How will Shepard defeat the Reapers in Mass Effect 3? (Huge spoilers)

[Distorted Stu]

Possibly the council will find new relays and form a huge army? Also i heard the Reapers where our galaxy's defenders. Defending us from a greater threat int he universe.. hence the reason why they have to collect every 50000 years, to make a bigger army.

Also, i hope the Quarians make it back home.

Edit: Just totally remebered the super weapon that killed the reaper in ME2 & also caused the "Great rift" in a near by planet. That will be introduced at somepoint.

(Also, the planet with the "great rift" had that large alien skeleton from ME1. It was an anomoly that was found by driving around in the Mako.)

 

[T-Bone24]

I'm gonna guess that, because the only reason to harvest the galaxy is for reproduction, then they can spare one Reaper, so they piss off for another 50,000 years. TERRIBLE ENDING PREDICTION.

 

[IrrelevantTangent]

I'm going to take a wild guess and say that I think there'll be a helpful Reaper in Mass Effect 3, or at least one that's willing to negotiate with its bretheren.

It sounds impossible, but consider this: we thought having a geth ally was impossible too until we met Legion. And the Reapers have proven time and time again that they are not mindless machines. They are as sapient as sapient gets. And if what Nazara/Sovereign said is true about them being 'each a nation', what about the dissenting voices? If the Reapers really are sentient, there has to be at least one.

There has to be at least one Reaper that looks at the state of the galaxy as it is and thinks something along the lines of, "These fleshy things seem to be aware of our existence and are planning appropriately; maybe they're smart enough to help us with whatever problem is plaguing our species. Who knows, maybe even one of them can help us make Reaperlings so we don't all die."

Plus it'd show that not every Reaper is a one-sided homicidal monstrosity. I also posted this theory on TV Tropes to see if there were others thinking the same thing.

 

[Mana Fiend]

When I saw that cutscene, I was so happy I didn't wipe out those Geth in Legion's loyalty mission... And that I saved the Rachni. Quarian and Geth coming together will be important next game, of that I'm sure

I'm hoping we don't have one huge superweapon. I'm fine with a big powerful weapon, but I think BioWare might have something special up their sleeve for the big finale.

 

[whycantibelinus]

I'm going to take a wild guess and say that I think there'll be a helpful Reaper in Mass Effect 3, or at least one that's willing to negotiate with its bretheren.

It sounds impossible, but consider this: we thought having a geth ally was impossible too until we met Legion. And the Reapers have proven time and time again that they are not mindless machines. They are as sapient as sapient gets. And if what Nazara/Sovereign said is true about them being 'each a nation', what about the dissenting voices? If the Reapers really are sentient, there has to be at least one.

There has to be at least one Reaper that looks at the state of the galaxy as it is and thinks something along the lines of, "These fleshy things seem to be aware of our existence and are planning appropriately; maybe they're smart enough to help us with whatever problem is plaguing our species."

Plus it'd show that not every Reaper is a one-sided homicidal monstrosity. I also posted this theory on TV Tropes to see if there were others thinking the same thing.

This is a good theory, I am now kind of sort of viewing the Reapers in a different light, like maybe the Reapers we have seen are the "heretic" Reapers........interesting.

 

[XMark]

I believe the answer to how Shepard will take out the Reapers lies in the original poster's username.

Shurikens and lightning.

 

[Lonan]

Are you guys kidding? It would be SO easy to take them all out. They were practically right next to each other. Humanity RIGHT NOW could probably take out that fleet. There's what, 100,000 nukes and hydrogen bombs here? There's what, 10,000-1,000,000 Reaper ships? FIRE ZEE MISSILES!

Just make the missiles surround the fleet, ignite them sporadically to make a whole bunch of dots pop-up on their sensors but them disappear, and keep turning them slightly and making sure any laser fired at the missile they aquire will miss. You also send a hundred duds in with each real nuke, which both Cold War participants have (Pretty much, I think) and the Reaper fleet get's incinerated. Any strategist would salivate at seeing the Reapers so close together.

It also brings into question the Reapers intelligence if they are so closely packed together.
Perhaps they have never fought without their first strike on the Citadel before? However, it could easily be because they are all going straight towards Earth, which would have the effect of rallying every organic species against the Reapers. Such a huge fleet coming out of nowhere to go against the home planet of the person who has frustrated the most would definitely remove all doubts about the Reapers and Shepard, Anderson and Cerberus would gain a huge amount of credibility.

Seeing a fleet that size though might convince some to join it, just like Saren. A highly successful initial missile strike after the whole galaxy is very much in fear would likely deter such actions.

I don't for a moment believe that the Reapers can't be defeated. The only lose hinge in the galactic defense is stupidity. The fleet coming into full view as shown at the end should help most of that.

 

[Internet Kraken]

I have one big question about Mass Effect 2; who the hell are we going to fight?

Now I obviously know that we will be fighting the Reapers. But the Reapers are massive organisms the size of space ships. In Mass Effect 2 you're always fighting enemies that are relatively your size, aside form the Human Reaper Larvae. The Reapers can't fill this role. So are we going to spend the last few battles just fighting Husks? Or did the Reapers keep some of the Collectors inside of them? Surely that one base couldn't represent the entire might of the indoctrinated Protheans, a race that's presence could be found all across the galaxy.

Or maybe the Reapers will just show up with an army of Necron-esque robots.

Also, i hope the Quarians make it back home.

I hope they try to and get annihilated in the process.

 

[Volafortis]

I honestly don't know what will happen, but BioWare will make it epic.

Also, I find it pretty obvious that the Reapers are using civilizations that they enslave as a means for reproduction, and once they finish making a new Reaper from that species, they turn the rest into slaves, like the Protheans and the Keepers.

 

[Mouse LAd]

With a rubber band and a paper-clip after getting a 'use the force Luke' like voice thing from his long lost great gand uncle Mcgiver.

 

[Shurikens and Lightning]

Possibly the council will find new relays and form a huge army? Also i heard the Reapers where our galaxy's defenders. Defending us from a greater threat int he universe.. hence the reason why they have to collect every 50000 years, to make a bigger army.

Also, i hope the Quarians make it back home.

Edit: Just totally remebered the super weapon that killed the reaper in ME2 & also caused the "Great rift" in a near by planet. That will be introduced at somepoint.

(Also, the planet with the "great rift" had that large alien skeleton from ME1. It was an anomoly that was found by driving around in the Mako.)

I actually am loving the idea of them defending us from something worse. It's like what Saren said how if we co-operated they may have mercy. They are trying to build an army to fight a bigger threat. Supah reapers!

I believe the answer to how Shepard will take out the Reapers lies in the original poster's username.

Shurikens and lightning.

Do you weally think so?

 

[Seydaman]

Waking up, realizing it was all a dream. Then chuckling to himself
and getting a warm glass of space cow milk.

Best. Ending. Ever.

 

[bryanfuel]

i never played mass effect but accoring to the title i thought you were talking about firefly/serenity

Firefly/Serenity have Reavers, not Reapers

Edit: Gosh darn this series of tubes! Double post...

lol close enough and i saw the word sheperd like the preacher guy

 

[mattttherman3]

An all out war with all the galaxy V reapers.

Blasto the Hanar Spectre will be kicking ass left right and centere.

Also, I want to see what Quarians look like before it ends.

Me too, when I had the sex scene with Tali I assumed I'd see her face but nooo, I can't tell whats worth the DA:O scenes or Mass Effect 2's(sex scenes of course)

 

[Meshakhad_v1legacy]

There won't be a superWEAPON. However, a Cerberus team has managed to reconstruct - and resume - the Prothean research on Ilos. They enable two-way travel between Ilos and the Citadel. In addition, they are able to deploy additional Conduits to the turian, salarian, asari, and human homeworlds.

The Reaper invasion opens with an attack on the Citadel. However, the Citadel is able to close in time. The Reapers then go after the Council homeworlds. Instead of being the death knell for our civilization, the Citadel becomes our ultimate redoubt, enabling troops to shift rapidly between besieged worlds. Needless to say, the turians, asari, salarians, and humans will devote their forces to defending their worlds. The critical factor is that Shepard has been reaching out to non-Council races. The better he/she did, the easier it will be to save all four planets. Fewer allies means more Reaper forces raining down on planets. If Shepard saved the rachni, they will pull a Big Damn Bugswarm.

 

[Asophetes]

Well, if Sovereign was trying to unlock the Citadel so the Reapers travel through it, since it was a Mass Relay. why not just move it so it aims for the Galactic Core, where there's nothing but black holes there. Since I doubt the Reapers have the ability to survive a black hole. Falling that,Voltron. Cause Voltron always wins. ALWAYS.

 

[Meshakhad_v1legacy]

Alternate prediction:

Whoever built the Citadel also included a secret protocol that they never got to use against the Reapers. This protocol activates the Citadel's weapons and engines.

The climax? Joker pilots the Citadel itself against the Reaper armada.