User blog comment:StagedDom19/Missing the Main Problem/@comment-5124348-20120710142656/@comment-4953843-20120710175546

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Codex/The_Reaper_War#The_Miracle_at_Palaven = collectors not effectively extinct.

also, again you weren't paying attention. 1) reaper "eyes" were established weak points. 2) "no interference" falls under the heading "ideal battle conditions" and obviously the war's all but for the organics. wars everywhere rarely are.

i was going to write a longwinded and ultimately pointless reply to the "issues" you raised but i'm just going to summarize with this:

numbers are a matter of perspective. you have a million alliance ships and a million thanix cannons, congratulations you're fighting a hundred billion reapers. obviously the numbers are hyperbole but keeping things such as this in perspective actually solves your ... "problems"... with the trilogy.

this, incidentally, is my tl;dr explanation of tl;dr.