User blog comment:RayShepp654/How to defeat the Reapers Theories/@comment-1221773-20101031021231/@comment-1221773-20101031055705

@Spart - I'm talking about the Reapers using their lasers and mass accelerators and what-have-you. They can scorch the Citadel clean, and indoctrinate or slaughter the rest with a husk army. But you've got to give the Reapers some credit, we don't know everything they will do.

@Lancer - That's what we call the myth of the hyper-competent government. The whole Reaper cover-up doesn't exactly illustrate that the Council is worried about a second attack and taking precautions.