viewpoint leading thru the events of ME2.
Now we know that the Reaper's reap every 50k years or so. The name Reaper was
given by the Protheans to "name their destruction" (as Sovereign
said). Now that name (however inaccurate) implies that they are reaping
something, as in a farmer reaping his wheat field, when the crop is
ready.
From talking to TIM we know that normal collector behavior was that they periodically
would pop in. Pay tons of cash to slavers and the like to collect dozen of
samples of different species.
From talking to Vigil we know that Sovereign would have to periodically check
the status of the galaxy to see if was time to call the other Reapers in.
From the end ME2 cut scene we can assume that the other Reapers had direct
communication with the Collectors.
So the Reapers just finished killing/harvesting off the Prothean era races. The
Protheans being the dominant species of that cycle (or the most successfully indoctrinated)
are then set up to become the collectors for the next cycle. Sovereign goes to
wait at the collector base in a dormant state. Waking every so often to get a
status update from the Collectors. More importantly checking the samples being
brought to him so see if whatever genetic/evolutionary marker that his
kind is looking for is present.
At some point the given condition that the Reaper's need is meet and verified by Sovereign
and the Collectors. Sovereign tells Harbinger to get ready and sends the signal
to the Citadel. Nothing happens. At this point the big concern might be that
the keepers might have evolved beyond indoctrination. At this Point plan A is a
bust.
Plan B. Sovereign is ordered to go to the Citadel and send the signal directly.
He can't just show up and start signaling/hacking since he is the only one and
if is safe to assume that at this point the Asari have enough of a fleet to damage him. Sovereign runs
into the Rachni which offers him an easily malleable race (indoctrinate the
queens you now control the race). We know this happened if you saved the queen
in ME1 and talked to the Asari on Ilium on ME2. Now Sovereign knew the other
races would eventually run into them so he prep them to fight the moment they
are discovered. This will provide him with the fodder he needs to get to the
Citadel at activate the signal. However the Krogan are found and provide the
perfect counter to the Rachni before they were able to reach the Citadel. Plan
B is a bust.
Plan C. Sovereign needs another race to act as fodder for him to get close to
the Citadel. At some point he finds a Prothean beacon and realizes that the
Citadel has been sabotaged by the group of Protheans that escaped notice on
Ilos. Now the situation is worse since he will now need have a physical link to
Citadel central control meaning that an 'inside man' will be needed. At around
this time he becomes aware of the Geth and corrupts a group of them. He then
allows himself to be found (from the first ME book) and indoctrinates Saren.
The rest is the events that occur in ME1 which ends in failure. Plan C is a
bust.
Harbinger and the other Reapers are informed (probably by the
collectors) what happened to Sovereign. Their thinking has to be along the
lines of: Who is this Shepard? What are humans? They only been in the
'scene' for less than a century? and they killed one of us?
Now the Reapers are arrogant but with good reason. They have had this cycle
thing going for billions of years with no significant resistance. Chances are
none of them has died since the one they lost billions of years ago (the derelict
reaper). I would be worried that if humans can a kill a reaper with less than
century of space xp, what could they do if they had more time? Humanity would
now represents a clear and present danger. Shepard would be the embodiment of
that threat.
Plan D. The collectors are ordered to kill/capture Shepard. This eliminates the
immediate threat since he is the driving force behind the any kind of
anti-reaper preparation. But humans still pose a long term threat. So a
human reaper is ordered to be constructed. My theory on why a human reaper is twofold.
One, the reapers are afraid of what humans can do. They have lost one of their
number to the newbies. So they need a human cipher (like Shepard who needed the
Prothean Cipher in ME1) to better understand them. Two, I will assume that a
human reaper would be able to indoctrinate humans more efficiently. Saren was
running experiments to test the effect/limits of indoctrination. If was
affecting different people/races at different rate. With indoctrination taking anywhere
from weeks to months. A human reaper should in theory be able to indoctrinate
humans in a matter of days. Vigil said in ME1 that those indoctrinated where
used as saboteurs and spies. Humans now playing a more significant role would
make the ideal race to indoctrinate since they would be in a position to
sabotage the Citadel. This leads to the events in ME2 which ends with Plan D
being busted.
Plan E: I read the last line spoken by Harbinger not as one of arrogance but
one of frustration. "You failed. We will find another way. Releasing
Control." = "It doesn't matter Shepard! You failed because we WILL FIND ANOTHER WAY".
So far all efforts by the reapers have been to reactivate the Citadel's relay
functions so their fleet could jump in. I think by that line the Reapers have
given up on that idea and will have to come in old school. However many years
that would take.
Modifié par -D7-, 20 février 2010 - 03:42 .
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