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Re: How did the reapers never fail a cycle

I actually loved reading all of that :O made sense to me the whole way.

Your last part reminded me of a story in Mass Effect 1. Im pretty sure there is a planet with a prothean artifact, a big floating ball or something and it revealed a story from an ancient human's perspective. I think it involved him feeling like he was being watched, having a pain in the back of his neck (presumably from a tracking chip) and him seeing a ship in the atmosphere.

I think the chip might have been done by protheans but for some reason i remember picturing the ship he saw as a reaper checking if humans were spacefaring or primitive. Imagine if you were right and he was a human version of a collector and couldnt remember the reapers harvesting them and he was left with his tribe to repopulate :O

Although that would honestly kind of go against the reapers whole thing of a natural cycle of the galaxy if they were manually recycling species. Would be cool though of dinosaurs were actuall an advanced race that the reapers harvested and humans found their fossils :P

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Elena_Chase
Rising Adventurer
5 years ago
I'm happy that you enjoyed the read and that it made sense x)
Yeah, the last part is a crazy thought I got. There are probably a few dozens reasons why it cannot be so x)

I do remember this moment. You activate it with some sigil or whatever Sha'ira gives Shep. Thought if we remember the way Protheans communicated and the fact this communication goes both way (Javik reads Shepard and can speak in the current language used in this cycle while Shep sees some part of the Prothean extinction). We can assume at some point in time Prothean scientist observing humanity incerted a chip or whatever in this human (or collected some data) and received this moment as a "transfer" and somehow stored it (remember Javik memory shard) to further analyse it.
Though the idea of the ship being some kind of Reaper or Reaper scout could be interesting not only because of dinosaurs x) but because if you think of this memory as some Prothean who stored it you kinda have to ask yourself "why would they store such an uninteresting memory ?" well if you have something they do not recognize or understand in their vision that might explain it. They stored it as a reference or some kind of a wanted poster thing or simply just to signify their people a new species was there to be absorbed by their empire. Only realising way too late that they saw the first ship of an invasion.
Plus, if you think of the timing that might be the moment reapers started harvesting Protheans so they might have seen in the Citadel log that Protheans were monitoring Earth and wanted to make sure they could not bring a new species to the fight.