Quote Originally Posted by Eyrilona View Post
Or you could like... get rid of the parasitism, since in this case that is merely a consequence of Sphene having a very inefficient method of keeping the Endless going. Their dependence on outside energy and living aether is only something they are afflicted with due to one particular technological paradigm. We know the Omicrons did storing minds as data better, and we still have access to their civilization in Ultima Thule.

Your argument that what the game made us do was the only solution under those circumstances, is conceptually no different from saying that the only way to rid us of a curable affliction is to kill all the patients.
In what time? Sphene is on the verge of interdimension fusion and is erasing her kind personality to become a tyrant so that any other dimension she goes to will face the full force of her army. While the game doesn't exactly instill the feeling of urgency of the situation with how lax we are going to each terminal, there's realistically not a quick way to go to Ultima Thule, create an entire armada of new bodies for the Endless to transfer their memories into and come back to show Sphene it's possible.

The writing is awful in its entirety but within the confines of what we were given, there really wasn't a quick alternative to go and solve the problem either.