User blog comment:Tiredman2/Mass Effect Plot Holes and Contradictions/@comment-1679409-20120826182837/@comment-95.241.73.147-20120826205803

Not really that specjal. It's just that it's the human fleet that took down Sovereign. For that reason, the reapers see us as the dominant species of the cycle. They apparently had better reasons in the early script (dark energy, aging stars etc.), but now it's just because of Shepard's epicness, which impressed even the reapers.