User blog comment:RayShepp654/How to defeat the Reapers Theories/@comment-217683-20101028230139/@comment-2174252-20101029031421

OK then, where were all the other Alliance ships? And what were they doing when the whole galactic civilization was on the brink of being exterminated?

The impression I received from the final cut scenes is that most of the fleet was there and the developers tried to convey that feeling of epic battle, but they could not depict every ship for obvious reasons. The same reasons they could not depict every Reaper in the final scene of ME2. Further, I saw a lot more than eight ships being destroyed even though Shepard only mentions eight later in ME2. But, as I said it’s just my take from the final cut scenes.

But, can we at least agree that the galaxy is at a great disadvantage against the Reapers?