User blog comment:RayShepp654/How to defeat the Reapers Theories/@comment-217683-20101028230139/@comment-737801-20101029032438

Sorry to jump in here.

Maybe the rest of the Alliance ships were deployed defending key positions with the rest of the Citadel Fleet, on patrol, docked, or just at their assigned stations. There are many other places they could have been. Also we know Sovereign locked down the relays, which is part of their invasion plan which was provided by Vigil. The Alliance sent what ships it could to assist, and we know that none of the Alliance's seven dreadnoughts at the time participated in the battle. Well we have no proof that they did anyway. We know for a fact that wasn't the whole Alliance fleet, and if it was, then it would be a very small fleet. Spart already provided the quote from Revelation about the Alliance having 200ish ships and watching that ending many, many times, I can say that there aren't 200 ships seen. Yes I believe the developers wanted to convey the sense of a large battle, but since ME is designed to be a trilogy, so they probably wanted to convey something like the Battle of Yavin, then have the large, even more epic battle, (a.k.a. The Battle of Endor), for Mass Effect 3.

Now that the Citadel Races have access to Reaper tech, and that is probably something that has never happened before, they may have more of a fighting chance. There are many things to consider with advantages.