User blog comment:Awayorafk/Reaper Logic: What Bioware was TRYING to get across./@comment-4888821-20120426125757/@comment-4953843-20120426233149

"a matter of time" still translates into centuries, galactic scale. you forget the galaxy's still a big place FTL or not.

no. conventional warfare never had a chance of defeating the reapers. hackett already surmised as much at the beginning of the damn game, which is why we spent the rest of it assembling deus ex machinae and stuff.