User blog comment:Subject 9/Reapers intrest in Humans/@comment-1900300-20110916181225/@comment-5254951-20130113235655

Actually the Reapers went for Earth first; they only dealt with the Batarians first because THEY were in the way. Hackett says in the beginning of the third game, they jumped from Relay to Relay, straight to Sol, to attack Humanity at their heart... they clearly consider humanity a grave threat, and they weren't just crushing them... they were first and foremost harvesting them... LIKELY to reattempt a creation of a human reaper though that is now impossible to prove. Its obvious that the Reapers have an intense interest in humanity, specifically Shepard as the largest and most powerful Reaper Harbinger ordered Shepard be taken "alive if possible" with Harbinger saying quite clearly "Shepard you could have been useful".. they have a profound interest in not only humanity, but Shepard personally.