User blog comment:Awayorafk/Reaper Logic: What Bioware was TRYING to get across./@comment-4888821-20120426132423/@comment-4952006-20120426233025

You do realize that in a matter of months they have a commanding presence with multiple dreadnoughts in every relay connected cluster, they have fully annihilated the batarian fleet/colonies/homeworld, they have “scorched earth” the homeworld of every spacefaring species, they have removed any semblance of a continuity of government from the spacefaring civilizations, they have effectively cut off communication for anyone and isolated anyone without a quantum entanglement communicator, they have decimated the fleets of the two largest organic military powers in the galaxy(humans and turians), they have ground forces on every colonized world building strength like a cybernetic zombie apocalypse. Actually they can ruin everything at once. Also, combining the facts that in the past 3 years since Sovereign attacked the fleets of each spacefaring species are still is not up to full strength, with utterly devastated infrastructure(there is a salarian on the citadel that comments on the galactic economy as a whole not being able to hold off the reapers for more than a few years) as well as the genocide(you need people to build the ships) present wherever the reapers go, and you are presented with the flat inability to even produce an appreciable number of ships. Let alone finding people to crew them when everyone is hiding from the reapers and keeping to small groups. Further, assuming you could breed a sufficient number of krogan to be effective large scale army/navy: 1) you now have an army of krogan infants and children since despite them living for up to 1,000 years there is no evidence that they age rapidly to maturity(you won’t get a fully mature krogan in 3 years unless they are tank bred and Okeer is dead), 2) where are you going to breed/raise all of these new krogan that will be undetected by the reapers and not be destroyed, 3) where are you getting the supplies for this new krogan army when you have no supply lines now that the reapers control the relays and you can’t just put them on the rare garden planet because they consume resources faster than a plague of locusts(cause of krogan rebellions), 4) krogan are the single most violent race in the galaxy and have it in their nature to maim/kill/burn anyone in sight once they start to mature 5), how would you even train them all since by the time they were old enough to be effective you have been consistently losing your experienced pilots and crewmen over the natural course of a prolonged war and even at today’s level of naval technology it takes months to train a new crewman to even the most basic level of competence. Call me a pessimist, we were behind the gun from the moment they got here and there was no situation we could gain more strength, the best we could do was either shore up what we did have(and we did) or keep falling back and prolong the inevitable(as the protheans) did.