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What was the point exactly for the Collectors kidnapping humans in Mass Effect 2? (spoilers inside)?

  • PLEASE READ: If the answer to my question spoils events for Mass Effect 3, which I haven't played yet, DO NOT bother answering this question. I just now beat Mass Effect 2 (great game) and I'm about to play Mass Effect 3 soon. But there's something that's bugging my mind. So it was revealed that Collector's kidnapped humans in order to use them to create a new reaper, and the disappearance was a major plot of this game. But here's my question: What was the point? There are clearly a large amount of reapers shown to be in space, why immediately start kidnapping a species just to make one more? Since it was humans that were targeted, I'm guessing it wasn't coincidence. Is it to create a new line of Reapers to look like humans? Was it just revenge against the humans for what happened to Sovereign? Did they want to have a Reaper already inside the Terminus system? I don't have the best comprehension so maybe I missed something obvious. Can someone explain this to me?

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    Somethings are still hard to understand. Sovereign, from what we know, was the only reaper in the galaxy at the time. Upon his death the other reapers in dark space began advancing while using the collectors to begin construction of a new reaper. A new reaper already inside the galaxy could play a strategic advantage. Reason for picking humans is because humanity has been expanding more and more into the Terminus systems which is outside the Councils rule there for the Council wont interfere or risk starting a war with the Batarians who had left Citadel space due to humanity imposing further into their territory with the council doing nothing. The ending of ME3 tries to explain the overall reasons for reproduction of reapers and extermination of organic life. and does so... kind of. Sense you haven't played it yet I won't say any further on it.

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It was because Soveriegn was the only Reaper in the galaxy. All Reapers were in dark space with Harbinger. Also, the Reapers did the kidnapping of races in every single cycle. The Catalyst explained that they kidnapped the advanced races, and preserved them in Reaper form (in Mass Effect 3).

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The Reapers' reasons for doing what they do is unknowable. All we know is that they destroy all advanced life in the galaxy once it reaches a certain point, and in each cycle they choose one species to make a new Reaper out of. After you defeated Sovereign, the Reapers chose humanity. The strategic value of building another Reaper immediately rather than waiting for the full invasion is questionable. But the Reapers are arrogant and rarely consider the possibility of other species disrupting their plans; turning a species into a Reaper is simply what what they do, and they care little about the actual value of doing so. Their thoughts and motives are alien to lesser races. Perhaps Sovereign explained it best on Virmire, in the original Mass Effect: "Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh. You touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding. There is a realm of existence so far beyond your own that you can not even imagine it. I am beyond your comprehension. [...] My kind transcends your very understanding. We are each a nation. Independent, free of all weakness. You can not even grasp the nature of our existence."

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