This is a bit late, but I keep having issues accessing the site. Anyway...
You've just knocked a nail on the head for me. More than finishing the trilogy, more than finding out what happens with Shepard, Earth, the Genophage, the Raccni, etc etc, the single largest hope I have for ME3 is finally getting a solid explanation for why the Reapers do what they do, and who they really are.
I mean, okay, they allow life to progress to a certain level and then wipe them out after 50,000 years... but why do they do it? And why every 50,000 years? Why not 10,000, or 100,000? Drakonis' explanation makes some sense, but I feel like it has to be more than that.
Also I want to know where the Reapers came from. They're artificial lifeforms, so someone way back when must have created them. Who were they and what was the Reapers' original purpose? Were they like the Geth - mechanical slaves who evolved past their original programming? Or were the Reapers their own creators - organic lifeforms who artificially evolved through the use of technology? But again, that comes back to what would be their purpose of wiping out life and then partying in dark space for the next 50 millennia.
I'd say the snippets of information about dark matter in ME2 are something I hope to be expanded upon, but I think they were dropped specifically to whet our appetites and makes us curious about it, and that it'll play a large part in ME3 (maybe it's even the way to defeat the Reapers?). I hope.
It's sad to say I actually lie awake at night thinking about these things... I suppose that's what single life does to a guy. But seriously, I really hope these kinds of questions are finally answered by someone.
Also, I add my apologies. As some of you may have noticed, I tend to ramble a bit.
I'm curious too. Bioware has a lot of explaining to do in ME3, possibly more so than in ME1 and ME2 combined.
Let's hope their lore writers don't leave us guessin'.
Now I need to scroll really quickly down the page every time I come here to make sure I don't read any of that.
I'm also not quoting it to make sure it disappears quicker.
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Now I need to scroll really quickly down the page every time I come here to make sure I don't read any of that.
I'm also not quoting it to make sure it disappears quicker.
Quote Quote Quote. 100 times just for you Sky with love
Haha
Only... four... more... days...
Lol poor EU people 8 hours of wait here!
Wow, my first true smiley spam... and it sums it up quite nicely!
I have to wait until the 8/9th.