Thannix cannons (missiles? Seriously? wtf. that's not how the tech you made up works, Bioware!) are basically the same weapon that the Reapers shoot. Molten tungsten / whatnot in a stream accelerated by a mass-effect railgun.
On the Normandy SR2, it basically duplicates a Cruiser's firepower on a Frigate. So in theory, a Cruiser with an appropriately sized Thannix cannon would have the same firepower as a Dreadnaught, and a DN with one would match half of a Reaper 'cruisers' firepower.
I don't know if it scales that well, or correctly. The 'firepower' of a frigate with a Thanix cannon is quintessentially different from a kinetic round fired from the same ship of a scaled size. That, and the fact that the amount of metal necessary etc makes it difficult to say for sure whether or not a Dreadnaught would have the metal reserves for it, etc. It's just part of the game which isn't expanded upon because it is mostly unnecessary IMO.
Since a Dreadnaught couldn't have as much metal as a Reaper Dreadnaught, or have enough eezo (since there were independent Eezo drives for launching the MHD cannons on reapers) for it, I don't think it could be scaled accordingly that a Dreadnaught w/ thanix has the same abilities as an MHD / 2.
Regarding power sources, unless the reapers are powered by space magic they need to get their energy/fuel from somewhere.
Targeting that may be a viable option.
I was always under the impression that they either had extremely efficient power systems that only had to be refueld/recharged/replaced between cycles or they were some how discreetly drawing energy in from around themselves.
Regarding power sources, unless the reapers are powered by space magic they need to get their energy/fuel from somewhere.
Targeting that may be a viable option.
Pretty much everything about the Reapers is space magic, though.
Pretty much everything about the Reapers is space magic, though.
Yeah, but it can still be fun to puzzle out the elements that we can based on observation. Sure, some stuff is pretty much inexplicable, but there are some bits which can be reasoned out. Like what we're trying to do here.
I shall take questions as they are posted there...
Turbolasers? No idea, plasma rounds would probably break through Kinetic barriers though as mentioned before.
Asteroids could be interesting but the Reapers have massive kinetic bombardment capabilites when 'cleaning up' a planet. That and their immense Eezo cored might very well allow them to deflect meteors with massive cyclonics. But it might work.
Hacking is unlikely as a single one controlled the entire Geth consensus. So... Good luck?
Think about how much acid you would need. Also since acid needs to be aqueous it would probably evaporate away in the void of space.
Transphasic torpedoes from Star Trek Voyager. One torpedo, one destroyed Reaper.
Anything you can think of that would've one shotted (or even two shotted) the Reapers would've made it so that the cycles wouldn't exist anymore.
Unless you wanna extend the 'humans are special'-card for a 'this cycle is so special!'-card and an 'all previous cycles were morons'-card.
Regarding power sources, unless the reapers are powered by space magic they need to get their energy/fuel from somewhere.
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Or Someboby... Perhaps the harvest is just a way to fill their fuel tanks. OMG! The reapers are not preserving life at all cost, they're making war to get oil!
Everything is so clear now!
Who needs Ion cannons when you got this.
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People as fuel. I like that explanation.
Would only make sense if Eezo didn't exist.
Transphasic torpedoes from Star Trek Voyager. One torpedo, one destroyed Reaper.
Faux tech. Doesn't help really, especially since the mechanism just allows for the shockwave to travel through shields. Which is bizarre since there is no mechanism in the MEU for 'subspace' to affect things, compression or not.
Would only make sense if Eezo didn't exist.
50,000 cycles and no one was able to stop the Reapers until this one... honestly...all those other cycles should be ashamed of theirselves.
Would only make sense if Eezo didn't exist.
Back in ME2 I had a theory that the Reapers might have used organic slushy because they were like biotics ships, and they needed the organic core to use the biotics that were the basis of their technology.
...killing the reaper? If you can't penetrate the armor, why not try a napalm to overheat and fry the bug inside it's shell?
Need a looooot of fuel though. I think we should move from oil to electricity today to save some for reapers in case they will decide to visit Earth one day. 
Wouldn't work in space though... 
...killing the reaper? If you can't penetrate the armor, why not try a napalm to overheat and fry the bug inside it's shell?
Need a looooot of fuel though. I think we should move from oil to electricity today to save some for reapers in case they will decide to visit Earth one day.
Wouldn't work in space though...
One of the big problems with the Reapers, they've been around so long that anything you can think of means it's more than likely already been tried. Should've just been half a dozen cycles at the most.If that worked, why do the cycles still exist? Surely some previous cycle inventend napalm and tried it.
One of the big problems with the Reapers, they've been around so long that anything you can think of means it's more than likely already been tried. Should've just been half a dozen cycles at the most.
Or require a technical knowledge which is circumvented by the development of technology by Reaper lines. It could very well be that there is tech that is developed 5, or 10 thousand years later in most cycles which is more dangerous, eventually leading to 50k year long cycles that make sure that tech will only be at pre-Leviathan levels by the time the Reapers arrive.
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