User blog comment:Legionwrex/I figured out how many Reapers there are!/@comment-4953843-20120801020755/@comment-4953843-20120801035715

we have a galaxy teeming with TRILLIONS of lifeforms (obviously more) across a hundred thousand lightyears in who knows how many worlds and space stations. a couple of THOUSANDS is just not going to cut it.

when you put thousands into a galactic scale it just seems insignificant. look at the migrant fleet with their 50,000 ships, largest fleet they said.

and then the reapers come with their "numbers that darken the sky in every world". (we'll have to cut bioware and sovereign some slack for not actually "darkening the sky -and space- with reaper numbers" during ME3 or using obvious hyperbole)

in short: a horde of alien locusts. numbers are meaningless. (unless a certified statistician or military/logistics expert proves us both wrong).