Mass Effect category
Reaper
14 entries tagged Reaper, 14 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Reaper and Reaper War.
- BansheeBanshees were synthetic organic monstrosities created by the Reapers from asari who carried the Ardat-Yakshi gene. Intelligent and grotesquely biotic, they teleported across the battlefield in glowing surges and impaled their prey, and they were most often found leading a Reaper strike force.
- BruteBrutes were synthetic organic creatures the Reapers fashioned by fusing krogan and turian bodies and remaking them with their technology. Towering and heavily armored, they filled the heavy melee role in Reaper ground assaults, charging into the enemy line to crush smaller troops.
- The CrucibleThe Crucible was an ancient superweapon of unknown origin, refined across countless cycles by species hoping to stop the Reapers. Rediscovered during the Reaper invasion and built by a united galaxy, it became the last hope of organic life, completed only by joining it with the Citadel.
- HarbingerHarbinger was the first Reaper ever created, forged from the Leviathans and serving as the template for every Reaper that followed. It directed the Collectors from dark space, possessing them to fight in person, and later led the assault on Earth as the oldest and largest of its kind.
- Human-Reaper: The Proto-Reaper of the Collector BaseThe Human-Reaper was an incomplete Reaper under construction by the Collectors at their base beyond the Omega 4 Relay. Built from the liquefied remains of abducted human colonists, the larval being was meant to become a new Reaper in the image of humanity before Commander Shepard destroyed it.
- HuskHusks were synthetic-organic creatures made from the bodies of organic beings, their flesh converted into cybernetic material by Reaper technology. Mindless and aggressive, they served the Reapers and their agents as shock troops and as a weapon of terror against the living.
- IndoctrinationIndoctrination was the mind-altering effect that Reapers and their technology exerted on organic beings. Through a subtle signal or field, the Reapers eroded a victim's will until only an obedient slave remained, turning influential individuals into the instruments of the galaxy's own destruction.
- Mass relayMass relays were colossal transit devices scattered across the Milky Way that flung starships across thousands of light years in moments. Long credited to the Protheans, they were in truth built by the Reapers as part of a trap meant to shape and harvest galactic civilization.
- PraetorianThe Praetorian was a slow-moving aerial construct fielded by the Collectors, built from dozens of deformed human husks fused into a single armored body. It was armed with twin particle beams and shielded by a regenerating biotic barrier, and it served as one of the deadliest guardians of the Collectors' operations.
- RavagerRavagers were synthetic-organic creatures the Reapers fashioned from captured rachni, deployed during the Reaper War as mobile artillery that bombarded enemy positions from afar and spawned swarms of smaller creatures to harry their foes.
- Reaper WarThe Reaper War was the galaxy-wide conflict that began in 2186 when the Reapers emerged from dark space to harvest all advanced organic life. It saw the fall of Earth, Palaven, and Thessia, the forging of unlikely alliances, and a final battle over Earth that decided the fate of every species.
- ReaperThe Reapers were an ancient race of synthetic-organic starships that hibernated in dark space and returned once every fifty thousand years to harvest the galaxy's advanced life. They built the Citadel and the mass relay network to guide civilization down a predictable path, then reaped it to preserve organic life from synthetic destruction.
- Scion: Fused Husk ArtilleryScions were a heavy variant of Husk built from three human Husks fused together and grafted around a single mass effect weapon. Slow and heavily armored, they hung back from the front line and rained ranged fire and shockwaves on their targets while lesser Husks rushed ahead.
- Sovereign: the Reaper vanguard the geth called NazaraSovereign, called Nazara by the geth, was the Reaper vanguard that posed as the flagship of the rogue Spectre Saren Arterius. It spent fifty thousand years waiting to summon its kind from dark space, and in 2183 it launched the assault on the Citadel that ended in its destruction.