User blog comment:SolitaryReaper/Shepard in Javik's position/@comment-5267262-20120726225450/@comment-67.142.172.24-20120727052025

I'm not sure the "The vorcha, yagh, and raloi already know of the Reapers existence and they have 50,000 years to prepare so they will win no matter what" argument really makes much sense.

I always thought the Reapers based the time of their invasion on the races of the current cycle reaching a certain level of technology, which just so happens to take around 50,000 years, not that they just return every 50,000 years.

If this is indeed the case, the Reapers could return as early as a few hundred years, or even earlier, making it so that those three races alone would have to defend against an entire invasion without very much time to prepare.