User blog comment:Legionwrex/I figured out how many Reapers there are!/@comment-4953843-20120801020755/@comment-2076032-20120801043907

Some of you seem to be failing to acknowledge that one Reaper, Sovereign, took multiple fleets to destroy (and they got lucky), and not before wiping out a vast array of those ships, including their crews. Even if just one dreadnought has a crew of at least a thousand, that's a thousand people dead with one hit. Considering their power, even just a dozen such Reapers would be able to do untold devastation on even trillions of life forms. And they wouldn't need to be on ships. People are underrating the capabilities of the Reapers when they assume that we should be able to defeat them conventionally, and with any kind of ease.