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[quote]Lotion Soronnar wrote...
No, because it makes sense.
The base is MASSIVE.. I mean, MASSIVE. You honestly think you saw the whole base and everything in it?
You really think the core and the shell would be made in the same chamber?
The chamber with the core isn't even big enough to fit the shell - a reaper "body/shell" is 2 km long.
And the base is practicly citadel-sized. More than enough room to fit several reapers in it.
And no..the core is metallis. The reaper shell is quite clearly metallic and NOT organic. You were in a derelict reaper - that isnt' grown. It is built.
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Don't need to see the whole base, just need to see that one room. [/quote]
No, you do need to see the whole base.
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They've got a reaper hooked up with a handful of pipes pumping people goo into the reaper, they don't have any noticeable equipment for manufacture. If it were being crafted in anyway that we would use the term there would be all kinds of hardware available but it's all curiously absent.[/quote]
So that metal skelet and mouth cannon and flaoting platform - they just assmbled themselves out of nothing?
You know - I don't recall seeing menufacturing equipment when the Normandy Mk2 was introduced. CLEARY that mean that it wasn't built, TIM just crapped it out.
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As for what they're made from, when Shepard questions why they need humans at all, because they're machines EDI's reply is"
"Incorrect. Reapers are sapient constructs. A hybrid of organic and inorganic material. The exact construction methods are unclear, but it seems probable that the Reapers absorb the essence of a species; utilizing it in their reproductive process."[/quote]
Yes, to pump that into the CORE. The entire rest of the reaper is celarly a construct.
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[quote]Didn't stop Cerberus before..
Knowledge is power. And not all knowledge is technologys ment to be mass-produced. You can find otu stuff about reapers that can help you and DON'T require mass producitng stuff (like for example, how indoctrination works...reaper weak spots, etc...)
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Cerberus' known history is a litany of failure with disastrous results.
Any in depth research into completely alien technology is going to take time to provide reliable results, let alone actual understanding of it. Time that we don't have, which you were eager to point out in a previous post.[/quote]
Cerberus history is OK.
All the more reason to start research right away.
You have no idea how long it will take, so drop it. It might take years, or we make make a early breaktrough.
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[quote]Listen to what HAckeet sez in arrival. Listen to the battle of the Citadel. Teh alliance fleet focuses on Sovereign.
"Sovereign is too strong" ring a bell?
In other words - you're proven wrong by the game.[/quote]
The battle of the citadel is a unique situation and can't legitimately be expected to translate accurately to vastly different circumstances. For instance in a situation where the Reapers didn't have total surprise on their side against a foe that didn't know they existed in a battle taking place after an infiltration team had eliminated their enemies command center.[/quote]
Quite the opposite - the battle of the Citadel is a celar indication of reapers power.
Sovereign was pounced on by the entire 5th fleet - a surprise attack. It was imobile, incapable of brining all of its' guns to bear - and it was STILL carving it up like no ones buisness.
Teh very example you brought up works agaisnt you.
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I didn't say it was nothing, I said that their strength is unproven against a foe that they haven't taken unawares and isolated. Big difference.[/quote]
Except it's not. The 5th Fleet was not taken by surprise..it was the other way around.
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Because of their superiror strategical mobility and no fixed assets, they dictate the battelfield, not you.
You cannot force them to commit to battle. They can force you.
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Yeah, everyone thinks they can have their way in Afghanistan and yet the locals always beat them despite the collossal advantages.[/quote]
The Afghani are wining? Since when?
Also, why do you deliberately ignore the "no fixed assets" part? There is no comparison to be made.
And you really cannot hide in caves in space....
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Plan accordingly and make preparations and very little is insurmountable. Honestly I don't know how they're going to deal with it, but I'm willing to take it on faith that it will be dealt with in a reasonable way.[/quote]
Lol...so you make a plan that will take into acount that anyone/everyone in the chain of command might get compromised? That all of your battle plans will be leaked?
Aha....I'd like to see that plan.
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lol...no. What advantages? The Citadel relays? The same Citadel they can take back whenever they please?[/quote]
No, surprise is their biggest advantage along with the ability to isolate every system and prevent communications, co-ordination, retreat and reinforcements.
Also, they can't simply waltz in and take the Citadel without a fight, if it was that easy then they would have done it in the first game instead of fooling around for two games while we made preparations.
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Yes, they can simply walktz in and take it. Sovereign alone almsot did it. You really think the Citadel fleet can stop a thousand reapers?
Modifié par Lotion Soronnar, 24 février 2012 - 10:20 .