User blog comment:Awayorafk/Reaper Logic: What Bioware was TRYING to get across./@comment-2086180-20120425222954

"They give us technology so we can flourish, but as soon as we go too far, they take it all away." Doesn't Sovereign state that they made the mass relays, etc. so that organic society develops in the way they want it to? From what I've seen of the reaper's actions in the trilogy (not so much dialogue, may not be true[?]) they cultivate then harvest organic civilisations, just before they gain the means to be able to fight back and use them to produce more reapers, then allow less advanced ones to develop for the next cycle for harvest -> Isn't this just self-preservation via mass genocide?

Also, I've noticed a lot of people complaining that the mass relays exploding at the end must destroy the entire galaxy, because there's no evidence otherwise. Isn't the citadel a mass relay? Well, in fact, the central mass relay? If you see this emit the red/blue/green shockwave at the end with no destruction of Earth, let alone the Sol system, it's pretty obvious that the relays overloading won't destroy everything, right?