User blog comment:Tanooki1432/What if.../@comment-188.221.158.255-20120228180817

It is a known fact in the mass effect universe humans were testing theorised ideas on FTL travel just before they found the mars ruins. from this i think it would have taken huamnity 50 years maybe to figure out something decent that lets them travel a decent distance, from this we would eventually we would colonise another planet. at this point the reapers could be attacking the rest of the galaxy while humanity is evolving along its own path (seperate from what the reapers want yes). from here the reapers just win but possibly dont discover humanity. now just because sovereign is the vangard that does not neccesiarly mean he is always "awake" after defeating the other races he would have possibly a few years of checking things over but he would possibly hibernate for perhaps 500-1000 years during which time humanity would evolve new tech and discover mass effect fields from the relays adapting and changing the two seperate techs to fit each other creating more powerful weapons and ships. eventually the reapers would come for humanity but i believe that because the tech is seperate humanity could at least have a straight up fight with the reapers. i also believe however that because the reapers have destroyed countless species this set of events has already happened with a different species and ultimately the reapers would have a stratagy about how to counter such a thing and though the war would take a while humanity are on the defence and reapers would intentionally target planets with weapons to reduce supplies and the population of humans while all humans can do is fight back. from this i believe that the reapers would eventually defeat humans. btw i am also aware that this theory is kind of vague in some places and in some parts similar to the first theory posted but this is just what i think. this post is more to invoke thought into a "what if" scenario