ever since the First Mass effect game ended the question has been souring through my mind as to who created the Reapers? Certainly they couldn't of just popped out of nowhere there has to be some valid explanation: so far I have two theories: A. The Protheans originally built The Reapers as super-War machines, but something went wrong in their programming(one big nasty virus) which made the Reapers hate all Organics and to kill all on site. Once the Protheans realized this they decided to fight back but were brutally decimated.(kinnda similar to the Quarian and Geth conflict, except The Quarians survived their defeat the Protheans didn't.) However what Few protheans that were left trapped the Reapers in the Relay at the Citadel. B.Perhaps The Reapers aren't as old as we think they are, in fact they could be secretive modern technology created by who else?- the Illusive Man, think of it, the first point should be obvious to you, remember at the final level on Mass effect where you confront saren and he states, he has been 'upgraded'? and then when you at his eyes they are blue but un-organic like, robotic. Then in the second game when you meet the Illusive man his Iris, is the same un-organic blue you saw with Saren, so there could be two possibilities, 1. The illusive man can disguise himself as a human, when he is really an rogue AI(who had the most wonderful of ideas to build reapers) or 2. He is merely a puppet of the Reapers much like Saren was. I like to believe A is the realistic one, but hey who knows? I hope the answers will reveal themselves in ME 3.
Well, as the cycle of the extermination of organic life has been going on forever, I guess it's like the Geth and Quarian, but on a much larger scale.
Dinosaurs created the Reapers before they turned on them. Edit: Plus your theories don't make sense when you consider the fact that the Reapers predate the Protheans by several Million years. :geek:
I can't recap on how the Reapers first came round. Reapers were badass on MF2. Question: In the first Mass Effect 3 trailer. Which Alien race is attacking London? or they might be unknown.
In some updates, I read they were cyborgs and husks that originate from all species. So they might be altered Asari or Turian. I think Krogan husks were mentioned somewhere...sounds scary.
Why would Saren who was a Spectre, who's role was to protect the Galaxy, join the reapers? Answer: His mind was suffering indoctrination, while not fully indoctrinated like the Husks the amount was big enough so Sovereign could also use him as a tool. As I said if the Illusive man is in any way affiliated with the Reapers, A. He too is indoctrinated(the probable answer), or B. he created them(the un-probable answer.) Also, what proof do we have that the Reapers predate the Protheans? the only real hardcore evidence we have was Vigil which was an malfunctioning VI. Who's to say the protheans could have programmed Vigil to respond that the Protheans were taken suprised of the attack? keeping Vigil from speaking the truth because they were too ashamed of their mistake? The Beacons could of easily been planted by the protheans as a 'fake' warning so the future species would be fooled into thinking that the Reapers were some mysterious, dangerous force, when they were just an Prothean invention gone wrong? Also look at all the advanced technology the Collectors(which by the way are Protheans but who are also indoctrinated) had in the game, they also managed to build a Reaper but not any Reaper, an human reaper, if the Collectors, who are indoctrinated Protheans, could build an Reaper, who's to say the Protheans when they are un-doctrinated couldn't build lots of those things?
Lol the derelict Reaper is much more older than the Prothean. Also you're making connections where they don't exist.
This just makes no sense. So the information provided by the game is not to be trusted, but your baseless 'theories' are?
Why not from an alternate galaxy? As a race or collection of races that were extremely successful and slowly began to turn themselves into more machine than what they originally were, until you get what we see as reapers? Maybe due to the universal fear of death everything has? (Note: I have not played Mass effect 1, it's on the to-do list) They have enough time to bide to travel between galaxies, and set up a bunch of Mass Relays, and build the citadel and basically set a trap. As for why they attack galaxies, and judging from how liquified human goop had to be pumped into baby-reaper, maybe reproduction? Maybe some sort of love for technology, so they harvest space faring species every so often? Or maybe they like killing shit and harvesting resources? But, in all likelihood, they are probably running this sort of gig on multiple galaxies, so there probably are a lot of them, so the odds are Mass Effect 3 ends in a blaze of glory.
This argument is being broken down in the game itself. The Collectors aren't indoctrinated Protheans, they're genetically modified Protheans that have been made into helpless slaves and drones.
I'd like to bounce of a question that's been haunting me: So they tried to create a Prothean Reaper yea? But, it didn't work out because they weren't compatible or something. Next they tried to do same again, but with Humans. Almost succeeded. Could it be then that the other Reapers are also partially assimilated species? Like, the species that created them? And/Or species they conquered in the other cycles? Cause if you look at the last bit of footage being shown you see there are significant differences between the Reapers.
Probably. However, I do find it weird that the human Reaper looks so much different from the Reapers in the picture you posted. This might be because the human Reaper was still a larva or something, but I found it pretty weird anyway.
Maybe they have a sense of humor, and like to use reapers made based off of the species their destroying. I think at least one of them is a species of crawfish.
Pan universal Lovecraftian horror demons from space. During the game I think they allude to them being similar to geth in that they rose above their creators, but mind-boggling more advanced. That they can hide 'outside' the universe or whatever means that they might be omnipresent beings from the start of the universe or what-have-you. Maybe the Reapers were always there from the beginning. Reapers are god? Discuss.
