User blog comment:Arbington/The Next Cycle/@comment-3228423-20120802021014/@comment-5105853-20120804152844

Think about this, as powerful as the yahg/vorcha/raloi species are, the Reapers will process them. For every soldier you have, you will lose two, the one the Reapers took, and his buddy who won't pull the trigger on his friend. The tougher the species fighting the Reapers the tougher the husks fighting with the Reapers will be. And who knows what exactly the Reapers will turn the yahg, vorcha, or raloi into? If it's anything like a Banshee, (which may also be used in the next cycle like the Collectors were) the next cycle may have a harder time than the human/turian/asari/salarian cycle did. There is a lot to consider here. And aren't you forgetting that we haven't even seen any salarian, quarian, elcor, volus, hanar, or drell Reapers yet. And what makes you think that the yahg, vorcha, and raloi, are going to get along with each other, or any other species for that matter, for the next 50,000 years? And who says this cycle won't just create synthetics to try and fight the Reapers instead of doing it themselves? You can see where this is going... 1 of 2 things could happen, the synthetics decide that they don't want to sacrifice themselves to kill the Reapers, and rebel, OR the Reapers present themselves as gods to the synthetics, like Sovereign did to the geth and Saren. While I'm on the topic of Saren, what if he'd have activated the Citadel relay? Granted, he didn't but what's stopping someone from the next cycle getting indoctrinated and activating it. Or better yet, while the Reapers are destroying all trace of their existence after the human/turian/asari/salarian cycle, they could re-activate the signal that tells the keepers to activate the relay.

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