RavenEyry wrote...
Andromidius wrote...
Speculation, but it makes sense seeing how Relays work and all. Maybe even a Reaper factory of some kind - a safe place for them to transport material back for construction and repair.
That'd make a lot of sense. The last time they tried building a new one it was at the galactic core, while this time they're apparently building it above a still heavily contested planet on the citadel that probably isn't secured yet either.
In this case, they probably only stole the citadel so the harvesting ships can jump back to darkspace once full, I hardly think they're all seperately building reaper bits to glue together eventually.
That's my guess. Based on their (admittedly still relatively small) losses they are probably eager to get building more Reapers as quickly as possible.
The Citadel is probably little more then a goo-production facility and depot.
The Proto-Reaper the Collectors were making must have been a prototype effort, considering they've only existed themselves for one Cycle. Unless they were replacements for whatever the Adjutants were.
I actually had the idea after ME2 that Harbinger may have actually been a rogue Reaper himself, planning on creating his own Reapers to seize power from the others (in a very backstabbing politicial manner). Hense why he was using proxies, hid himself and his base, and had a different personality to Sovereign. I was proved wrong, but I thought it was a neat idea. And I also had the idea (briefly) that the Collectors were actually Prothean extremists who had managed to survive by hiding, and were trying to use humans to create their own Reapers to reconquer the Galaxy and Harbinger was their prototype.