Reapers in Andromeda

I concur. But what would happen if the Reapers knew the Initiative were travelling to Andromeda? Do you think they would follow them?

It would depend on their programming, personally I doubt it because they were created to solve the AI problem in the Milky Way.  The Reapers felt they had the perfect solution until Humanity screwed it up, for they would go to the Citadel shut down the relays after making all species completely reliant on them so they wouldn't develop other technology that could allow species to go to other galaxies.

Except that people who know about them are demonstrating an ability to travel to a new galaxy in a mere few hundred years. That means thousands of years to develop their own technology outside of Reaper influence, and with the enormous advantage of using element zero tech as a starting point.

With 49000 years or so to work on the problem, they could end up coming back before the next harvest cycle with a lot of surprising new technology that far exceeds the level artifical maintained by the Reapers in the Milky Way. I think the Reapers would feel the need to respond.

I don't see why they would restrict themselves to just the Milky Way. It would make perfect sense to me for the Reapers to have branched out to other galaxies.

The reapers won't come because it likely won't benefit the game or profits or the story. Also, if the reapers come it nullifies the endings. They were either destroyed, controlled or turned to friendlies via synthesis based on the choices given. If they come to milkyway then that changes the endings because with synthesis they should be happy in their perfect utopia, with destroy and control they have no choice where they could come.

I think it adds more to the whole new direction bioware were taking while developing the game.

I don't care whether or not they were able to do so or not or had any desire to do so, I'd rather not fight Reapers or their minions in ME games centered in the Andromeda Galaxy. I already spent 3 games fighting them and dealt with them at the end of ME3. I want to fight new species like the Kett or whatever species took out the Jardaan and the Remnant or whatever species sent the Scourge if it wasn't a defense mechanism by a friendly species that went wrong.

They wouldn't be able to search and cull 100 billion galaxies or far more than that (considering that's only how many our technology of today estimates exist) in 50,000 years.  Especially when Liara says in game that it took several centuries to wipe out the Protheans.  Assuming they can cull a galaxy in 200 years, which is frankly being conservative, it would take them 20 trillion years to cull the universe without even factoring any travel time in.  So... no.  I suppose that's assuming there is organic life that is creating synthetic life in every single galaxy but if they were really concerned with the entire universe, that would require them to constantly be cycling every single galaxy to check.  I don't really know how they would just KNOW where life is during each cycle and they would have no way of knowing if one galaxy from the last cycle hasn't sprung up organic life that has become advanced the next cycle.  So they would have to constantly be checking to see if there is life and if they have synthetic creations etc.  That's quite a bit of legwork to cycle back to the Milky Way every 50,000 years.

Also, when the Leviathan race created the reapers however many millions of years prior to our ME timeline I'm sure they didn't really care about the rest of the universe and were concerned with what was going on right there in their own galaxy.  Which is what they did care about and what they did.  Assuming they even knew that the Milky Way and Andromeda would at some point in the future collide, I don't think they really cared at that point.  They wanted something to fix the issue they faced at that moment.  They didn't even want to be wiped out.


To put it in more perspective, the Reapers would have to search and wipe out 2 million galaxies PER YEAR to make it back to the Milky Way on time for their scheduled annihilation.

I've been saying this ever since Andromeda was announced.

The Reapers kinda showed how many f*cks they gave about what the Leviathans wanted when they started mulching them.

Oh, this thread takes me back to my very first post on these boards. The nostalgia...

Note: There were a lot of unknowns still in these days which are answered today. So today we can say with certainty, the quetion how we go to Andromeda is answered with the ODSY drive which makes no sense. The question as to why we go never really got answered at all (I still don't quite know why Garson thought this was a particularly good idea when she started) and the question as to why it's not mentioned and how the catalyst/the reapers could possibly ignore the implications of the AI is still a mystery as well. So, in summary ... the whole thing was, is and remains a hot mess.