User blog comment:Kaminoman/do you think the reapers are trying to save the galaxy?/@comment-899316-20100904201223

The Reaper quotes "We are your salvation through destruction!", "We are the keepers of the cycle. The creators and destroyers. Your existence is a flicker, a spark. We can extinguish it - or we can make you immortal.", and "We are the pinnacle of evolution. Yet we see potential in your species. You can be elevated. The weakness of organic flesh can be cast aside. You can transcend yourselves." all point (to me anyways) to the Reapers believing that they are helping us. The creation of the Human-Reaper almost confirms this; they have chosen humanity as the next wave of Reapers. They appear to be planning to elevate us to immortality by making us into Reapers. As for flying the SR2 in the final battle, I hope there is a part in the battle where you fly the ship, but I am also hoping for the conclusion to take place inside a Reaper (Harbinger?) that Shep shall board, uploading a virus or something while the combined might of every fleet in the galaxy fights the Reapers as a distraction.