In Mass Effect 3...How would you destroy the Reapers?

[DEAD34345]

I'd find the magic space macguffin which somehow allows me to defeat the reapers by defeating one key enemy in a finale battle of epic proportions, much like how the game will actually end.

On the way i will have picked up a bunch of team-mates, hopefully including Garrus, Tali, Thane and Wrex, made some difficult choices and pushed multiple people off of 10 story buildings/into incinerators/into some other perfectly positioned object that will allow me to say a cool one-liner and then kill them in an awesome manner.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

OP

Two Words: I wouldn't.

We're talking about a race of Hyper-intelligent, Super platforms that can melt entire planets in a (proverbial) heartbeat, but don't do so, SIMPLY because that won't allow them to Harvest MORE measly, worthless biological races (like the petty Humans) and keep their own race alive. I believe that we do not have the right to kill their race. And hence we can't.

So I would spend all the resources available to me to make sure that a sizable population of the Citadel races (non-member races included) survive the onslaught (by hiding THEM in deep space or something like that). That way, we can rebuild our forces for the next 50,000 years, employing the new races that arise from the next "cycle", to create one Giant Meta-Race, with our Own Super Platforms and Naval Armadas.

Basically Build up enough firepower to either obliterate the Reaper race if they are foolish enough to initiate another harvest, declare the Milky Way independent from the "Reaper cycle" or have them declare us allies. They should be smart enough to know the saying "If you can't kill em, Join em".

 

[Terminate421]

Have the geth hack their systems while the Quarians hold them off with ships. The Turians and Krogan take out ground forces. The Asari and Salarians use Biotics to assist both sides.

In order to do this I must have maxed out my paragon level.

 

[Arker]

Have Mordin talk the Reapers to death.

 

[ConnorCool]

I actually hope that ME3 is a no win scenario. That no matter what Shepard does, the reapers win.

That could be really gripping and bittersweet if done right. And then it flashes ahead 50,000 years to show that for all of the resistance Shepard put up, no one can break the cycle.

It would be very good if done right, or as one of the possible endings but I doubt it. One reason; no room for story extending DLC. (Apart from obligatory 'spare suits' nonsense)

 

[HerbertTheHamster]

By the power of Grayskull

 

[fix-the-spade]

Sure, the Geth fleet butt raped an Asari Dreadnaught,

I dunno. The Ascension survived (or resisted for an extended period, depending) a sustained attack by a whole Geth Fleet despite being taken completely by surprise and having to ignore the attack to evacuate civilians. I'd say it aquitted itself quite well just by not instantly imploding.

I'd like to see it get involved in a proper stand up fight, one where it didn't have to start with it's hands tied behind it's back.

 

[Withall]

Using reconstituted Omni-gel sprayers on the Reapers to turn 'em into something more useful. Like, coal. Would be pretty nifty, eh?

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

The rachni will evolve some sort of bio-titan, a reaper made of flesh and full of tentacles. It does unspeakable things to the reapers, and any survivors flee to darkspace as fast as they possibly can.

I think he has the right idea. I think the rachni will come back. From the depths of space the swarm will come, taking this tiny period of time to reproduce to an insane level. The queen detected it was the last remaining and shifted breeding into overdrive. Twenty worlds pump put rachni at an onscene rate, billions apon billions of bioships descend on the reapers. The great devourer aproaches. Sacrificing all of its kind it swarms the reapers, killing them ironically by literally crushing them with life.

Conversely, we gather EVERY biotic ever. And link them, like in ME1 with the mind sharing. The resultant god conciousness would tackle the reapers. We link them all to jack. Let the rage go through the power of several billion biotics and the reapers are fried.

 

[Infernai]

Challenge them to a Dance off...I'll pick Legion as my first choice for that battle!

 

[Harry Mason]

The most likely scenario, i think, is that ME3 will be a series of Shepard going on missions to create, piece by piece, technology that can introduce a virus into the Reapers A.I.

The more exciting option would be to have her pilot a Mech and go nutshit on them with a four hundred foot long C'Tan Phaze-Sword...

 

[themilo504]

3 ways
1 use a magic super ultra thing to power up my adraline rush (or charge for my vanguard)
2 the same way as i got rid of our rogue spectre with words.
or 3 unite all of the aliens and save the galaxy and bring in a new golden age of awesome.

 

[Twilight_guy]

By using a really really big bomb. Just you wait. If not that, then some magical McGuffin future tech designed to kill them.

 

[Azaraxzealot]

introduce a mac computer virus like in independence day.

duh.

/sarcasm

 

[michiehoward]

Have the geth hack their systems while the Quarians hold them off with ships. The Turians and Krogan take out ground forces. The Asari and Salarians use Biotics to assist both sides.

In order to do this I must have maxed out my paragon level.

We may find that in me3 our Shep's may have to staddle the neutral line as if you are predicting comes true, we would have to persuade so many species/political group/factions, you'll most likely have to do mini missions with para/rege highlights.

 

[Arkynomicon]

I would guess some cheap deus ex machina will take down the Cthulhu spaceships.

 

['Stache]

MY theory is that the orthodox Geth repel them (look at the codex entries after Legion's loyalty quest, you'll find that there are a bazillion friendly Geth just floating around in space)

That or, y'know, bully them into suicide (worked on Saren)

 

[YouBecame]

Use the collector base to reverse engineer some understanding of reaper weakness and PRESS IT HARD!