Forum:Could the thorian species be the template for the reapers?

I'm replaying ME 1 and there's an idea that struck me. The thorian is incredibly old, so I assume a long time ago there was more than just one of them. Also, the thorian is able to control people through spores, lives along time and sleeps for rougly 50,000 years and even calls this "the cycle" it also has face tentacles and if you remove the "arms" that go to the nueral bundles it has a elongated, diagonal shape that end in a head with tentacles. Now let's compare this to reapers. They live incredibly long, come back every 50,000 years as part of a cycle of extiction, control people through a signal (the synthetic verison of a spore if you ask me) have a long, diagonal body that ends in a head with tentacles. I think the reapers were based off of the thorians body, habits and abilities