Did Reaper harvest include other galaxies?

@Neizd87 

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Neizd87  wrote:

This does create slight plot hole tho, right? I mean, the arks can't possibly have non-reaper tech base, whole galaxy technology is reaper based as stated in ME trilogy. The initiative didn't have enough time OR resources to develop a new drive core from nothing (were too poor to even do anything until the mysterious benefactor showed up). It had to base on tech left by reapers for other races to ascend lore-wise or it would take them tens of years to develop new and unique drive. It could be built upon reaper tech as in upgrading it but that still makes a plot hole, because wouldn't the reapers have issue with the races they came to harvest to escape like that to another galaxy that is outside their reach? Again, this makes no sense.

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It is not Reaper technology that the Arks use.
Reaper technology is what the Reaper use, all other tech is only based on Reaper tech, but was developed by the individual races.

That still is an engineering masterpiece, and so it is completely possible that good engineers could simply advance existing, self developed technology.

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Neizd87  wrote:

When the arks reach the new galaxy, the technological advancement of Kett or Angara isn't either below or above what the arks have. This would mean that a similar control had existed in that galaxy as well.

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The reason for Kett and Angara being on the same level of evolution than the Milky Way races is that the game only can work that way. 😉

But there is no indicator of when a biological civilization will develop.
The fact that the Angara and the Kett are at the same level (at least the Kett in this part of Andromeda) only suggests that their evolution began at about the same time as the evolution of the Milky Way races, but it is by no means an indication for the existence of a similar "controlling" element in the Andromeda galaxy.

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@Neizd87  wrote:
We also know the fact that Reaper numbers had been enough to "darken the sky of every world' to quote the game. However, each cycle ended with birth of new Reaper and given their numbers that would mean thousands of 50 000 years cycles. That would make Leviathan to be old enough to be 50 000 000 years old at least (which gives us exactly 1000 Reapers) so quite impossible number of years unless we account for harvests happening in places outside Milky Way

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The Leviathan that spoke to Shepard referred tho himself as the "progeny" of the original Leviathan race.

He also only referred to "The Galaxy" in his speech, that on the other hand means that they most probably programed the AI (there is really no such thing as free will of the reapers, just the programing of an AI that controls them.) to solve the "problem" inside our Galaxy.

Furthermore, our Galaxy is 13 510 000 000 Billion years old, that is enough time for over 270000 cycles.

Edit: Typo