Did I miss it, or is there not an "Official Theories On How The Reapers Will Be Defeated" thread? I'd assume it'd be one of the more talked about topics. My initial idea was this: We don't know how mass relays work really. Or maybe I just forgot that codex. Too many shots to the head, you understand. Anyway, what if we could manipulate the destination of one? Point that bad boy into a star and come up some zangy scheme to trick the Reapers into using it. Biggest problem being that it seems you need a working relay on both ends, and barring new information, technology being able to survive a star for any length of time is way beyond even the Reapers.
Instead, my current theory hinges that unused dialogue someone found. The Human Reaper (should that be capitalized? Where's a grammar err-- Cerberus agent when you need one?) was emitting brainwave patterns similar to a bunch of humans. Another thing we don't know the workings of is indoctrination. I'm sure you can figure where I'm going with this. Naturally indoctrination will be studied in an attempt to find a defense. Perhaps in doing so, they manage to reproduce the effect and the Reapers themselves turn out to be vulnerable to it. This would also give us another paragon/renegade choice at the end. Do we force the indoctrinated Reapers to destroy themselves (either through suicide or making them turn on each other) or do we enslave them as they did to the Protheans and whatever race they made the Keepers from? Sadly, I'm sure that would invoke millions of "lulz, Independence Day ripoff" complaints and people posting pictures of Jeff Goldbloom's "That's right, we can use their own signal against them" speech. But that's going to happen no matter what I suppose.
Regardless, I'm fairly certain that the knowledge Reapers are part organic will be their downfall. That's critical information that's unlikely any other civilization they attacked had. Organic and synthetic life have different vulnerabilities and there's attacks that wouldn't have been tried on the Reapers if past civilizations made the same natural assumption that they're completely synthetic.
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TIM's real name is Jack Harper? ... I wonder if that's a reference to Two and a Half Men.
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Proteus was an ancient greek god that could shapeshift. I noticed the reference in the name "Protheans" right off the bat, but I never really understood it. Perhaps it's a reference to their eventual fate as the Collectors. Or maybe it's just a reference to how Protheans looked. The statues on Ilos and old art of Proteus both have the same "Aww, what an adorable little Cthulu larva..." look to them.
But here's a crazy theory. Crazy being the key word. The Eletania Prothean device and the caveman vision... what if it's hinting that Protheans, for lack of a better word, designed us? At the very least it's extremely suspicious that this artifact is found on a planet inhabited by creatures strikingly similar to the ones we're believed to have evolved from.
No seriously, think about that for a minute. The same planet that we find some mysterious ancient artifact from aliens who were messing with our ancesors, we find a very close variant of an earlier ancestor. Something stinks here.
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Is it confirmed that Cerberus is always the enemy in ME3? Here's a thought: What if this is the consequence of letting them have the Collector base? It can work either way too.
Paragons were right to destroy it scenario: TIM, obvious enamored with his newest toy, visits it in person. Like the rest of the investigation team, whoops, he gets indoctrinated.
Renegades were right to give it to Cerberus scenario: Cerberus scientists find some data at the base that is crucial in understanding indoctrination. Because of this, TIM or other high level Cerberus management are able to avoid being indoctrinated and will remain an ally when the Reapers come knocking.
If Cerberus is always an enemy in ME3, I still don't think it's fair to judge the writing quality without all the facts. Just because we couldn't think of a good enough reason for it to happen does not mean that ME's writers couldn't. There's a reason they're writing these stories: they're damned good at it. I don't care for shooters, and I almost always hate sci-fi stuff, yet this is my favorite series solely because of the writing. For example, everyone complaining that it'd make no sense for TIM to betray Shepard after investing so much in him and realizing he's such a great weapon against the Reapers. Well who says he did? The space ogre that Liara usurped was giving intel to the Reaper's Prothean slaves. He knew the thread count in TIM's suit and who he was bumping uglies with (that man gets more ass than anyone has a right to), why wouldn't he have some clue where he is? Or since they've got tens of millions of years of technological advancement on us, maybe they just usurped his communications and the real TIM is powerless to command his troops while the Reapers have an Edgar suit--err, TIM suit giving fake orders to them. Cue mission to help TIM get back control of his organization.
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Am I the only one who can never figure out where to headshot a krogan? I've gotta ask Mordin where their brain is... Are they like the Hunchback of Notre Dame and that thing is just to make them look uglier? Maybe it's under the plate. Hmm. For that matter, I can never figure out whether husks and Saren's skeleton are flagged as organic or synthetic.
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ATTN: Zaeed. I'm paragon, I didn't spend 50,000 platinum on that dermal bay for myself. Get to the med bay or you're not allowed back in the mess hall until further notice. You're making people sicker than Rupert's cooking.
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Current sentient spacefaring races: Asari, Drell, Elcor, Hanar, Humans, Salarians, Turians, Volus, Batarians, Krogan, Quarians, Vorcha. Geth, Rachni and Raloi, depending on your point of view. That's 12-15 races. Were Protheans really the only ones around last cycle? If so, why? If not, why are the others a secret?
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