User blog comment:James12708/Reapers VS. Forerunners VS. Angels from Darksiders VS. Humanity from Halo VS. Council and humanity from Mass Effect VS. Imperium of Man/@comment-50.80.96.33-20130122221432

im gonna put it plain and simple forerunners are organic that leaves them open to indoctrination and i quote no organic is immune to indoctrination and before any one says that reapers have to be in proximity to indoctrinate that's incorrect a reaper artifact can indoctrinate just as well and once someone has become indoctrinated there under reaper control until release which never happens of course and the only cure for it is a bullet to the head. im not sure how much firepower the average me dreadnought dishes out but it takes four those to kill one reaper cap ship. when i say reapers adapt i mean they always act even deadlier example: when the reapers attack palaven the turians peform a jump behind them to cause some hurt in exchange the reapers perform a jump of their own and begin attacking palaven. also reaper guns fire a i think a 432 kiloton gun every five seconds also the reapers analyze their targets refer to the battle of palaven on this wiki for details reaper destroyers can just perform a point blank jump and just land on the surface of a forerunner ship and hack away at it and forerunner ships that are below the size of 2km will be crushed by reaper cap ships, reaper cap ship jumps in at point blank and grabs ahold of any ship that is below the size of 2km and crush it with its tendrils, for forerunner ships that are way to big for reapers to grab they again just land on the hull of said forerunner ship and hack away at it (if need to see examples of a reaper destroyer attacking at point blank watch the me3 low ems space battle i guarantee you'll see it and if you need an example of reaper cap ships attacking at point blank one of the extended cut dlc scenes show it) reapers also don't need to capture forerunner officials to tear down the forerunner ecumen all they is someone basic. forerunners find reaper artifact they take it back to base artifact begins to speak forerunner workers become indoctrinated also forerunners would have no real way to counter reapers since they never had an encounter also the forerunners would over time become demoralized with each other turning on one another also the reapers pawns the collectors who are not dead because of the loss of one base would be picking through wreckage of destroyed forerunner fleets and colonies would eventually make a breakthrough and make improvements to themselves and their masters also if humans and covonent can reverse engineer forerunner tech im sure something as old as the reapers would have very little problem in figuring it out. I imagine it would be pretty terrifying for a forerunner fortress class vessel to turn on its own fleet