Militarized wrote...
GuiltySource wrote...
I don't understand how Shep can control the Reapers, aren't they all each a nation independent?
Plot holes I tell you, plot holes!
I made a thread about this, but no one really answered
the very nature of the reapers is dismissed by the ending as well I felt. They're no longer the big, unfathomable bad ass's they are and instead are just these dumb, giant sarcaophagus's with VI programmed for megalomania
The Reapers should have remained ambiguous or, here's an even BETTER IDEA.
In an effort to sustain a dying populace a scientist attempted many things, cures, implants, many things, but none of it worked. As things went on he grew steadily more and more unhinged as those he cared about died from illness around him, to the point he no longer cared about saving, but preserving his people. This man would become the 'mind' of the first Reaper, ascending from a simple man, absorbing his dying people to give them immortality, and realizing, why stop there? Why not spread the glory? The monstrosity began to gave off an unnatural aura...a signal...a tingling at the back of the skull, mutating the other living organisms to act as servants to fully achieve its glory.
We are each a nation, free of weakness.
We are perfection.
And we will spread our glory.
But it found that when it 'propagated' by going across the galaxy harvesting all life...there was nothing left...it was but a handful of its kind. So it began to plan, to build up a society that would follow the path it wanted, to grow to the pinnacle of intelligent, and then grant them the blessing of ascending to a higher plan of existence. To become "Reaper."
This Harbinger of the cycle of extinction and rebirth harvested resources from the universe, built the mass relays, and left behind technology of a 'long forgotten race' for new organic life to find. It slept in the abyss with its few brethren and waited...
A nation rises. It is violently cast down.
And it ascends to glory shortly after.