With perfect understanding of organics, the Reapers realize that they have the blood of trillions on their hands...er...tentacles. Also, they themselves are the result of millions of more pointless deaths. In despair, they fling themselves into the nearest star.
War. The reapers become aware of their strength and either band together to rule the galaxy, exterminating all resistance, or form petty kingdoms from the ashes utilising slave races as resource.
And those who have been forced into this situation by an idiot called shepard curse the name for the remainder of their short, miserable lives.
Oh, are we doing random extremely pessimistic worst case scenarios now? Okay I'll join in. I'll do one for high ems destroy:
Shepard lies on the wreckage of the citadel, fatally injured, waiting for help, that finally arrvives too late. All the search team can do is recover Shepards dead, broken body. The relay system is destroyed and the races of the galaxy try to repair it, but after soon they start to realize, that without the help of the Reapers they lack the knowledge and resources to actually do that. All attempts to repair the citadel or the relay network fail ultimately.
The single systems are isolated from one another. Economy (which was already low to begin with after the war) completely collapses. Resources are getting scarce. The turians and Quarians on earth are the first to starve. The Quarians left on Rannoch (If there are any left) are unable to adjust to life on the planet without the Geth or imported goods from the rest of the galaxy and soon enough the entire species is wiped out by diseases and starvation.
Because most of the Turian military died on earth Palaven descends into chaos and despair. Cities burn, people die and the Turian civilisation falls back into a dark age. Thessia is never able to recover from the blow the Reapers delivered to it and is thrown back to the status of a third world country. The Asari are cut of from the rest of the galaxy and the number of Ardart Yakshi significantly increases. Soon society breaks apart into rivalising tribes that worship the Ardat Yakshi as gods of death.
On earth Hackett tries to keep things stable. But the entire planet lies in ruins, the infastructure is almost destroyed and food becomes more scarce by the day. Hackett is eventually assassinated and anarchy breaks loose. Various warlords rise to take over the planet and the entire globe is enguled by total war once again. It ultimately peaks in a devastating nuclear fallout that renders the planet a desolate wasteland. The few surviving humans live without hope and joy.
50 years in the future the last living human being looks up to the stars with tears in her eyes and curses Shepards name. Then she shoots herself.
See, that's what happens if you choose destroy. You monsters 
Just kidding (mostly). Don't come after me with your pitchforks Destroyers.
War. The reapers become aware of their strength and either band together to rule the galaxy, exterminating all resistance, or form petty kingdoms from the ashes utilising slave races as resource.
And, much as Destroyers would like to believe it, I don't see this outcome taking place whatsoever. And here's why: ...
No one just wakes up one day and says: "Hey, let's start/fight a war." That conflict needs to brew up over time and offer something significant for both sides involved. The Reapers are AI that spend millennia in dark space when they're not harvesting. Nothing of the galaxy is of want or need to them: land, food, water, glory, medicine, hell not even eezo. They do not even require safety since they're exponentially stronger than the rest of the galaxy, and at that point, nobody is going to bother trying it anyway. If the solution works as we're told, anyway, there will be no fear of war down the line either, since organics have what they need to benefit from synthetics without being required to dominate them. In the end, it would be an entirely pointless effort since they gain absolutely nothing of value from it.
Ultimately, this notion that free Reapers would dominate the galaxy simply because they can is a projection from human players onto decidedly non-human entities. They just don't think that way.
You exist because we allow it. You will end because we demand it.
... a demand (solving the organic-synthetic issue) that has effectively been removed. 
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Can't tell if you're acting on old/outdated information out of willful ignorance, or if you truly didn't pay attention to or understand the end of ME3.
You exist because we allow it. You will end because we demand it.
Edit: actually that was retconned to buggery wasn't it.
Well, organics ended because the Reapers demanded it, didn't they? 
see my edit. My original post was tongue in cheek, I forgot how seriously people take the green space magic.
I'm inclined to agree but...well, you actually don't know if they think that way or not. Perhaps they do. Still, usually a war has a reason as you say, and I can't any reason for one here. Also, the Reapers won't have a unified purpose anymore, so they're as likely to go to war with each other.And, much as Destroyers would like to believe it, I don't see this outcome taking place whatsoever. And here's why: ...
No one just wakes up one day and says: "Hey, let's start/fight a war." That conflict needs to brew up over time and offer something significant for both sides involved. The Reapers are AI that spend millennia in dark space when they're not harvesting. Nothing of the galaxy is of want or need to them: land, food, water, glory, medicine, hell not even eezo. They do not even require safety since they're exponentially stronger than the rest of the galaxy, and at that point, nobody is going to bother trying it anyway. If the solution works as we're told, anyway, there will be no fear of war down the line either, since organics have what they need to benefit from synthetics without being required to dominate them. In the end, it would be an entirely pointless effort since they gain absolutely nothing of value from it.
Ultimately, this notion that free Reapers would dominate the galaxy simply because they can is a projection from human players onto decidedly non-human entities. They just don't think that way.
Ah, my bad then. Hard to tell; I've encountered a staggering number of people that argue off of old/outdated information on these topics.
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War.
Huh! Yeah! What is good for? Absolutely nothing! 
You exist because we allow it. You will end because we demand it.
Edit: actually that was retconned to buggery wasn't it.
Not really. If anything it was enforced.
"You will continue existing only in the colors we provide."
they didn't leave. In fact, that wasn't said or depicted at all (in Control or Synthesis). Reload your game. Choose Synthesis. Pay attention.I know there is still a lot of hate towards the endings, but try to keep an open mind and have a nice discussion about this question I have. I thought about the three endings one day and one thing came to my mind…. What happened to the Reapers in Synthesis? It is clear what happened to them in Destroy and Control. However, for Synthesis, all we see is them "leave" like how they did with Control.. but we don't see them again afterwards…. That is unless it was explained in the slide show in the end and I don't remember.
So, what happened to them? Did they just leave and lived on in their own ways?
War. The reapers become aware of their strength and either band together to rule the galaxy, exterminating all resistance, or form petty kingdoms from the ashes utilising slave races as resource.
And those who have been forced into this situation by an idiot called shepard curse the name for the remainder of their short, miserable lives.
Once a year they have an image of him/her put on a pole and burn it just like King Olaf in Skyrim
Oh, are we doing random extremely pessimistic worst case scenarios now?
Don't we always?
They're a bunch of omni-useful data centers assisting in the rebuilding process as the galaxy's survivors reap the rewards of Shepard's sacrifice.
Yep, as do all those lucky husks, banshees, brutes, scions, praetorians, cannibals.. reap those rewards, reapers!
Yep, as do all those lucky husks, banshees, brutes, scions, praetorians, cannibals.. reap those rewards, reapers!
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