Question about Reaper tactics...

[padawanmage]

In case anyone still hasn't finished the game, I'll leave this in a cut...

Comments

[sinvraal]

I assumed it was the latter. The relays are Reaper infrastructure, and the Citadel is the epicenter, so it follows that they're what transmits your choice of color-coded deathray across the galaxy. That said, I assume the bulk of the Reapers are with the Citadel on Earth, since I have a hard time believing they're ignorant of the fact that the organics are hatching some kind of plan.

[czarblackblade]

I thought the entire reason they tied the Citadel into the Crucible was that it could connect to the entire Relay network and deliver the signal/magic lights to everywhere in the galaxy at once.

[musa_nocturna]

Game suggests that once TIM tells the Reapers about the Organics' plan, they turtle up above Earth, so, yeah. Every other planet in the galaxy finally caught a break.

[davidnm]

The impression I got was that there are big and little Reapers everywhere, but that there's a particularly big concentration of them around Earth. I assumed that as we see the big ones everywhere else during the game, and we don't actually see them *leave* anywhere. (It would make strategic sense for them to have a heavy presence at Earth, given that apparently it's humans they're using as raw material for new Sovereign-class ones, I suppose.) And I also assumed that yes, the relay explosions are them re-broadcasting some sort of signal *everywhere* (although why this pops them is anybody's guess).

Of course, the creep value in all of this is that we only actually *see* Reapers keel over/float off/whatever at Earth...

[st_mk]

I believe that there are more Reapers in the Dark Space, because nobody attacks with all units in one battle. Which makes RGB ending totally senseless.