Why are there no Reapers in Andromeda?

The most logical reason is the Reapers were only created for the Milky Way, with the Milky Way in mind, by species in the Milky Way. it is clear they do not engage in any critical thinking skills and are essentially operating to their programming because if they thought about the logic they used, given the evidence presented in the trilogy, they would determine they were...being stupid.

However, I often did think it would be funny if the Reapers did make periodic sweeps through the Andromeda Galaxy to. Say, every 25000 years they hit the MW and then the next 25000 they hit Andromeda. Might explain why everything seems so dang primitive.

Not only that but from some of the marketing I get the feeling, that, at least for the Helios Cluster three has been some sort of event recently which has reset the technological map in the area.  A mass extinction of some sort or technological upheavel. 

This can not go anywhere good.

Abandon thread



Nothing personal, I have just seen this topic to many times,and it always end in stalemate. Good luck.

I don't know, but as the saying goes, I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth.

Because there was no threat posed by anything in the andromeda galaxy, so they had no reason to go to the andromeda galaxy.

There might be, it's a big galaxy after all. This might be where they go between harvests.

Reapers are involved with Milky Way's civilizations only

Reapers chilling in one of the nearby dwarf galaxies could make sense.

Maybe you will hate this idea but here it is for your hate:

Maybe the Reapers were native to the Andromeda galaxy....
They had a war against an enemy greater than them and they lost and fled to the milky way galaxy.

Which they then used the Milky-Way as a petri-dish to try and find a way to overcome their enemy.
However such experiments were slow and took way too long and failed a lot leading to culling the galaxy and erasing the evidence.

After which they had to start over which would take time a lot of time. Since their experiments were on the local species.
Having to start from scratch a lot led to not being able to increase their numbers as fast as they would have liked.

During the millions and millions of years of these experiments they mutated into the beings that we all know and love.
That explains the harvesting of species into new reapers: a failing attempt to increase their numbers sufficiently for another war.
So that when they were strong enough they could go back and beat the foe that had caused them to flee in the first place.

A foe that when we get to Andromeda we will all come to know has also mutated, changed, died-out and transcended but will be seen as a race that simply seemed to disappear.
The Khett are their devoted followers who have watched over their technology since their disappearance.
A race of beings that we will encounter a few straggler survivors of that we will come to call the Remnant.

Granted.
If you believe anything that DLC actually revealed.

Reapers are SOFTWARE controlled by an AI - created by the Leviathans who are Milky Way species. They couldn't give two farts about Andromeda.

Okay. And?