User blog comment:RayShepp654/How to defeat the Reapers Theories/@comment-1221773-20101031021231/@comment-1221773-20101031231837

This whole discussion has reinforced, to me, the inadequacies of typed messages as a substitute for real-time communication. You just can't get things across like you can when you're actually talking to someone.

In my original comment where I suggested that the Reapers could spawn some avatars to activate the Citadel control console, it was an inherent aspect of that plan that no defenders would be alive to stop them. How the defenders are removed (avatar armies, bombardment from space, atmosphere-be-gone, indoctrination, etc.) is less important than the fact that their removal is an inevitable outcome if they stand in the Reapers' way.

But what I'm trying to get across in this whole discussion is that a situation where the entire Reaper fleet enters the galaxy at once is essentially an automatic game-over for the galaxy's inhabitants; there is nothing we are currently aware of that can stop the Reapers at full strength. Unless BioWare throws in a deus ex machina or wants a tragic ending to the trilogy, this scenario is extremely unlikely to occur in ME3. We must look at other scenarios, or preferably wait until we actually have concrete info about ME3, before we can assemble any plausible idea of how to end the threat posed by the Reapers.