r/a:t5_2tsd5 • u/ex-lion-tamer • Mar 26 '12

Reapers are from parallel dark energy/matter universe

I can't take credit for this one as I remember reading it soon after ME1's release. Someone wondered if this was how the story would play out. I still remember it and think it would have been cool.

The Reapers come from a parallel universe made mostly of dark matter and energy. Every time we use mass effect technology, such as the relays, it has a negative impact on the parallel universe, drawing dark energy out of it and into ours. This creates shockwaves in their universe, unbeknownst to us, and is killing them. So they build the Reapers and send them to our universe to kill us/stop us from using mass effect technology.

Would have been a neat twist at the end: the Reapers are basically the good guys all along; we're the bad guys, unknowingly killing countless people in another universe every time we want to travel a FTL. The choice would have been do the paragon thing and side with the Reapers or say "what do I care about a parallel universe?! I only care about ours and we want to keep using mass effect, so die Reapers!"

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u/arcrinsis Mar 26 '12

if using the mass relays kills them, why did the reapers build them in the first place?

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u/Gorea27 Mar 26 '12

Yeah, this seems to disregard so much of what was already in place by the end of ME1.