How advanced are the reapers?

My bad for not replying earlier.

I did not mention the one Harper found because I've never read any of the comics. From what I remember it was never mentioned at all in the trilogy.

It was dumb luck this cycle had any warning at all. Take away the altered signal from the protheans, this cycle would have been harvested long before Shepard showed up. What appears to be a repetitive thing is all previous civilizations found the plans for the crucible after the reapers showed up. What's surprising is none of those previous civilizations thought about using a time capsule like t'soni used for the next cycle to find. Somehow the next cycle built and used the crucible before the reapers showed up. They had enough time to add whatever to the crucible plans yet couldn't have a better means for the next cycle to find before the reapers showed up? I believe it was you that started the bad writing theory(bwt) on the old forum. Would that be applied to what I posted?

Are the reapers advanced? No. How long did it take thing to decide to harvest Leviathan? Where did it get the technology for building a reaper with such firepower and defenses? Is it possible the lesser species had that technology? How about building the relay network? Did any of the civilizations have that technology? How much time passed between Leviathan being harvested and the relay network being built? Or rather how many cycles passed before the relays were built? Once the network was completed, all the reapers did was harvest, build another reaper, then repeat.

Let's look at our world today. Look how much we have advanced in the last 100 years. Look at the stuff you remember when you were a child to what that stuff is now. How advanced to you believe we will be in 2183? I would bet today's military would beat the crap out of the Alliance in both land and air. The only exception would be space. Imagine what our military will be like in 2183? How would we fare against the reapers? Unless we have the same firepower as they do in 2183, we would lose. It would not be a stretch to say it's possible we would have advanced enough to beat the reapers. What is surprising in ME is the asari. In the time they discovered the Citadel, it appears they haven't advanced at all. Imagine what advances we would make in that period of time. 

The reapers harvest every 50,000 years. What would happen if it was 100,000 years? Would a species be much more advanced that it would be able to defeat the reapers? What if the harvest is only to prevent other species from kicking reaper a**? The organic vs synthetic conflict is just a cover-up. I know I'm into conspiracy theory territory, but it's just something to give a moment to think about.