User blog comment:Legionwrex/I figured out how many Reapers there are!/@comment-4953843-20120801020755/@comment-1221773-20120801051458

I never said that there being trillions of people in the galaxy was an inconvenience to the Reapers. All the Reapers really have to do is wipe out the galaxy's starships (of which there are obviously far, far fewer than the total number of organics) and they can harvest the galaxy planet by planet with relative impunity.