Quote Originally Posted by Lady_Silvermoon View Post
Hypothetical question. What if the moment Sphene went to reformat G'raha said, "I have an idea for how to switch them over to being powered by electrope so all of them can exist at once with no harm to anyone," do you go with his idea or do you continue with Cahcuia's request?
Here we have some common ground… I do think that should have at least been explored. It makes me wonder if that will be something that we’ll revisit in the patches, or if this is really where we leave LM for good. Seems a waste of such a nice zone! But I guess you could argue that letting go of things and people we lost was the whole thematic point of the zone, so a “solution” would go against that. If they go back after this and find a way to power it back up with some other energy method, I don’t think that would feel satisfying at all, beyond getting the pretty amusement park back. They kind of have to leave it as it is, otherwise everyone would go “what was the point of that?!”

I did feel the last part of the story should have gotten way more screen time… it felt rushed, and you barely had any time to interact with the zone before shutting it down. And this was the part of the MSQ I was most interested in. There should have been way more time devoted to Krile/parents, Erenville/Cahcuia, and yes, like you said, our brilliant Scions, Students and other associates trying to find an alternative solution that doesn’t involve murdering living people to steal their souls to use as batteries.

In the end though, it is implied that once Sphene completes her transformation, she’ll go into mass murder mode, with the last of her “conscience” gone. Effectively giving priority to the “save our people at all costs” directive, over the “act as this person would based on their memories” directive that she shares with the other Endless. And if the only way to keep the Endless alive, again essentially AI bots created from the memories of the deceased, is to murder people who are actually alive now, then that’s not a choice. You protect the living and shut down the computer simulation.