Thanks for the response. Which, yeah, does not even start to answer the question of why they would initiate the very problem they're supposedly attempting to prevent. This is EXACTLY what I was confused about specifically. Seele apparently needs to get Adam into a manageable state so that they can h...

Something I'm a little confused about is Seele's motivations for deliberately instigating the Second Impact. Evageeks says " Seele intentionally initiated Second Impact, knowing what would happen, because the damage would be more limited than that caused by a fully awakened Adam (the destructio...