Vigil in ME1 states that it took the Reapers several centuries to wipe out the Protheans, we assume that might be because the Protheans were so advanced that they were able to put up a great resistance, but let's look at what we know from ME3's trailer at how the Reaper's are wiping out Earth and how screwed we really are.
The Big Ben sniper says 2 million dead in the first day and another 7 million by the end of the week, so that's 9 million in a week, counting the Earth's defense forces fighting back. So assuming that the Reapers can keep that up and people don't try and hide from them that means that with a population of 11,490,225,106 (I'm rounding it up to and even 11.5 bill for easy math) it will take the reapers 1278 weeks to wipe out Earth or 24.5 years.
Now I can't get exact figures for the rest of the galaxy's let's look at Tuchanka. Tuchanka's population is listed at 2.1 Billion, let's assume that is a "small/dying population" and is accurate since no other planet counts non sapient life as population and Tuchanka's main population is Krogan. Let's say there are 3.1 billion Krogan in the galaxy, counting the ones that leave for mercenary bands (which I recall Wrex saying many Krogan that leave the homeworld). So if that's a "small" population let's say that there are roughly ~100 billion people in the galaxy. So at a rate of 9 million per week that is 11,111.12 weeks or 213.7 years.
Now if Reapers are attacking multiple planets at a time (which they might not be seeing as they have a pretty one track mind), in the shot at the end of ME2 there are ~300 Reapers, There were 8 in the Trailer attacking London, let's assume the Reapers divided up say 20 per planet and let's assume with ~100,000,000,000 billion stars in the galaxy that only ~1/1,000,000th of those have inhabital planets somewhere in their system so with ~100,000 planets, which works out to 1,000,000 people a planet which is what most colony population is averaged at so let's knock it down to 50,000 populated worlds to account for really populated worlds. At 20 Reapers a planet that means they need 2,500 Reapers to cover every planet at the same time.
Now let's assume that the people decide to do what the Protheans did and hide so that the 9 million a week figure drops down to say half so at 4.5 million a weak we now have them taking a minimum of 50 years and a max of 427.4 assuming that it only halves.
Now as for the Reapers themselves, they're really stupid. Why? Well as many people say "them flying back is a plot hole" Now I'll argue till the end of time it's not, it's simply bad writing, because ME1 and ME2's ending make it pretty obvious that they can simply fly back but don't because they're entire plan revolves around using the Citadel.
In ME1 Vigil says that by denying them the use of the Citadel they only hope to pospone the Reaper invasion, not stop it meaning that the Protheans must have assumed that they would simply fly there, at the end of ME1 Shepard and the Anderson/Udina seem pretty set on fighting the Reapers back into dark space which implies fighting off an actual invasion. How do they know the Reapers are flying back? I always just assumed this was Shepard's magic information gathering at work, like Shepard knowing about Harbinger beyond it's name. Considering one of the things it says are "We are Harbinger" as well as "I am Harbinger" why doesn't Shepard say "Harbingers are coming" or simply "The Reapers"? Also since Shepard is on the freaking Normandy flying away from the collector base when Harbinger says "They will find another way" s/he has no way of hearing that, meaning when s/he says to the Illusive Man that "Harbinger is coming and he won't be alone" s/he has some information we don't since Shepard says "[They're] coming" not "I stopped them from opening the relay again so they're stuck in Dark Space and we're good for a while", then of course the ending simply shows them flying towards the galaxy. I would be open to saying they have a Plan B to get into the galaxy beyond flying there, but then why didn't they use it the second Plan A failed instead of giving the species 2 years to harvest their technology (Thanix is a reaper based weapon) and improve their own?
So what does that have to do with anything? Well as people will point out the Citadel is only 2 or 3 relay jumps away from the edge of the Galaxy so if they can just fly back at any time it's not exactly hard to get to the Citadel and do their whole control the Relay network/cut off all the species, meaning they wait in Dark Space to save themselves the time of flying to 3 at max relays. Which considering they have FTL faster than our FTL shouldn't take them that long. So why do they wait? Because the Reaper's are idiots. I mean yes they might close the Citadel and screw the Reapers but really look at the Council's reaction to previous threats, they said they were going on full alert in case Saren attacked the Citadel and their fleets were still nowhere near prepared when Sovereign showed up. So really the Reapers are just stupid. Oh and one more for the idiot ball Reapers like to carry around; why the hell would Sovereign invest enough energy into an avatar, that destroying it took down its sheilds when it could have simply taken out all the Ships shooting it and then possessed the avatar? Or why didn't he just beam the back part the chamber and suck them out into space with out destroying the controls?
So in summation the Reapers are idiots who pretty much suck at doing their job.
P.S. I no longer feel sorry for the Krogan, how the hell is 2.1 billion a dying civilization?
P.P.S. Does that mean that there were like a trillion Krogan fighting off the Rachni?
Edit: I wasn't saying that the Reapers suck at eliminating all life in the Galaxy since they've been doing it for 50,000,000 years and are pretty good about it. I was saying that they suck at what they hype themselves up to be, super death machines that are better than all of us, when they're closer to really slow vacuum cleaners with a one track mind who can't think outside of the box.
Modifié par Bamboozalist, 29 décembre 2010 - 07:24 .
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