User blog comment:RayShepp654/How to defeat the Reapers Theories/@comment-217683-20101028230139/@comment-217683-20101029024022

No, it really wasn't that many ships. Maybe a few dozen, which really isn't a large fleet, especially not when you consider that, even before making first contact with other races and fighting any interstellar wars, they already had at least 200 ships. As for "a good chunk of them" being destroyed, remember that even if you save the Council, which would result in heavier Alliance casualties, we only know of 8 cruisers being lost. That's not a typo. I meant eight. That's all. And again, none of the heavy units of the Alliance Navy were there. Just small and mid-size warships.

As for the other point, the Mass Effect universe would be more interesting if it expanded to include other galaxies. I don't dispute that. But that doesn't mean that they have to use a total cop-out of an ending, where someone else who we just then discovered gives us the way to fight the Reapers. It'd be so much more fulfilling if the way to defeat the Reapers is something that we come up with ourselves through the course of the game.