User blog comment:LDR/Possible Reaper Motive/@comment-58609-20120224031251

I'm partial to the idea of preservation myself-as in, "that which you know as Reapers are your salvation through destruction." Also kind of reminded of the Shivans M.O. from 'FreeSpace,' of erradicating older races so that younger ones are spared the threat of annihilation from those races, only to erradicate those races in turn when they reach a certain point. After all, if life continued on its merry way in the ME setting, with all the ancient races, who's to say that the ones in the present would have the chance to thrive? Existances cut short, but existances nonetheless.