How many reapers are there in mass effect

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From the perspective of the fleet, even if they were traveling at light speed, they are at least thousands of light years out. I think the one way in one way out kept them safe, but they just assumed that the gate would always work. In deep space, they reapers cannot discharge their drive, and sovereign appears to work on the mass effect drives, using relays and all. The codex entries on mass effect drives state that they have limited ability to go ftl before they have to discharge their drive.

I guess it's also possible that they left a bunch of stuff behind but the Keepers cleaned it all up over the millenia.Д¬lick to expand.I get the impression that a mass relay is the reapers only hope of making it back. Yet they left no warnings about the Reapers behind at the Citadel, which indicates that they believed the threat was ended with the alteration of the signal. They returned to the Citadel after the Reapers wiped out civilization and modified the signal sent to the keepers so the Reapers could not employ the same strategy in the future. Also, the actions of the Prothean scientists seem to indicate that the Reaper fleet needs the Mass Relay to return. I think this will involve capturing the Mass Relay perhaps involving Cerberus, and we may see a new group of Reaper slaves called into service along with possibly the geth being overwritten to all serve the Reapers. As such, Mass Effect 3 will revolve around another plot to shorten the trip. I think it's more likely that they are hundreds or thousands of years away, after all the purpose of going away is to wait somewhere where they cannot be accidentally stumbled upon.

Appearing in the middle of the citadel is highly convenient for an attacking force, but if the journey is only a matter of a few years then it's negligible next to the 50,000 year cycle they operate on. However, if the trip is only a matter of a few years then I have to wonder why they needed the Mass Relay in the first place.

#HOW MANY REAPERS ARE THERE IN MASS EFFECT FULL#

After the collectors and human reaper were destroyed, the Reapers set out at full speed towards the galaxy. The lack of alliance response to dead collectors could indicate that Cerberus sent cleanup teams around after you. In many cases you went on ahead while the official notice was delayed. Note that partly as a result of the actions of Cerberus, the council and the alliance are still largely unconcerned about the Reaper threat. They'll have a new slave race in the Geth once they get back to Galactic Space, so perhaps the Collectors had outlived their usefulness. This seems a bit unlikely due to the actions of the Illusive Man, but it's possible that he is being manipulated and that the Reapers simply didn't value the Collectors very highly. Based on their interest in Shepard and the advanced tech required for the Lazarus Project, it's possible that they are somehow involved in Cerberus or with the Illusive Man. No downside to the Reapers here, only upside if it works and they get to shave years off their trip. The human reaper was an experiment itself to see if humans would make good reapers, but it would have filled double duty by being tasked with suceeding where Sovereign failed. Harbingers plan B was to use the collector and geth slaves to construct a human reaper. On a 50,000 year timescale, waiting two years for an attempt is nothing. Upon learning of Sovereign's demise the Reapers may have started a lengthy trip back to galactic space without the aid of the mass relay but I think it's more likely that they decided to wait and see if the mass relay was still a possibility. His destruction put a major kink in their plans and piqued their interest in Shepard and humanity since this probably had never happened before - or they would have left two reapers behind. At the end of ME1, the Reapers were all out in deep space save Sovereign who was the one tasked with opening the relay for them to come home.

How many reapers are there in mass effect