User blog comment:Subject 9/Reasons/@comment-1900300-20110903020721/@comment-1900300-20110904230757

And Captainhu, assuming the relays have been around from the start then Reapers have advanced technology. But then why do they take the technology of every race that they have wiped out? Why it is more covieniant for them that the races develop technology based on mass effect technology? Because every race thinks up new methods and new developments with it. And the Reapers take it and interface it with there own. This is how they have such great technology: by combining the advancements of millions of cultures before us and utilising it for themselves.