Questionable ethics - Living Memory

[AlysCamoa]

Drivel.

Sphene was the aggressor, explicitly saying she would become a devourer of worlds and kill all life on all the remaining shards just to extend the life of her people. The only way to stop her was to shut down the Meso Terminal, which would also terminate all the other Endless.

You're calling self-defense to genocide a crime.

Which is why we also went in and exterminated all the Garleans to the last man, woman, and child, right? Which is why when confronting the Telophoroi, we did our best to kill as many of them as possible rather than minimizing fatalities, right?

We're told the only way to stop Sphene is to shut down the Meso Terminal by Cahciua, who has been withholding information to railroad us into her own objectives from the second she finds us. Even assuming Cahciua is being honest despite that pattern of behavior, there was no way to extract Azem's paperweight from the terminal without shutting it down wholesale? There was no way to terminate Sphene's program, rather than the system as a whole? None of those options are explored by the Scions, who at every opportunity have endeavored to find another way that prioritizes their ethics over expedience.

Even assuming the story properly explored these questions, why would the Scions feel good about what they had to do? It was kill or be killed, to be sure, but the Endless themselves harbored no enmity. They didn't have agency in the actions of their regent. So why would you pin her actions on them?

But I'm sure you'll say this is all drivel. I expect nothing more.