User blog comment:Legionwrex/I figured out how many Reapers there are!/@comment-78.8.153.41-20131015104752/@comment-106.51.28.40-20160726101746

Simply because they didn't have enough time to do that. I'm sure given time a full intact reaper like that would have been perfect for studying. But they simply just did not have enough time to either study that and reverse engineer a weapon, or salvage that into a warship.