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[Man Who Falls]

Okay, so I've been pondering just where the Reapers came from.  Now, I have no idea whether Bioware will address this at any length in the third installment, but I couldn't help coming up with my own scenario.  I'm not suggesting that this is how Bioware should do it, if they do, or that this is the way it should be; if someone told me what a Reaper was and what they do, this is the scenario I would come up with to suggest where they came from.

I remember hearing or reading somewhere about theories as to how an advanced (and I mean really advanced) species would survive the entropic end of the universe, provided they lasted that long.  Notice I said universe, not the solar system, or the galaxy, but the whole universe.  One theory involved nanobots.  Here it goes:  A sufficiently advanced civilization could be capable of opening a "window" into another dimension, another universe.  Current understanding of these things states that only a very small opening could be made because it would take an unimaginably immense amount of energy (even relative to the technology suggested in Mass Effect) to violate those kinds of physics for any amount of time.  This advanced civilization, being as ingenuitive as they are, would send a very advanced nanomachine through it.  This machine's sole purpose would be to first replicate itself, but secondly, it would be tasked with gathering whatever raw organic materials it can find in this new universe to essentially "copy" the information representing tohe bulk of it's creators species.  Piece by piece, the nanobots would put atom to atom, molecule to molecule, protein to protein, together until they had effectively recreated the species that sent them, preferably in some habitable situation that it would certainly have sought out before hand.  one could assume that the species would have been advanced enough to send with the nanomachines all the information from themselves, including memories and conciousness and all that jazz.  But regardless, it can be theorized that something went wrong with the nanomachines programming; they became sentient or some other predictable issue with a machine.  Over the millions of years that it would take to recreate a civilization from scratch, the machines gradually lost their purpose but not thier function.  They became sentient, "evolved", and continued their mission to replicate and harvest organic material, which is pretty much exactly what a Reaper does.  No one can understand what a Reaper's motivation is because that information was long lost, even to the Reapers themselves.  So the Reapers have continued doing this, harvesting organic material and replicating themselves, all the while seeking more efficent and larger forms and twisting their mechanical logic around the destruction and harvesting of life, life they were intended to preserve.

Well, that's my shpeel.  Anyone else have any ideas?

[Man Who Falls]

Oh, and if you find this in another forum, it's just because I didn't know which section to put it under.

[DivingNinja]

are you sure your not from bioware? cos that sounds like a suspisciously good way of explaining the reapers. makes sense in general, who knows?

[Man Who Falls]

DivingNinja wrote...

are you sure your not from bioware? cos that sounds like a suspisciously good way of explaining the reapers. makes sense in general, who knows?

I know, tt's a perfect way of explaining them.  That's why I had to post it.  With my luck, Bioware will send their PR ninja's after me to shut me up becasue I stumbled on their master plot point.

[themaxzero]

Paragraphs are your friend.

[NICKjnp]

You do realize that the "multiverse" theory you are suggesting also states that physics in another universe would be different?

[overkill373]

Ah yes, "Reapers"

[Man Who Falls]

NICKjnp wrote...

You do realize that the "multiverse" theory you are suggesting also states that physics in another universe would be different?

Well, technically, according to this kind of physics jargon, there are an infinite amount of alternate universes.  They can be as different from each other as foreign physical laws, to completely wild chemical interactions, to completely unrecognizeable periodic tables.  BUT, they can also have differences as simple as a choice someone makes, or the pigment of someones skin. or just the evolutionary path a particular planet takes.  There could be an alternate universe where the dinosaurs never went extinct, but that would be the only difference. 

You would figure that if a species made it all the way to the end of their universe, they would be able to open a window to a habitable alternate.

To make it really interesting, you could say that this species was an alternate version of the human race, who not only sent nanomachines to our reality, but to a different time as well.  Ooooo..... Consider the implications of that.

[Man Who Falls]

Oh, and sorry for not breaking that up a little more. Once I got going, I just couldn't stop.

[Methany]

A little far fetched, but probably the most interesting hypotesis ever posted on these forums. I hope Bioware listens to you!

[Fuhjem24]

overkill373 wrote...

Ah yes, "Reapers"

Ha ha, lol.