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[1big101]

 Remember that Prothean Orb you find that shows how a caveman saw Prothean spaceships?

If Reapers are suppose to kill off all life in the universe, why are humans still around if cavemen lived to evolve into homsapiens?

[The-Person]

They kill off all advanced species, not all life.

[vhatever]

They only kill off the highly evolved species. Humans were not at the time.

[Blackout62]

Prime Directive?

[1big101]

Ah, that explains quite abit. Its just I kept hearing from the party members "all life from the galaxy,blah blah blah"

[The-Person]

Well think about it, if the reapers killed off all life in the universe, how could the cycle continue?

[Kileyan]

1big101 wrote...

 Remember that Prothean Orb you find that shows how a caveman saw Prothean spaceships?

If Reapers are suppose to kill off all life in the universe, why are humans still around if cavemen lived to evolve into homsapiens?

As the other post said, the Reapers wait for the species to advance before wiping them out. I still contend it is rather silly. I know all the hypothesies about it, but I still find it silly the reapers sit around in some safe place no one ever knows of, and wait for people to become a threat before waking up and eating them.

That said, I really do hope more of this kind of thing is put into Mass Effect. I really get into the ancient history stuff. Its cool that we learn Protheans were watching earth and maybe had a part in its evolution. I hope we learn more ancient things, like about races before the latest reaper cycle that were wiped out by the reapers. The reapers can't have been perfect, we must find evidence of cycles before once we know what happens and what to look for.

[vhatever]

Basically, if you had enough techology to use one of the warp gates, you qualify. Lucky you.





This is why I've long believed the Reapers are actually more like pirates who steal resources. What resources? some resources that are required to use those warps. My guess is that's the connection.

[Kileyan]

vhatever wrote...

Basically, if you had enough techology to use one of the warp gates, you qualify. Lucky you.


This is why I've long believed the Reapers are actually more like pirates who steal resources. What resources? some resources that are required to use those warps. My guess is that's the connection.

Maybe, but I find it silly.

Here we have some mechanical beings who are happy to sleep in some part of space for 100's of  thousands of years. What can us lowly being possibly produce that is worth more than the energy the expend to not only take what we produce, but dilligently hunt down every singe living being and erase so much of their existance that the CSI team can't pick up a trace?

I could totally understand they might use folks as slaves for some energy, but I can't imagine some races that are so far below them, would produce anything, that would outweigh the energy they expend to exterminate them all.

[Mister Mage]

The Reapers' genocide kind of hinges on the network of Mass Relays. They may not have been able to find Earth because its life didn't evolve along the Mass Relay network. Or they didn't want to kill humans, for some reason that the writers will gloss over by using a stupid cop-out like "their motives are unknowable".

[pharos_gryphon]

The average human eats three meals a day, roughly 4 hours apart, yeah? That four hours may seem like nothing in the life of a human, but it's a fairly large chunk in the life span of many insects, who live a couple of days at most. Now take that same principle and apply it to something immortal. It may seem like a long time to us, but to them that's little more than the bat of an eyelash. From what Bioware has shown us of the Reapers, it's not so much we're a threat as it is we're producing something they can feed off of I would think. Something they need, like refined Element Zero. Sure, they could do it themselves, but why bother? You could make lunch yourself too, but when your front door is a Burger King why waste the effort?

[Hyper Cutter]

Presumably there's some lower technological threshold for getting noticed by the Reapers. Humans survived at least one and probably multiple cycles as ****** sapiens, and I'm sure most of the other species were the same way.

All we know at current is that a technological species using stone tools and fire was passed over (that'd be us), so clearly the threshold is above there (I'd suspect it's somwhere between "industrialization" and "broadcast signals into space"). The harvest needs to be kept sustainable, after all...

Modifié par Hyper Cutter, 19 janvier 2010 - 12:35 .

[vhatever]

Kileyan wrote...

vhatever wrote...

Basically, if you had enough techology to use one of the warp gates, you qualify. Lucky you.


This is why I've long believed the Reapers are actually more like pirates who steal resources. What resources? some resources that are required to use those warps. My guess is that's the connection.

Maybe, but I find it silly.

Here we have some mechanical beings who are happy to sleep in some part of space for 100's of  thousands of years. What can us lowly being possibly produce that is worth more than the energy the expend to not only take what we produce, but dilligently hunt down every singe living being and erase so much of their existance that the CSI team can't pick up a trace?

I could totally understand they might use folks as slaves for some energy, but I can't imagine some races that are so far below them, would produce anything, that would outweigh the energy they expend to exterminate them all.

Obviously they don't do a very good job of scrubbing the galaxy as their are prothean ruins all over the place, and of course they had at least an entire planet the reapers never even visited that the protheans lived on. They only really remove evidence of their own existence it seems. For slave labor, the reapers would have to be constantly controlling the other species... it simply would not work. People would find out about them, maybe find a way to fight them. Maybe they tried the slave thing in the past and it didn't go to well.  Why do you think they go to sleep? They probably go to another galaxy and do the same thing again there. I think they are trying to build something, either more of them, or tsomething else. So my guess is there aren't a lot of reapers, enough to get the job done when they all work together, but generally they would much rather stay in the shadows.
 

[mewarmo990]

The Reapers are synthetic, so they don't just leave stray semen lying about. No way CSI would ever find them.