Way too much to catch up.

But I really want to reply to this one, because I'm always surprised when this argument keeps popping up.
byne wrote...
Well I still dont buy the idea that the Reapers cant be defeated conventionally. That just seems like faulty reasoning people are employing to justify the need for the Crucible.
The codex on the Reapers and the Reaper War show quite a few places where we were victorious, or at least holding our ground against the Reaper forces.
There's a few places where they destroyed a few capital ships. That's not even in the same star system as "good enough" though. They're invading pretty much every homeworld at the same time plus many, many colony worlds. And we see multiple capital ships at a single major city on a single planet. How many total do you think there are? Okay, let's go back to that math earlier. The oldest date we have on a Reaper is a billion years. 50,000 years a cycle, that's 20,000 cycles. One of the writers said a while back that they usually don't lose even one capital ship in a cycle. So even assuming they only make a single capital ship from their chosen race, that still puts the
low end estimates at over 10,000 capital ships. It takes 3 or 4 dreadnoughts to bring down a single one of them. I'm guessing we don't have 30 to 40 thousand dreadnoughts. And the best part? I'm not even figuring in the destroyers, which "make up the bulk of the Reaper fleet". Not quite as badass as a capital ship, yet even after sustaining the concentrated fire of the
entire Migrant Fleet, one was only broken down yet still in-tact.
There's no way the Reapers are losing conventionally. No way. It would be like trying to beat a tyrannosaurus rex with your fists.