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[Koryel]

Why is it that most Sci-Fi stories as of late (be it games/movies/books), that present some kind of incredibly powerful enemy, have to end their threat by introducing, at the last moment, a miracle weapon that wipes them
all out from the entire galaxy.

Leaving the terrible endings aside for a moment, another thing that annoyed me to no end, right from the start of the game, was this introduction of the Prothean super weapon – the Crucible – that could wipe out the Reapers when it was completed....How convenient !

I believe the writers even created from the start of the series the premise that the whole Reaper threat could have been handled even without any kind of super weapon, simply by applying superior tactics and numbers through
cooperation and organization, albeit with huge losses. Here are some reasons:

1. In ME1, the Prothean VI on Ilos, Vigil, states that the Reapers caught the Protheans completely off-guard by invading through the Citadel and instantly eliminating their central government and disrupting the Mass Relay Network, thus isolating their systems from one another. Even worse, this provided the Reapers with vital data and star charts, allowing them to practically track every Prothean in the galaxy.

Thus, the Protheans’ greatest strength, their unified empire, was their downfall, as the Reapers compromised their leadership and capability of bringing together a single powerful military force.

Yet, it took the Reapers several centuries to completely defeat them, as they still put out a strong resistance. And even so, the Reapers needed to employ indoctrinated sleeper agents to infiltrate and betray their brethren by revealing their hiding places and carefully laid plans.


2. Back to the game’s time, in ME1 Shepard managed to destroy Sovereign before he could open the Citadel to the invading Reapers.

Even though Sovereign was immensely powerful and advanced, he was still taken down by the unified fleets of the Asari, Turians and Humans. Vigil also assured Shepard on Ilos, that the reason Sovereign preferred to work through agents and gather reinforcements (Saren, Geth) instead of simply attacking the Citadel himself head on the moment he decided the cycle needed to be resumed, was that, even with his incredibly advanced technology, he knew a unified military force could still bring him down (which is exactly what happened).


3. Now, with the Citadel removed as the prime strategic point of the Reapers’ whole invasion plan, they had no other choice but start a full out assault on whatever systems they had access to. The Reapers have failed to take out the Galaxy’s ruling hierarchy and they had failed to gain access to the entire logistical data of the Galaxy’s races.


4. But, even with these failures, they still continued to go on with the same tactics they used during each cycle, by spreading out their numbers and attacking as many systems as they could, confident that no force could stand against them.


5. Also, from what we’ve seen in the game, most of their forces do not consist of dreadnought type ships, as Sovereign was, but smaller ships, mostly the size of a cruiser. So, not all the Reapers armada is of Sovereign’s strength.


6. Now, considering the Reaper’s Citadel failure, the races of the Galaxy could start properly organizing themselves and unifying their forces. And, as commander Shepard, you are doing just that: bringing together all of the Galaxy’s military power into one large armada to beat back the Reapers.


The conclusion: considering the Reapers failed to take out the Galaxy’s ruling hierarchy from organizing against them (as they have done in all their previous cycles by using the Citadel), and still spread out their forces thin all over the Galaxy, with ships that are not all as powerful as Sovereign was, the unified races’ full armed military forces has very good chances of systematically taking out the Reapers system by system.

Sure, the losses will be huge by the end of the war, but they have stood united against the threat and prevailed without some super duper space magic wand (read weapon) inserted by the writers to solve their problems (I’m still ignoring the space god kid).

What do you think? Wouldn’t this outcome have been more logical, easily acceptable, and provided for a whole range of endings depending on how many forces you bring and how many losses you take?