Questionable ethics - Living Memory

[SDaemon]

she did try to peacefully resolve the issue, albeit briefly, and double albeit not in the most effective way

she asked wuk lamat (and by extension, us) to become alexandrian citizens, which would have resolved the issue without mass destruction, because a continent worth of natural death supplies far more 'empty souls' than just the kingdom of alexandria. obviously this isn't a rational or good solution, but it was a passive one

i also disagree that we just "chose to defend ourselves" by erasing an entire kingdom of people.

imo we overcorrected, because nothing was stopping us from going straight to sphene at the meso terminal and confronting her. we didn't have to turn everything off before hand, and the reason we DID do that ended up being completely irrelevant and useless. we 'killed' her people in an effort to demoralize her and it didn't. she wasn't even aware of it (frankly this is probably more 'oopsie' from the writers than it is something to dig into). hell, had we gone straight for the terminal she probably would've been far weaker an adversary

we could've just as easily "killed" sphene, taken the key, and left alexandria to naturally fade away, but instead we played God and sped up the process

do i personally think there's much of a difference? yes and no, but i'm just posturing on this side for the sake of discussion

We didn't erase an entire kingdom. We shut down the memory archive of Endless. The Alexandrians are moving forward and living their lives in Solution 9 and Heritage Found.

While I don't consider the memory constructs of Living Memory to be the true people, whose souls were robbed from them and used as fuel, that they are based on. I would argue shutting them down is a far better outcome then letting the place slowly run out of energy and turn off on its own, not that this was the WOL's purpose in doing so.

We didn't play God. Again, we took action to stop an entity that was unrelentingly going to destroy everything, including our world. The actions we took were described to us as being beneficial in hopefully not having to come to blows with Sphene at the critical moment. That just didn't end up being the case and we had to defeat Sphene regardless due to her programming. I might not agree with a kid like Gajool Ja ruling the Alexandrians, but now they have a chance to rebuild their lives in a way that won't destroy every other world in existence.