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Conventional EMP generators are rather simple devices and are easily within the grasp of any nation-state willing to bother making one. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_pumped_flux_compression_generator Note that military hardware is usually well shielded from EM interference...

I agree. These discussions are kind of a silver lining. The community has proven that it has far more coherent visions of ME universe to offer, compared to what was delivered by the writers of ME3. I was leaning more to the "cast back down to the Purgatory of eternal struggle and damned to...

Kind of. It boils down to "the Catalyst wasn't looking then, and couldn't be bothered to open the Citadel relay by itself later". I don't think counting plot holes and major discontinuities will get us anywhere. The literal interpretation has way too many. The indoctrination theory waves...

This is a good argument. However, I would say that Saren was working towards a partial voluntary assimilation, rather than synthesis. Synthesis is described more in the terms of amalgamation, a process that would fuse and permanently change both the organics and the synthetics. One could claim...

Hi :) I think the issue should not be which interpretation has more plot holes, but which of the two is less unfit to be an actual ending of the trilogy. In IT, any outcome has only a tactical significance. At the point where all of the Allied and most of the Reaper forces (that we know...