toddx77 wrote...
Dinnertable wrote...
I'm not sure if this has ever been speculated, or if this topic has been discussed, but based on what I know, here's a theory...
The Reapers say that they are eternal, and exist just because they do. What if we find out that the Reapers were created by a race (I'll call them X), similar to how the Quarians created the Geth, as a kind of war-machine to fight against opposing races, and their programming made it so that they would destroy any civilisation that would rise up to challenge X.
Eventually Reapers began to think for themselves, and learned how to create other Reapers, learning from techniques they observed from X, so that now they can replicate themselves, but as we have seen this requires a huge number of organics.
So, to survive, they enslaved X, stole their technology, and escaped into darkspace, using X to build more of themselves. 50K years later, they return, enslaving the most prominant races, and using them to create more until eventually, after numerous cycles, they have the army that they have now. They aren't doing it simply because they enjoy it. They do it because they were told to...
Thoughts?
Very interesting. It would be interesting to see another race, an even more ancient one, than the protheans that involves the reapers. Even though the protheans were not the first to be wiped out by the reapers they are the only race we here about.
The whole idea of some race bulding the reapers doesnt seem to far off either. Proof of that I think could be inside the reapers. Has anyone noticed that we have seen inside 2 reapers, sovereign and the derelict reaper, and they have insides for organic beings. Why would a group of machines he hate organic life be able to to carry organics as passangers or crew members? Also when Sovereign says they have no begining or end they just simply exist could be another clue. Sounds like something someone programed into them to scare the enemy. I find it hard to believe that these machines appeared out of no where and not to mention they talk as if they are invincible but Sovereign was beaten by just a bunch of Alliance ships and even though the human reaper was a baby that went down fairly easy.
TBH, I would be disappointed if either of these ideas ended up in the final game.
O ZOMG LULZ, TEH REEPERZ WERE BILT, THEYZ JUST TRYIN TO SKARE US
No, I think the Reapers were once a powerful group of metaphysical beings who's technology eventually became one with them over the course of astronomical generations of time that they eventually became one with their technology. I think the Reapers are the purest form of life, not organic life, but just life, period, and they are forced to exterminate life to live themselves. They hate doing it. That could be
a twist, we find out the Reapers really do not enjoy exterminating the Galaxy of life, but they have to do so, and they could end up not even being the main antagonists. I would want a stretch twist, like the Alliance, Cerberus, or maybe even the Citadel, end up becoming the big bad guys, like they possess some kind of metaphysical material that could destroy the Reapers, but you, Shepard, could find out a way to change the Reapers back to their former, peaceful selves. (Or you could go **** Renegade shep and side with the Alliance, and destroy the Reapers.)
Something like that, like, Humanity, once viewed as the victims, the main good guys, "Guiding the Galaxy Forward" become the enemy. All of our hatred, greed, all of our gluttony, our wrath, pride, lust for power, and our insanity. Look at what we're doing right now! -points to gulf of mexico. Points to iraq, killing KIDS for OIL, for MONEYYYY' yeah I wouldn't be surprised, but satisfied, if BioWare somehow implemented the factor of Human Sin into ME3.
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