User blog comment:Arbington/ME3 Theories/@comment-1462101-20100629145004

That is a very well though out strategy and one that is certainly plausible. However, think about how many reapers we saw at the end of ME2. For one, we have no idea how long it will take the reapers to actually reach the Milky Way, perhaps ME3 will take nearly 10 years in the future for all we know, perhaps it takes that long. However if there are indeed a couple thousand reapers, there is no way that the Citadel Races could muster a couple thousand frigate sized ships each with a Mass Effect Core. I certainly love the idea that you have here and its way above my head science wise, but the Reapers will not just allow a bunch of frigates to crash into them. During the battle with Sovereign, he tore several Alliance ships to pieces. Makes sense but I still see no way in which a Reaper army is going to be taken down by the Citadel Forces. Do I think that Shepard will find some crazy plot twisting method to defeat them? Of course. But obviously, they do not have the means as of yet to even put a dent in some of these reapers.