Is Completing the Construction of the Nexus a Winning Strategy?

Okay but they leave before ME2 so why would they test it during ME3? By the time they have arrived in Andromeda and finished building the Nexus, the Reapers will have either been defeated or returned to Dark Space.

The Nexus might need to be completed over in Andromeda, simply so that the population can increase should habitable planets be a bit more difficult to colonise.

As well as that, it would act as the Relay back to the Milky Way.

As for if we will ever see the Milky Way again, BioWare could just make it so that eventually the Milky Way will always reach synthesis. It's the next evolutionary step.

Actually they leave after ME2 but before ME3.
ME2 Dealt with the approaching arrival of the Reapers via their lackeys the Collectors.
They were the ones who set about making the Human Reaper.
The Reaper that was and would be the Vanguard for the Reapers arrival (kind of a Locutus of Borg was taken of Picard).
Luckily eliminated by Shepard thus making it 2 Reapers killed by Shepard... I know Joker and the fleets got Sovereign. HOWEVER I believe the Reapers see it the other way.
In their eyes (if they even have them) Shepard united the factions against them and caused the death of Sovereign and then the baby Human Reaper in ME2.
And the ME2 Arrival DLC cut-scene showed their galactic approach.
It is safe to assume they took stock of the signals of the Relays even from that distance.
I mean Harbinger communicated with Shepard DIRECTLY.

Like any species the Reapers fell to that basic instinct of revenge on not just the man who had led to the killing of their hero (Sovereign {why else would he/she/it be a vanguard?}) but on this killers' species.

Thus the Reapers began to pay veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy close attention to the signals of the galaxy after Sovereign's death. How else could they have known exactly which system was SOL when they invaded and made it their primary target?

Sorry guess I should have explained better.
It is a shame I can't communicate what I mean with having to expound every detail.
Feels like I sometimes say one sentence but need to say a galaxy worth to be understood.

I agree that it is true enough that there are other agents that the information could be acquired from THOUGH it would be far less efficient for the Reapers to wait for say TIM to travel to meet them or even for TIM to relay the information to the Reapers. It would just be the most efficient use of their time for the Reapers to 'listen' to the signals sent by the Relays and scanners of ships.

Also while I will admit that Palaven came under siege as well it is clearly not the Reapers' main target. Since the Reapers attacked the Turian colony Taetrus first before even nearing Palaven. While with humanity it is far different in that the Reapers bypassed all other human fleets and colonies and went straight for the SOL system and Earth.

As to the Vanguard being a forward advance of a military armada followed by the main and then the rear there is no denying that nor would I. However that is not all it is. Most vanguard are a detachment of the main force that consists of well trained military veterans and usually consist of recon, scouts, spies, communications specialists, and a workforce whose job it was to remove debris from the vanguards' path.

If the vanguard were just a bunch of raw recruits the military lines would fall apart and failure would be more than inevitable.  The only counter to this is to put someone of authority in command of the vanguard vis a vis a 'hero' from another battle previously fought who would command the respect and authority necessary to lead the vanguard.

As to the word "hero" maybe that is the wrong word or to strong a word. Many vanguard lines leaders usually if they have been through many successful campaigns of battle gain the respect of their forces. Maybe Sovereign did something in that general department that made the other Reapers see him as the one best to lead them through enterance into the next cycle. Sovereign himself says that each Reaper is a Nation unto themselves.  The term Nation can apply may ways but here I believe Sovereign may have been being quite literal. He is comprised of a multitude of his parent species that the Reapers used their lackeys back then (cough*Keepers*cough) to turn him into his current Reaper state. And thus his successful transformation grants him celeberity, general, honorary,.... hero status? It was to this I reffered.

Also I have to ask but could you explain why Humanity has a more powerful military than the Salarians and the Asari? Is there not a treaty or some piece of regulation that limits the military size of humanity?

Nevertheless be it as it may.
To Each Our Own.

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I really doubt that Bio will ever go back to the MW. There are so many stories that can be told in the Helius cluster and in the AG per se.

One item that comes to mind if the completed Nexus is a MR. It means we have knowledge and understanding of Reaper Tech. So, why not also their FTL drive?

Why stop there?

Yeah, God-Shepherd could send some reinforcements. To conquer a galaxy or two. Are serious people?

Or it just spits us out into the milky way somewhere. The problem with that is with no quick way back you would be stuck in the milky way

Obviously a lot of people care.  They care about Shepard, about how MEA lines up with the trilogy and about general continuity.  You don't and that's great but understand that lots of people are invested.

How one can read it wrong? It's not Nexus, Culture Center will be expanded to include info on new species in the Covenant.

And thus the book confirms it.
... well they see not just listen but still confirmed.