Why are there no Reapers in Andromeda?

I love Sovereign's speech too much to rationally dislike that scene but I always kind of felt the same -- he's just a typical powerful bad guy. I still think the moment is amazing because of the revelation that there are so many Reapers and the whole world as we know it is part of their machine.

The arrogant tone of his dialogue always struck me as a bit silly though but I ran with it all the way. I just thought that the idea of Reapers being so larger-than-life that we're just ants that get squashed by them in the Milky Way as part of their routine was way more awe-inspiring than when you learn that Reapers actually originated from the Milky Way in some water-planet where Leviathans built an AI that plays god and is too dumb to realize he's solving a nonexistent problem, and then we have to help him as if Reapers are actually noble, was a twist so bad it ruined the premise of Mass Effect retroactively. It kills the lovecraftian concept about levels of existence where the Reapers are about as advanced in their evolution as humans are to animals. When the Catalyst tells you he's an AI in as much as we are just animals it doesn't feel that convincing. You're still just concerned that he's an insane AI that can't see his own logical fallacy like the terrible writer that wrote his dialogue.

On a high level I think the point the Reapers make narratively in ME1 is to ponder "what happens the further we get out in space" cue lovecraftian horror: the idea that the more we study the realm outside the boundaries of humanity; the cosmos, the more we only discover how indifferent and cruel the world is in a larger perspective and you could take it even further and probably say that there's organics much larger than Reapers somewhere out there that make the Reapers insignificant -- had they left the Reapers unexplained you could even ponder if Reapers harvested us to fight their own life-threatening menace and the story would've been awesome because our story was about us uniting as human-sized and physiological species against an unstoppable larger-than-us force. But instead all we got was a shrinking sense of scope in the end that made everything feel lame.

You didn't like the Trilogy then? 

I caught that.  I was more expanding on that idea rather than giving counterpoint.  

Leviathan said the same.  However, what can actually be concluded is that a) the Leviathans BELIEVED it to be true and the Catalyst was programmed by the Leviathans to believe it is true (and took action based on its programming).  None of that makes it true or inevitable.  It doesn't mean anyone is lying but it also doesn't mean they're correct.  Honestly, from my first trilogy playthrough I saw the arguments as flawed.  I believe ME:A is going to end up proving that the Leviathan, the Catalyst and the Reapers were incorrect.

Option 3 still isn't a foregone conclusion even without synthetics wiping out organics.  Races die.  At the rate we're going, the human race is probably going to become extinct.  If that happens, it shows that synthetic rebellions are not a requirement for extinction of an organic race.

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4) The "catalyst" was lying. The whole "preservation / inevitability of extinction" story is intended to convince Shepard that they serve an actually important purpose. The Reaper intelligence characterizes the Reapers as just following their programming, so we underestimate them as simple machines. All of this is intended to open Shepard up mentally to "other solutions" than destroying the Reapers.

In reality there is no purpose for the harvest other than Reaper reproduction. It simultaneously weeds out the most important organic threats, and so the harvest ensures the Reapers stay the top dogs in the galaxy, and no one can threaten their position of power.

You want to know what the Reapers are really like? Listen to Sovereign or Harbinger. Not that lying thing at the end of ME3.

Anyway when you think about it it's doesn't matter since Shepard stopped all the reapers. The Arks goes to Andromeda but while Arks are travelling reapers are stopped and it's all over so no problem here for me.

Well, whatever it is, I just wish they tell us how organic civilization still exists in the Andromeda galaxy, and doesn't seem that advanced.
Maybe the answer is simple, lack of resources. But I wish something more.

Maybe just an allusion to the Catalyst being wrong, or something along those lines.

As I mentioned before, if they don't at least mention this, or another solution, and assuming the Catalyst was right, every galaxy we visit in this franchise will have to deal with this synthetics vs organics evolution.

Why are people always assuming the catalyst was right?

In my opinion it's a thousand times more likely that the embodiment of the intelligence of all Reapers is a lying SOAB.

Oh well.

As I see it is was written to believe it was right. Just as TIM believes that he is right and just as the Dalatrass believes she is right.

Which is why they definitely had to be destroyed. 

While it hasn't had the cycles, it's possible spacefaring civilizations haven't been around as long. The milky way did have a few billion years head start. 

I liked multiplayer fine, but I never got what the fuss was about. For me, the best thing about it was finally getting a proper arena for Shepard to train in.