User blog comment:RayShepp654/How to defeat the Reapers Theories/@comment-1221773-20101031021231/@comment-1221773-20101031063936

So you're saying that a thousand Reapers surrounding the Citadel would sit there helplessly because there are some soldiers on the Citadel?

Maybe we need to switch perspectives. If you were the Reaper fleet, and you had arrived at the Citadel and discovered that it was heavily guarded by soldiers, what would you do?