reapers are cyberhitler

[10.59.58 AM] Dux: FUCK YOU BIOWARE
[11.02.13 AM] Rowena: lmao
[11.03.32 AM] Dux: I wouldn't hate you so much if you hadn't made a likable franchise on the surface.
[11.17.12 AM] Dux: The Salarians' perspective makes sense in another way.
[11.17.21 AM] Dux: The Reapers show up and scour the galaxy for say, 400 years.
[11.17.23 AM] Dux: So what.
[11.17.31 AM] Dux: You can evade them if you try hard enough.
[11.17.46 AM] Dux: We're given multiple examples.
[11.17.47 AM] Dux: Who's to say the Salarians don't already have a shield world in place?
[11.18.05 AM] Dux: If you play the long game, massive casualties don't matter.
[11.18.09 AM] Dux: Even 99.99%.
[11.18.26 AM] Dux: You have 50,000 years to rebuild with the 0.01% if you successfully ride-out.
[11.18.33 AM] Dux: A Krogan occupation, meanwhile is unending.
[11.18.38 AM] Dux: Their numbers, unconquerable.
[11.18.48 AM] Dux: Their need for resources, insatiable.
[11.18.58 AM] Dux: They will go everywhere and exploit everything in very short order.
[11.19.34 AM] Dux: Your only possible hope is escape, and in due time they will inevitably follow.
[11.19.59 AM] Dux: It makes perfect sense to let the Reapers wipe out almost all of your population if they take the Krogan too. You can rebuild and kill them later.
[11.20.23 AM] Dux: Like if you tasked RAND Corp. with this problem, that's the solution they'd give you.
[11.20.33 AM] Dux: Not an shounen anime MacGuffin plan to kill the robots.
[11.21.19 AM] Dux: Governments don't trust heroes.
[11.22.15 AM] Dux: POORLY WRITTEN.
[11.22.22 AM] Dux: FUCK YOU WEEKES
[11.23.29 AM] Dux: Also, the Reapers would solve the Krogan problem for them.
[11.23.40 AM] Dux: They very clearly could just do biowarfare and exterminate the Krogan.
[11.23.48 AM] Dux: The Genophage was the "humane" solution.
[11.23.58 AM] Dux: But then the rest of the Council would condemn them.
[11.24.09 AM] Dux: But if the Krogan (and the rest of the Council) just happened to all die...
[11.24.14 AM] Dux: Well. What a shame.
[11.24.56 AM] Dux: Balking makes a lot of sense. There's no particular reason to believe in Shepard's crazy plan.
[11.25.27 AM] Dux: Shepard of course is only write because of authorial fiat. Sensible people WOULD conclude someone like that was crazy.
[11.39.50 AM] Rowena: I like the idea that the Salarians are the sane ones.
[11.40.21 AM] Rowena: Really, the message of ME is "Sometimes the insane conspiracy theorist is right. And the galaxy depends on them being right despite all of the odds being against it."
[11.40.33 AM] Rowena: Like, you can't blame someone for not believing Shepard.
[11.40.37 AM] Rowena: Ah, yes, "reapers" indeed.
[11.40.55 AM] Rowena: It'd be equivalent to if your decommissioned CO who mysteriously died 2 years ago and then came back, resurrected by Al Qaeda, and said
[11.40.58 AM] Rowena: "Hitler has returned."
[11.41.13 AM] Rowena: Or pick some other paramilitary terrorist org, it matters not.
[11.41.38 AM] Rowena: "Hitler has returned? Where is he?"
[11.41.44 AM] Rowena: "On the moon. You can't see him from here."
[11.41.52 AM] Rowena: Iron Sky + Mass Effect
[11.43.28 AM] Dux: Man.
[11.43.33 AM] Dux: That'd be a great parody fanfic.
[11.43.35 AM] Dux: Write that.
[11.44.26 AM] Dux: "Uh, Bob? Bob is that you? But, but you died!"
[11.44.39 AM] Dux: "LISTEN KAIDAN WE DON'T HAVE TIME. CYBERHITLER IS ON THE MOON."
[11.44.48 AM] Rowena: hahahahahaha
[11.45.06 AM] Rowena: Throw in some Blood Dragon for good measure.