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[adam1923]

Just like the topic. I'm curious to see your theories!

I personally think it's something like the Geth. They were created, evolved and destroyed their masters. Realizing they can sustain their existence with the fuel that is organic life.

[Someone With Mass]

You see, when a Reaper mama and a Reaper papa loves each other very much...

[DarkNova50]

Someone With Mass wrote...

You see, when a Reaper mama and a Reaper papa loves each other very much...

Dammit! Beaten to the punch!

Seriously though, maybe the original, 'creator' species believed that in order to further their own evolution, they turned themselves into the first Reaper, leaving behind traces of their own technology. Then, every 50 000 years, they'd return and see which species were 'worthy' of evolving as they had.

So really, it's sort of like Humanity won the lottery! Only instead of money, you get liquified Kelly!

[Madman123456]

I built them. My bad...

The Origins of the Reapers are unknown, Bioware wants them to be this mysterious Enemy who's motives are unknown, so they have remained tightlipped about that.

In Mass Effect 2, the repurposed Husks that where the Protheans, the last species to get wiped out by the Reapers and now called "Collectors", where trying to build a Reaper that looks like a humanoid Robot thingy.
To do so, the melted quite a lot of humans down into a raw paste.
It is not known as to why they needed the materials we humans consist of or if they needed the material at all since that could be more easily mined or grown or otherwise acquired.

All we see is a big robot with tubes on it and we're told the humanjelly the collectors made is pumped into the robot and somehow this is how the robot is being built.

We can speculate that this is how the reapers procreate, they melt people down and build reapers out of the people paste. And maybe the reason they can't use other more easily acquired materials maybe that the minds of the people are somehow being converted into programs that run in the reaper.
We threw logic out a long time ago, why not add more BS.

Legion talks about many programs running inside a reaper, making each one a "nation".
So if you end up in a reaper, your being is converted to a program networked with millions of other programs inside a giant computer that looks like Seafood.

That's just speculation though, i hope bioware comes up with something better then this...

[R3MUS]

We will find out in ME3 and more.

Casey wrote it on twitter.

[alx119]

Madman123456 wrote...

I built them. My bad...

The Origins of the Reapers are unknown, Bioware wants them to be this mysterious Enemy who's motives are unknown, so they have remained tightlipped about that.

In Mass Effect 2, the repurposed Husks that where the Protheans, the last species to get wiped out by the Reapers and now called "Collectors", where trying to build a Reaper that looks like a humanoid Robot thingy.
To do so, the melted quite a lot of humans down into a raw paste.
It is not known as to why they needed the materials we humans consist of or if they needed the material at all since that could be more easily mined or grown or otherwise acquired.

All we see is a big robot with tubes on it and we're told the humanjelly the collectors made is pumped into the robot and somehow this is how the robot is being built.

We can speculate that this is how the reapers procreate, they melt people down and build reapers out of the people paste. And maybe the reason they can't use other more easily acquired materials maybe that the minds of the people are somehow being converted into programs that run in the reaper.
We threw logic out a long time ago, why not add more BS.

Legion talks about many programs running inside a reaper, making each one a "nation".
So if you end up in a reaper, your being is converted to a program networked with millions of other programs inside a giant computer that looks like Seafood.

That's just speculation though, i hope bioware comes up with something better then this...

Dude your theory has some key points, that makes me want to pee laughing.
My bad.

[DxWill10]

Yea, I was under the impression all these questions will be answered in ME3. I wonder if the "Beings of Light" have any connection to the Reapers.

[Reapinger]

My guess: A race assimilated their genetic code into a giant cybernetic vessel and uploaded their collective intelligence and memories into the synthetic portion of the reaper. Or perhaps it was one race experimenting on others and it backfired, who knows? Bottom line is they're trying to uplift strong races, making me believe that they just want a few reapers max per cycle.

[skcih-deraj]

When a water heater and a firetruck love eachother very much...

[jnoga]

I'm just wondering how we will find out everything about the reapers. The only way I can think of is talking to one directly like we did with Sovereign in ME1. Unless there is some long lost database of information on them or something.

[Reapinger]

jnoga wrote...

I'm just wondering how we will find out everything about the reapers. The only way I can think of is talking to one directly like we did with Sovereign in ME1. Unless there is some long lost database of information on them or something.

I'm a big fan of the dark citadel theory. The other side of the mass relay that is the citadel. 

[Kaiser Shepard]

Reapinger wrote...

I'm a big fan of the dark citadel theory. The other side of the mass relay that is the citadel. 

The one that would be more useful were it able to be manually activated from the other side?

Modifié par Kaiser Shepard, 26 mai 2011 - 01:44 .

[originalgamer89]

I though they were once under the control of a species as old or older then the Keepers (pre-modification) to either break a stalemate in a galaxy wide civil war. The machines would be free of ethic and our notions morality. These dreadnaughts would be given every resource, weapon, and the ability to learn. The machines would cull worlds experimenting on the populations creating what we know as husks, collectors and indoctrination. Then the machines requiring materials turn on their masters slowly. They are attacked the reapers retaliate and reap the galaxy. Using the material gathered they create the citadel and mass relays and retreat to dark space to commune not unlike the geth would inside their dyson sphere only returning to reproduce and add new ideas to the "species".

[Reapinger]

Kaiser Shepard wrote...

Reapinger wrote...

I'm a big fan of the dark citadel theory. The other side of the mass relay that is the citadel. 

The one that would be more useful were it able to be manually activated from the other side?

I thought I read the theory as the citadel being a mass relay to a counterpart in dark space. Regardless, I like the idea. Scrutinize all you want. 

[eye basher]

why is it that in most games there's always killer shrimp trying to kill us.

[Bluko]

Engineer built them.


Well I think trying to guess what planet or system the Reapers came from is going to be nigh impossible. Heck I'm not even certain they're from our Galaxy or Universe. That said I think it's most likely the Reapers were simply the earliest dominate race in the Galaxy. Eventually they came to the conclusion that making themselves into nearly invincible Dreadnaughts was probably the best way to ensure they continued to dominate the Galaxy and it's a neat way to make yourself immortal. Also I think it's implied that by becoming a Reaper with a collective mind it makes them superior to any other entities

Modifié par Bluko, 26 mai 2011 - 03:39 .

[adam1923]

maybe the other side of the citadel relay is in another galaxy...

[KotorEffect3]

I have a feeling they started because some species wanted to "ascend" to a new realm of existance and they wanted to make themselves immortal so they made themselves the first reapers. What I am wondering is how long ago this was. I wonder for how many millions of years they reapers have been in existance. My guess is around a billion but I could be way off.

[Aimi]

eye basher wrote...

why is it that in most games there's always killer shrimp trying to kill us.

"Hey, don't jinx it!  We could still be attacked by some giant exploding batarian spoon.  Or find out that Earth's been submerged in an ocean full of killer shrimp."

[E-MailA.K.A.Mr.Fox]

i liked it more when "reapers" where more omnipotent.

[KotorEffect3]

E-MailA.K.A.Mr.Fox wrote...

i liked it more when "reapers" where more omnipotent.

They weren't going to remain a mystery forever.

[E-MailA.K.A.Mr.Fox]

KotorEffect3 wrote...

E-MailA.K.A.Mr.Fox wrote...

i liked it more when "reapers" where more omnipotent.

They weren't going to remain a mystery forever.

Yes, that is true, they kinda destroyed that image at the end of one, but thats besides the point. part of me wishes they leave a little mystery in the reaper story, maybe revisit it later on another game, not as enemies, but rather as long lost relics, alas derelic reaper.

[Bomb In My Pants]

KotorEffect3 wrote...

I have a feeling they started because some species wanted to "ascend" to a new realm of existance and they wanted to make themselves immortal so they made themselves the first reapers. What I am wondering is how long ago this was. I wonder for how many millions of years they reapers have been in existance. My guess is around a billion but I could be way off.

Vigil (I think it was Vigil, or maybe Sovereign) said that the 50,000 year extinction process has happened many times, So I agree, somewhere at least in the millions. They'll probably make it billions just for the heck of it.

What I really want to know is if the REapers are even from this galaxy, the Milky Way. At the end of ME2, after you talk to TIM, and Shep gets the data pad from Joker, it shows the enire Reaper fleet. They are clearly well outside the boundaries of the Galaxy. How do we know they haven't expanded their influence to other galaxies? If they have, how do we know that the wilky way was even the first? How do we know that Reaper fleet is the only Reaper fleet out there?

As for how they came to be- I like the ascention idea. It makes a lot of sense that they would use it. Another likely scenario is like what they did in BSG. A race biulds machines, they rebel, the original race goes extinct. Except, in this story, there is no fleet that miraculously gets away, or something like that. I mean, heck, Bioware's already ripped that story line off once, why not again?

Modifié par Bomb In My Pants, 26 mai 2011 - 04:49 .