User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-24174486-20120726200543/@comment-4237253-20120726202956

In response to "A Plot Like Swiss Cheese":

1) I never said ships are incapable of movement, or that they didn't have supplies. The most important thing to realise here is they likely don't have enough.

2) It is never explained why the Catalyst was wrong. It's never even acknowledged. In this scenario, the game is just giving us faulty information, which isn't exactly superb storytelling.

3) "In Synthesis, yes. That's how the Catalyst describes Synthesis.." You took that out of context. What I was getting at was how ridiculous and pointless it was. Not only that, but I'm also questioning why they need fleshy organic bits added on to them, or where they even came from.

4) "That's assuming that it would be that simple to fly a ship that close to the Crucible during a massive battle like the one that happens." It would certainly be worth trying wouldn't it? They do have probes after all.

5) "Arrival establishes that smashing an asteroid into a mass relay would cause a massive explosion. I think it's safe to say that the activation of the Crucible is not the same thing as smashing an asteroid into every mass relay." It is stated that destroying a Mass Relay unleashes a supernova. Smashing an asteroid and activating the Crucible aren't the same things, but the end result is the same: the destruction of the Relay.