User blog comment:Legionwrex/I figured out how many Reapers there are!/@comment-173.184.187.182-20190310024804

So I did a little number crunching, assuming a 1 billion age, based on information from Leviathan (accidental creaters of the Reapers), I divided the 1bil by 50thou, got 20thou, now we know that some cycles didn't end with the creation of a Harbinger class reaper, as shown with the Collectors/Prothians, so assume 100 cycles didn't get any reapers period. It is said that they make 3 or 4 destroyer reapers each cycle as well. so the 19900 Harbinger class, plus 4 times the 19900 cycles gives you a grand total of 995000 reapers, 19900 Harbinger class and 975100 Destroyer class. That being said I may be over estiamting how many cycles went without the creation of a Reaper, or there may have been cycles where a Harbinger class was not made, but several Destoryer class were, or vice versa. However a conservative estimate puts it at the above stated 999500 Reapers. They were right there never would be a hope of beating them conventionatily