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[inversevideo]

sorry about the double post - this is the best I can do to remove one.

Modifié par inversevideo, 31 mars 2010 - 11:01 .

[inversevideo]

inversevideo wrote...

Archereon wrote...

Why do people think we're going to defeat the Reapers (at least defeat them permanently)?  If the Reapers, the greatest threat in the universe, get defeated, only to be replaced as ultimate bad guys in a new story arc that bioware pulls out of their arse, this becomes DBZ...

And to those who say ME will end with ME3...

Yes, the story arc will end, but there's no way in hell EA is going to let such a profitable IP end, despite the fact that they've promised not to meddle with bioware.  They're just going to keep milking it until demand for more goes away.

So that leaves two options...Prequels...Which carry the problem of the player not being allowed to have any major decisions that could potentially effect the canon of ME before ME1...Or games set in a time so distant in the future that Shepard's decisions are now for null...

This. 

Or something close to it.

The Reapers could not make use of the Protheans, to procreate; so they had to settle for converting the Protheans into slaves. 

My guess is that Shepard will find some way to make much of Council / Temrinus space, and the sentients there unusable by the Reapers, by studying why the Reapers were unable to make use of the Protheans to build a Prothean Reaper.  It's the only clue that Shepard has to a possible Reaper weakness.

It will be a temporary measure, maybe only a century or two, not much of a setback, for the Reapers, who are used to doing things on a 50,000 year cycle.  But such a delay sets up a couple of things.

1) It allows Shepard to prove, to the galaxy at large that the Reaper threat is real.

2) It gives the galaxy a bit of a breather, to prepare for the inevitable conflict; and changes everyone's relationship to each other. How do the Council and Terminus Systems react? What societal changes are wrought in preparation for the eventual conflict? What role do the longer lived species, like Asari and Krogan play? How does humanity respond?  How does technology develop? The Reapers have no 'love' for non Reaper AI or Organics, other than to use them as resources. Does this mean further cooperation between Geth and Organics? Between Organics and A.I like EDI? 

3) It brings Shepard's tale to a close. Shepard did her/his part, and now the story moves beyond his/her life span into a time when they galaxy is preparing for the next onslaught

[The Almighty Ali]

Though sheer willpower and a whole heap of fleets with Thanix Cannons.

Imagine if the entire Migrane fleet had those cannons?



They were afterall able to blow Sovereign up, Must all the races and arm their ships and we got ourselves a Star Wars, exluding Jedi's and Sith's.

[binaryemperor]

Zulu_DFA wrote...

Mcjon01 wrote...

Zulu_DFA wrote...

OP, you worry too much. TIM will come up with something.

I'm sure TIM's idea of a "good plan" for defeating the Reapers involves making an even bigger and badder race of immortal machine gods, programming so that they want to kill everything and not just organics, and then pointing them in the Reapers' direction.

Then when that blows up in his face, he'll just claim that the Project Killemall cell went rogue, and that he can't be held liable for the destruction of all things.

You should lie down.

And quit reading comic books.

I like how you're the first one to respond to all cerberus/TIM related posts, especially if they are negative.

Of course this probably will end up happening... 

[binaryemperor]

Every single organism in the galaxy must - in unison - say "Ah yes, 'Reapers'", and wag their fingers/closest finger analogues. "We have dismissed that claim"

Every reaper in existence will blink out of reality and become logical fallacies.

Of course the sudden lurch from space-time filling in the void where the Reapers once existed will undoubtably annihilate the atomic structure of all matter in the Milky Way galaxy and other "nearby" heavenly bodies... so it's a double edged sword.

Modifié par binaryemperor, 31 mars 2010 - 11:40 .

[Archereon]

The Almighty Ali wrote...

Though sheer willpower and a whole heap of fleets with Thanix Cannons.
Imagine if the entire Migrane fleet had those cannons?

They were afterall able to blow Sovereign up, Must all the races and arm their ships and we got ourselves a Star Wars, exluding Jedi's and Sith's.

Soverign would destroy the entire Migrant fleet easily, even with Thanix cannons, which are seriously overrated.  From what we've heard, they give a ship the firepower of a ship about one size class up, and they're paltry compared to the weaponry they were based on.  And there's also the fact that Sovereign's shields were barely even drained in the battle of the Citadel, he would have single handedly destroyed the entire 5th fleet and Citadel Fleet had Shepard not disabled his shields.

Reaper guns can one shot state of the art dreadnoughts (codex), and I doubt any Quarian dreadnoughts are at all state of the art.   

So lets say 1 second of LAZORing for a Reaper to destroy a ship, Soverign had five LAZORs.  (LAZOR being an acronym for Large Awesome Zorb Of Red-masseffectsupergun). 

That means five ships go boom per second, and seeing as Soveriegn (and any Reaper) probably has superior targeting range to any Quarian ship (even if Thanix cannons have virtually unlimited range, there's a point when acurate targeting gets nearly impossible, a distance different for every ship), he'd wipe out the Migrant fleet over a period of a few months, possibly by funneling them through a Mass Relay to create a choke point.

Its not like a reaper would be dumb enough to go toe to toe with such a large force 1 on 1, they'd kite them around, and if things got too rough, jump away, then move to harass tactics until the enemy is routed.

So yeah, if the Reapers actually arrive in the galaxy, we're screwed.  Instead, we'll probably stop them from comming to the milk way permanantly (or so we think)...