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[Soundwave04]

 So I'm going through another playthrough and while I haven't reached this far yet, I got thinking about this line of dialouge: (it's not exact, so forgive me!)

Hackett: Interestingly, the Reapers are leaving Parnack alone - It's the Yahg homeworld.

Shepard: Can't say I blame them, Yahg have teeth!

Hackett: We have to remember the Reapers don't target all races...

The Yahg are left alone by the Reapers because they are not a space-faring race yet. However, accroding to the ME Wiki, the Yahg have nearly completed their first Spaceship.*

Now the weird question is, if the Yahg launched their Spaceship and conducted a sucessful space travel mission during the Reaper Harvesting of this cycle, would the Reapers then make a beeline for Parnack, as they are now space-faring (When Yuri Gagarin went into space, Earth became space-faring) or would the Reapers think "it's one space rocket, we can come back for them in the next cycle" - obviously, it wouldn't be said that casually. xD

Just curious, really!

* I know it's a wiki post, but it had to have come from somewhere, right?

[JasonShepard]

I suspect that the Reapers are simply planning to knock the Yahg back to the stone-age once they've finished with all the space-flight species. They can't afford to have a race make 50,000 years of advancements beyond spaceflight before the next harvest. (Especially not a race as vicious and clever as the Yahg...)

[robertthebard]

I'm guessing they'll leave them alone. It's going to take a while for them to get from actual rockets to FTL travel. The Asari were apparently zipping around the galaxy for quite a while, and didn't trigger a harvest early.

[Forst1999]

JasonShepard wrote...

I suspect that the Reapers are simply planning to knock the Yahg back to the stone-age once they've finished with all the space-flight species. They can't afford to have a race make 50,000 years of advancements beyond spaceflight before the next harvest. (Especially not a race as vicious and clever as the Yahg...)

Thats what I think too. And the Yagh already had contact with the species of this cycle and would be more suspicious about the cycle of destruction. Too big a risk.
With the harvests taking some centuries, the Yagh would likely stumble into the Reapers anyhow.

[nrobbiec]

Had the Reaper war continued, the Salarians would've uplifted the Yahg, Sur'kesh saw Reapers towrds the end, and then the Yahg would've been harvested anyway.

[PsyrenY]

I think discovering mass effect drive is the "terminus" where you would be eligible for harvest. Before that, even with spaceflight (like we have now) you're not a threat at all.

[remydat]

Humans went into space in the 1950-60s and less than 100 years later we found the Mass Relay. It's be less than a 100 years after that and we are a prominent race in galactic affairs. Considering how that one Yahg f**ked up the Shadow Broker and took over for him, I think we can assume they would advance pretty quickly. So yeah, the Reapers are probably just cleaning up the more advanced species first and then will finish off the Yahg towards the end of the harvest.  You let those dudes advance for 50,000 years before the next harvest and you might not have much of a galaxy to come back to.

Modifié par remydat, 14 avril 2013 - 02:45 .

[Dr. Megaverse]

A Yahg empire would make the Protheans look like a bunch of kittens...

[Leonardo the Magnificent]

The Reapers are likely going to deal with the Yahg once the primary harvest is finished. As of right now, the Yahg are no threat to their operations, not worth exterminating when there are bigger fish to fry.

[nrobbiec]

remydat wrote...

Humans went into space in the 1950-60s and less than 100 years later we found the Mass Relay. It's be less than a 100 years after that and we are a prominent race in galactic affairs.

The Yahg had nearly completed their first space ship in ME3, since the harvest takes centuries they could easily discover the mass relays and everything during the Reaper war. Just leaping into the fire.

[nstar]

I've pondered a similar thing, albeit with humans instead of yahg.

There's evidence that this cycle is late and not simply due to Shepard and co thwarting Sovereign's plans in ME1.

If the cycle had been held on time, or say, the Dark Ages lasted longer, it would be feasible that humans would not have been a space-faring race come the harvest. So in the post-harvest galaxy, humans would have assumed the position that the asari formally held. This would have given humans almost 50,000 years of access to the Citadel, the relay network and all the Reaper-tech littered throughout the galaxy so that they would evolve along the lines that the Reapers desired. However, it doesn't stand to reason that in such a long amount of time, humans would not have begun to better understand the technology, leading to technological advances far greater than the species that we know have come before them and possibly, although not definitely, given them an opportunity to fight back more effectively.

They likely would not know that the Reapers were coming, so the Reapers would still hold the element of surprise.

So in a similar vein to the yahg, had humans not achieved spaceflight for one reason or the other, would the Reapers have annihilated them anyway because of the threat they would pose if allowed 50,000 years of further development? I can see them doing that to the yahg, if only because the yahg are starting to have a place in galactic affairs, albeit due to the involvement of other species.

Perhaps the reason the harvest was delayed was due to the Reapers identifying the much lauded human genetic diversity and giving them the opportunity to advance and in doing so allowing humans to fall into their MO of harvesting advanced races while simultaneously ensuring they do not grow into a threat.

[Maganese]

The Reapers wouldn't allow Humans 50,000 years to develop. The Yahg neither.

Don't quote me on this but I remember reading that the Reapers destroy/harvest every species which has passed their bronze age status. So they dont pose too much of a threat in the future. And also keep in mind that every cycle doesn't have to be 50,000 years long.

[DWH1982]

Maganese wrote...

The Reapers wouldn't allow Humans 50,000 years to develop. The Yahg neither.

Don't quote me on this but I remember reading that the Reapers destroy/harvest every species which has passed their bronze age status. So they dont pose too much of a threat in the future. And also keep in mind that every cycle doesn't have to be 50,000 years long.

Some of the planet descriptions in ME2 hint at this, if you read between the lines - that after they finish "harvesting" mass effect tech civilizations, the Reapers go through the galaxy and methodically bomb any civilization that has passed the Bronze age out existance.

I don't think the Yahg would have survived very long beyond the end of the cycle. Even if the Reapers don't destroy post bronze age civilizations to prevent them from becoming too powerful before the next harvest, the Yahg know about the other races in the galaxy. Who knows what else they might know, or what information might have been passed to them? Too risky to let them survive. I think the Reapers were just planning to deal with them - from orbit - later on.

[NeroonWilliams]

Maganese wrote...

The Reapers wouldn't allow Humans 50,000 years to develop. The Yahg neither.

Don't quote me on this but I remember reading that the Reapers destroy/harvest every species which has passed their bronze age status. So they dont pose too much of a threat in the future. And also keep in mind that every cycle doesn't have to be 50,000 years long.

Do you have any recollection of where you saw this?  I've actually theorized that the invention of writing would be a cause for the Reapers to harvest a civilization in order to prevent too much advancement during their absence and writing typically arises during Bronze Age advancement along with cities.