Quote Originally Posted by Lady_Silvermoon View Post
Just to clarify, maintaining the Endless doesn\\'t require the destruction of souls. Nothing the Alexandrians are doing is destroying souls. I\\'m pretty sure the characters would have had a far different reaction if that were the case. What the Endless require is for people to die. They are using the corporeal aether to give people bodies. Basically somebody dies and they make ten Endless out of the corporeal aether of that one person. They are effectively, sundered Sundered. Which is dumb. If you want to live forever, creating something MORE fragile is stupid. Had they done what every other species interested in immortality had done and created something hardier, like a machine form or an incorporeal form, then this issue would be entirely avoidable.

And I don\\'t think it\\'s morally wrong to want to be immortal. I think it\\'s wrong to steal other people\\'s corporeal aether in order to do it, but that\\'s not a necessary part of being immortal. Preservation scientists were just bad at their job.

Anyone who wants to argue that it\\'s wrong to want to be immortal due to it being a violation of the natural order, I remind you, nature doesn\\'t have a plan. It just is and we go against what is every time we chop down a tree to build a house. And the Sundered lifespan is not the natural lifespan given to the people of Etheirys by nature, the short lifespan of the Sundered is by design of a person. She altered the entire species in a way she thought best, so why can\\'t those who have been altered attempt to alter themselves in a way they feel works best for them? They should be able to do what they want with their corporeal aether and their souls. The problem comes in when they are trying to do what they want with our aether.

But the Endless aren\\'t trying to steal our aether. Not even Sphene. We\\'re being attacked by a bad line of code. This was a problem better solved with a good programmer than an axe.

And if anyone wants to argue it has to be resolved with an axe cause that\\'s how the game works. Well, the writers knew how the game works, so maybe the shouldn\\'t have made the final antagonists innocent people living in a themepark.
Don’t forget they already had a machine form prototype in the form of robo otis but they did consider a version that has all the memories and can live with minimal help for over 200 years and could be upgraded a bad prototype version. Plus the inconsistency of needing to kill robo Otis off so there wouldn’t be a problem when facing endless Otis (also he dies while saving not even the queen but a drone, so completely pointless death)