That's pretty extreme commander. Actually that would be very incoherent. Gladly, that's not the ME3 plot. Nice try.
And how, then, would you describe it? Hint: it will still not work. Batts and I already discussed this. If the Reapers are truly trying to save us from ourselves in their own way, the entire idea of them going into combat is ludicrous; they have already lost somewhere between four and twenty species for all eternity before you've finished the first hour of the game. (Sovereign and the "several" capital reapers lost in the Battle of Palaven.) They spent hundreds of years fighting the Protheans, the losses they must have taken, the species cast into oblivion, must number in the hundreds. What was the point, then, of saving them in the first place?
Several assumptions that you are taking here that are not entirely corroborated by the game. The first assumption is that every race will be "awarded" by ascending to only one Reaper. They could ascend to more than one. The second assumption is that the kind of backlash we are witnessing in this war was prevalent throughout the previous cycles. There are multiple clues to hint that this was not the case at all. Normal cycles usually were broken with a quick attack over the Citadel, the breaking up of any hierarchy, division and conquest. Javik himself was pleasantly surprised to know Shep had "killed a Reaper", hinting that he himself in his own lifetime had never witnessed such an event (this was the dialogue I had, you can correct me if you find a counter to it).
Sovereign was killed because of an anomaly in the previous cycle, which made it possible for Shep and co. to stop the quick surprise attack from the Reapers. There was also a huge benefit to the findings of the Thanix Cannon, although I did not pay attention to how much exactly this was an advantage.
The Reapers were forced to a different war strategy this time around. There's also the issue of the Rachni wars having been started by Reapers' influence. There is this giant plot hole of what the hell were they thinking in leaving the galaxy alone for so long, but it is also probable that that war signed to the Reapers that this cycle was still "easy" enough, and perhaps it was still not time, let Sovvy do his thing.
If every cycle costs them but one capital-class Reaper, they'll never break even. If every cycle costs them 1.anything, they will eventually run out. The ideas that have been presented about their scheme don't logically track. We may be doomed, but we have already won.
Yes, but again the assumption that only one human reaper would be produced. And you are also assuming that most cycles would be as damaging to the Reapers just like this one. Logic dictates that actually, most cycles would have been fairly easy for the Reapers to cull.
And things in the game occur that would put the lie to their theories about why we need saving from ourselves.
The Geth vs Quarian does not falsify the Catalyst. If anything, it confirms it. The only way the organics had managed to make peace with the synthetics was because of the presence of the Reapers. If such a threat did not exist, the peace also wouldn't. We can discuss this further. Even if we take for granted that the Geth are all angels, it does not falsify the threat of tech singularity from other angles. Like foreshadowed by the Heretics themselves, by OverLord, by the Moon AI, etc., etc.
You might need to go reread the thread, we've already discussed this at length, it doesn't work.
Thanks, I'll happily oblige to your condescending advices. Oh wait, I had already read it.
