User blog comment:Legionwrex/I figured out how many Reapers there are!/@comment-4950455-20120801013113/@comment-4950455-20120801191356

I've said in the past that I think the cycle is slowly breaking down, but I also think this is a fairly recent development. It just doesn't seem likely that the Reapers ever took losses significant enough to drastically reduce their forces before now.