How the hell will Shepard defeat the reapers in Mass Effect 3?

Problem with #2 is that Cerberus is probably working with the Reapers due to either indoctrination or stupidity.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

And the problem with number one is how badly Sovereign fucked up the Alliance ships attacking it (and the Citadel Fleet before that). And it wasn't even actively fighting back.

Not to mention we see in the ME 3 gameplay (and can hear from one of the interviews) how the Reapers are tearing through the Galaxy pretty much unopposed.

edited 9th Jun '11 6:34:50 AM by Legionnaire

Against all tyrants.

Hmm... methinks that the solution will have something to do with the reason the reapers want to wipe out the galaxy in the first place.

A fistful of me.

Well, 1st game does demonstrate that if you hit the Reapers hard enough they will break...the problem is that how can you hit them hard enough before they hit you and kill you all...

My first guess is to get both Geth and Quarian to join up...the combined fleet of those 2 races alone would be at least 100,000 ships, that's good...get other races, especially Rachni and Krogan to join up too...still not good enough? Arm all of those >100k ships with Thaix (or whatever the name is) cannon, that helps a bit more...not enough? If they can reproduce Haestrom anomaly, then accelerate the pace of it by millionfold to induce supernova, and doing it on every systems that the reapers are on...use this as final option though...

Also, they're going to need a crapload of superheavy battleship laser/particle beam cannons to help with penerating Reaper kinetic barriers...

The total final option in case of total failure...do a (or several) large-scale Ilos base...with enough power and supplies to last at least 4 centuries and enough people to help sustain the races without succumbing to the gene pool problem...and prepare the races for the next cycle...50000 years of buildup can and will help...

edited 9th Jun '11 6:49:11 AM by onyhow

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All of the mass slaughter of humans tears open a Negative Space Wedgie, causing the Warp to spill out into real space, screwing everything up and turning it into WH 2 K.

"Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person that doesn't get it."

The Migrant fleet is only composed of 25,000 ships and unless they get a homeworld back they won't be able to deploy them all. And most of them are falling apart and they aren't all combat focused ships.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

50,000 ships, actually. And the Fleet is in action, or at least part of it; the Fleet in orbit around the Planet we've seen in several videos where Shepard is trying to destroy a Reaper base (that actually has a Reaper in it) is the Quarian fleet.

Against all tyrants.

50,000? I stand corrected. By the Quarian Navy itself is stated to be small in the Codex IIRC.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Perhaps they'll be using Love Darts to make Reapers the Brotectors of the Living.

"Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person that doesn't get it."

Yeah, the actual armed forces of the Quarians is comparatively low in number. Most of their ships aren't geared for combat.

But could be useful if accelerated to ramming speed.

edited 9th Jun '11 6:58:07 AM by Legionnaire

Against all tyrants.

Medicus must be using Legion's account.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

I've often wondered if we were seperated at birth.

Against all tyrants.

Re: Cerberus, yes, that is the downside. A friend of mine suggests that 'Renegade' ending will be you *failing* to stop the Reapers, despite having the tech to beat them, for precisely that reason.

Re: the Battle of Citadel Station, remember, that wasn't "Sovereign vs Everybody." That was "Sovereign and an entire Geth Fleet, *and* an invasion force taking down Citadel Control from the inside".

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And then at the end it was Sovereign vs the entire Arcturus Fleet. He was barely fighting back because he didn't consider them a threat, and he was still tearing the shit out of them.

Against all tyrants.

Isn't ME 3 supposed to be only a few months after ME 2?

Actually, no. Not if you left the Council to die. Even if you did save them, the fight against the geth only destroyed 5 cruisers. Th really big losses all were due to Sovereign.

And yes, the quarian naval power is always way overstated. Trying to use it in battle would be trying to use trailers in a tank battle. Trailers from the 50s, against cutting edge tech tanks. It wouldn't matter just how many trailers you have avaible.

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I honestly have no idea what to say...Anything I think up sounds remarkably cheap.

Hive Mind? Anticlimactic.

Attack Its Weak Point? They have none.

Attack! Attack! Attack!? They'd slaughter us.

O_O I do honestly think we're doomed...

BUT THAT WON'T STOP US FROM TRYING!

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After Earth gets destroyed (Seriously, there's no way the planet will survive the game), Shepard decides that using asteroids as projectiles will work, so they use mass effect fields to catapult planets and rocks at the reapers.

Do not be so quick to make foolish offers, Daemon. Araghast too once thought I would be an asset to his cause. Look what has become of him.

Yes, but that was old tech. In ME 2 you get three techs that are gigantic leaps forward in terms of effectiveness. Tali's shields, Jacob's armor, and the Thanix cannons. The Thanix cannons alone gave the frigate sized SR-2 the firepower to blow the collector ship (which looks easily as large as an Alliance dreadnaught) to hell in two shots. Imagine what a Thanix cannon powered by a dreadnaught's reactor could do? Yes, Tali's shields were designed for quick hard fights. My personal preference for fighting the reapers would be for a group of Alliance dreadnaughts to jump in, cornhole a few Reapers with their Thanix cannons, and jump out. No extended slug fests, wear them down, tear them up, give them what they haven't faced in hundreds of cycles, an enemy with the means and opportunity to kill them.

"Tyyr's a necessary evil. " Spirit

But considering how expensive each of those upgrades were, most likely requiring thousands of kilograms of various elements that required us to deplete the mineral stores of entire planets...Not very practical, especially with any ship bigger than a frigate.

edited 9th Jun '11 10:14:55 AM by theLibrarian

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I know! In the past, the original Reaper race was good. But an infectious enemy came and started a Zombie Apocalypse. To combat this, they built the Mass Relays, which they could use to fire radiation accross the galaxy and destroy the plague. To survive, they became one mighty robotic being, which could not be harmed by the radiation. One of them staued behind and lit the Mass Relays, killing the infection.

Fast forward to present day, Sheperd must find the central control console and light all the Mass Relays, which will destroy all life in the galaxy, including the Reapers. However, Harbinger tracks Sheperd to the planet. Sheperd leaves the transport ship on the planet and orders his love interest to fire the Mass Relays. Using the Normandy, he lures Harbinger into darkspace where they duel. Sheperd wins, but back at the central control the love interst cries and fires the Relays. A shattering sound echoes across the planet and beyond. Sheperd makes it just outside the blast radius, but the shockwave kills his engines.

After being unconciouss a while, EDI wakes him up and tells him they're stranded. It could take a long time to get back. Then Sheperd goes into Cryo.

And that's how they'll kill the Reapers.

edited 9th Jun '11 10:53:21 AM by TheProffesor

You FOOLS. Have the last two games taught you nothing?!

Shepard can solve ANY problem with his (her) penis (vagina)!

Well Harbinger does have a suspicious obsession with Shepard's body...

#IceBearForPresident

The reason he want to indoctrinate everyone is so he can "assume direct control" of them.

The very thought of that makes me shutter...

edited 9th Jun '11 4:16:01 PM by TheProffesor

Well, what about that weapon that apprantly killed that Reaper that Legion is in? Or would that count as a Forgotten Superweapon?

edited 9th Jun '11 4:49:31 PM by Grephippy7

Since it destroyed the planet it was on when it fired, I don't think that's an option...Plus that race only got one shot off.

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