User blog comment:The Milkman/Indoctrination Theorists Say the Darndest Things/@comment-5306852-20121022203436/@comment-5267262-20121024005451

Largely I had accepted by the end of arrival that something new and massive is the only way left to solve the reaper problem. So I never really cared that the crucible/catalyst was "Deux Ex Machina" because how else were we supposed to do it? Suddenly appear with >3 times as many fleets as the reapers had, well reapers? That is not going to happen. The whole prothean-reaper war also pointed out that fancy weapon technology means squat against reapers so refitting every fleet with a reaper killing gun wont work either. Besides that would probably be a worse way to solve the problem since it they no longer seem like much of a threat at all.