User blog comment:Awayorafk/Reaper Logic: What Bioware was TRYING to get across./@comment-84391-20120425020248

The Tower of Babel story kindof makes the Supreme Being look like an an iron fisted tyrant.

The hole in your theory is that Sovereign tried to trigger the cycle before anyone knew about the Crucible. The Shadow Broker seemed to have his suspicions about it, but Redemption and LOTSB occurred before he found anything solid.

And the Rachni wars was about 2000 years before ME1, not 100. They were discovered in 1 CE, and by 300, they were believed extinct.