User blog comment:Celtic505/Destroy Ending- Is it possible to repair EDI & the Geth?/@comment-71.201.156.118-20130520032301

The reason I don't like the control ending is because Shepard, just like any other being, could go a little power crazy. Not to mention that another individual who has different goals in mind (like TIM) could seize control of the Reapers from Shepard, and then everything would go downhill from there... In the destroy ending, EDI and the Geth are destroyed, but who said that their actual information-the data and memories on them-are also wiped? If they are, then it is very possible, as said by others on this page, that EDI had backups of her information, or that maybe an awesome crew member on the Normandy helped EDI back up all her data before the wave hit them and killed her :D Then she could be rebuilt. Now, according to the Mass Effect wiki, building a new quantum blue box for EDI would result in a randomized personality due to the differences in the hardware or something. So that made me think, what if the Normandy crew build EDI a new blue box that didn't have a single difference in the hardware. No, it wouldn't be easy, but it's possible with advanced technology, which I think is available in the Mass Effect Galaxy. So there. That's how I like to think of it. With the destroy ending, the best of all the endings is achieved. 1. Shepard survives 2. EDI and the Geth can [theoretically] be rebuilt 3. The Reapers guns can be taken and used by the 'good guys' to protect the galaxy, just like in the control ending 4. The Reapers bodies can be studied, and the species of the galaxy could possibly gain knowledge of older races from the dead Reapers, just like in the synthesis ending