A sentient species would develop an FTL drive, but would still be limited in its speed. The trap created by the Reapers was simple. Extant information on them is so scant that they are known merely as "boogeymen" at best in many cultures' ancient legends. The Reapers left no evidence of their conquest, nor of their existence – only desolate, barren ruins of those who came before. The Reapers' true master and motive, however, remains largley unknown by every species aside from the Leviathans themselves. It infers that the Reapers are servants of this pattern, not the creators of it. The galaxy experienced the same paths and conflicts during each cycle - "the same peaks of evolution, the same valleys of dissolution" - expressed in different forms. The patterns concerning the development of galactic civilization and the cycles of extinction were too regular and repetitive to be a coincidence. Unfortunately, the Protheans themselves fell victim to their own weapon, vanishing into the past within several decades. In a fantastical pulse of energy that bounced across the Milky Way, the Reapers were eliminated. Having encountered plans for an ancient device designed by the long-dead Rakfeeli people, the Protheans completed the design and construction, unleashing the weapon on the Reapers in a final desperate attack. The Protheans resisted like nearly every other race before them, only this time the defense was somewhat successful. 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.įifty thousand years before the current galactic era, the Reapers initiated a purge against the Protheans, the dominant spacefaring lifeforms at the time. In order to speed up the time between harvests, the Reapers constructed the mass relay network and the Citadel to coordinate it. 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. However, this Intelligence turned on them, slaughtering most of their kind and processing others into the very first true Reaper, Harbinger. They created an "Intelligence" to solve the problem of organics and synthetics killing each other. Reapers had been known to exist for nearly a billion years, judging by findings from the Leviathan of Dis, an ancient Reaper corpse.īefore the Reapers came to be, the galaxy was under the thrall of a race known as Leviathans.
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