species" as the Reapers? Do they have free will? Could individual Reapers conceivably decided to not stick with the plan and go do their own thing?

2) If all organic life is destined to be destroyed by Synthetics, why is thier still organic life in the galaxy? Presumably at some point, the Reapers did not exist to "protect" organics. So where is the Catalyst's logic coming from?