The Collection of The End

[Mass Effect Repeater]?

After seeing familiar terms, I began to think about the "setting" as the background of the world.

The Citadel is one of the cores of the "Mass Effect" series. As the "crossroads of the galaxy", it is the political and economic center, with embassies of all civilizations, and controls the interstellar transition gates throughout the galaxy, namely "Mass Effect Repeater".

As long as the repeater control department of the Castle of God disables the repeater of a certain galaxy, the civilization born from that galaxy will be "isolated" in a true sense, unless they can study another kind of fast navigation between galaxies. technology.

In addition, on the basis of the original function, the castle can also be equipped with a thing called "Sky Furnace", thereby directly transforming into a big killer that can destroy all intelligent machinery in the galaxy, and this action must be performed by the castle AI, "catalyst" to judge its necessity and execute it.

It is said that the fortress was built by the race "Proxian" who "reaped the reincarnation last time". It was used to unite the intelligent races across the galaxy against the harvesters. However, various archaeological evidences prove that Proxian is just a Outsiders, when they found the fortress, it was empty and there was nothing but the guardians.

The overall maintenance of the fortress is carried out by these strange “caregivers” who ignore any questions and attacks. Since no race is willing to take on this busy and responsible job, and some pipelines can only be penetrated by the size of the caretaker. The Citadel Convention clearly prohibits harm to carers.

Here is a question: even with Mass Effect technology, why build a network of repeaters throughout the galaxy? How to reach a galaxy that has not yet built a repeater network?

Another problem is that the "catalyst", as AI, is also part of the intelligent machinery. The option of destroying all intelligent machinery means that it will destroy itself. So, what kind of reason is needed to allow it to agree to self-destruct?

Anyway, the reason will not be "Shepard's mouth cannon skills are full".

Not mentioning the original setting for the time being, the situation in my galaxy is quite similar to it.

For example, the castle of God has been created by the First Alliance, and the candidate of the "guardian" "four-legged spider" has also been determined.

Compared to the unexplained expansion in Mass Effect, the reason for the expansion of the First Alliance is simple: the population is too large, and the means to reach the new galaxy is simpler: psionic jump.

As for the catalyst... If the future protagonist Shepard chooses to blow up all the smart machines, then blow up, destroying all the smart machines and AI, what is his collective consciousness?

The problem now is that I haven't found any race suspected of being a Reaper in this new universe, uh, in the galaxy. Maybe Irison has potential, but it should be called an "absorber", not a "reaper".

Moreover, if it is the element of doomsday, the world background is not Mass Effect but StarCraft.

According to the original setting, the Reaper’s predecessor was a race called Leviathan, but the only one with a similar name is the lonely "Leviathan" on the Green Planet, super-evolved from "Mother Flask".

How about going back to Luguang's hometown?

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[Uh... to tell you the good or bad news that I don’t know is good or bad,] When I zoomed in on the star map to look for the "green grassland planet", the stupid system suddenly said: [Marefiya cannot leave the forces of the First Alliance Scope out. 】

'Oh? Is there a place I can’t go to in this world? ’

[What kind of strange domineering presidential declaration is that? What drama are you chasing recently? ] The stupid system made a look of contempt.

‘It’s that...hey, that’s not important, let’s talk about why she suddenly couldn’t leave? ’

[Do you still remember the personality of Marefiya? ] The stupid system draws a picture of Malefia’s initial skin.

‘Well, the powerful unit that Green Light’s group consciousness spawned in response to the dimensional demons? I thought for a moment what happened on the green grassland planet.

[That's it,] The stupid system added a bubble on top of Marefiya’s head in the picture, marked as "Crowd Consciousness Creation": [Maybe you have used this vest for a long time and have forgotten, her personality is better than the ordinary group Consciousness should be low. 】

‘I didn’t forget, so what? ’

[So, you should not consider yourself as the sister of the'catalyst',] The stupid system added a picture of the catalyst kid next to Maréfiya, labeled as "group consciousness": [When a group of "group consciousness" does not want" When the conscious creation' leaves, even if there is no affiliation between them, it will have a strong attraction. 】

‘So I can’t leave? No, Zulwin also hoped that Marefia would stay. ’

[Can the situation be the same? ] The stupid system added another bubble to Marefiyah, labelled "Ghost of the Galaxy Alliance": [The identity you have been using before has not enough contact with every civilization. Naturally, you can leave at will, but this time it’s not. Similarly, the'catalyst' can be said to be born because of your appearance. In addition, you are not only commensurate with his siblings, but also educated him many things, and the bonds are much deeper than those of ordinary siblings. 】

‘Uh...to the conclusion directly? ’

[The conclusion is, unless you ask Mare Fiya to bid farewell to the catalyst and let him willingly send you away, otherwise she will not be able to set foot outside the first alliance's sphere of influence, even half a meter, even in subspace. 】The stupid system adjusts the picture of the character it just made to look like a farewell traveler.

‘Um... I always feel that the composition is a bit like "Back View", and Marefia looks like she is going to buy oranges. ’

[Of course, you can break through and leave forcibly, but the result is that you will completely deprive the catalyst of feelings, and you will not be able to find it even if you meet again in the future. 】The stupid system even refused to complain this time.

‘Deprivation, a sense of group, feelings? you sure'

[Heaven is ruthless, the feeling, probably. 】

Speaking of it, probably because I have always been a part-time group consciousness of world consciousness, it is difficult to imagine what is the situation of group consciousness without feelings. Is it the kind of "for the continuation of the ethnic group, no matter what I can do with my heart" situation?

but……

‘Is something wrong this time? I poked at the painting: "Under normal circumstances, if I ignore my personality restrictions and mess around, I will blow up others. ’

[It's a younger brother, not someone else,] The stupid system explained: [If you must take Marefiya away now, Catalyst will forget that he had such an older sister and lose his relationship by the way. 】

‘Don’t do this by the way! ’