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[Donuts]

ME1 is the best, played it through 7 times, love playing on the hardest difficulty

[Shadowlord]

Looking around in the wiki I can't even find what it is that reactivated the reapers in the first place.  I'm suspecting that the reason is probably a change in the writing team.

"To all things there is a time, Mr. Endawi. Perhaps this is theirs." - G'kar on Babylon 5, speaking about the return of another ancient nemesis.

The million times that Shepherd says that Saren intends to wake the reapers?

Shephard isn't omniscient. If he says that the reapers are still asleep in ME1, well, he is just guessing and the only knowledge he has to go on is what was in the prothean beacon - and he probably hasn't learned everything that he learns through the entire game about the Reapers' goals yet, such as what Sovereign is actually doing (find conduit, open the citadel mass relay to reapers in deep space).

Consider this: They have to have been awake in ME1, because

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they have to fly through the Citadel mass relay when the keepers (or Sovereign, if he were successful) open it. Alternately, the keepers would have to send a wake signal, or they'd have to wake when their deep space relay was connected to the Citadel relay, but that would make them easy to defeat forever (stop the signal), so they would be unlikely to be designed that way.

[Darkmere]

Agreed with Shadowlord. The only explanation that makes sense, even in context of 1, is that the reapers were already operational and waiting for the go signal, that had stalled because of the whole thing Vigil tells you.

"Bringing back" is not "waking up."

I'm by no means saying the plot doesn't have inconsistencies... but this isn't one, the whole thing was established by plot elements from the start of the first game.

[mainiac]

While Shepherd isn't omniscient it would have made sense for knew knowledge to be acknowledged at some point.  Shepherd would say "this is even worse then I thought!" as dramatic music plays when he finds out the reapers have woken.

And the reapers choosing to awake without a go signal from Sovereign just strikes me as an asspull.  They've been waiting for 70,182 years when Sovereign bites the big one in ME1.  Why would Sovereign go to effort to wake them up after 70,182 years if they were already planning to wake up after 70,185 years?  If he had been contacting them all along then the events of ME1 are pointless, why would he go to the citadel and tip off the galaxy if he's already got backup coming?  If he hasn't been contacting them all along then they just out of the blue decide to show up?

And this is after all the lore of the Protheans speaks of the reapers being patient and sneaky and taking decades to do their work.

It's perfectly plausible to come up with a universe where the events of ME2 and ME3 make sense.  Unfortunately it's clearly not the story explained by the ME1 cannon...  And it's possible to imagine they should have been awake all along but again, that's not what we are told in ME1...

[Darkmere]

What?

The whole plot of ME1 is that

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The citadel is a gigantic mass relay that connects to where the reapers wait in dark space. Their entire plan is to go through the citadel relay and capture/destroy the seat of galactic government in one surprise assault and undermine any chance at a coordinated counterattack. This has *always* worked, until the Prothean survivors from Ilos built the conduit and used it to get to the citadel post-cleansing and hack the keepers to block the remote activation signal.

Sovereign storms the citadel to manually activate the relay, it has nothing at all to do with sending an on-signal to the rest of the reapers. They were already on in preparation for the remote activation signal that should have started the whole invasion thing, presumably sometime before Sovereign decided to use the geth fleet as cannon fodder.

All that comes straight from Vigil and the last mission.