User blog comment:Legionwrex/Why Destroy is the worst ending (besides refusal)./@comment-5236409-20120709155811/@comment-127338-20120710135605

I did not say they would have necessarily have to do it... but they would have ability to do it if necessary... We do not need trust, we have ammo... you know.

Reapers can be defeated, that is why they always locked relays, which effectively neutralized all forms of resistence since it crippled galactic civilisation to point where reapers with negligent casualties could pick defending ships one at a time.

Plus... military technology of the galaxy never was on this level... you always had one dominant species that operated virtualy unchallanged. (so they did not have very innovative weaponry)... hell even FTL technology in Prothean cycle was vastly inferior- they were fully dependant on relays (primary and secondary networks)... they could not venture beyond the net. in this cycle ships had own FTLs... slower than relay travel but it did.