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Indoctrinated humans ends up as husks somehow, so going cybernetic seem to keep the indoctrinated alive. And the reapers had to have a reason for that cyclic destruction (and humans got a huge "we're special!" treatment in this game).

The rachni is probably more important in the third game, that is heavily hinting on being gather an army to defeat the reapers coming in full force story. Pure speculation would be that they're destabilising the galaxy before moving in. Since every lost reaper is the loss of a reaper condensed civilization (it's likely more than just genetic material in those ships), they're wimpy about losses. The predictable ending would be preventing a full scale attack on earth with the gathered fleet, while bording a reaper ship to place some virus to stop the whole fleet. Or how to stop a fleet with a ground specialist team. It's a bit too predictable so I doubt I'll get it fully correct, but they have painted themself a bit in a corner.
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Mass Independence Day Effect!!


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India, regarding your spoiler comment, did you speak to Mordan on your ship after that revelation? He had lots of info on that matter when I spoke to him ... say one or two squad missions later. Basically

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The Collectors were heavily modified. As organs and biological systems failed they were replaced with Reaper friendly versions. As generations passed intelligence dropped severely, as did related aspects like autonomy, and the Collectors became little better than drones. The Collectors are truly a pale shadow of the original Protheans.


Speaking of Mordan, everyone needs to ask him about art when chatting on the ship, then pick the new option which chases on off-hand comment he made during that dialogue. You will need to do his personal quest first. Loved it.
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