Aurbere Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 (edited) As the title asks: how would the republic military respond to a reaper invasion? After playing through the ME series I find myself asking how the Republic would respond to the reaper The reapers would also most likely have the collectors with them. So who would win? Edited April 29, 2012 by Aurbere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solidus_snake Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 The Chancellor would go to the Jedi Council, point at the Reapers and say "go". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfninjajedi Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 The Chancellor would go to the Jedi Council, point at the Reapers and say "go". Lol nice mental image. Chancellor is just walking along minding his own business, he sees Reapers and points "go get em jedi.." jedi come outta nowhere and attack while the chancellor walks away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain_Zone Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 Before or after they finished crapping their shorts? My guess would be in the neighborhood of "lambs to the slaughter". They aren't even equipped to handle technology on that level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aximand Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 What a lot of people don't realize is that Mass Effect technology, even Reaper tech, is so far down the Science Fiction ladder on the scale of power its almost laughable, and that's mostly because they tried to keep most of it "believable". Mass Effect ship based weaponry maxes out in the Kiloton range, Star Wars maxes out with, well, the freaking Death Star. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfninjajedi Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 What a lot of people don't realize is that Mass Effect technology, even Reaper tech, is so far down the Science Fiction ladder on the scale of power its almost laughable, and that's mostly because they tried to keep most of it "believable". Mass Effect ship based weaponry maxes out in the Kiloton range, Star Wars maxes out with, well, the freaking Death Star. Science Fiction trying to be believable?! What sorcery is this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guildrum Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 (edited) Science Fiction trying to be believable?! What sorcery is this! Pfft. Believable fictions are better known as alternate universes. Edited April 29, 2012 by Guildrum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain_Zone Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 Science Fiction trying to be believable?! What sorcery is this! Firefly. Using REAL PHYSICS in space and atmospheric flight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurbere Posted April 29, 2012 Author Share Posted April 29, 2012 The Chancellor would go to the Jedi Council, point at the Reapers and say "go". Like the Jedi are his personal attack dogs. Although I don't think the Jedi could beat the reapers alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velaran Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 Would the Jedi be immune to indoctrination? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurbere Posted April 29, 2012 Author Share Posted April 29, 2012 Would the Jedi be immune to indoctrination? I don't know. We know their ability to see the future was blocked by Sidious so maybe, if the reapers had a strong enough will they could convert some Jedi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Solrac Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 Who/what are the Reapers? Also, the Republic Military would eventually, beg the Jedi for help, SOP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurbere Posted April 29, 2012 Author Share Posted April 29, 2012 Who/what are the Reapers? Also, the Republic Military would eventually, beg the Jedi for help, SOP. The reapers are from the Mass Effect series. I don't know what they are exactly, but you can just wiki them for information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravager Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 (edited) Who/what are the Reapers? Also, the Republic Military would eventually, beg the Jedi for help, SOP. The Reapers are a sentient machine race that return to the Milky Way every 50,000 years to wipe out all organics that have achieved space flight, and are the antagonists in another BioWare game, Mass Effect. Like the Jedi are his personal attack dogs. Although I don't think the Jedi could beat the reapers alone. Remember, though, that the known galaxy of Star Wars is exponentially larger than that of Mass Effect. There are over a trillion people on Coruscant alone. If we combined every homeworld's population from Mass Effect, we wouldn't have a tenth of Coruscant. Furthermore, most worlds in the Star Wars universe are heavily populated and rich with resources, unlike the Mass Effect universe. Not only would it take centuries (or more) for the Reapers to properly harvest the entire galaxy, the Star Wars galaxy has enough resources, ships, and soldiers to actually defeat them conventionally. Remember: the Yuuzhan Vong War destroyed 365 trillion beings, and the galaxy was (relatively) still intact. Fighting the Reapers would be bloody, but they could do it. Edited April 29, 2012 by Ravager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurbere Posted April 30, 2012 Author Share Posted April 30, 2012 The Reapers are a sentient machine race that return to the Milky Way every 50,000 years to wipe out all organics that have achieved space flight, and are the antagonists in another BioWare game, Mass Effect. Remember, though, that the known galaxy of Star Wars is exponentially larger than that of Mass Effect. There are over a trillion people on Coruscant alone. If we combined every homeworld's population from Mass Effect, we wouldn't have a tenth of Coruscant. Furthermore, most worlds in the Star Wars universe are heavily populated and rich with resources, unlike the Mass Effect universe. Not only would it take centuries (or more) for the Reapers to properly harvest the entire galaxy, the Star Wars galaxy has enough resources, ships, and soldiers to actually defeat them conventionally. Remember: the Yuuzhan Vong War destroyed 365 trillion beings, and the galaxy was (relatively) still intact. Fighting the Reapers would be bloody, but they could do it. I meant that it would take more than just the Jedi to beat the Reapers. However, I know that it would be hard fought and cost many lives. I think the Reapers approach to warfare would throw off the Republic and force them to adapt to the reapers strategy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scutum Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Part of me thinks a force user might even be more susceptible to indoctrination than a normal person. Since many Jedi already can find themselves having strange dreams and visions of the "future", if a Reaper tweaked it even just a little bit so that it works in their favor they might see their dreams as the "will of the force" before people realize the real power of the Reaper's indoctrination. And with Indoctrinated force users going around and using their powers to help the Reapers get more subjects? Pure Chaos... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurbere Posted April 30, 2012 Author Share Posted April 30, 2012 Part of me thinks a force user might even be more susceptible to indoctrination than a normal person. Since many Jedi already can find themselves having strange dreams and visions of the "future", if a Reaper tweaked it even just a little bit so that it works in their favor they might see their dreams as the "will of the force" before people realize the real power of the Reaper's indoctrination. And with Indoctrinated force users going around and using their powers to help the Reapers get more subjects? Pure Chaos... A very good point. The Republic has no idea what the reapers can do and thus don't know what to watch for. It takes more than overwhelming military forces to beat something like the reapers. The reapers could very well win that battle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dprijadi Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 reapers , as scary as they were potrayed in ME, wont last long against SW republic armies.. the immense scale of SW universe, combined with that they have faster hyperspace , will result in reapers outmaneuvered and destroyed easily. on side note, reapers against milky way galaxy in warhammer 40K universe would be regarded as annoyance and squashed even faster.. picture an imperiall guard commander breathe a sigh of relief when informed about reaper invasion, because reaper invasionnare not another Tyranid hive fleet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scerge Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Who are the reapers? A race in a crap game series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonDs Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 Firefly. Using REAL PHYSICS in space and atmospheric flight. Wash: [about River] Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science-fiction. Zoë: We live in a spaceship, dear. Wash: So? ((I think I enjoyed posting this more than any post Ive made in recent memory)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshrus Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 As someone else said. Go get em Jedi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurbere Posted April 30, 2012 Author Share Posted April 30, 2012 As someone else said. Go get em Jedi. The Jedi would probably lead the counter-attack, but the Jedi don't know how to fight the reapers and they'd probably get their butts kicked at first until they figure out what to do. The reapers would probably be able to indoctrinate some of the weak-willed padawans. Not to use as weapons but mainly intelligence so they can figure out how to beat the Jedi. This is a scenario where neither faction knows how to beat the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scutum Posted April 30, 2012 Share Posted April 30, 2012 And the thing that people aren't thinking about is that the Reapers never just outright attack. They lure people to them and indoctrinate them, spreading their spies and agents all across the galaxy. And imagine if one of these indoctrinated agents started giving Republic tech to them for upgrades. Not to mention that while in an outright battle the Republic could destroy them, imagine if a few Republic higher-ups in the military were indoctrinated and purposely set them on a course for failure. The Reaper's greatest weapon is mind control/indoctrination, and while the Republic can build super weapons, it just won't matter if the guy piloting it is indoctrinated. Kind of like that Spore creature that Jerec wanted to use to mind control people, but worse. In the end I think the Republic would win, with the help of the Jedi of course, but I don't think it would be as easy as first implied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurbere Posted April 30, 2012 Author Share Posted April 30, 2012 And the thing that people aren't thinking about is that the Reapers never just outright attack. They lure people to them and indoctrinate them, spreading their spies and agents all across the galaxy. And imagine if one of these indoctrinated agents started giving Republic tech to them for upgrades. Not to mention that while in an outright battle the Republic could destroy them, imagine if a few Republic higher-ups in the military were indoctrinated and purposely set them on a course for failure. The Reaper's greatest weapon is mind control/indoctrination, and while the Republic can build super weapons, it just won't matter if the guy piloting it is indoctrinated. Kind of like that Spore creature that Jerec wanted to use to mind control people, but worse. In the end I think the Republic would win, with the help of the Jedi of course, but I don't think it would be as easy as first implied. Eventually the republic would win... if the reapers hadn't indoctrinated a majority of the higher-ups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reeny Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 ME tech is a joke compared to the Star Wars tech. Reapers will flee back to space once they see a Rep battle cruiser blast one of the Reapers to bits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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