User blog comment:James12708/Reapers VS. Forerunners VS. Angels from Darksiders VS. Humanity from Halo VS. Council and humanity from Mass Effect VS. Imperium of Man/@comment-50.80.96.33-20130111063144/@comment-50.80.96.33-20130112020812

forget if the flood was mentioned what i want to know is how did they get free and spread to threatning point also this guy is right the collectors are a part of the reaper faction on top of that it would only make sense that the reapers would keep some spare collectors with them tons of people on the bioware social page agree with the whole reapers keeping spare collectors theory.