User blog comment:Mexican215/My Mass Effect Ending theory/@comment-24174486-20130203234936/@comment-6293599-20130204002617

i didnt claim indoctrination to be my theory i know i titled this my ending theory but really the only part of it that is mine is what i think of the catalyst AI. and i actually left that out on accident so here it is..like i said i think that the catalyst AI was created for a government system to maintain order. And simply being a program with parameters it sees chaos as the opposite of order and to maintain order it must remove any variable that leads to chaos, so to prevent any species from creating more synthetics and possibly destroying each other it decides to help the advanced species "Ascend" and be preserved in synthetic form. It does not comprehend that doing this does not preserve organics but kills them. When it says that its creators "gave the first reapers form" it didnt mean they built them it said "they did not approve of my solution" so it killed them and turned them into the first reaper. just like it said "they became the first reaper". thats what i think of the catalyst ai, and indoctrination or not the ending is still very plausible to be in shepards head with the way he wakes up it appears that he is lying in rubble on earth and never made it to the citadel. It doesnt need to be indoctrination for the last part to be in his head but it seems to make sense with what i have pointed out. as long as Bioware chooses to go the path that the last part was in shepards head they can make another game and continue the fight against the reapers which would be a smart move. you said you can rip this to shreds well have at it.