See, this theory actually made me think of Overlord and David - how he was "hooked into the machine". Quite literally. So it's not quite without precedent.
I've never seen Battlestar Gallactica, but I did try to watch it once. It....really wasn't my thing. So spoil away! I'm interested to know what you're thinking.
This specifically makes me think that humans were a "mistake" in the eyes of the Reapers. If Sovereign was trying to figure out why the keepers weren't responding to him for an eon, then that means they originally tried to send the signal to open the Citadel relay a long, long time ago. Humans are relatively new on the galactic "scene" and the universe was supposed to have been reaped long before they would have developed into what they are now-- a species that would challenge the Reapers
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I think that if the Reapers has been able to do what the usual routine was (if the Keepers hadn't been altered by the Protheans) - harvest the species on the Citadel and laid waste to them, reap them for new 'drones' such as they did with the Protheans, they would not tried to build a new reaper life form, but simply go back into hibernation and wait another 50k.
I didn't see this mentioned anywhere, but the next logical step in this chain would be that the turians, asari, salarians, etc. would have been Reaped and humans--who were not yet at the stage of having Mass Effect--would have been 'spared' if the timing had gone off according to plan. They would have found the Relays after the Reaping, and probably become the ascendant race for the next time the Reapers came around 50K years from now.
...I think what I'm saying is that the delay itself may or may not have had as much impact on the Reapers' interest in the humans as is the humans themselves, regardless of the 'when'.
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I've never seen Battlestar Gallactica, but I did try to watch it once. It....really wasn't my thing. So spoil away! I'm interested to know what you're thinking.
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I didn't see this mentioned anywhere, but the next logical step in this chain would be that the turians, asari, salarians, etc. would have been Reaped and humans--who were not yet at the stage of having Mass Effect--would have been 'spared' if the timing had gone off according to plan. They would have found the Relays after the Reaping, and probably become the ascendant race for the next time the Reapers came around 50K years from now.
...I think what I'm saying is that the delay itself may or may not have had as much impact on the Reapers' interest in the humans as is the humans themselves, regardless of the 'when'.
(Does this make sense?)
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So the theory piques my interest, but honestly, I've no idea yet if I believe it wholeheartedly or not.
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