User blog comment:Arbington/ME3 Theories/@comment-1462101-20100629020515

But let me tell you, I have a really good feeling that we won't have any new squad-mates in ME3, just the combination of the ones from the first two games. At least I hope so. But if you consider the odds, one serious question needs to remain. How will the galaxy actually manage to take on the Reapers? Even if every army from Citadel Space to the Terminus Systems joined forces (which is highly unlikely), how in the world would they actually stand a chance against a couple thousand reapers? There has to be some sort of twist about how to beat the reapers. And that twist might actually lie with our good old friends the Protheans. They left the Conduit behind so that future generations could fight the reapers, so what's to say that they didn't leave anything else? The only problem with that theory is that the Reapers created all of the technology used by the cycle's victims. That means that Shepard and his allies will have to create something that isn't based on Reaper technology to beat the Reapers.