User blog comment:Dragonzzilla/Describe Your Mass Effect 3 Ending/@comment-1786741-20120903230651/@comment-1786741-20120904030103

@ Oni

Considering the Reapers are essentially tools of the Catalyst, even though they have some degree of independence, it wouldn't be an outlandish conclusion to think that eliminating him would have SOME profound affect on the Reapers. Without the Catalyst, the Reapers have no real purpose, the Catalyst created them for the sole purpose of enforcing his solution. But the problem is these are all just theories, we have no real way of knowing unless Bioware addresses them. The Reapers COULD remain relatively unaffected if the Catalyst was destroyed or the other way around. Both are equally valid theories.