User blog comment:Mike Gilbert/Do you think the Reapers should keep their powers after Synthesis?/@comment-5020188-20130516202702/@comment-72.49.149.251-20130518202343

Yeah, but Sheperd wasn't quite as re-written as the husks. Directly linked eye implants and an artificial spinal chord don't quite scale-up to total organ removal and replacement. Besides, weren't the "Awakened" Collecters being directly manipulated by the Levithens into BELEIVING they were still Protheans?