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^ That might be a slight exaggeration. Tier 2 civilizations like the Forerunners can move stars and create planets, which is beyond the Reapers. The Mass Effect universe is probably a 3.5 or 4.
Reapers would be very effective against Covenant ships. The shields in ME work by using element zero to create fields of energy that repels masses. The faster or heavier the mass being repelled, the more energy required. The primary Covenant anti-ship weapon is the plasma torpedo, which moves at relatively slow speeds and has very little mass, which means the Reaper's shields could repel many attacks. Pulse lasers and energy projectors are another story however.
tier 1, not tier 2
And to say the ME technology/weapons are tier 1 is likely one of the most exagerated things I've ever read. They're more like tier 3.
More like tier 2.1. There Technology is better than most of what the covenant uses but they are no where near forerunner level.
Also Reapers can shape the evolution of organic life, which most likely means they are capable of moving planets, suns and even galaxy's, to make sure their "crop" grows.
The Forerunners have pretty much mastered evolution. Look no further than their achievement of mutation levels.
I'm a bit skeptical of the Reapers having their own "Plasma Jockeys" so to speak.
Also, on the note of Reapers being able to best the Forerunners because they've conquered thousands of races:
The Forerunners do the opposite and PRESERVE...MILLIONS of races. Back when humanity was at a technological height thousands and thousands of years before the UNSC ever existed, the Forerunners trashed them without too much damage just because they were harming small races and life forms on one of the arms of the Milky Way whilst moving farther inward to escape the Flood.The reapers made theprotheans extinct. The protheansare EXTREMELY ADVANCED. They maybe even equalto or a bit less than the forerunners. Theyrose to extremely advanced technological extremes and even brought humanity to rise in a technological step that has 4 times the tech of the UNSC. The protheans have few reminants but barely survived complete aniahlation from the reapers.The Reapers attack are like how the flood demolished foreruners. They dosrtoyed each stronhold completely erradicated their communications and picked off each planets existance of them and completely destroyed the race to the point of extiction.So please dont say the reapers would be destroyed. Im pretty sure the forerunners might win. And I am extremly knowingful of the forerunners abilities/tech
I have spent 56 days researching them straight becouse of my mass curiousity in them and their culture.
From my understanding, Reapers refuse to let any race or civilization surpass a certain point of technological achievement lest they become too powerful and manage to formulate an effective defense. After having read up on the Protheans (a lot) no where did I find mention of the popularly held belief the Protheans evolved humanity as a fact.
After the ruins were found on Mars, this concept grew about as a popular belief but was never verified as fact.
Consider this: the missile that killed Sovereign was kilo/sub-kilo in power. To the Covenant, who weild megaton to (arguably, considering evidence found in First Strike) multi-terra/petaton weaponry (depending on the ship) considered Forerunner ruins as indestructable (though this was likely brought about by worshipping them).
Point is, the Covenant's weaponry is superior to any known ME weapon, let alone the Forerunners (who, I might add, destroyed a planet with turrets and starfighters...and could force supernovae as a weapon).
Now consider this: Halo 3's Ark control room depicts Halo Installation .06 as having a battered moon like surface, but the Ring is still perfectly operational. These impact craters appear to be similar in size to kilo/megas and (in at least one arguable case) multi gigatonnage impacts. In Cryptum, we see a Ring get destroyed by a Forerunner ship with a couple of shots.
If the .06 could survive that many nuclear sized impacts, but they can't survive the ship weaponry....I need not say more.
Anything that can be compared to the Forerunners in regards to the Reapers is almost pure speculation.
Tehnologically: Reapers<Forerunners<Ancients<<<Precursors.