JeffZero wrote...
Alocormin wrote...
Uh, if the Reapers managed to wipe out humanity in less than a month - which seems to be what people expect - then there wouldn't be a game.
Er, not if the game is set in that first month before they succeeded.
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Considering that the first game happened over a period of several months, and the finale really should be the most epic, and that ordinary FTL transits can take as much as a week in theory, and that if it takes only a month to wipe out the Earth, we only have maybe three weeks to fit in the entire narrative, including the exploration parts of the game... anyway. I wasn't using that as a serious argument.
The logical aspect of my "Argument" was that it really isn't that slow to kill 9 million people in a week. Rather, it's quite ghastly. People throw out counts of billions or trillions because we have billionaires and trillionaires, but a million is still more than a normal person could count in their normal lifespan.
I know we want to make them out to be Cthulu-ish God-machines, I still think it stands to reason that the Reapers might not be able to kill us much faster. If they were God-machines, Sovereign wouldn't have died above the Citadel, and would've wiped out the entire Alliance 5th fleet. Then brought in his friends to kill everything else.
It may be worth noting, too, that the number of dead (it seems to me) would be far smaller if they were "collecting" everyone. Also, killing off the Earth with even nuclear bombs - much less giant plasma beams and foot soldiers - would be impossibly tedious. Killing off an entire race takes a few centuries - if we go by the assumption that homeworld-sized colonies would be very limited, we can judge that it would probably take years, not days or weeks, for them to wipe out a civilization. To them, and from the wider perspective of the uncaring universe, this is still the blink of an eye.
If they wanted to just get rid of Earth, they would probably be able to set the Earth on an unstable orbit using the gravitational pull of their incredibly powerful Mass Effect cores. Wham, no more life, in days.
Modifié par Alocormin, 29 janvier 2011 - 11:23 .
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thank you. i was just confused.
We don't know what Reapers want to do with humanity. Looking at London in trailer I'm pretty sure that Reapers didn't use any nuclear-scale weapons. Most probably they don't want to just destroy humanity. At least not right away.
