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Mass Independence Day Effect!!
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Aye, why I thought it was predictable. It did occur to me that the "dark energy getting stars to age fast (going nova)" plot should have a reason, so I'll say that the bulk of the reapers will die due to that. That means somewhere else than earth for obvious reasons. Likely to be a reaper weapon turned against them.


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I was surprised at how short the plot chain of missions is. Most of the play time comes from doing optional stuff like the loyalty missions.
Some of those are semi-optinional. You'll need to to do at least a bit of recruiting to continue the main plot chain.

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On the ending specifically:
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So the Collectors were liquidising humans and using the mush to build a giant metallic human skeleton that was somehow going to be a Reaper. O ... k. Maybe it's the fact I saw that near midnight, but I'm really having trouble seeing how this was supposed to work. How would it get around? Flying like Superman?! And aren't the Reapers meant to be machine intelligence? And how does pulped human result in metal? If the Reapers were built out of pulped species, what about the original Reapers which went wild and killed the civilisation which made them? And just ... why?! The whole thing was a complete what the heck moment.

I had pictured the Reapers to be ships with powerful AIs, much like the ships in Ian M Bank's Culture books or in Neal Asher's Polity.
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They are cybernetic AI:s, so they mix that genetic goo with metal. For that human thingy, it'll probably end up as a part of the reaper ship, as they all look the same on the outside. It's too small to be a full ship anyway, even when done. The big question is why it got weapons installed.

I got no idea if they'll ever explain the original reapers, but if they do, I suspect it is connected to that "your salvation can only be reached by you destruction" rethoric the harbringer spouts. They are a sort of preservation of the species they wiped out (and made a reaper of).