The Thorian gets a pass because it's a weird alien plant thing that at some point evolved to indoctrinate people. This is a sci fi game - if evolution took a weird turn on a distant planet whose to argue? it serves its purpose story and gameplay-wise, so there's no problem.Eddie the head said:
On the other hand, the terminator baby was made intentionally. Which means one of the super-intelligent reapers thought a great design for a spacecraft/species preservation device was a giant three-eyed terminator. And their plan was to pump the thing full of blended up humans for who knows what reason. First, the thing is horribly ill-suited to space flight from a purely design standpoint, unless it's like a transformer or something. There's just no reason to make it look human, especially when the other reapers are all squid. Second, humans have two eyes - the reapers must have honestly thought humans had three because the head has no other reason to be modelled after a skull than to look human. Third, blending up people is a terrible, terrible way to preserve their collective consciousness in machine form - you're grinding up organs and bones that have nothing to do with the brain, then you're dicing the brain itself and just pumping the resulting slurry into a metal shell. It makes no sense whatsoever.
Why was the thing hanging from easily breakable glass tubes? How was it doing that? Why do the tubes have retracting covers? Assuming it's going to be housed in a squid shell, why do any parts of it have lasers? Why did Sovreign claim that all reapers are 100% machine if they're supposed to be cyborgs? Is it because the mincemeat has no effect on how it runs? If so, why do it in the first place? It raises so many questions and offers up so many plot holes it's mind boggling. The details of the Thorian were irrelevant, but the terminator baby was the entire point of the Collector's plan - it's what we'd been working to stop all along. I mean, even if the thing could work, what's the point? What does it gain that they couldn't get some other way? Why not, instead of abducting thousands of humans to build a new reaper, dedicate their efforts to abducting scientists to figure out how to switch the keepers back to normal? Save a tonne of time and effort, keep it low-key enough that it doesn't attract attention, and just do what they planned in the first game.
Aside from that it just looks comical. It make the reapers seem utterly inept, as if they have no understanding of biology or engineering. Hence, it's ludicrous for it to even be in the game.
