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No, this is not another lame far fetched theory, I really thought this through. Please bare with me (I'll try to keep this as short as possible).
The origin of the Reapers:
The reapers are machines, but they still have organic tissue and they recuire a lot of DNA to be created. In order to make a human reaper, they had to blend countless human bodies into a big milkshake. But why? Why would a machine have organic tissue? The only answer I can come up with is: Because they where once organics themselves.
Yes, that's right, the Reapers where once simple organics like you and me. They where once no different than humans, asari, salarians or krogan. A simple organic species and space-faring race.
But then the next question arises:
How did this race became the first Reapers?
This organic race was propably really smart, smarter than any of the current space-faring species (humans, asari,
turians, etc). While at the pinnacle of their evolution, they discovered the technology to create their own mass-effect fields and create devices that could manipulate space and time. These devices eventually became the mass-relays.
Finally, their last and best piece of technology, would have been the ability to make themselves immortal. With their technology they forced evolution upon themselves, turning themselves into immortal beings with their advanced technology and in the end the very first Reaper.
But...
What about the 50.000 years cycle?
The organic species they once where do no longer exist. They don't even look like the race they once where. Most likely all of them eventually became Reapers, but if we see how many human lifes it takes to make a modern Reaper, we can say that they probably started with only a few Reapers.
After depleting the entire galaxy, they went to dark space to look for new resources. When they finally returned to The Milky Way they discovered a new space-faring race had arised by using their technology they left behind (the mass-relays). Which gave the Reapers a plan, the plan of the 50.000 years cycle. And so the "endless" cycle of "salvation through destruction" began.
So...
What now?
Well, the first thigh that I came to mind after writing down this theory was the human Reaper. obviously we where supposed to become the newest Reaper and join them in their immortal "godly" life. But what if The Illusive Man found out about this? What if TIM somehow knew all of this? Didn't he talk about placing humanity "on top of the food chain"?
Well, I fear that TIM would think that immortality is not such a bad thing. In fact, I think in some way TIM already is immortal with tech similar to those of the Reapers. And what if you saved the Collector's Base at the end of ME2... god know what he's up to...
Well, I guess we'll find out after ME3...
Modifié par Luc0s, 20 mars 2010 - 11:10 .
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They do it for fun. They like playing god and adding new (better?) Reapers to their fleet. For the same reason we watch TV or play video-games, they play "the 50.000 cycle game".
