Everything Wrong With Mass Effect 3 Redux by GCN

Disagree with me all your like. But us actual arguments not just a single image to say I'm wrong.  I mean you can include images if you want but I'm more interested in your actual argument.

It only becomes illogical and a falllacy if  you look at it from a very narrow perspective.  The Reapers want to prevent war between organics and synthetics but due to fundamental aspects of what each group is this is an impossibility in the long term.  So they settle for a compromise of harvesting all technologically advanced life every 50,000 years. Harvesting them before they get to far advanced in tech to create synthetic life that is capable of wiping them out. So they keep hitting the reset button on a galactic scale each time it reaches a certain point.

Reapers do not care about individual races they care about organic life as a whole and as long as organic life still exists then they have done their job. Particularly because many races wouldn't exist in the first place without Reaper's actions.  Humanity is the result of a long evolutionary path resulting from very specific events taking place. Had another space faring race colonized and build up Earth the chain of events that lead to humanity would be irreversibly altered and we suddenly don't exist as we are now if we exist at all.  Humanity's existence is 100% dependent on the Reapers and without them we never would have existed at all.

When the time comes to harvest the galaxy there is only the harvest. There is no other point and any means to achieve that goal is acceptable to be utilized.  Normally they use the Citadel but due to Prothean interference that option was disabled and so  Sovereign created a plan B and utilized the Geth as a blunt force weapon to force his way onto the Citadel to open the Relay and let the Reapers flow in.  There is no hypocrisy because they are simply going after a goal of harvest and perverse this cycle by any means necessary.

The fact the Quarians even survived the Morning War was thanks to the Reapers. Their Mass Relay Networks are what allowed the Quarians to retreat back into the heavily developed and united and Council and Council Aligned space.  Which again was so developed and connected because of the Mass Relay Networks. Given how far Quarian space is from the other races and given the limitations of space travel even with FTL without the Relays. It would be hundreds of years before the Quarians found another developed race.  And while we do not know for sure what their situation was in terms of resources in the Fleet when they fled Rannoch. But they are clearly heavily dependent on  the other races for supplies and ships.  And entire coming of age ceremony were young Quarians venture outside of the Fleet into the wider galaxy to find something useful or hire themselves out for credits for the Fleet to be able to buy things it needs.  Various conversations with Quarians show how much the Quarians rely on cast off things other races just throw away. They find them and refit or strip them for parts to help the Fleet be maintained.

But the few hundred thousand or so Quarians with only what ever could be loaded onto ships thrown into the void with no one to help around and just what they brought with them to survive. I'd argue that Quarians would slowly die in space long before reaching any planet they could colonize or any other developed planet that could help them.

 I guess the problem here is how successful (or otherwise) it is at selling this as being something that's truly impossible. Like, I get that the game wants us to buy the idea that some fundamental difference between organics and synthetics makes any prospect of coexistence impossible, yet the trilogy sells us the exact opposite idea. What it's really saying is that being sufficiently alien itself makes coexistence impossible. But, that's not something that really applies solely to synthetics then, such as the case with the rachni, and even then it wasn't really because of what people believed.

ME2 starts to pick apart the idea that this rebellion is absolutely doomed by showing us that the geth beyond the Veil were studying organics to understand them better. The funny thing is that the writers decided that instead of the geth simply being a monolithic race of hostiles, a number of them were instead coaxed into actively attacking other parts of the galaxy by the reapers. For a being looking to prevent war between synthetics and organics, it sure tried its damnedest to start one in the "present day" galactic society. What would have happened if Sovereign didn't interfere with the development of the geth, giving them dragon's teeth to impale people and turn them into husks? What if the geth were left alone to be stewards of Rannoch, hoping their creators would come around and learn to accept them? The reapers' interference essentially creates a self-fulfilling prophesy. The writers tried to flesh this out with Leviathan, but we're still just left with more of the same: it all happened in the past on a cycle, you have to believe me. But it was kind of too late. To make it worse, it just raises a bunch of other nagging questions, like what the Leviathan made its thralls do that led to the rise of their own synthetics. It's this interference with development that seems to be the issue, and the reapers seem to share this penchant with the race they originated from.

You say that humanity's existence is 100% dependent on the reapers, but there's no real evidence of that in the trilogy. We don't know much of anything about the thralls of the Leviathan, or the synthetics they created. Whatever conditions exist that various organic races would be "thralls" under some sort of overlord alien race in itself creates a lot of complications. Would these synthetics have spread out across the galaxy to just systematically wipe out everything else? The geth are our only frame of reference as a synthetic collective, and without Sovereign, they sure didn't seem like they were at all interested in doing that. Why would I feel that synthetics from some bygone era would be substantially different? Take the Zha'til. They didn't oppose the Zha because they were being subjugated.  That didn't happen until the reapers hijacked them. The funny thing about this also is that the exact same thing happened with the rachni. It was external meddling that ultimately led to the rachni war. In the end, there's only one true example of a synthetic race that insists on coexistence being impossible, and that's the Intelligence itself.

We know at least that it did the exact same thing in both cycles. Regarding the Metacom war, it's not stated or implied that the reapers had anything to do with them, but we know from Javik's account that the protheans were actually winning. This in itself kind of damages the premise that any conflict would end in organics being eliminated. So I guess the question is whether or not the fact that synthetics might simply be erased from existence in the event of a rebellion is cause for a systematic extermination very few tens of thousands of years. If the Quarians successfully snuffed out the geth, would the galaxy have been any worse off? Its effects would probably not be felt for even hundreds of thousands of years, if ever.

There's no details about where the machines come from. We only know that the protheans were fighting them, but were blindsided by the reapers at the turning point of the war.