User blog comment:The Milkman/The Next Effect/@comment-4737548-20121123020348/@comment-5287758-20121125053537

Saren envisioned a future with Reaper implants on organics, which would have upgraded them, but at the same time make them the Reapers' puppets. He never conceived of the idea of an organic-synthetic fusion that runs so deep that it would allow both sides a perfect understanding of each other. Synthesis was never Saren's idea.