User blog comment:James12708/Reapers VS. Forerunners VS. Angels from Darksiders VS. Humanity from Halo VS. Council and humanity from Mass Effect VS. Imperium of Man/@comment-4967682-20130116065115/@comment-4967682-20130123043724


 * Raan did say that. But she also said that the turian military was the strongest in the galaxy. This is supported by the geth war assets saying that they built "almost as many dreadnoughts as the turians". The turians have more than 10,000 ships, that's confirmed.
 * If we're playing that game, then this entire conversation doesn't matter. I can just as easily say "Yeah well [advantage X] wouldn't matter because the ME ships would just go to FTL as soon as they fired". UNSC ships don't do that at any time. If they could, they would've almost certainly have won the war (pop in, fire shots, take out a bunch of Covenant vessels, retreat, repeat).
 * Once again: Independence Day fallacy. And lack of evidence. You have nothing to prove that "hacking" (let's just call it magic) would work on a completely different universe's technology, nor do you have any proof that the geth are dumber than a UNSC AI. Once again, this is a cop-out.
 * First, that came from the codex: "Practical gunnery range is determined by the velocity of the attacker's ordnance and the maneuverability of the target. Beyond a certain range, a small ship's ability to dodge trumps a larger attacker's projectile speed." Cruisers are big ships, and projectiles in ME travel at over 4000 km/s so they have to be very fast to dodge. Second, you're seriously underestimating the GARDIANs; fighters have to fire a ton of projectiles at point blank range to even have a chance of hitting. Also speculation. Nowhere are weak missiles like the Archers shown to be effective and nowhere is it proven that ME shields are weaker than Covenant shields.
 * Speculation, and they're not at that point. I could just as easily say that the Synthesis ending of ME3 (which is basically flat-out stated to usher in a high tech utopia) has the Mass Effect races becoming more advanced than the UNSC.