Reapers Vs....

Thank you kindly. Yeah, I don't know what came over me with that estimate. I guess, like so many things, it seemed like a good idea at the time.


Well, since we only see or hear about half a dozen or so Reaper deaths in ME3. It might be safe to assume that the reaper deaths aren't large enough to have that big of an impact on their total numbers.

As for the Imp fleet... I'm not sure. The estimates vary quite a bit. I've seen estimates go from tens of thousands to hundreds of millions. Of course that's only with a quick google search.

I still think that the Laser Beam Of Death from a Reaper would slice a covie ship like butter.

Even if that was the case it takes many, many successive shots from Turbo laser cannons to take down a Star Destroyer, yet alone Super Star destroyers and other dreadnought classes with weapons that hit with a force 5.3 million times greater per round than a Dreadnaught's main gun. To give an impression about the forces at play, Shoemaker-Levy 9, an asteroid that hit Jupiter for Earth-sized explosions had only been 5 gigatons. Even though it;s very logical to say the Reaper's gun would be far more powerful than the pre-thainx Dreadnaught's gun, if a round with 200GT worth of force smacks a Star Destroyer's hull with minimal effect, how would a 100-200kt blast fair?


That said, I'm not at all convinced the Mass Effect cannon would even dent the shields, which withstand far more abuse than a turbolaser cannon is capable of dishing out in a single round, to say nothing of its regenerative properties. It would take a lot of Reapers shooting all at once to bring down a Star Destroyer, with tens of thousands being a starting point.

there are two things I feel like pointing out being a long time fan of Doctor Who, Mass effect and Halo. they are:

1) the Daleks have many times in the old Doctor Who had in their possession time travel technology that the have acquired or built themselves ( there have been whole story arcs based of this fact). so if the Daleks started losing you have the problem of going back in time to before the reapers really took off and knocking them on the head. but see I know that it would completely defeat the purpose of the thread if they did.

2) at least in the books from the halo universe the covenant have some really overpowered stuff like mobile staging post space stations the can deflect an impact from a small moon without losing its shields (halo: first strike, halo.wikia.com/wiki/Unyielding_Hierophant). in addition to really big ships like the assault carrier being a bit over 5 km in length and 2km wide and the battles cruiser that they use in the hundreds in some engagements being nearly 2 km long. And then there is the super carrier which is 28.9 km long 11.4 wide and 3.5 tall meaning you could fit any reaper inside it (standing up in most cases) and it is highly likely that the Nova bomb(planet cracker nuke from the UNSC only) destroyed the super carrier because it was inside the shield of the carrier. Meaning even if the reapers were vastly superior to the covenant ships nearly every way, which there is a good chance that they are, because of the fact the covenant only adapted salvaged forerunner tech not invented the stuff they use. The covenant always have the options of taking the direct approach (of ramming) or the Zentradi way of massed firepower. Also there is the slip-space FTL as well....

sorry for the rant these were facts I thought should be pointed out

P.S. I think Reapers vs Zentradi would cool as well

If I'm not completely wrong star wars shields block only lasers and reapper lasers are not lasers as you said, so that would mean that they wouldnt even touch shields.