User blog comment:AdmiralPedro1stFleet/FANS PLEASE READ. Drew Karpyshyn's ORIGINALLY INTENDED ENDING/@comment-1440333-20130525133723/@comment-1440333-20130525180418

Except Destroy is way more than an EMP if you look at it because it doesn't destroy the ships or computers or weapons. Likewise Control is much more than a signal - each Reaper is now directly an extension of Sheplyst's mind. Synthesis becomes the easiest to understand when the other two contradict their own logic.

The fact is all three are so staggeringly unfathomable that it trying to rationalise any of them with any sort of understandable basis creates even more plot holes.