Hmm...I would think that the Reapers would try to get at the Citadel again.
Eventually, maybe, but if they don't pop out right on top of it there isn't much point. The whole idea was a decapitating surprise strike, which obviously isn't viable if everyone sees them coming fifty billion space-miles away.
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DragkoniasThat Guy Who Does StuffYou Know, There. Registered Userregular
edited August 2011
...You have to remember. That was the plan when there was only one of them.
I don't think they're going to mind so much now that the gangs all here.
The Citadel is still a focal point and of strategic importance in an attack on the galaxy
Also, the Reapers can't risk the Council races going scorched earth on the Citadel
It's really important in their whole cycle of harvesting sentient races
It could take thousands of years to rebuild it
How they handle these projects with no hands in the first place really confuses me though.
The basis for this incredible technology was a force that controlled the very fabric of space and time. They called it the greatest discovery in human history.
So, finished Mass Effect 2 again, and there's something I don't get about the ending. When you get to the baby reaper, EDI mentions that it would need millions more human slushies to become a full reaper.
So what the hell where the collectors planning to do? They wouldn't be able get enough humans to complete the thing by poaching frontier worlds (and they where bound to get noticed sooner or later)and they only had one (not very good) ship, meaning they can't attack any more populated worlds.
So, I assume that the collectors were simply preparing the baby reaper for the mass harvesting when the reapers got to the galaxy. In that case, why bother with all the effort of a suicide mission to take them out instead of preparing for the actual reaper threat?
The collectors were just getting a headstart since the reapers were coming anyway. Shepard & Co. knew basically nothing about the collectors, including how small their forces actually were, until they actually went on the suicide mission.
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DragkoniasThat Guy Who Does StuffYou Know, There. Registered Userregular
Well. I mean at this point no one believes Shepard about the Reapers. So, the suicide mission had a few objectives.
A) Stop all the kidnapping Stop the collectors
C) Get more information about the Reapers
D) Maybe find something to prove to people that the Reapers are indeed a real threat.
A, B, and C seemed to have been accomplished. D doesn't really matter since they're coming in like a few months anyway.
Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Still seems a little anticlimatic to me, compared to, say, Arrival where you stop the reapers arriving there and then.
Hell, I'd have reversed the plots. Collector stronghold has a Alpha relay which you need to destroy at any cost. And is powered by human slushies. For some reason.
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Eventually, maybe, but if they don't pop out right on top of it there isn't much point. The whole idea was a decapitating surprise strike, which obviously isn't viable if everyone sees them coming fifty billion space-miles away.
I don't think they're going to mind so much now that the gangs all here.
Also, the Reapers can't risk the Council races going scorched earth on the Citadel
It's really important in their whole cycle of harvesting sentient races
It could take thousands of years to rebuild it
Sure it wasn't completely destroyed so that might take longer, but thousands is a stretch I would say.
edit: ninja'd Don't we have better things to do than refresh the Mass Effect thread Dragkonias?
Scorched earth would include the keepers, I would think.
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How they handle these projects with no hands in the first place really confuses me though.
True story.
The basis for this incredible technology was a force that controlled the very fabric of space and time. They called it the greatest discovery in human history.
Why I fear the ocean.
So I guess they would have hands. Just really big ones.
But wait...how did the first Reaper come to be...wouldn't that mean that someone made them.
Ugh...whatever.
So they all turned themselves into goo.
So what the hell where the collectors planning to do? They wouldn't be able get enough humans to complete the thing by poaching frontier worlds (and they where bound to get noticed sooner or later)and they only had one (not very good) ship, meaning they can't attack any more populated worlds.
So, I assume that the collectors were simply preparing the baby reaper for the mass harvesting when the reapers got to the galaxy. In that case, why bother with all the effort of a suicide mission to take them out instead of preparing for the actual reaper threat?
A) Stop all the kidnapping
C) Get more information about the Reapers
D) Maybe find something to prove to people that the Reapers are indeed a real threat.
A, B, and C seemed to have been accomplished. D doesn't really matter since they're coming in like a few months anyway.
Hell, I'd have reversed the plots. Collector stronghold has a Alpha relay which you need to destroy at any cost. And is powered by human slushies. For some reason.
Ed: Wait, I forgot how they worked. nevermind.
I always looked at the Repears as giant hands
Unfortunately we'll never find out.
In march, Shepard is going to charge right through all of those fuckers until none are left.
It'll puzzle philosophers for eons to come.