User blog comment:Mike Gilbert/Do you think the Reapers should keep their powers after Synthesis?/@comment-26516989-20130515224034/@comment-204.10.222.10-20130516162058

True, true,a heart still pumps long after the brain is dead and whatnot. Still, the fact that the facility had scions onboard. . . those suckers can't just be slapped-together and hurled at you en-masse alla abominations and husks. You have to implant amps all through the bodily frame, remove the brains from several sentients while they are still in a functioning state and merge them into the back jelly, and take the time to mechanically implant an "amp-rifle" into the frame's right arm. That's a heck of alot more complicated then making folks hurl themselves onto nanite-generating spikes and waiting.