User blog comment:The Milkman/Reaper Logic/@comment-4950455-20120423230902/@comment-5124423-20120521171518

The Reapers are not the same synthetics as the Geth. The Reapers ORIGINATE from organics. They could only survive the millenia by being 'stored' in machines. It is actually organics in synthetic form trying to maintain the cycle of balance´.