User blog:DS21200/What everyone seems to forget...

Having played through the game once now, and having read all the blogs and posts about how bad the ending is, there's something that everyone seems to forget or overlook, and that is how easy it actually is to kill a Reaper, at least according to ME1. Obviously in ME2 and 3 the Alliance keeps telling everyone how they lost a third of their fleet in the battle of the Citadel, "and that was only one Reaper". The thing is though, the Alliance and all the other ships around there didn't actually fight Sovereign at all! If I may recap, Sovereign arrived with a couple of hundred geth ships in Citadel space. Sovereign then flew straight into the Citadel, Saren on the controls closed the arms, and Sovereign never fought anyone anymore. In the meantime the Alliance fleet was fighting it out with the geth ships outside, and that's when they lost a third of their fleet, as well as the Destiny Ascension if you went for that ending. The geth did that, not Sovereign. When Shepard killed off Saren and opened the Citadels arms again, it really did not take long at all, and it did not even take a whole Armada, to kill Sovereign. Remember? Joker flew in, took a couple of shots, and Sovereign was history! Just a few shots. And that was even before the Thanix cannon was installed. In ME2 when they fought the collectors, the Normandy took 2 shots on the massive 2km collectors cruiser and it was gone. Just 2 shots. Yet in ME3 no one seems to be able to kill a Reaper. Why not? They should all have the Thanix cannon by now, or at least all the turian ships should have it, and the Reaper ships, especially the smaller 160m ones, should be gone almost instantly. What's happening here? Did the Alliance lose the ability to fight? Did the turians forget how to use the Thanix cannon that they invented??? Opinions anyone?