Mass Effect - Why the catalyst is wrongSince playing through the Extended Cut and getting to know more about the Catalyst, I ended up thinking and that ended in an essay. It's not very long, I promise.This contains major spoilers for Mass Effect 3.So I've been thinking about how the Catalyst and the reapers and the whole synthetics vs. organics argument. The Catalyst is basically an AI, created to solve the conflict between organics and synthetics, it said so itself. And then it turned its own creators into the first reapers, involuntarily. They probably didn't fancy that idea, hell, it even told you that they didn't approve. The Catalyst also tells Shepard that the created