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[sr2josh]

If the Alliance or the Council races developed a self-replicating swarm of nano bots programmed to attack the Reapers, how successful would such a weapon be?  I don't think the Reapers could use their large molten metal beams against something like that.  The nano bots could be designed to infiltrate Reaper core systems to bring down things like shields/barriers, weapon systems, propulsion, etc.

[Obadiah]

Could artificial bots resist Reaper control? We might end up fighting them ourselves.

[Singu]

Nano bots in themselves are too basic to be controlled or reprogrammed, but they should be easily subverted with electro magnetic pulses. However, it might be a good combination with a conventional attack to force the Reaper to hurt itself by letting of EMP's within it's perimeter and shutting down the most vulnerable parts of their design that is not organic or shielded against EMP's.

Make it scratch itself, and hit it in the daddy bag when it's distracted.

Modifié par Singu, 20 janvier 2014 - 02:16 .

[AlexMBrennan]

It seems that "nano bots" is identical to "magic" in the above argument. Yes, if we had a magical weapon which bypasses Reaper defences and is immune to their countermeasures then we could win. Brilliant.

[Singu]

AlexMBrennan wrote...

It seems that "nano bots" is identical to "magic" in the above argument. Yes, if we had a magical weapon which bypasses Reaper defences and is immune to their countermeasures then we could win. Brilliant.

Any advanced civilization past a certain stage of evolution would know about nano bots. There's nothing magic about it, we even have the basics down for how to go about producing them in real life today.

You would need to bypass their shields, but that's easily done by reducing the nano bots kinetic energy relative to the target so it can bypass the Reaper's shield's kinetic reaction level. The problem with nano bots lies in how easily they are defeated since they can't be shielded or hardened against EMP's. But if you could use it as a trojan horse and sneak it into an area of high vulnerability within the Reapers they could conceivably do real damage with it. 

The most likely outcome though would be that the Reaper detected the nano bots long before they could reach any voulnerable areas. In a war like the one you have in Mass Effect I would view the nano bots potency as a weapon like someone running around in a present battle field with a blowdart coated with poison.

Modifié par Singu, 20 janvier 2014 - 02:48 .

[sr2josh]

AlexMBrennan wrote...

It seems that "nano bots" is identical to "magic" in the above argument. Yes, if we had a magical weapon which bypasses Reaper defences and is immune to their countermeasures then we could win. Brilliant.

Uh yeah "magic"  Brilliant Alex.

[jamesp81]

Makai81 wrote...

If the Alliance or the Council races developed a self-replicating swarm of nano bots programmed to attack the Reapers, how successful would such a weapon be?  I don't think the Reapers could use their large molten metal beams against something like that.  The nano bots could be designed to infiltrate Reaper core systems to bring down things like shields/barriers, weapon systems, propulsion, etc.

Its not a bad idea, but I would be worried about them subverting it to their own ends. The citadel races had the ability to produce weapons systems quite capable of taking out reapers that were far simpler to build. The fact that such weapons were not built can only seem like incompetence to me. 

[KrrKs]

Don't forget that the Reapers use Nano bots themselves extensively (e.g. in the Huskification process).
I'd think the most likely result of an attack against reapers using nano probes would be hijacked nano probes.

[CrutchCricket]

Regarding the shielding issue, Reapers are in space. I'm pretty sure background radiation would wipe out the swarms, unless you had a shielded delivery system that could inject them into the Reaper hull.

What are the chances Harbinger's gonna sit still for a shot?

And as others have mentioned Reapers use nanotech themselves (and it should've been more explicitly used in my opinion to decrease charges of space magic)

[AlanC9]

AlexMBrennan wrote...

It seems that "nano bots" is identical to "magic" in the above argument. Yes, if we had a magical weapon which bypasses Reaper defences and is immune to their countermeasures then we could win. Brilliant.

Don't forget that it needs to be a magic weapon that the Reapers couldn't use against us.

[Dean_the_Young]

And immune to the Reaper's own established nanotech.

I mean, the Reaper nanotech is established as being able to make viable soldiers out of corpses. Why would we assume that the Reaper nanotech wouldn't just counteract or mitigate such an assault?

Then there's always the amputation option if a Reaper did get infected, of course.