Originally Posted by
May90
I don't know, a giant T-800 was a bit awkward... The overall suicide mission was awesome, I agree, but the human Reaper was a joke, IMO.
Well, a EMP blast of a certain signature, potentially, can make some really complex change. If you make a very-very precise frequency line, you theoretically could, pretty much, cause any genetic change in any organic in the universe (if we ignore the uncertainty principle, of course, which probably would make it impossible on the scale of the whole galaxy). Also, the zero element lacks any really detailed explanation in Mass Effect, so it is possible it has some really weird properties making it much easier to do what this blast does - since the Reapers can affect organic minds by emitting certain waves, I guess other drastic effects are also possible.
In the first case, I don't think coming back with vengeance after the Reapers have already been defeated is very logical...
But I like the second possibility. I would actually, probably, prefer that among all other possibilities.
Not really. Controllable radiation is actually often used in medicine to remove cancer knots, to help the skin recover after chemical damage, to kill various viruses without negatively affecting the organism. And we are only starting to reap benefits of this technology, there are way more advanced projects, and, I believe, controllable DNA change is already possible by these methods, we just do not understand DNA well enough to really achieve anything useful with it.
The Crucible has been built for a long time, maybe for millions years. It is logical that they would be able to perfect the technology in the meantime.
Not really. Remember that the mass effect is not just Higgs-like way to affect particle masses, it is more of a way to affect the space-time itself. If the eezo particle-waves are emitted before the main blast, then it can theoretically travel at any speed - of course, it depends on what the eezo really is, as the information we have in the game on this is quite scarce.
We don't know how many of them are left, we just met only 3. They themselves said that many of them scattered in hidden corners of the Galaxy, so potentially there might be thousands, if not millions, more of them.