User blog comment:Arbington/If You Hate Vido Santiago, You'll Love This!/@comment-1786741-20120325212029/@comment-899316-20120325234624

Yeah. Imagine if present-day humanity was up against the Reapers. That wouldn't end well. Our feathered friends the raloi were at about present-day humanity's tech level. It was in everybody's best interest for them to sit this one out.

Also, one more thing to consider. If the raloi's plan worked, and everybody lost to the Reapers, the raloi would make it to the next cycle, but starting higher up the tech chain than any other race, and fully comprehending the Reaper threat. The yahg and kirik would probably advance to space-faring stages, and I can imagine the varren doing so as well, given Javik's comments about how the Protheans used the rachni as attack dogs. Maybe some virtual aliens would make it through too, and under raloi leadership, they'd send the Reapers back to whatever black hole they crawled out of come the end of the next cycle.

So, when you think about it, raloi FTW.