User blog comment:Mike Gilbert/Do you think the Reapers should keep their powers after Synthesis?/@comment-26516989-20130515224034/@comment-72.49.149.251-20130517003111

First, um. . . mam? I'm not saying it had them in cages somewhere and was opening them up, I was just saying it might be sending out inaudible pulses out to guide the mindless drones to their destination in waves like a laser designator for a missile. In regards to your material idea, I think you might be completely right! Before that Cerberus employee went all "Shining", he mentioned how a Dr. Chandrana was completely obsessed with staring into a petri dish of "dead" (see "dormant") nanites, saying he was "listening" to them. Whether or not the downed Reaper was transmitting to them is up to anyone's guess unless they act like cells in the metal frame of the beast and just do what they were programmed to do.