The cycle is approximately every 50,000 years. There is nothing in the game that states that ME1 takes place exactly 50,000yrs after the last cycle. There is too much uncertainty to assume that ME1 was exactly when they sent the signal. Additionally, Chorban's email tells you exactly zero new information. He does not have a clear indication of when the signal was supposed to be sent.
"And what's more, based on my genetic readings, they're supposed to react to...something, some signal or something...about every 50 thousand years. And it's scheduled to go off sometime around now."
What is the uncertainty in "sometime around now" when applied to 50,000yr cycles over millions of years?
Logically they must have tried to activate the Citadel before the events of ME1. Sovereign did not recruit Saren or the Geth at the drop of a hat. Exactly how long before ME1 is not clear.
Chorban is also not the foremost authority on anything. In fact from his statements in the email it is likely he does not understand that Sovereign is a sentient machine rather than an old advanced starship. Chorban is a random scientist that found some interesting anomalies about the Keepers, but was not privy to any information about the Reapers during the events of ME1. Nor would he likely be able to learn about them after as this was covered up by the Council and the Alliance.
You are asserting that there is no way the Rachni would have been useful to the Reapers. I suggested several ways that they could be. You are quite dismissive even though there is no specific data about the species in each cycle or what the Reapers even do with the organics. They have tried to build 1 Reaper from Humans. They could not use the Protheans to make Reapers and turned them into Collectors. They turned some Protheans into slaves during the cycle to strip their planets. That is the extent of the hard data.
There is no evidence of what the Reapers' goal with a cycle actually is, their motives are completely unknown. The game infers that why the Protheans failed to be compatible was their quad-strand DNA structure, which was unique. Perhaps they were the first race wholy unsuitable for ascension, not the last one in a long line of poor candidates as you are implying. There is no way to know. Stating that the Reapers only have a new cycle when the previous ones failed is your assertion, not an in game fact.
nothing the protheans did was of any use
That takes the cake as the most ridiculous statement. Without the Ilos Research Facility they would not have had a prototype mass relay linking to the Citadel. Or a team that could figure out how to modify the Keepers / Citadel. Without their tampering the Citadel would have already been activated and the Reapers would have poured in, destroyed the Council and the Fleet, disable the relay network, and proceeded to victory. The entire story line would not even happen.
As for my speculation about Prothean activities, I never stated their goal was to beat the Reapers by doing so. Their motives are not elucidated. In addition, as their manipulation / research was before they learned of the Reapers, logically they would not have been doing so to prepare against them.
Stating anything Saren did was separate from Reaper influence is silly. Benezia only became loyal to him because she was indoctrinated. The Geth only followed him because they were loyal to Sovereign. Even so, this is partly irrelevant because Saren's use for the queen was to find the Mu relay. Binary Helix itself was trying to create an army, not through influence over the queen, but by simply breeding the soldiers. BH didn't even know they had a queen until they grew her. They subsequently took all the rachni soldiers away from the queen which made them crazed and is the reason you must destroy them.
The rachni you encountered off Noveria were all due to Cerberus. Cerberus was experimenting with the Rachni as shock troops. They were not controllable the same reason the Rachni on Noveria were not controllable. This is in stark contrast to the events of the Rachni war in which the Rachni were controlled indirectly through their queen, who exerted total control over them.
The Collectors are clearly not meant for direct combat against the galaxy. They are too few in numbers, and they haven't gone into a standup fight against anyone but the SR1 and Shepard. Even their colony attacks are with little resistance as the swarms immobilize everyone. It is pretty clear that they are used for intelligence gathering and experimentation. The human reaper likely being the most recent and grand of their experiments.
Vigil states there have been many agents of the Reapers over the years. The queen states you are chasing the one that enslaved her people.
And again if the Reapers controlled the Rachni they aren't unleashing an uncontrolled force against their harvest. Controlled means controlled. You actually control the Rachni if you can control the queen. That is directly opposed to the situation with Binary Helix (and by extension Cerberus) which had uncontrolled rachni soldiers. They could have easily accomplished whatever goal without destroying the harvest.
Saying the Rachni absolutely were not controlled by the Reapers during the Rachni War has no more evidence for it than the idea that their queen had been controlled by them. If anything the "other random boogie-man" hypothesis has slightly less evidence.
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