User blog comment:Subject 9/Reapers intrest in Humans/@comment-1900300-20110916181225

Firstly, the humans had comparable technology to the turians during the First Contact War, as both were based on Prothean technology. Any advancements the turians had would have been due to the shared advancements made in Citadel space, so the humans would soon have access to that too. Also, even if the humans had inferior technology to turians during the First Contact War, doesnt it say a lot to their tactical and military strength that humanity managed to defeat a force of aliens who served as peacekeepers for thousands of years and stand as the most militarily powerful creatures in the galaxy (with the possible exemption of the geth)? The issue the Reapers have with the turians is more due to their culture then their literal technology. While humans constantly strive to advance to the point the other races are alarmed, the turians naturally conservative nature tends to restrain them. They are the last to adopt social and technological change, the do not adapt well to any big change in the socal order and have a metality that many humans consider outdated, since it revolves around imperialism (they seem to never have had the rise of political nationalism we have had, or if you consider the Unification War just that, they crushed it before it could rise), militarism and complete social obidence (almost like they never had the disillusionment with authority we had in the 1970's). That's not nessicarily bad, it is simply qualities the Reapers consider flawed. It really fits into the theme of tolerance and the coperation of cultures which is really the main theme of the series as while the Reapers purge the galaxy of races they deem unworthy, Shepard fights for every race and culture, regardless of there differences and flaws. Also the Reapers interest in humans stems first from Shepard's and the Alliance Fleet's efforts againsts Sovereign. After killing one of their own, the Reapers were sure to consider it appropiate to consider them a viable target. They are more genetically varied then any other species, and thus have a greater potential for a wide range of skills, which interests the Reapers as if they will gain the most from this by combining all these variables. After Shepard killed the human Reaper, the Reapers stopped bothering with this. Yes they see humans as threats now, but they clearly do not hold them in that much esteem, as they are only attacking Earth because it is in the way of their armada and a useful target in dealing damage to the human military, economy and morale. The batarians worlds have already been wiped out before this, which presumably went unnoticed due to the closed of nature of the batarian worlds and the unwillingness of the batarian authoities to ask for help from the Aliance till it was too late. It would be the equivalent of North Korea being attacked by zombies. How would anyone know? on one knows what goes on in there.