Starchild, and assumes a Destroy ending. Its idea might be expanded to
make sense of the other ending options. By all means, indulge.
I
was having this mad discussion about the cycle of life with my boss,
and eventually I ended up telling her everything about the ME games as
what she was describing matched exactly with what ME has postulated in
its games. She wasn't familiar with the games (was so intrigued she's
gonna pick 'em up soon though) but somehow made some very interesting
points about the origin of the Reapers, and where it will go after the
ending.
So those Reapers aye. They've been there for quite some
time. In fact the concept of time doesn't even apply to them. They've
watched and destroyed countless cycles of life, on assumption. In any
case, they go back a while.
I chose Destroy as my ending and with it,
these beasties ceased to exist. The extinction cycle had been broken.
There was no longer a maniacal force erupting from hibernation to
eradicate a civilization once it has reached its apex about every 50,000
years.
What does that mean for future cycles of life, the ones
starting right after the ending? (--> what does that mean for Joker
& Co on Planet X)? It basically means that this new cycle has
unlimited capacity to expand and evolve. There's no-one there to halt
them in 50,000 years saying ''You've had your fun, time to die now''.
Assuming Generation X reaches a similar level of advancement as the
current ME races in 50,000 years time, they have all the possibility to
keep growing and growing beyond that. They might evolve and expand for
100,000 years. Or maybe even 150,000 years. Suffice it to say, that's
enough time to develop technologies that spawn mass relays and Reapers.
There's two ways you can view what happens with these civilizations:
1.
In accordance with the game's ending, a civilization starts developing
synthetics that are so advanced that they start to rise above their
creators, and wipe them out. Hello, Reapers? It's well known they are
(somewhat) synthetic as well. They might be created by a cycle that had
no-one/nothing to halt creation.
2. This was my boss's theory: In all
that unbridled expansion and evolution, the civilization(s) at some
point realise it has got to come to a stop. They realise they aren't
supposed to evolve this far; nature, the universe and the cosmos in
itself weren't meant to stand such a dramatic influence of 'life'. To
halt this, they create machines to impose order on the universe, by
essentially placing a curfew on every new cycle to halt their
development at such a point that they cannot develop further and start
to become a poisonous influence on the galaxy.
This might explain
where the Reapers come from. They were at some point built by a
hyper-evolved civilization that had nothing to stop evolution. They were
expanding, developing and evolving until there was nothing left to
expand, develop or evolve. Either this 1) spawned the Reapers or 2)
drove them to a realisation the galaxy wasn't meant for this, so they
created Reapers to ''manage'' the galaxy for ages to come.
Now,
the extinction cycle has been broken. This new cycle of life, Generation
X (including Joker & Co) has this new oppurtunity to rise above all
else and keep growing until... 1) they are overthrown, or 2) have
enough of it.
In that aspect you could say there's a different, greater cycle going on. Take option 2:
A
civilization keeps evolving and evolving until it realises it should
come to a stop --> creates machines to guard the universe and impose
this curfew on other, new cycles --> every cycle gets to advance a
little bit further, based on the technology of the previous cycle. Bit
by bit, they advance minimally beyond the last, before they get
destroyed --> at some point, a new bar has been reached by a cycle
that has evolved in a sufficient way to invent means to break the Reaper
extinction cycle (coincidentally the one in the ME games) -->
destruction of the extinction cycle grants the new, oncoming cycle
unbridled expansion and evolution --> this new cycle keeps evolving
and evolving until it realises it should come to a stop... and so forth.
What I expect to happen is that in about 100,000 years, Joker's descendants will create a new breed of Reaper-like organisms
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