User blog comment:The Milkman/Reaper Logic/@comment-4951512-20120424134043

Yes there are multiple logic flaws with the reapers motivations in this and the "other" ending where they are actually trying to save the galaxy. the big problem i noticed is that it is mentioned multiple times that the mass effect universe covers only 1% of the galaxy... Which means that the other 99% has to deal with either synthetic overlords or the whole galactic depletion of the "ozone layer" as it were. I like them better when I thought of them as oppresive farmers... subjugating the known galaxy to ensure that noone can ever stand up to them, and harvesting us to replinish their own supplys... but then you have to ask why they reproduce, and why do they hybernate during that cycle... It must suck to be the biggest baddest mamma-jammas in the universe only to have a cycle that is limmited to sleep and destroy. They are kind of like Marvel Comics' Galactus... near omnipotent being who does nothing but eat... forever... boring, no thanks. He kinda even looks like a human reaper.