Is there anything or anyone that could fully stop a reaper invasion?

Shepard

Colorful explosions

>>15416136
Wrex

>>15416118
Probably any Super Robot

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>>15416118
Yes.

They were pretty slow.

>>15416148
>>15416158
>>15416162
They'd end up indoctrinated.

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>>15416118

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>>15416181
>They'd end up indoctrinated.

Learn your lore, anon.
Indoctrination only works on organics and she's >>15416158 a robot.
Check and mate.

>>15416208
>Make a robot to pilot a bigger robot

Needs to happen more DESU.

>>15416194
Everyone in ME is using railguns and mass drivers. They got that angle covered.

>>15416237
She was't really a pilot of any bigger robots, she simply commanded the earth defense network.

>>15416118
there's more bad mass effect games than good mass effect games

>>15416254
1&2 are good

3 is bad

A is meh.

>>15416327
>1
>good

>>15416118
A Green Robot, a red robot, a blue robot.

>>15416327
Not that guy, but my opinion?

1 is a good RPG and bad shooter.

2 is a bad RPG, but a good shooter.

3 and A are just bad games.

>>15416327
>A
>meh

>>15416136
We'll bang okay?

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>>15416118
They'd all commit suicide after an endless wave of Planet Dance.

The various forces in Macross would probably have the collective firepower required to take them down.
Humanity in Gunbuster already dealt with a similar problem.
Getter absorbs them.
Demonbane is Demonbane.
Aquarion Logos.

>>15416181
You underestimate super robot protagonists.

>>15416118

Most Super Robots.

An angry hivemind.

Buster Machine 7 and the Earth Defense Network.

Demonbane does Demonbane things

Logos erases the concept of "The Reapers"

GL drills them.

Full Posession Shurouga erases them from the Akashic Records.

Latooni learns SPRegen, uses Focus, and kills them using nothing but a Wildwurger and a refuelling station.

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>>15416118

please, a Reaper invasion is barely worth getting out of bed for.

>>15416118
Probably. The codex tells us what it takes to kill a Reaper. Codex/Reapers/Reaper Vulnerabilities says that it takes a minimum of three dreadnoughts' concentrated fire to kill a Reaper, with four being recommended. Codex/Ships and Vehicles/Starships: Dreadnoughts says that a dreadnought's main gun delivers an impact equivalent to 38 kilotons of TNT. Let's assume the number of other, lesser guns that a dreadnought can bring to bear on one target roughly double that amount, and you get only 304 kilotons to kill a Reaper. That's not that much. For comparison, Hiroshima was around twenty kilotons. Modern nuclear bombs go as high as 1.2 megatons. I mean, yes, it's still a very large amount of power, but it's an amount that modern day humans could produce. Various sci-fi settings shouldn't have a problem. The only reason the Reapers weren't bombed all to hell was just because they have good point defense to keep missiles from getting close enough (and in space, "close enough" for a nuke is actually a really small distance, without an atmosphere to conduct the blast nukes don't go far). But if you've got some sort of weapon they can't shoot down, like a beam weapon, they're toast.

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seriously though I got shit to be

AI robots that aren't networked and have self destructive physical safeguards against physical tampering.

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Turn off the console.

>>15416327
1 has not aged well. 2 is better but still a bit clunky. 3 is the best one. Andromeda is garbage.

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>>15416118
LISTEN TO MY SONG!

>>15416118
Wait, but... they were stopped though....

>>15416147
Grunt

>>15416249
Still a neat idea though. I want an action figure sized bot, piloting a human sized bot, piloting a 100 ft tall mecha

>>15416118
teams of basic gundams piloted by mooks could probably take down a destroyer if they coordinate well with each other

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA_BU37pcqo

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>>15416118
100,000 Gunbusters.

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>>15416367
I agree with 1 and 2.
3 took a lot of the lessons learned dumbing 2 down too much and brought back some of those RPG elements, but not too much that it became obtuse inventory management like 1.
It was a fine experience until you got to the betrayal of the ending.
A has all the potential of being a good game, but is hampered by terrible inventory management, terrible space exploration, terrible animation quality, terrible voice acting and a terrible lack of variety in enemies. It's a whole new galaxy and all we get are two new fucking races. And only one that we can actually fuck!

>>15416118
Setsuna post-Trailblazer.

Reapers are gonna get Ai Oboite imasuka'd

>>15417649
>It was a fine experience until you got to the betrayal of the ending.
Pretty much my opinion too. God fucking damn Citadel was a really fun experience, and Javik. Just Javik.

>>15417674
kyun kyun, kyun kyun, watashi no kare wa no piloto

>>15417649
>It was a fine experience until you got to the betrayal of the ending
Absolute delusion.

>>15417649
ME3 multiplayer makes all your previous choices irrelevant.

you can grind away in multi player until you have enough points to unlock green ending.

Wasn't there one Mass Effect fanfic that crosses over with LoGH and Sovereign gets nearly gutted by Empire ships?

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>>15416181
You underestimate the will of Getter Rays

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>>15416118
I've got you covered.

>>15417766
ME3 MP was also the best part of that game though.

>>15416181

How the fuck are they going to indoctrinate anyone when they're all dead before they even know who they're trying to indoctrinate . They can't even do it to the forces of everyone they're fighting.

I seriously don't think you realize just how low tier these pussies are.

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>>15417436
>>15416451
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw58J_NlFPg

>>15416451
Who wouldn't?

>>15417531

Do you want her to come home to you to have a cable plugged into her 15cm frame every night too?

>>15416118
Bydo.

>>15416836

Not to mention the entire Lore setup for the Reapers is that they leave behind enough of the old tech, like the citadel and mass relays that tech advancement follows similar patterns every cycle, which means they can encourage species to become dependent on precisely the types of tech they can counter.

Any setting where hi-tech civs aren't reliand on mass relay tech etc. wouldn't have nearly as many problems wiping them out.

>>15416118
Kira Yamato

>>15416327
I agree, that's why I disdained 2 but loved 1. I hate shooters.

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UNDERSTANDING. Or ELS assimilation if they dont get it

>>15417670
Can UNDERSTANDING be indoctrinated, or are ELS-ified quantum brainwaves too strong?

>>15417649
I just finished my 2nd playthrough of ME3
I didn't want to do the last 2 missions, I just wanted the Citadel DLC to go on forever

>>15418503
If Setsuna's reaction means anything, the ELS are mentally loud as fuck. One would expect indoctrination to be at least slowed.

>>15416118
They generally only invade after they sufficiently rigged the playing field in their favour and it still takes at least a couple of hundreds of years for them to cleanse their relay network. Points towards them having to work with very limited numbers, doesn't it?

>>15418687
Don't forget the fact that each race of a cycle = a possible reaper, which means they're probably hurting from losing so many this cycle even if Shepard went with the denial end.

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>>15416118
She's killed worse.

>>15418470
>>15418503
Wait are you guys discussing if Setsuna + the ELS Forces would win against the Reapers.
Because the Reapers would have no chance.
Even if their tech is more advanced in some aspects, the ELS would just ram one Reapers and assimilate it; broadcasting its data to the rest of the ELS.

Setsuna wouldn't even have to do anything. Plus I doubt whatever electromagnetic waves the Reapers broadcast to incite Indoctrination would affect Setsuna's Quantum brain. I mean Setsuna literally has two brains.

>>15418737
Why does having two brains mean both can't be hijacked?

>ctrl + F
>Kira
>>15418242

Yep, all is well in this thread.

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>>15416836
...the fuck? I'm damn sure Soverign took WAY more than that directly, not even counting any point defense systems. Did somebody misplace a decimal point somewhere?

Hell, lemme check this

Reaper Vulnerabilities:

>In the case of a Reaper capital ship, these kinetic barriers can hold off the firepower of two dreadnoughts simultaneously, but three clearly causes strain, and four typically results in destruction. Weapons designed to maximize heat damage, such as the Thanix series, show better results against the Reapers than pure kinetic impacts.
>Sovereign was destroyed while assuming direct control over Saren. The feedback from Saren's death seemed to entirely overload Sovereign's shields. Current Reapers do not seem to suffer from this design flaw.

And Dreadnoughts:

>Dreadnoughts are kilometer-long capital ships mounting heavy, long-range firepower. They are only deployed for the most vital missions. A dreadnought's power lies in the length of its main gun. Dreadnoughts range from 800 meters to one kilometer long, with a main gun of commensurate length. An 800-meter mass accelerator is capable of accelerating one twenty-kilogram slug to a velocity of 4025 km/s (1.3% the speed of light) every two seconds. Each slug has the kinetic energy of about 38 kilotons of TNT, about two and a half times the energy released by the fission weapon that destroyed Hiroshima.

So a Reaper capital ship can take constant bombardment by two dreadnoughts hitting its shields with 38 kiloton kinetic impact weapons every two seconds, while the shields are strained when bombarded by three dreadnoughts and destroyed when they reach 4 of them firing at once. I need a timing definition of "sustained fire" because as pointed out, Soverign was shrugging off a huge amount of damage and his shields only failed when he ASSUMED DIRECT CONTROL of Saren. Is it over the course of several minutes? Half a minute? Because this has drastic implications on how much their shields can take.

>>15418753
>Weapons designed to maximize heat damage, such as the Thanix series, show better results against the Reapers than pure kinetic impacts.
So any robot with a fire- or beam-type weapon will utterly rape them? Good to know.

>>15418742
Who says it could hijack him in the first place.
Plus he has to be actively near Reapers or Reaper artifacts.
Plus-plus I'm sure being connected to an alien hivemind would hinder any attempts at brainwashing the Reapers could muster before Setsuna tore them apart.

>>15418742
Wouldn't that go like this:

>ELS recieve brainwashing rays
>AH THIS is how these things COMMUNICATE
>FELICITATIONS WE UNDERSTAND YOU

And then they sent those brainwashing rays right back at them, only a whole lot stronger, while physically impaling them for BETTER UNDERSTANDING.

>>15416118
Gunbuster probably

>>15417649
I never bothered playing the single player for 3, but the multiplayer was really fun, main reason I would get Andromeda

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>>15418753
Sovereign was lasting a good deal longer than half a minute over the course of the battle, and even with the geth supporting it there were a lot of ships taking shots at the Reaper.

>The Treaty of Farixen stipulates the amount of dreadnoughts a navy may own, with the turian peacekeeping fleet being allowed the most. As of 2183, the turians had 37 dreadnoughts, the asari had 21, the salarians had 16, and the Alliance had 6 with another under construction. As of 2185, the dreadnought count was 39 turian, 20 asari, 16 salarian, and 8 human. By 2186, humans construct a ninth dreadnought, and the volus have built a single dreadnought of their own. The geth, unbound by the treaty, possess almost as many dreadnoughts as the turians.

Now, going by the Battle of the Citadel: Fifth Fleet probably had and at most two Dreadnoughts fighting Sovereign when it showed up at the end of ME1, with a crapton of other smaller ships. There were at least three Turian dreadnoughts firing upon Sovereign when it tried to enter the Citadel (based on ship size), and their sustained bombardment lasted for about 10 seconds (190 kt each, bringing the total kinetic damage up to 570 kt over that period) before Sovereign plowed straight through one.

When the Alliance's Fifth Fleet arrives, and assuming they save the Council, Sovereign was lasting at minimum 20 seconds of sustained fire (most certainly longer because of Shepard fighting Robot Zombie Saren) from all Alliance ships without the shields failing. I'll be generous and just go for the dreadnought calculations. 2 dreadnoughts, main guns alone = 760 kt without even a dent in their shields. 3 bring it up to 1.14 megatons. Giving the same assumption here >>15416836, that with all their other weapons combined only doubles that amount for each dreadnought, it's 760 kt each, (1.52 megatons for two, 2.28 for three).

So, ballparking it, the minimum Sovereign's shields could take is around a kinetic megaton and still hold.

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>>15416118

Shit, I bet even the Beast would stop them in their tracks. They practically bypass trial-and-error in learning how to use new technologies simply by using the minds of the infected crew. Also they will always win any boarding action unless you blast your own ship to stem the infection.

Don't know how Beast would resist indoctrination, considering a Beast Self is comprised entirely of an infected ship and its former crew. But if the Beast knew how to indoctrinate, they wouldn't need infection beams or Cruise Missiles.

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>>15418833
So... I guess it IS within the capabilities of modern humans to be able to break the shields of Sovereign if we go by the absolute minimum Sovereign's shields can take in ME1. Castle Bravo was a nuke that had a yield of 15 megatons, Tsar Bomba was over 50 (and could theoretically reach as high as 100). Good luck getting the weapons there, and it's still one Reaper among millions of them.

I guess this means Legendary's Godzilla is more durable than the shields of a Reaper.

Though all of this is complicated by the Derelict Reaper, as a majority of it was intact in spite of the weapon that killed it leaving a 37 million year old canyon on a planet light years away as a glancing blow. Plus the Reaper wasn't actually completely dead, even after all that time.

>>15418758
Oh totally. Energy weapons are surprisingly effective in Mass Effect since all their shields are based on stopping kinetic weapons. Throw Mazinger Z at them and you'll be able to take down a capital ship or three easily. Mazinkaiser, Grendizer, and Emperor G could probably take on dozens without breaking a sweat. There is a bit of a risk that comes from the absolutely absurd main gun of theirs though, the relativistic stream of molten alloys that hits at "a significant fraction of the speed of light" (assuming a large deal higher than the 1.4% c slugs the Alliance use hit at).

The biggest problem comes in how the Reapers are absurdly numerous, you won't be facing just a handful if they're invading Earth.

>>15418857
who?

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>>15416118
THESE INVADERS WILL NOT BACK DOWN! DIPLOMACY HAS FAILED! ENGAGING UNLIMITED FORM!

TEAM, UNITE UP!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_moHXjH7pc

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>>15416118
Any R-series fighter, Any ships from the Styx onwards from the Fire-Leo or eventual Refined-Vasteel-Replica series, ANYTHING involved in the Bacterian wars such as the T-301

For a less one-sidedly unfair fight, variable-fighters and capital vessels from the frontier-era onwards should be able to give it a good scrap.

Also, Technically, also if all the reapers were to land on a planet, you only need to get Samus Aran to take a short vacation there, and in about three hours there will be nothing left. However this will cost you the planet and she'll probably bill you for her time on top of it.

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>>15418725
>>15418893
>"THERE'S ANOTHER SHEPARD?"
>"WHERE DID SHE GET THAT ARMOR?"
>"IS ANYONE ELSE SEEING A TIMER?"
>"HOOOOOOONK"

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>>15418857
Basically it would be one infection beam on a reaper from knowing how to indoctrinate, which would bring the beast up several notches on the threat meter

Of course then there's always Bydo. Indoctrination would be the reason the Reapers fall more or less instantly, as there's a gigantic field of reaper thought emitting far outwards. Field touches Bydo, Reaper is now Bydo, indoctrination field is now Bydo, mass relay will become a womb-level within hours.

In the spirit of fairness, one should probably just face the reapers with a single Arrowhead

>>15416118
Besides Sheppard?

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>>15416118
RUN
RUN
RUN

>>15418904
>In the spirit of fairness

You mean in the spirit of gunning for the enemy commander of each major sector of war while leaving a trail of near-total destruction for the grunts to follow in after you.

>>15416118
>discount shivans

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>>15418924
Well yes on the first part, just that, um... it actually kinda *IS* the lowly grunt.

>>15418937

During the era of the Arrowhead's debut, I assumed some grunts might be following the trail in one of the trash mob-tier units that were mostly abandoned or on the way out before the chronology of the games began, and ended up constituting the majority of the Bydo's mechanical forces hereafter.

Although, being a Gains pilot, whether current or former, should be worth bragging points.

>>15418878
>Castle Bravo was a nuke that had a yield of 15 megatons, Tsar Bomba was over 50 (and could theoretically reach as high as 100)

The hard part would also be focusing the energy from those nukes into a focused point. Maybe if we dusted off the old plans for casaba howitzers or made some nuclear shaped charges it could work.

>>15418966
During its debut it more or less was the 'super-prototype', except that in a somewhat realistic fashion, it's a culmination of development that stared with the RX project which ran parallel to the Orbit-Fighter project (image fight games) and took forever (much like real aircraft design).

The RX project starts in 2043, and it takes 4 years for a skeleton frame on a bunch of rockets to even be produced. A year later the OF-1 Daedalus is actually used in combat (but those are normal aerospace fighters at first). Fun fact, OF-3 Garudas are capable of ejecting their entire cockpit as a lifepod.

By 2065 production of the R-1 units stops; MMUs (it's implied there was a 'gundam phase' for humanity) took over such space duties. However the project itself is not discontinued, because there's no Anaheim Electronics and Zeonic Industrial to take the government over or whatever the hell happens to tech in that other series. Engines continue to advance with the R-2 units, and the R-3s which mostly have swappable standardized parts with the R-2s.

The R-4 series with "E-unit" is rolled out in 2104, thus introducing non-chemical energy engines to the wider public. Development on the R-5 begins 4 years later with the advent of the low-output asteroid blaster wave cannon. R-5s are NOT sold publicly due to mounting said blasters.

In 2120 a Bydo sample is brought back from an exploration vessel launched in 2102. The R-series gets selected for development into anti-bydo weaponry so general operation production is halted; from 2122 onwards they'll be military craft. That fragment will fuck up a jupiter lab station soon enough...

The high-output R-7 prototype "evaporates" as a result of trying to fire while docked to the Force prototype. The RX-8 are unmanned testbeds that once completed and stable leads to the R-9 series. The Prototype is completed in 2162, the single squadron of which launched in 2163 for Bydo Mission 1.

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>>15418882

Pic related. Have you played a Homeworld game, by any chance?

Think of the Thing, except it takes over both organics and technology.

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>>15418904

Yeaah, Bydo, are pretty crazy. Tactics just makes being them play like a nightmare.

>>15419047
I love it when shooters have juicy backstories.

>>15417572
I'm now imagining the battle sequence where instead of killing 6 billion space monsters he wrecks all these Reaper warships.

Mass effect (and the reapers) are really low on the sci-fi power level list.

>>15419162
>Think of the Thing, except it takes over both organics and technology.
So, like the Bydo?

>>15416208
Indoctrination might only work on organics, but the Reapers are really fucking persuasive to Machine races. See: Geth. Bamboozled them not once but twice.

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>>15419238

Kinda. The Bydo are waaaaay more terrifying, however, since, given their abilities, they can basically infect anything if they felt like it. The Beast just don't have the kind of hax the Bydo do, and they got beaten by a bunch of miners on top of that. Still, as long as they have contact with space-faring civilization, the Beast can and will spread like wildfire.

Also, unlike the Bydo, the Beast exist only to feed (read: infect). Everything they do, including trying to get on your good side, serves only toward that end. Even the most intelligent of their kind is aware of this and readily gives in to their species' insatiable hunger.

>>15416181
That sound like bullshit
>Can't anything to it and it brainwashes you without trying, so what's the point
>But they still get owned anyways, and can die without colorful explosions
great """"villain""""" guys

>>15418725
SHE
KILLED
A
DIMENSION

>>15419268
Indoctrination takes a while, it's not instantaneous. These guys are just spergs.

>>15416118
Bad writing.

>>15419274

Tell me more. Haven't played much Metroid, but that sounds interesting.

>>15418878
>>Though all of this is complicated by the Derelict Reaper, as a majority of it was intact in spite of the weapon that killed it leaving a 37 million year old canyon on a planet light years away as a glancing blow. Plus the Reaper wasn't actually completely dead, even after all that time.
Man, it infuriates me that they went for that cricible bullshit when they hinted at there being some super weapon to take on the reapers with that, some people said it was just a mass relay that shot something at the reaper but it doesn't make sense since they take control of them and deactivate them when they go about their harvest

>>15419179
>Its time to rape reality
>Again

>>15419288
In Metroid Prime 3 she managed to kill a planet that was a being/a whole other dimension invading her universe, while being infected by said dimension and having her body corrupted enough that her ship didn't recognize her anymore

>>15419317
Maybe they started shutting them off after this happened.

I'm sure their harvest plan went through many iterations.

>>15419302
Prime 2. Dark Aether was basically Pocket-Mirror-Universe Aether, and she basically collapsed it on itself to destroy Dark Aether.

>>15419179
Their story's worse, because it shows they're themselves caught in a nightmare too.

Then they ensure their own initial creation

And then they An Hero to avoid a fate even worse than they

>>15419518
Didn't the Bydo get created to fight those things on Operation Bitter Chocolate? And those asshole turned out to be far more powerful and even used the Bydo themselves to reproduce

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>>15419663
Yes, and that's where shit goes wild.

Remember how the bydo-side fleet is quite clearly *lost* and trying to find A) 'the light' and B) the things it was created to protect?

Now while it wasn't Sol, Humanity was suddenly brutalized in the future by unknowns so horrific that it clearly jumped the godzilla threshold? Unknowns who despite everything, after having ensured there was no military capability left on the worlds they struck (and in fact taking over some of the ecology but becoming strangely harmless after doing so), they simply... disappeared into another dimension (a hell of a clusterfuck stage where you fight everything if you recall)

Remember what that unknown civilization's architecture looks like (and their fighters too)?

Remember how the Bydo are *INCAPABLE* of communicating even with humanity without "I accidentally their technological and biological distinctiveness to our own", to the point where it takes an entire campaign for one of the most lucid Bydo ever to realize "oh fuck, I'm a goddamn Kombiler" and leave earth in peace, even as it's being shot?

Remember where ELSE you saw the solar envoy's bee-things? Think back to the credits from the Amber Eye...

That light they were chasing is the Solar Envoy. The one thing the Bydo *recognize*. The thing they once came from.

>>15419752
I think even The Doctor would have trouble unravelling this one.

Plus wasn't one of the ships from Operation Last Dance sent to the future to put a stop to this, only to discover that completed the damn rollercoaster loops?

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Counter Indoctrination Response Unit.

>If the Citadel Races had only had their biotics sing to the Reapers.

>>15419047
>>15418904
Am I missing some games?
How does the enemy of a shmup have so much backstory outside of getting blown to smithereens by a single ship?

>>15420193
Because IREM was a gift from God himself to us and we squandered it

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>>15419274
Is her hand still available for marriage? She'd fit right in.

>>15420193
Japs love backstory

>>15420193
There are only small bits of directly told story all the way through Delta. It's come Final that the timeline is properly put into perspective, and the story becomes much further detailed. Interestingly this is not done through direct exposition but from the little bits and pieces of the R-Museum, as well as the imagery and stages of the game itself as usual.

The Museum's bits on what each ship was for how/when it came out suddenly start to paint quite the picture. A tiny bit of tell to explain a lot of show.

Now, we always knew you play just one of a larger war effort, just that the enemy is so horrific that every single fighter out there is dealing with these psycho odds, with equally disgusting stakes as well. But Tactics finally zooms out, and gives the story of ONE of the fleets

Then Tactics 2 happens. You know how in Final they hint several times that the Bydo are the only thing keeping us from from turning around and doing what humanity does very best with all those new weapons?

The space corps fucking splits into civil war as a result of "do we keep using forces or scrap them" after Third Lightning. And it gets worse. We see the results of breakaway factions using that psy-tech we were hot-swapping pilots like ammo for in the W series (the test-tube ones like the Wiseman)... this time to cyber-control fucking Bydo. We see assimilation; many times. We get log entries as to how that part of the war effort is going, and how the fleet is holding on.

And even... we get to see things from the perspective of the Bydo themselves. As some.

So, yes. R-Type was a fucking jewel of storytelling.

>>15419752
I still don't know what is going on in that bydo stage where the human fleet is diving into that grid thing and being dissolved into energy

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>>15416118
The deadliest son of a bitch in space.

>>15420413
Sir Issac Newton?

>>15416118
Gunbuster

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>>15416118
The reapers actually feel like a joke compared to most Sci-Fi armies DESU
Part of what puts them above other races is how they directed their advancement so they can explicit counter them and indoctrination (but that takes time)

>>15420542
yeah Reapers pretty much have three things going for them; numbers, indoctrination(which is pretty broken admittedly), and the fact that they cheat really heavily, even by Evil Precursors standards

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>>15416118
Japan is going to be safe/leveled as fuck once the King of the Monsters decides to kick these annoying mecha-squids off his property.

>>15419274
>>15419341
>>15419505
In Prime Hunters she basically kills a god. Granted she had something specifically designed to kill it, but Samus still took on a galaxy-wiping being near-impervious to damage and murdered the shit out of it.

Hell, in Samus and Joey she saves the universe from getting reset.

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>>15416118
It's not even fair

>>15419752

Shit, I swear that cruiser is using the dreadnought as a god damn Force.

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>>15416118

>>15421182
>>15416247

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>>15416118
>>15418927

You rang?

Freespace ships spit out gigaton-level firepower fairly regularly.

Downside: friggin' Shivans will end up finding a tasty star to devour and then bugger off to whatever subspace realm they're from.

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>>15421359

Alternate hard mode: SD Lucifer.

Unless the Reapers find out how to work subspace jump points, this will be a slow (mind-numbingly snail-pace) but eventual murder by a superdestroyer.

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>>15421359
>>15421366
You kids get off my lawn!

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>>15421374
MAKE ME, OLD MAN!

>>15420395

Quite telling that even a Bydo mind would freak out at the sight of Space Auschwitz. What makes me wonder is why the human and Bydo forces present there seemed to not object to becoming fuel for the aliens.

>>15416181
>They'd end up indoctrinated.
Hot blood is an immunity to indoctrination. Not over direct mind control, but an indoctrination like the method the reapers use in Mass Effect wouldn't work.

>>15422084
For one thing, those aren't aliens...

One Minmay

>>15417483

Legion

>>15422271
or Half a Basara

>>15422355
Someone should edit the clip from the OVA to change all the Meltran's heads into reapers.

>>15419317
>some people said it was just a mass relay that shot something at the reaper

I thought some past species just built a fuckhueg gun, but indoctrinated assholes sabotaged it so they only managed to kill one reaper with it.

>>15420238
This was one of those cases when I picked it up from the book store by sheer curiosity and went back running the next day to buy the rest.
Shit's pretty crazy.

>>15422281
Shepard-Commander

>>15422629
Garrus

>>15422670
Can it wait for a bit? I'm in the middle of some calibrations.

>>15422568
Can't stop once you pop your first invading reality.

>>15417649
>It's a whole new galaxy and all we get are two new fucking races

You do realize the game only takes place in a small part of the galaxy right?

>>15424578

You do realize that's not good right

>>15416118
Steel Dragon Squad.

I also wonder what it'd be like for a Newtype to mind touch a Reaper.

>>15424787

It's not good or bad, it's completely neutral.

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tfw adventures in the Milky Way are over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwP033x4msQ

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>>15416118
That's the plot of GGG Final.

>>15417649
>It was a fine experience until you got to the betrayal of the ending.

It's like you missed the entire part of the game where you Good. You opened this message. This isn't actually asari military command. They're busy tending to what's left of their planet.

So you survived our fight on Thessia. You're not as weak as I thought. But never forget that your best wasn't good enough to stop me. Now an entire planet is dying because you lacked the strength to win. The legend of Shepard needs to be re-written. I hope I'm there for the last chapter. It ends with your death.

-KL

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>Reapers

Literally any race that has access to direct energy weapons is going to rip the Reapers a new asshole

>>15426774
FUCK YOU AND YOUR LUCKY CHARMS YOU FAILURE OF AN EDGELORD

I HOPE YOU GET POISON IVY RASHES ON YOUR DICK NEXT TIME YOU TRY TO PISS ON A HOUSE PLANT

>>15426774
>>15428110
>He is easy as fuck
>Sents you: HAHAH THIS ISENT ASARI SOLDIER GIRLS YOU ARE MORE TOUGHED THAT I THOUGH, NOTHING PERSONAL KIDDO!

>>15417615
I really like this, this is my new wallpaper. Who is that on the far left though?

>>15428175
Mahoro from Mahoromatic.

>>15428231
>Mahoro from Mahoromatic
Thank you sir

>>15416118
They could watch a better show.

>>15418069
True. Bydo would have the reapers by the balls. Then again, most anything that isn't from mass defect itself can deal with reapers.