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Originally posted by ZebraRampage
Ok, I'm not sure if all of you know this because in the last couple of posts it looked like some people weren't sure who he was...but the one survivor dude was the guy that Agent Smith cloned himself into at the beginning of the movie.

Ok, thanks for clarifying that. My main problem was, I didn't know they were the same people, but to me it would have only made sense for them to be the same guy. So there was a conflict between what I knew and what made sense.

And DarkMaster summed the rest up fairly nicely.

Originally posted by DarkMaster
The Creator also says "this will be the sixth time we've destroyed Zion, we are getting quite good at it" do you have any idea what that means? Zion has been destroyed almost the same way numerous times. How can an actual real life city be destroyed, start over with all the same buildings, peoples, and concepts, and then be destroyed again by the machines?

This is the question that we might have to wait on in order to get an answer. There are a slew of possibilities.

One is that the machines keep Zion alive for a reason. Perhaps they have literally destroyed Zion in the past. The "One" then chose the individuals from The Matrix who would start Zion back up again, their memories would be erased and reprogrammed to make them think that they had lived in Zion their entire lives; the current "One" would die and the cycle would repeat itself. Read what the Architect said below. He states that if Zion doesn't go on, if Neo doesn't choose the individuals to continue with Zion, then there would be a terrible system crash. This system crash would presumably happen because Zion would be destroyed and there would be nobody chosen to rebuild it. But why would that cause a system crash in the matrix?

Originally posted by The Architect
The function of 'the one' is now to return the source allowing a temporary dissemination(diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc.) of the code you carry re-inserting the prime program. After which you will be required to select from the matrix 23 individuals. Sixteen female, seven male to rebuild Zion. Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash killing everyone connected to the matrix. Which, coupled with the extermination of Zion, will ultimately result in the extinction of the entire human race.

The problem was that he knew Trinity would die if he wasn't there to save her.

If he had chosen the other door, the cycle simply would have repeated itself. The only way to bring an end to it (for better or worse) was to choose the door he did.