Chinner said:
It just doesn't make sense really. Mass Effect 1 showed how much power they had, and Mass Effect 2 showed us how their fleet was gigantic. The Fact that it's taking them a few weeks to destroy Earth and Shepard has enough time to get a space army and bring them back to save earth just seems kind of....silly.
SlickVic said:
Right, I understand that Sovereign would be the easiest method as they'd essentially catch everyone by surprise before they'd have a chance to even fight back. However (maybe I'm not remembering this correctly) but I thought the Reapers are described as this nearly unstoppable force? At the end of ME1, doesn't it take a huge galactic force just to take down Sovereign? How would they be able to handle a fleet of Reapers?
I guess my point is, if the Reaper fleet is that powerful, it seems they should pretty easily be able to kill everything, surprise attack with Sovereign or not. It kinda makes me feel that destroying Sovereign really wasn't a big deal to the Reapers.
This is what I remembered from Mass Effect 1/2. The Reapers didn't wipe out the Proteans all at once, they had to methodically wipe out the planets one by one over the course of a few decades. The Proteans couldn't effectively fight back because their main source of transportation(the Mass Relay) was denied to them, so they had no way of finding out what is happening or even prepare to fight when the Reapers came.
This time would be different because this time they would have to take on the whole galaxy at once since I assumed there would be no way for the Reapers to prevent them from calling others for help and block them.
The trailer also didn't specify if this is occurring at the beginning of ME3, but I am thinking that it might be near the middle or near the end of the game where Sheperd has to start gathering the allies when he first heard Earth is getting attacked. Remember how Sheperd has to rescue his crew when they got kidnapped near the end of the game? The longer Sheperd takes his time to do his quests/etc, the more of them died? It's probably like that except this time, Sherpard has a week or so of time to gather all the allies before Earth fall near the end of the game.
Edit: I also forgot to mentioned that the Reaper Vanguard they left behind in ME1 was probably one of their strongest, it would make sense to leave behind one of their most powerful to call them when it's time to start the purge again, so that's why Sovereign could take so much damage from the alliance. I think that other reapers would be much weaker.