User blog comment:Raymorn/Bioware Co-Founder Dr. Ray Muzyka Speaks Out/@comment-3148237-20120322021617/@comment-2094653-20120322032709

A reaper is synthetic AND organic. While they deny it like hell, they have the ability to fear and if you ask me, they fear shepard. Shepard has the ability to wipe them out and only Shepard successfully got the Crucible completed. A quick fix is knock Shepard unconscious and then try to indoctrinate. They didn't bother at first because they truly believed Shepard would fail no matter what. But when they realized Shepard had a fighting chance, they realized it was time to indoctrinate him. Shepard started off as nothing, became an annoyance, and then the reapers' fear. Such things must be eliminated by any means necessary, indoctrination included.