User blog comment:James12708/Reapers VS. Forerunners VS. Angels from Darksiders VS. Humanity from Halo VS. Council and humanity from Mass Effect VS. Imperium of Man/@comment-50.80.96.33-20130112015201

i read somewhere that when the reapers returned they brought collectors with them i read that when the reapers arrived and surged through a ton of systems they didnt hit every colony that's were the collectors came in and would attack the colonies that the reapers didn't hit i read it either here on this wiki or on wikipedia. That and of of course the reapers are still gonna need a labor force of effectivnes the reapers also may have kept collector ships with them in dark space as a form of guard just in case. To tell you the truth i believe that ever since the first cycle there have been collector pawns the protheans just became the most recent collector pawns for the reapers.