User blog comment:RayShepp654/How to defeat the Reapers Theories/@comment-1715766-20101031083110/@comment-2256917-20101031170943

No, you're right; although it is a Reaper (so far as we know). Still the larva warrants no comparison to the fully developed Reaper. According to the Codex, Sovereign (an "adult" Reaper) is "larger than any other ship in any known fleet" and "its spinal-mounted main gun is likely capable of penetrating another dreadnought's kinetic barriers with a single shot." And it must have a mass effect core large enough to render it capable of landing with ease on high-gravity planets (whereas the human larva apparently had no such core at all, or very slightly). So, yes, each of the dozens (or more, for all we know) of Reapers is much more magnificent than the larva. I really don't see how the unprepared and unpreparing forces of the galaxy could take on the Reapers head to head. Which is why Shepard is the ace in the hole.