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Subject: Mass Effect 3 - Why did the Reapers attack Earth (spoilers)
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In Mass Effect 1, it's explained that their entire original plan for the cycle was to take control of the Citadel first (by emerging from it) and gain intel about all the species, wipe out the galactic governments and lock the mass relays so that the entire galaxy would be powerless to fight back

This failed when the Protheans sabotaged the keepers but Sovereign's entire plan was to regain control of the Citadel and do the above, which also failed

So how come they just decided to attack Earth, Palaven and the other homeworlds rather than attacking the Citadel, as per their original plan, not even touching the Citadel until it turns out to be the Catalyst when they finally arrived in Mass Effect 3



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  • 01.07.2013 9:04 AM PDT

Go put your head through a mass spectrometer. One of two things will occur:
1. Your head will explode :)

2. [Error No Element(s) Found]

They created the citadel and the relays as technology for every race to base its civilisations upon, then every 50,000 years they emerge and feast upon all civilisations who used the technology through indoctrination, reapers yadda yadda yadda.

  • 01.07.2013 9:07 AM PDT
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I do not want to stop asking. I do not ask to stop wanting.

How come they had a way to get to the galaxy without the whole Citadel/Collector bull-blam!-?

  • 01.07.2013 9:08 AM PDT
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Posted by: Haloroach
How come they had a way to get to the galaxy without the whole Citadel/Collector bull-blam!-?


I guess the whole Sovereign/Collectors thing was just cause they were too lazy

  • 01.07.2013 9:10 AM PDT

Go put your head through a mass spectrometer. One of two things will occur:
1. Your head will explode :)

2. [Error No Element(s) Found]

Theyre friggin ginormous synthetics that travel where ever they please, also leviathan explains that the reapers are scattered across worlds hiding etc. so naturally their would be reapers in every corner of the galaxy and pop up whenever they need to.

  • 01.07.2013 9:12 AM PDT

A kamikaze attack? Good, that's one bastard down.
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Actually, thinking about it.
Using the Citadel for the first attack would be a stupid idea.
If contact with the Citadel goes down, each race would at the very least be alert for any attacks. At the most they would mobilise their respective fleets, giving the Reapers a harder time.

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  • 01.07.2013 9:13 AM PDT
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Divide and Conquer maybe? Maybe at the time the Citadel was to heavily defended, so they preoccupied all the races by going for homeworlds, leaving a window of opportunity?

  • 01.07.2013 9:14 AM PDT
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Posted by: THE Byrne X
Actually, thinking about it.
Using the Citadel for the first attack would be a stupid idea.
If contact with the Citadel goes down, each race would at the very least be alert for any attacks. At the most they would mobilise their respective fleets, giving the Reapers a harder time.

...


I don't have the calculations on me right now, but at the end of ME3's best playthrough (most EMS), the allied forces outnumber the Reapers 3:1.

These pilots must be fracking stupid.

  • 01.07.2013 9:14 AM PDT

A kamikaze attack? Good, that's one bastard down.
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Posted by: Haloroach

Posted by: THE Byrne X
Actually, thinking about it.
Using the Citadel for the first attack would be a stupid idea.
If contact with the Citadel goes down, each race would at the very least be alert for any attacks. At the most they would mobilise their respective fleets, giving the Reapers a harder time.

...


I don't have the calculations on me right now, but at the end of ME3's best playthrough (most EMS), the allied forces outnumber the Reapers 3:1.

These writers must be fracking stupid.

Fix'd... Though we already knew it.

  • 01.07.2013 9:16 AM PDT

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Posted by: Haloroach
How come they had a way to get to the galaxy without the whole Citadel/Collector bull-blam!-?


I guess the whole Sovereign/Collectors thing was just cause they were too lazy

I thought all that did was delay them? So instead of using the Omega Relay or whatever you blew up to get to the galaxy, they had to travel the conventional way. They explained it in a ME2 DLC between ME2 and 3

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Posted by: THE Byrne X
Actually, thinking about it.
Using the Citadel for the first attack would be a stupid idea.
If contact with the Citadel goes down, each race would at the very least be alert for any attacks. At the most they would mobilise their respective fleets, giving the Reapers a harder time.

...


By not taking the Citadel, they give the races time to unite together, making the Reapers time even harder

Besides, none of the races in the galaxy is capable of defeating the Reapers by themselves, they'd all lose eventually. The Reapers took hundreds of years on previous cycles

  • 01.07.2013 9:17 AM PDT

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Posted by: Haloroach
How come they had a way to get to the galaxy without the whole Citadel/Collector bull-blam!-?


During the time between ME1 and ME3 the Reapers are moving from the edge of the galaxy to the nearest mass relay.

OT: They attacked Earth and every other homeworld and hub of civilization simultaneously. The moved the Citadel because it was a place to dump the harvested organic matter to begin building new Reapers. They no longer had the Collectors to do it for them.

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Posted by: theHurtfulTurkey

Posted by: Haloroach
How come they had a way to get to the galaxy without the whole Citadel/Collector bull-blam!-?


During the time between ME1 and ME3 the Reapers are moving from the edge of the galaxy to the nearest mass relay.

OT: They attacked Earth and every other homeworld and hub of civilization simultaneously.


But why do that when they could conquer the Citadel and shut off the mass relays and then continue unopposed, like they did before

They really needed to explain this in-game

  • 01.07.2013 9:21 AM PDT

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Posted by: theHurtfulTurkey

Posted by: Haloroach
How come they had a way to get to the galaxy without the whole Citadel/Collector bull-blam!-?


During the time between ME1 and ME3 the Reapers are moving from the edge of the galaxy to the nearest mass relay.

OT: They attacked Earth and every other homeworld and hub of civilization simultaneously.


But why do that when they could conquer the Citadel and shut off the mass relays and then continue unopposed, like they did before

They really needed to explain this in-game


They attacked the Citadel halfway through the game. I don't remember them talking about shutting down the mass relays in ME1, but I'd imagine they didn't do it because they needed the relays to travel and they didn't consider anything to be a threat to them. It was the mighty power of poor writing and space magic that defeated them.

  • 01.07.2013 9:24 AM PDT
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I understand the whole moving the Citadel thing, even though it's kinda silly (what I don't understand is why they didn't shut off the Sol relay to prevent the fleets from attacking)

I'm talking about at the beginning of the invasion

  • 01.07.2013 9:24 AM PDT

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Posted by: Haloroach
How come they had a way to get to the galaxy without the whole Citadel/Collector bull-blam!-?


During the time between ME1 and ME3 the Reapers are moving from the edge of the galaxy to the nearest mass relay.

OT: They attacked Earth and every other homeworld and hub of civilization simultaneously.


But why do that when they could conquer the Citadel and shut off the mass relays and then continue unopposed, like they did before

They really needed to explain this in-game


I dont remember hearing the Mass Relays being shut off during the previous cycle... How would the reapers get around then?

Also the Protheans discovered the Mass Relays secrets. Its possible the scientists that altered the Keepers also prevented the Reapers from shutting the Relays.



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  • 01.07.2013 9:25 AM PDT

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Posted by: PROBLEM2342
I understand the whole moving the Citadel thing, even though it's kinda silly (what I don't understand is why they didn't shut off the Sol relay to prevent the fleets from attacking)

I'm talking about at the beginning of the invasion
See above.

  • 01.07.2013 9:25 AM PDT
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Posted by: theHurtfulTurkey

Posted by: PROBLEM2342

Posted by: theHurtfulTurkey

Posted by: Haloroach
How come they had a way to get to the galaxy without the whole Citadel/Collector bull-blam!-?


During the time between ME1 and ME3 the Reapers are moving from the edge of the galaxy to the nearest mass relay.

OT: They attacked Earth and every other homeworld and hub of civilization simultaneously.


But why do that when they could conquer the Citadel and shut off the mass relays and then continue unopposed, like they did before

They really needed to explain this in-game


They attacked the Citadel halfway through the game. I don't remember them talking about shutting down the mass relays in ME1, but I'd imagine they didn't do it because they needed the relays to travel and they didn't consider anything to be a threat to them. It was the mighty power of poor writing and space magic that defeated them.


Vigil explained it, and then Sovereign locks the relays when he gains control of the Citadel. Remember when Joker told Shepard to unlock the relays so the Alliance could get through after he used Vigil's data file to take control of the Citadel back from Sovereign

It's explaind here as well: http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Reaper#The_Cycle_of_Extincti on

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  • 01.07.2013 9:26 AM PDT
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Because humanity is teh most speshul species in all of the galaxy.

  • 01.07.2013 9:41 AM PDT