So I propose we brainstorm on some ways that the Reapers could have a better origin? Personally I think the Reapers should have come about from a professor or scientist coming increasingly unhinged as his or her people die around him. Cures fail, surgery/implants don't seem to work, and soon he/she feels like the only hope is to preserve the race.
In the professor's insanity the person would become half man, half machine, and take the sick and dying to join in ever lasting unity. We are one. As the professor became more machine than organic it would design a signal to attract the rest of its people to it, to draw in the sick, the dying, the hiding. It would become a nation contained within a shell, free of all weakness, immense in its power to preserve itself.
But it would think: why should I be the only one to ascend to such a higher plane of existence? So it continued to build until it was immense in its size that it could block out the sun wherever it landed. Its signal so strong, all intelligent life feeling a tingle at the back of the skull, growing into loud whispers that cannot leave, and themselves slipping away...
But it was all for a greater cause, they would no longer know suffering, they would achieve the apex of life, to be immortal, to be unstoppable.
But it would encounter a problem: all resources were harvested in the construction of itself and its kin, all organics were gone.
So it schemed and concluded that organic life could be herded, building the mass relays, allowing organics a fraction of the perfection that was its being, not strong enough to stop it, but requiring enough intellect to show that the species was deemed worthy of becoming like it.
So it retreated into the blackness beyond the galaxy in order to wait, to slumber with its handful of siblings.
It would be the Harbinger of their perfection.
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