See this is ultimately where we are disagreeing, the size of the reaper fleet. You go of the theoretical maximum numbers altered for some casualties and I'm estimating their size based on what they are able to do in the game. If 15,000 reapers attacked Earth, no ships would have been able to escape, but they did. If 15,000 reapers attacked Palaven they never would have been able to hold them, but they did. The reapers in ME 3, the source of cannon we have and not the mythos that was built up in other works, reveals that the reapers are only capable of 2 major offensive action at one time while still having a significant force left to attack smaller colonies and disrupt their enemies movement. Honestly, I put the combined size of their fleet at around 5,000 ships total based on it's ability to operate in the field. If there are 50,000+ reapers then they can do whatever they want because they will have the ability to fire 1,000 dreadnaught killing shots every second of a battle. But I don't see any evidence for that many ships in cannon, I know they have a mythos that built them up to be massive swarms, but that could just be the entire fleet moving from system to system which may be why it took hundreds of years to defeat the protheans. If I remember right Javick was born long after the citadel fell but the protheans were still fighting back and still had interstellar travel, if they had 100,000 ships why didn't they just roll into every system and destroy their defense and leave a dozen ships behind to indoctrinate everyone on the planet? They could have had the entire empire in 30 years, but they don't because they don't have the ability to be everywhere all the time. 5,000 ships is still a lot compared to 100 or 200 ships in a large fleet and enough to darken the skies of major population center.
At this point were at a lock because if you honestly believe that they have 30,000, 50,000, or 100,000 ships sitting around doing nothing while ships are getting blown up in orbit of Palaven then their is nothing I can do to convince you. Though I would question the intelligence of those reapers because that is a massive waste of resources and I wouldn't be surprised it they made many strategic and tactical errors, like leaving the citadel alone given how stupid one would have to be to have all those ships and not use them.
And going by ME1 and ME2, a few hundred Reapers would be a reasonable assumption. But then they made the stupid mistake of making the Leviathan of Dis a Reaper, rather than keeping it as a Farscape joke. And further confirmed it in the Leviathan dlc.
That makes the Reapers in excess of a billion years old. Which means, yeah, they could send a couple thousand Reapers to every homeworld and still have more than enough to take the Citadel with overwhelming force. This makes their strategy throughout ME3 look like sheer incompetence on their part. Massed organics are no longer a threat. They're no longer even a paper cut. Shepard wins because plot.
The problem is, you are looking for a rational answer behind what is happening in the game, when the in-game lore throws rationality right out the window. There is no reason for it to be happening. The Reapers shouldn't have to limit themselves to Earth and Palaven, they should be everywhere right off the bat.
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