User blog comment:The Milkman/Extended Expectations, Part II/@comment-1441235-20120629062602/@comment-4953843-20120629085256

actually, this opened up a whole new can of worms, come to think of it.

what, then, is the point of reapers chasing you around star systems if the reaper IFF denotes the normandy as a "friendly"?

pulse comes out, reapers investigate, sees friendly IFF... game over?