Why do reapers attack

Samtoes Join Date: Member: Members. April edited April Bold of you to assume they grab the seamoth in the first place, you can play through the entire game without encountering one, not even hard you just have to know where to go. KiwiColdbeer Down Under May I warned him that I was in no mood to be eaten This poor guy started off attacking me in the Dunes, then had another go in the grassy plateau's.

This pic is taken only 90 odd metres from my lifepod. Also appears that they stay damaged, took very little effort in the Prawn to finish him in the end. Bro just run it recked my cyclops so think???

All it takes for a new player to fall off their chair is to see a reaper levithian?????????????????????? Sign In or Register to comment. They created an "Intelligence" to solve the problem of organics and synthetics killing each other. However, this Intelligence turned on them, slaughtering most of their kind and processing others into the very first true Reaper, Harbinger.

Harbinger's form, that of the Leviathans themselves, became the template for subsequent Reapers harvested from the galaxy's races on cyclical purges over the next millions of years.

In order to speed up the time between harvests, the Reapers constructed the mass relay network and the Citadel to coordinate it. Engineered creatures called keepers were placed on the Citadel to maintain the station during their absence and to open it for them when they decide to invade.

Fifty thousand years before the current galactic era, the Reapers initiated a purge against the Protheans , the dominant spacefaring lifeforms at the time.

The Protheans tried to resist like so many others before them, only to fail due to the Reapers' physical and insidious might. Not all Protheans perished in the genocide: a cadre of elite scientists hidden on Ilos survived by hunkering down into stasis until the danger had passed.

Upon waking, it took them decades of study to realize how their civilization fell to the Reapers, but this discovery gave them the key to breaking the cycle forever. The Protheans developed a plan to forestall the impending Reaper attack for future generations of sapient, spacefaring species. This plan hinged on the fact that the keepers have independently evolved, and now only respond to signals from the Citadel itself. The Reaper vanguard signals the Citadel which in turn signals the keepers to open the station's own mass relay, ushering in the next Reaper invasion.

However, the Prothean scientists used a reverse-engineered prototype mass relay , travelled to the Citadel, and altered the Citadel signal. The scientists succeeded, but could not do anything about their own population numbers, so they still died out along with the rest of their race.

The first living Reaper to be witnessed by any living intelligent being after the Protheans became extinct was designated Sovereign by the organic races. It is a colossal dreadnought, several times the size of any known vessel — even dwarfing the massive asari flagship, Destiny Ascension.

It was first discovered on the edges of geth space in the Perseus Veil by Edan Had'dah 's survey teams and studied by Dr. Shu Qian. Saren Arterius , using the doctor's notes stolen sometime in CE , eventually finds it for himself. At first, it was presumed to be Saren's flagship by those who encountered it; Sovereign did act as transport for the rogue Spectre and his minions.

However, Commander Shepard later discovers that Sovereign and its brethren are actually the masterminds behind the Prothean genocide. It acts as the Reapers' vanguard and was originally intended to initiate the next harvest of the galaxy.

When Sovereign decided it was time to begin the cycle again, the keepers ignored the order. This greatly complicated matters for Sovereign. In order to unleash its brethren from dark space, it would have to find a way to manually activate the relay from inside the Citadel. While Reapers are undoubtedly beings of terrible power and ferocity, a single Reaper would not be able to survive the combined might of the assembled Citadel races in a direct assault.

At some point Sovereign became aware of the Conduit and swayed a significant number of geth into worshiping it. It used Saren to comprehend the Conduit's location from Prothean Beacons while putting its geth in a supporting military capacity. Successful in both regards, in CE the Reaper marshals its forces and launches an all-out assault on the Citadel while Saren infiltrates the Citadel through the Conduit.

Fortunately, Saren is stopped by Commander Shepard and company, and Sovereign is destroyed by the Alliance Fleet, though this would only forestall the Reaper invasion for a few years. Shepard knows the Reaper fleet, though dormant and hibernating, is still out in dark space and vows to find some way to stop them. After Commander Shepard's defeat of Saren and Sovereign, the Collectors begin attacking human colonies and abducting their populations.

Cerberus determines that the Reapers are behind this and plans to have Shepard thwart this latest Reaper threat to humanity. Over time, Shepard uncovers disturbing facts regarding the nature of the Reaper connection to the Collectors.

Apparently, because humanity is a race of great genetic diversity and is the race that defeated Sovereign, it is enough to gather the Reapers' attention. It is also revealed that the Collectors were originally Protheans who were captured by the Reapers and genetically repurposed to suit their needs.

The Collectors are working under the direct supervision of the Reaper Harbinger , who ordered the Collectors to abduct humans in the Terminus Systems. The captured humans are taken to the Collector Base and processed into organic matter to construct a new Reaper modeled on the human form. EDI speculates that this is the Reaper equivalent of reproduction. The incomplete Human-Reaper is composed of facsimiles of the skull, arms and ribcage of a human with its lower spine and torso still under construction by the time of its discovery in CE.

EDI concludes that tens of thousands of humans had already been processed. Shepard is able to stop the process and destroy the Human-Reaper. With the Human-Reaper destroyed and the Collectors defeated, the Reapers lose powerful allies. Harbinger and the rest of the Reapers, who have already been on the move since the destruction of Sovereign, are shown approaching the Milky Way , setting the stage for the Reaper War.

As the Reaper fleet draws closer towards the galaxy, Dr. Amanda Kenson and her team of Alliance researchers discover a Reaper artifact showing them visions of the Reapers' plan: to rapidly invade throughout the entire Milky Way by using a special mass relay with access to the entire network.

This "Alpha Relay" was located in the Bahak System within batarian space near the galaxy's edge. In order to delay the Reapers' arrival, Kenson decides to destroy the relay by ramming an asteroid into it.

However, before the plan can go to effect, Kenson and her team are indoctrinated by the artifact. Kenson is then captured and held for interrogation by the batarians. Word of Dr. Kenson's capture prompts Admiral Hackett to send Commander Shepard or Aliiance Assets to rescue her and investigate what she was up to. With the arrival of the Reapers imminent, Dr. Kenson's initial project to destroy the Alpha Relay is eventually accomplished successfully by either Shepard or Alliance forces with little time to spare.

This results in the destruction of the Bahak System and a further delay of the Reaper invasion, but at the cost of three hundred thousand batarians living on the planet Aratoht. Not everyone dismissed Shepard's warning, it seems. An individual or group known only as the " Benefactor " appears to have taken the Commander seriously. With their theory of an impending threat now proven by Shepard's claims, the benefactor then shifted their focus towards a single agenda: saving Milky Way's civilization from the Reapers' destruction.

The benefactor found the perfect front to do so by funding Jien Garson 's near bankrupt project, the Andromeda Initiative - an intergalactic journey to colonise Andromeda. Despite the constraints in time and a vastly expanded scope, the project successfully launched with about , colonists in tow, just ahead of the Reapers' imminent arrival in the galaxy.

Six months after the destruction of the Alpha Relay, the Reapers finally return from dark space sometime in CE and begin their next galaxy-wide harvest of advanced organic civilizations. Their invasion starts in the Vular system in batarian space and rapidly spreads along the mass relay network. Within days, the Batarian Hegemony is destroyed, Earth falls, the Systems Alliance Navy is in full retreat, and a massive offensive is launched against the Turian Hierarchy.

Over the following weeks, the galaxy's population centers are conquered or annihilated one by one as the Reapers inexorably advance. On Earth, the Reapers destroy satellites and defunct nuclear missile silos. They soon begin broadcasting orders, inviting human leaders into their superstructures to "negotiate peace. Commander Shepard, who had escaped Earth in the Normandy SR-2 , begins to actively work to unify the galaxy against the Reapers. The first step is attempting to secure a krogan - turian alliance by curing the genophage.

Shepard manages to destroy a Reaper Destroyer attempting to use the Shroud tower on Tuchanka to poison its atmosphere by luring Kalros , the mother of all thresher maws , to it. Further into the war, the Reapers become involved in the geth - quarian conflict. After the quarians began assaulting the geth in a bid to reclaim their homeworld, the geth sought the aid of the Reapers, receiving upgrades and greater fighting ability at the cost of their free will.

Shepard manages to defeat the Destroyer broadcasting the control signal via heavy bombardment from the Migrant Fleet , freeing the geth from Reaper control. She brought a handful of people with her, including Cole, Elijah, the few killed in the woods and then Agatha, Frost and Duncan arrived at Alexandria.

But, they took it, so why hunt Maggie down? Is Elijah a key? He wears a mask similar to what we have seen the Reapers wear, so why is he with Maggie and the Wardens?

We did learn his sister was killed, and if he was part of the Reapers and they killed his sister, he could have defected, and perhaps they are trying to get him back? If she is harboring someone who left them perhaps, they feel they need to honor their code?

The Reapers are setting things up for Maggie to come to them. Will Maggie and Negan band together and take down the Reapers? Or will they turn out to be a bigger threat than we can imagine, and something terrible will go down?

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