User blog comment:Legionwrex/What do Reapers do with the technology they harvest?/@comment-3228423-20121218060826

Probably just melt it down to repair themselves. That's pretty much the only use that the Reapers have for technology that's been stagnating for millenia.

I know I'm going a little off topic here, but seriously, there has been no technology advancement at all in the Mass Effect universe, it's practically stagnate (unless you count going back to limited ammo as moving forward). I mean look, Citadel space has been in power for like 3000 years right? Why'd it take until only 30 years after humanity joins society for them to discover how to make an actual stealth ship like the Normandy? Is it because of lack of any real understanding of their own technology or is it because Mass Effect is a technological dead end?