User blog:Mexican215/The New Enemy of The Mass Effect Universe

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS AND IS INCOMPLETE AS LONG AS YOU CAN READ THIS STATEMENT

For those who were not satisfied in the amount of reapers encountered throughout the franchise and also with the plot twist that destroys the mystery of the reapers motives. I am attempting to create a very good idea for bioware to use for the continuation of the franchise. Now how to save the reapers without changing the story because as far as we know the godchild is the sole creator and controller of the reapers. I know im not the only one that was disappointed on how the reapers are introduced as being incomprehensible to us and that we could never comprehend their motives in game 1, and than the suspense and anticipation is even heavier with the ending of the second only to be completely shattered by the lazy non sense of the presented motive at the end of the third game which is based on a observation that is proven false if you resolve the geth quarian war.

SO to save the reapers of this i propose WE ALL HELP piece together a deeper and darker backround for them. What ive come up with so far is why the reapers would still be a threat in game 4 and a general idea of what the real reapers are.

Game 4 can play out like the first game, in how the galaxy is in a state of general peace, you go round doing general quests and solving current issues at hand and then rumors of reapers returning start going round, and just like everyone denied their existence in ME1 theyll say how shep took care of them all and deny the threat of their return. as you investigate the rumors you discover that outskirt colonies are being attacked by reapers. you realize that the reapers are acting chaotic and are even fighting amongst themselves. you discover that not all of the reapers were within the galaxy at the time the crucible was used, so were saved from the blast and its effects. So all the self aware reapers that were created from the apex civilizations began acting for themselves.

the catalyst says each self aware reapers awareness was created from the combined memories of the races that created it. Once they were free from the catalsyts control, they became truly self aware of who they were and what they are,  so the nature and history of the species would dictate how that reaper acted with its new freedom. some were destructive by nature and others became corrupted by the eons of servitude but some of the main races that led the fight against the reapers in the many cycles maintained their Sanity along with the other peaceful races that longed for freedom.

The more peaceful reapers would ally up and help against the ones still bent on destruction if you choose to let them. They would help in the fight how you see fit, being used as factories for ship production, defense emplacement, frontlines ect... This part of the game should consist of full scale combat that focuses on ship to ship battles against renegade reapers both in space and in atmosphere. As your forces near victory you get a message from the council that the leviathans have requested for an assembly of all the galaxys' leaders on their planet.

in the assembly the leviathans tell the leaders that they have received an extra-galactic message ordering them to report the status of the galaxy. they explain how they regret that their species past mistakes led to the creation of the reapers and they do not wish to make the decision of whether to reply or not alone, for it will effect everyone in the galaxy for better or worse. they explain that whether they reply or not whoever sent the message will surely be visiting the galaxy to either check on the validity of the report or to investigate why no reply was made.

they also continue to explain that the odds are 50/50 of the senders of the message to be friendly or hostile to the leviathans and the odds are dramatically smaller that they are non hostile towards the rest of the species. They say how they see the safest course of action was to contact everyone to begin fortifying their homeworlds and strengthen their military to prepare for the arrival of extra-galactic forces and advise to make the choice of no reply, so the sender would be forced to send a recon team to investigate. If they turned out to be hostile the recon team would at least stand the best chance of being overcome with minimal casualties.

victory against the renegade reapers could be the closing of ME4 leaving the cliffhanger of what the leviathans want, or the closing can be after the grand assembly leaving the cliffhanger of who sent the message.

TRUE REAPER ORIGIN( untill a better name can be made they will be referred to as simply "TR") TR were born from the energies that created the universe. At first they fed on raw universal energies but as the creatures began to evolve throughout the universe a new energy emanating from the creatures caught their appetite. The TR began feeding on either the positive or negative energies and were forever changed by them. as time passed and the TRs hunger grew they created the leviathans to act as overseers to the various species. As the leviathans enthrall the other creatures they concentrate the populations to a local area so the TR can engorge themselves.

REBUTTAL LIST For those who chose the control ending and say that debunks this whole agenda of their being renegade reapers at large as they would be under sheps control. I say that the moment the catalyst was deleted that the main reaper ships became truly self aware and began writing firewalls to prevent them from being controlled again, however due to the unique control signal created from the energy resulting from shep merging with the crucible he was given complete control of any reaper caught within the blast radius, so any reaper not within the radius was not taken control of and to do so would require another sacrifice for the crucible to send out the same control signal.

AGAIN THIS IS WORK IN PROGRESS IF YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS PLEASE COMMENT