I expected nothing less of you, Bluko. You're always putting out great posts. And I agree, I never really understood what the galaxy plans to do after they defeat the Reapers. They are reaching their technological peak. Are they going to become Reapers? Some may say that they learned from experience and would not make the same mistake, but this is a common misconception among people. Think about how many times in human history that some tragic happened and was only paid attention to for so long before returning. Future generations forget because they never experienced it first hand and believe they can avert tragedy while continuing in the same past that nearly doomed others before.Bluko wrote...
The Reapers aren't evil, but they certainly aren't nice either.
Though you can't really blame them. A lot of species simply aren't going to be diplomatic or passive about the process of becoming a Reaper. There's also the fact that primitive creatures either shy away from or attack things they don't understand because they perceive it as a threat. Even though the species of the galaxy are advanced enough to have mastered FTL travel, obviously when faced with something like the Geth or Reapers they will feel threatened by them.
Really the only way the Reapers can do thing is if they use a strong hand. They aren't going to ask us nicely if we want to become Reapers because more often then not we (Organics) will say no. It's much simpler for them to launch a surprise attack and gather as many individuals as possible.
I believe that the Reapers believe they are the most advanced form of life. I suspect the Reapers were an originally insectoid type race that was the first to dominate the Galaxy probably as far back as 100 million years ago. What happened is with the inclusion of technology the original Reaper species discovered they were no longer evolving as they could make up for any decificieny or shortcoming with technology. (This is actually something suspected to be true of humans as there is very little that threatens us other then disease. The fact just about everyone alive can live to have children means evolution has pretty much come to a stop for us.)
So if you can no longer evolve in the typical biological sense what do you do? Well you either remain as you are until something finally manages to kill you (disease, famine, war, etc.) or you choose to fully embrace technology. The Reapers have obviously decided to become fully machine. However one drawback with machines is that they can only replicate themselves. They cannot really create unique individuals (although that's a bit questionable as there's likely a way to do that as well). So the Reapers must still rely on Organics to provide a new sapience for themselves as the Reapers are still living things in a sense.
Ultimately I bet the Reapers assume that even if they were wiped out, eventually other Organic races would come to the same conclusion: that being become something like Reapers themselves. Which probably isn't too far from the truth. I'm quite certain that in perhaps a few more thousand years Humans will become fully integrated with computers and the like to the point where we are no longer Human or reproduce through convetional means. I'd say by 2500 all Humans will likely be genetically tailored by their respective parents... so no more Jerry Springer, but probably a lot less things like cancer by then.Whether we choose to maintain physical bodies as we do now is uncertain. When you can upload or put your intelligence into whatever you want who knows what we'll end up like...
Perhaps the Reapers are a cruel reminder of what sentience can do to the biological nature of things.
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