User blog comment:Elseweyr/Mass reading for best Effect – Introducing the Mass Effect Book Club/@comment-24699512-20140330211518

The 3rd and 4th issues shed some more light on the Arca Monolith. At the end of the 4th issue, Jack states that its a "booby trap," placed there by its creators "to alert them to the presence of advanced species." That sounds very much like the Reaper objective to me, seeing as how they appear at the peak of the galactic civilization and harvest the advanced races but leave the underdeveloped ones alone. I think that statement proves the connection of the artifact to the Reapers and even gives us its origin. If what Jack says is true, and I'm inclined to believe him since he has a special connection with the Monolith after coming into contact with it, then that means the Reapers are its creators. I don't see there being any other group who would be interested in the presence of an advanced species, and if there is such a group other than the Reapers, I don't think they would transform their victims into husk-like creatures who worship the artifact. It feels too much like the Reapers' MO to be anything but them, in my opinion. Thoughts on this?

I was also wondering about Saren's last statement, how he would avenge Desolas. I'm assuming that his animosity towards humans stems from this whole event, yet I fail to see how he could blame humans for this. Was it because Ben pushed Desolas onto the Monolith, thus resulting in his eventual transformation? In the end, Saren had the temple destroyed because he realized how bad the Monolith and the other artifact were, but how does he find fault with humans for what happened? Or did I just misread that part, and Saren simply dislikes humans for the FCW?