User blog comment:Subject 9/Reasons/@comment-69.144.238.157-20110906000747

A lot of science fiction stories put humans as the best of the best, only to have been beaten millions of years ago, and memories wiped. The most recent addition to this kind of fiction is Halo, where we were an extremely intelligent, space faring, people. We were rapidly gaining technology and knowledge, defeated the flood, almost destroyed the forerunners before they put us opn earth, and here we are.

Imagine if Mass Effect was like that. Humans made the relays. The citadel...the Reapers. We made them so that any truly powerful threat would be quelled in an instant, to make sure we would live on forever.

Until our greatest war machines turned on us, seeing us as a threat, using logic to overide any code put into their system, thinking that if we were all powerful, then we could eventually have little use for them, and any other race, even if not a threat, would be destroyed.

And so the reapers became the Vangaurds of our destruction, their attack destroyed any defenses, and only a few survivors made ot to a world we call earth, already populated with similer beings known as neandrathalls, and that's where the humans who created the reapers ended.