Why didn't the reapers go to andromeda?

Programmed or not, I felt by the end of the trilogy, the Reapers had developed a seriously unhealthy obsession with Shepard.

Oh God you have no idea.

I agree. But again, it seems the actual radius of the Mass Relays is largely exclusive to the Milky Way. Based on what we know, Reapers just hang out in Dark Space, which just appears to be the region that's outside of the Milky Way. There's never been any indications that they may be elsewhere. That's not to say that there couldn't be a derelict Reaper or two in Andromeda. Of course, BioWare has been rather adamant that we aren't going to see any Reapers in MEA.

Boring, yeah, but they also wouldn't be able to 'cover it all' in the time from there creation. They only move at 30 light years a day. Not thousands. And your talking about 100 billion galaxies we can see now with telescopes, not the actual multiple hundreds to trillions of them that are actually out there.

Plus they operate entirely on tricking up and coming species to follow a very specific path in technology so they're more predictable and only allow 50k years worth of that evolution to continue so they don't over step there grand design. They would have to setup relays, a citadel, after wiping out whatever is already there 'if' they even can, in every galaxy and would have to help out each galaxy every cycle before each galaxy had enough reapers to self sustain.

That's such a load of unknowns I can't see AI programmed to just deal with the Milky Way to even bother with it.

But ultimately, fuck that would be boring as shiiiit to deal with for every Mass Effect. So tired of that level of BS being used as bad guys. BioWare had to keep ramping things up more and more. Glad MEA is going a more sensible route story wise. Hope Dragon Age eventually does that cause holy shit that's going into BS territory real quick.

Yeah that's kinda my point, that's a butt ton of time if they're just moving in a straight line ignoring other galaxies lol. They gadda make sure there 'back before the 50k marks' up. Little pinch of 100 years to wipe out the Milky Way once it gets started. Not to mention each galaxy would be completely new. No Relays, no Citadel to shut down a whole galaxy whos used to using your relay system + all the information on said civilizations to use in wiping them out...

Personally, as much as I'm not much of a Reaper fan in general, and just based off all the stuff we learned in ME3 I find it extremely unlikely they would even consider the idea of branching out (there programming and all that). But I'd find it pretty damn hilarious IF we did find out that way back when they did the first reaping they sent a few of their kind to scout out Andromeda and got trashed by whatever was/made the Remnants and opted to stick to the Milky Way.

Like antes. The 2 they sent never came back so they just... decided never to try again.

Do you even mass effect? Reapers were created to solve a milky way problem, not to conquer the universe

When Shepard queries how the intelligence defeated the Leviathan, Leviathan responds:



Considering that cosmos = universe =/= galaxy begs the question as to how the intelligence expected to drawn data from life in the universe just by limiting his army to the galaxy... but clearly this says the Reapers themselves are limited to the galaxy. We shouldn't be seeing them in Andromeda.

They had no knowledge of it.

I think the reason Andromeda isn't overrun by synthetics is is a double-edged sword. The reapers doesn't come and reset their technology-- but, they don't have Mass Relays either. Throughout history, we've seen that isolation is never good for technological advancements.

Thus, we can assume that the races of the Heleus Cluster has developed far more slowly. From what we can see from their weapon technology, they've just reached the level that "requires" a reaper intervention. 

For all we know, the reapers might have planned to take a detour to Andromeda before going back to bed in dark space.

Humoristic: V1 software of Catalist was only compatible with Milky Way. V2 was supposed to come soon™ and to support Andromeda but Shepard blowed all it up before.

I'm guessing it's because the Catalyst's ReaperOS runs on a derivative of Windows Vista and has only a couple gigabytes of RAM. If you want harvesting of the Magellanic Clouds, let alone the rest of the Local Group, you'd need at least Windows 8.1 and about eight gigs of RAM.