Yes.
Thank you, corrected.
Because he doesn't want Human civilisation to become dependant on him. He actually agrees with a lot of Light ideology. If only they weren't so... Supervillain.
Thank you, corrected.
I give this meow rating with the utmost sadness.
WoZ says it's because Paul absolutely does not want to be responsible for creating a sophont.
WoZ says it's because the Ophidian is pretty bad at creativity.
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"I will supply a non-renewable resource such as unobtanium crystals that cannot be produced in any way except through my ring" makes civilization dependent on him.
If Nabu literally mind controlled the League that would uh... certainly be a thing Zoat wrote.
Earth 16 already has geniuses that can figure stuff like out, and probably more. Like the Sivannas. They just tend to get ignored by ... the politicians and corporations, I guess. The only way that the SI was able to get his various arcanotech projects into production was because he had a lot of capital to throw around and also had the personal connections to talk directly to people in high places.
Doesn't need to be creative, just strong. "Ophidian, hold Nabu down for me while I take his helmet off." Was it ever stated that Nabu was so strong that the Ophidian couldn't beat him? I thought she pretty much trumped everything except the other embodiments. (Ion, the Endless, etc)
No.
That was BS in Mass Effect, and that remains BS now. Physics and math remain the same everywhere (within a given universe). You do not "lock" someone into a "planned technological path" by giving them a math and physics textbook.
As seen in the Paulphidian chapter and the Honden of Avarice scenes, the Ophidian has no sense of priority or timeliness.
I feel like I'm not being understood: I'm not talking about commercializing a technology. That's what all the Sivannas etc have tried -- "here, I have a cold gun / weather control device / whatever. Use it!" Plenty of people, nations, and corporations have incentives to resist or suppress new technology and it requires a lot of infrastructure to produce and distribute the stuff at scale.[1] That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about *pure information*. Widely disseminated, abstract math and basic science. Think of it as though knowledge of calculus were handed to every mathematician in the world 10 years before it would otherwise have been invented. It wouldn't make anyone dependent, but it would mean that all the science that depends on calculus would have been developed sooner.
