I know this because Casey Hudson said the reason they were only attacking Earth to start with is because it was in the southwest part of the galxy near the edge, and they (The Reapers) are attacking Earth exclusively to start with because it's the closest, not because it has anything to do with Shepard. That to me says that they attack each planet full force, usually (actually every time except for this one) starting with the citidel, which always had the vast majority of the galaxy's naval forces. They fight hard and heavy, attacking the most densely populated and heavily defended part first (I. E. The Citidel).SpiffySquee wrote...
JBONE27 wrote...
I think they are stupid because they've shown their stupidity. They have been attacking the same way for billions of years, and they really haven't thought of a back-up short cut? No, they haven't otherwise they would be attacking somewhere other than the SW arm of the galaxy to start. They don't disperse their troops. All they do is engage in singular blitz strikes like the one they were planning against the Citidel. Again, they don't change up their strategy at all... plus one of them was defeated by a worm, so what does that say about them?Lotion Soronnar wrote...
JBONE27 wrote...
Lotion Soronnar wrote...
1) Space ships are EMP shielded by default. Kinda a requirement to go into space. Military ships doubly so,
2) You don't know much about combat, do you?
3D flanking manouver? That MIGHT work if you outnumbered the enemy by massive margin...and he had no FLT jump ability..and if space was a lot smaller.
3) Assuming the reapers are dumb enough to fall for something like that. Checking the source of a message is a standard procedure among the military.
1) Reapers rely on surprise and a quick blitz like strategy, therefore are not expecting any real stratigically based form of resistance, so they probably only sheilded themselves from conventional weapons.
2) There are about 1,000,000 Reapers, there are about 25,000,000,000 ships between the System's Alliance, Turian Navy, and Quarian Flotilla. I'd say 25 to 1 is a pretty large margin, don't you?
3) Again, they wouldn't follow regulation procedure, and they wouldn't think that a reaper signal could be replicated, therefore, they wouldn't check the source of the signal.
Tht's....rahter reaching.
1) you simply assume they have no EMP shielding, whihc is , as I say standard on every importnat piece of harware. Space Shuttles, naval warships, even tanks - all are EMP shielded. If the reapers were vulenrable t osomething so basic and simple, tehy never would have pulled off so many cycles.
2) Where are you getting those numbers from? Because that's hilarious! The SA fleet has 200 ships and it's among the biggest fleets among he Counci lraces.
And, even if those numbers where correct...you fail to grasp the magnitude of space and the difficulty in real 3D combat. Even if you have a 50000:1 ratio, you couldn't block a ship that has FTL from escapeing.
To give you a better idea...if you were to place automated defense platforms around a mass relay to blockade it compeltely...to fill a volume of space equal to 1AU with such platfroms...each being 10.000 km apart..
that's a volume of space equaling 27 000 000 000 km^3.
You'd need 27 million platforms...
The only way to keep a ship from escaping in the ME universe...is to attack something it has to stay and defend.
3) Reapers would be defeted trough their own utter stupidity? Again, you assume they're utter morons. Who would be sending that signal? They wouldn't trust any other source than another reaper.
In all fairness, you can't be sure of most of that. How do you know they have attacked the same way every time? Sure they might kick it off the same way, but we have no idea what happens after. I don't think it is so much that they could not think of a back up short cut, but that they did not have the capability to build one. The Citadel is a massive undertaking.
They don't disperse their troops? How in the world do you know this? Just because we have only seen them attacking earth does not mean they are not attacking other targets as well. And we do not know that the Worm defeated it. I beleive that we only know that the worm dragged it underground and then lasers started coming up from the ground. Do not mistake a surprise attack from a worm to equal stupidity form a reaper.
Also, the Citidel was built billions of years ago, and the Reapers have been coming back every 10,000 years. They usually stay for about 1000 years to weed out what little resistance there is, leaving the non-space fareing species to reproduce and provide them with future material to make new reapers. You don't think that several hundred million years total would have been enough for them to build back-up systems in case the citidel relay failed?
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