User blog comment:Mike Gilbert/Do you think the Reapers should keep their powers after Synthesis?/@comment-5020188-20130516202702/@comment-72.49.149.251-20130516203849

Might be a bit morbid but, how about eliminating their manipulative functions but keep their Husk-production nanites around to use the myriads dead as supplementary semi-autonomous labor to rebuild the Relays and infrastructure of the still inhabitable worlds. Its awful, messy, and morally un-sound, but it seems to be the quickest way to save the survivors from decades of squaler and factionization. Might even want to continue the practice long after the crisis is over. ..