Could the Star Wars Galaxy Survive a Reaper Invasion? Mass Effect vs Star Wars 

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“Ah, yes, 'Reapers'. The immortal race of sentient starships allegedly waiting in dark space. We have dismissedthis that claim.”.

The Reapers have 2 things you need to consider. They are half organic, half machine. Secondly, they are extremely thorough in galaxy surveying and mapping. In Jedi Knight, we learn of an ancient temple capable of infusing someone not force sensitive with the force, making them force sensitive. Over time, they become strong with the force. If the Reapers discover this, they would literally become a race of gods instead of just being titanic nightmares.

Reapers invade. Some blue guy, “Do they by any chance like art?”

Short answer: yes Long answer: yes!

Additional fun thought: the Reapers and Yuuzhan Vong end up running into each other while both are en route to their invasions. Or just invading simultaneously.

I think The Old Republic era would have been more interesting because it contains weapons such as The Eternal Fleet, The Grave Stone, Iokath, The Silencers and many other such weaponry that seems to have been lost in the few thousands years, as well as having force welders such as Emperor Valkorion. And yes I know this is not cannon anymore but it would still be interesting.

The Reapers are ancient, and patient in the extreme. More, they are in a perfect position to start influencing droids. The fundamental question is--how does the Force react to them?

There're a few caveats with this, however, that make this whole thing far less straightforward though. First of all, the Reapers also harvest all technology from those civilizations they conquer - which means they'd likely very quickly obtain hyperspace capability - as well as superior weapons and shielding, so long as they were careful not to draw too much attention to themselves and stuck to either salvaging old and ancient wrecks of ships/weapons until they got a hang on the design/function of said tech and had the chance to produce enough themselves to upgrade their forces, plus if they hit severally isolated worlds with little-to-no contact with the galaxy at large, they MIGHT be able to build up their forces of indoctrinated and converted forces - maybe even manage to produce another Reaper or two depending on a plethora of factors. But, here's where things get REALLY tricky. The Reapers are made from living creatures - in some astoundingly horrific ways I might add - and there's no way that wouldn't hit every force-wielder like a freight train. I imagine it would feel like the Jedi purge or the destruction of Alderaan except drawn WAY out, and would almost certainly create more than a few major Force wounds - Hell, I imagine that through the Force, the Reapers look like a never-ending fireworks display of horribleness. They may even carry Force wounds within them or count a wound themselves which brings me to this question, which threatens to throw every other easement into uncertainty; Would the Reapers have the potential to harness the dark side of the Force? Even if their origin from a universe without midichlorians make them unable to, their very presence would almost certainly throw the Force into chaos - add in indoctrination allowing them to more or less rewire an organic's brain into a state that would also lean more towards the dark side, and it makes answering a question like this much harder than what it seems at first. Granted, I still think the Star Wars universe would win, but it could be far more costly than first surmised. That's my thoughts on it anyways.

The Star War Galaxy could probably survive & even defeat a Reaper invasion, though dozens if not hundreds of planets would be decimated, either from successful Reaper ground invasion or from orbital bombardments to stop the spread of ground based Reaper forces. It would have to take a long time for the Reapers to defeat the Star War Galaxy, probably by long-term indoctrination.

Reapers vs Flood

Reverse the situation! Can the mass effect universe survive an attack from....da deth stahh!?

i always wondered how the reapers would do against the flood and ask myself questions like: can the logic plague affect the reapers? can graveminds be indoctrinated? like seriously

Can the Covenant invade coruscant?

Woudlt it be more logical, that if the reapers are already spectating the star wars galaxy for a long time, that they would use es oppertunity to start their attack during the clone wars? The reapers would get several advantages: 1- The force sensitive (Jedi/Sith) are completly busy by fighting in the war and or leading forces 2- The Reapers in ther kind of being as mechanicle hive mind could be abled to take over the droids of the seperatists, and even increase them by software upgrades like they did with the geth. 3- The Reapers could also use the entier seperatist forces by indoctrinating for example count dooku, in mass effect you can see, that characters with a high personal interest in might, progress or strength are more vulnerable to indoctrination thats nowhere in the literature but its pretty obviouse to see. If the reapers would have offered the seperatists a deal, its would be easy for them to indoctrinate dooku. Giving them an enormous extra forces and more important an force sensitive being that they can control and maybe improve. 4- (Here I estimate that point 3 alreasy has happend or is happening atm) While the military forces of the republic are out in war against the seperatist forces, the Reapers could try to sneak in the core and start a full invasion of coruscant leading to the death of the leading jedis, politicians and most important palpatine. In Mass effect it always was the first point on the repears to do list to destroy the galaxys government (citadel trap), and in ME3 we learn, that the moment from where you can notice the reapers with scanners to the moment they arrive and attack ist pretty damn short and definitly to short to call back your forces that are in battles elsewhere. The reapers couldt beat the entire galaxy in an all out war, but overwhelming one plant even an extremly guarded one like courucsant should work. The created chaos and the controlled seperatist forced should make the reapers an extremly great threat to the galaxy. 5-(This one is completly speculative and an own idea) In the ME Universe FTL drives are realised by the mass effect cores in the spacecrafts, this mass effect cores are able to manipulate gravity and the reapers have far more powerful cores. While there are indeed no Mass relays in the star wars galaxy there are hyperlane routes, large pretty damn empty corridores where ships can travel safely in FTL Drive. Imageine the Reapers could make use of the mass effect cores to create, manipulate the mass in these corridores and force for example greate gas clouds to move into the lanes, making them impossible to pass and even worse, leading to the destruction of all ships trying to use it.The Reapers created the Mass relays, which use their cores to create an matter free lane to travel, who says, that they cant build a station that can do vice versa with an hyperlane route? The Reapers were always great in adapapting their strategies, at least thats what we learn from javik in ME3, and also what we see in the games. in ME They used the Geth against the Quarians, their brute force against the turians knowing that they wouldnt stand a chance with their all out war mentalitiy, prevent the krogans from becoming a factor in a invasion on galaxy scale by defending the mantle, indoctrinating cerberus to gaining another army, and IF ME1 would have failed first strike on the citadel wiping out the government, and blocking access to the mass relays. Using the weakspots of your enemy was always the reapers key to success. their strategy in the star wars galaxy should be the same, because we learn that the reapers adapt there strategy based on their enemy but the main points always stay the same. first strike in the political heart --> attack coruscant indoctrinating native forces --> seperatists disableing ftl access (blocking access to mass relays) --> destroying hyperlane routes wiping out species for species creating new reapers --> same brining the AI on their side and improving them (Geth) --> droids Reapers always plan their invasion for a long long time, making them extremly dangerous because they know you but you dont know them. I believe that the reapers could win vs the starwars galaxy, not by brute force but by strategy. So if the reapers would plan to invade the star wars galaxy, they would plan for hundreds or thousands of years, and I am pretty sure, that they would only attack if they see an oppertunity that would pay out great for them like the clone wars.

Leviathans: see that their slaves get exterminated by AI Also Leviathans: to solve this problem... they make an AI bruh moment par excellence

Everyone forgets that the Star Wars galaxy has a Death Star and millions of ships capable of combat.

The UNSC vs The Mandalorians

Reaper and all mass effect ftl without relays are slow as fuck. They would be screwed

Someone in Star wars: "Oh no the reapers are atacking!" Me: "Call the Star Forges" ( There are a few left, but no one knows where they are)

There should be a Crossover Movie or television series of Star Wars and Mass Effect with the Jedi & Sith and they're Armies both teaming up for the first time to fight against the Reapers

I have three suggestions Reapers vs The Borg The Flood vs The Usong Vong UNSC Earth Defense Fleet vs the Republic Fleet present at the Battle of Curosant (I don't know how well the numbers of ships line up, but is interesting regardless)

Actualy i dont think the reapers would even try to attack the SW in numbers! And without a warning they may be already to strong embeded in the galaxy for even Palpatine or Vader to do anything! Plus the Reapers could harvest Outer Rim planets and grow their numbers way before anyone could notice!

I’m imagining Starkiller ripping a reaper apart with the force like that star destroyer

This concept would make a terrific fan film. There's so many directions you could go in with the story.

Well, one direction we could go after this... a fully infected Flood galaxy versus the Reaper Armada?

The video was great! One small err though. You mentioned that the Reaper forces consist of thousands of ships, but throughout the ME trilogy there are at least a few times where their numbers are said to be in the hundreds of thousands. This could perhaps make some sort of difference in the invasion (not likely enough to turn the tide, however).

I disagree heavyly based on some wrong assumptions by our dear Ladder 1. Since the SW Turbolasers use Plasma the Kinetic Barriers are effective because plasma has mass that can be stopped. 2. The non Reaper Ships in ME use Laserbased weapons for fights within 10 km range and reaper shields are effective against those too. 3. reapers have incredible hard armor to the point where entire fleets shoot them and it takes virtualy ages to bring them down even if the shields are offline. 4.reapers can easyly take over the droids in SW as with the Geth in ME. With an army of assasin robots, astromecs that sabotage the SW ships, tactical droids that provide fatal wrong data to the comanders etc. the empire will have a hard time fighting with max power. 5. Reapers have time. centurys of time to prepare. they would start to subtile indoctrinate planets in the outer rim, use the ships they have and augment them like with the collectors maximising numbers and firepower on there side. 6. Reapers are genius, they contain the combined mind of an entire species per reaper. from the first plantes they indoctrinate they learn all the weapons, common strategies and other intel of the SW galaxy. 7. Reaper ships have an much much higher effective fire range and 100% hit rate. Stardestroyers rarely hit things that are small or fast or halfway far away. 8. Sith are already corrupt and therefor in my thought easy to indoctrinate. 9.Reapers have the ability to fight anywhere, dictating the battlefield conditions. SW ships have been shown to have trouble with gravitation, nebulas and other space occurences like steroid fields. 10.sw already has hunge inner trouble and would not be able to to figh the reapers full force

I think people really overhype the Reapers, they are not invincible gods - their main advantage is that they could isolate empires by shutting down the mass relay network. Rather than facing a united Galaxy they could take out smaller garrisons at their leisure. They also didn't mind taking their time with planets, starving them, having generations grow up in an apocalyptic war where they are not even aware that there is a galaxy-spanning empire, etc. Another thing is that this network allowed them to sow dissent in galaxy's before-hand. While this might be possible in the starwars universe even without that advantage (maybe trying to play forces against one another such as aiding another droid uprising.) they would most certainly not have something like the Geth assisting them. I also don't think they'd work with the Rebel Alliance as they seem to prefer Artificial life much more than organic life for grand scale operations.

Replicators vs Empire/Rebels/Republic/CIS/Flood/UNSC/Covenant or anyone else or even all of them

Can the Star Wars Galaxy defeat an Ori Invasion? BC-304 Odyssey (Post-Unending, but no ZPM) vs Imperial-II Star Destroyer

Javik actually mentions a planet in the citadel DLC that was so lethal to invade they decided to destroy it from orbit, so I would say since Javik mentions that, the reapers gave the capability of glassing a planet as well.

Man...this is such a cool topic. I'd love to see a fan made CGI film showing the invasion and some major battles between the Reapers and the Empire and Rebels.

You're just pumping these out, good job man.

Galaxy vs galaxy vs galaxy, Star Wars vs Halo vs Mass effect. A massive series encompassing everything from each universe it would be crazy

It would be fun to see an animation of these two sides clashing on each other

I know little to nothing about Mass effect, but this was a good listen. Nice job!

Retribution class battleship (Warhammer 40k) vs UNSC Infinity (Halo)

Cybermen vs Empire

Don't the Salarians primarily use 'ultraviolet lasers'? The geth and quarians seem to often use energy weapons, too. Asari, quite possibly, too. I don't think it's true to say most weapons in the 'Mass Effect' continuity are projectile based.

As always, the Reapers' greatest weapon is their stealth and subversion. They would have key people indoctrinated before attacking, like they did to the Batarian Empire. They would also find ways to reconfigure what unknown tech or challenge to be an advantage for themselves.

10 American m1a2 tanks vs 1 AT-AT walker

4:44 If i recall corectly, the "Hand of Thrawn" dDuology puts the number of imperial star desroyers (the also mhave smaller ships) at ~60 thousand.

What if the Millennium Falcon *IS* a Reaper? Did the key Rebels spend lots of time around it? Check. Was it present at key setbacks for the Empire? Check.

The Reapers are such an interesting foe, I hope if there is any more Mass Effect games, we see the Reapers again. Their war was terrifying, but also amazing to witness.

liked and subscribed dude. The Reapers are smarter than that. They are going to start much like they did in ME 1. They would start as one, like Sovereign posing as just a ship. This one Reaper would make itself available to someone greedy for power they could not get otherwise someone corruptable who no one would suspect. They would gather Intel. probably reactivating the droid army and using them to build up shock troopers while analyzing the galaxy for quick travel routs, finding the the weak spots. They would probably his in the outer rim. once they have built a sizable force of shock troopers and indoctrinated individuals "Sovereign " would signal the invasion. The rebels would be overwhelmed. there were Millions of Reapers in ME3. some big like Harbinger, some smaller like ther reaper on Rannoch. All with the capability to indoctrinate. The empire would be next. They would go after the Super Weapon first swarming it. The death star is one weapon that could stop them quickly. just hit a nearby planet with Reapers on it you cut down numbers. husks would swarm Coruscant and other populated epicenters, but Reapers haven't encountered the force. It's highly possible that the Emperor and Vader could do damage there. The imperial fleet can sure as hell wreak havoc provided they aren't all indoctrinated.

the red ribbon army vs the Empire in a planetary invasion

God damn, can you imagine how awesome a movie of this would be?

A Reaper trying to kill a Star Destroyer is like a wasp trying to kill a human in armor.

Step 1: find and indoctrinate our favorite admiral (Thrawn) Step 2: let him figure out how to win

I thought the Reapers numbered in the millions? "our numbers shall darken the sky of every world" - sovereign he could just be lying, though.

You are scary good at setting up invasion plans

This is the fan speculation I never thought I needed.

Reapers: We have indoctrination Star Wars: *and we have the high ground*

*Tau Empire vs Covenant* or *Tau Empire vs UNSC*

3:50 That scout trooper on the speeder bike. S/He are like "Hi Lord Vader, lovely planet we're subjugating, right?"

I’d love to see Vader’s main ship just rip through the reapers

Halo Wraith Tank VS Separatist AAT Droid Tank

The beat playing in the background is tony castle heart in the pipes

Reapers: we are your impending extinction. Obi-Wan: Hello there 👋 Palatine: GOOD!! GOOD!!

Very well thought out

Do you think you could try something involving the 40k universe? Like could the Star Wars universe survive an invasion from the Imperium of Mankind/Chaos and the warp/Tyranids/Ork *Waaagh* /Tau/Necrons/(Dark)Eldar etc. There is just so much potential here and I'd love for you to explore it. :)

masterchief and cortana vs all the governments of earth 2017

"Unless I missed it, the Star Wars Galaxy doesn't have Mass Relays." Well...there used to be Hyperspace Cannons...

Biggest weakness of the Reapers is their historic tactic to shut off target race's access to Mass Relay FTL to limit their ability to reinforce and re-supply. The Empire has a Galaxy wide logistical structure designed to support the Imperial Navy. Also, its never been shown for the Reapers to have their own dedicated logistical base beyond the Collector's base to turn captured organic matter into new Reapers. The Empire would be able to not only project power against the Reapers, but logistically maintain that force as well.

One man's opinion? I thought you were a dog

Please do Flood vs xenomorphs

@4:48 most of the songs you use are in my music playlist, for a second there I thought I accidentally played that song by accident :D

The Death Star vs. a gimungus robotic cockroach! F**k yeah!!!

Grand Admiral Thrawn vs Captain Picard (identical fleets, umpteenth try)

I’m curious how you would have a new opinion about a reaper invasion five years later? Especially since there’s probably a lot more information about the reapers available.

Honestly, your methodology is bang on. As long they kept from acting overtly until after Endor, I’d give them 50/50 odds.

I just imagine some powerful Sith Lord like Nihilus floating through the galaxy in the body of a defeated Reaper. I'd like to see you do one of the Reapers vs one of the sentient droid races in Star Wars.

The Dalek Empire vs The Empire.

I see the Reapers indoctrinating Palpatine and Vader, actually. Under the promise of even greater power, they would wade deep into darkness, ruling with ever more ruthlessness until they're wiping out worlds by the dozen. All the while, thinking it's their own idea...

Now I have the answers to a question that's so nerdy,I can't believe I haven't thought of it before.

I would love to see more Mass Effect in this series.

F-61 Trident (Mass Effect, Alliance Fighter) vs. TIE/LN TIE Fighter

This is a joke of a video. There are 25 thousand star destroyers. And thats only 1 class if ships. In mass effect we only got to see 200 some reaper ships at the ending of Me2. Make it max 1000 reapers attacking the galaxy. They would get destroyed with ease

I knew I wasn't the only one who wanted to see a fleet of Star Destroyers going against the Reapers

Dont forget that the reapers can also turn any population into their own soldiers on a near whim ex. The husks and all those they changed in the 3rd so quickly using the enemy soldiers against them so their brute force isnt conpletely incompetent but like you said their are too many to fight back so it all depends how quickly they can turn out more forces to combat the counter forces.

Vader versus a Dalek

What is the song playing at the end? Someone please enlighten me

Legends Luke just tearing open a black hole and pushing all the reapers into it 😂

Force sensitive individuals would surely sense something is off when around a Reaper and, if trained enough, probably fight indoctrination and warn others about it.

One thing I just thought of, is that the Reapers might not stay completely technologically stagnant once they start trying to subvert the galaxy. In Mass Effect, they built new Reapers from organic races, and since the Empire was able to quietly eradicate worlds of life like Geonosis, they might be able to do so as well and build up their forces whilst doing their subtle indoctrination plan. I also thing this prompt idea could be very interesting in some different starting conditions as well. During the clone wars for example, the galaxy's politics was being completely fractured and manipulated into something new by the Emperor, not to mention the galaxy-wide war. The Reapers could probably take advantage of the fragile state of things to quickly gain an upper hand. Another thing to note is since the Reapers built the Mass Effect Relays and citadel, is they might be able to do so more. Creating what would essentially be brand new secret hyperspace lanes over time for use by themselves and factions acting within their plans would be a very powerful tool. And if they somehow brought the mass relays AND Citadel with them at the beginning, both of those pieces of technology would be of great use to a faction like the Rebellion or CIS. Since the rebellion liked having a mobile high command and the Citadel is supposedly indestructible and Mobile, they might be persuaded to make use of it. Just some random prompt ideas I got thinking about...

Covenant empire vs the Imperial Empire The Covenant empire have found another forerunner portal that leads them to the star wars galaxy into the unknown region and they start to expand their empire from there.

Also, what if The Force Itself interferes with Indoctrination? ....OK, THAT would mean that the Reapers would be in even bigger trouble.

Can the 40k galaxy survive a reaper's invasion? The Imperium: you picked the wrong house fool!!!

Harbinger vs. Star destroyer.

Could Oryx, The Taken King, from Destiny invade the Star Wars Universe?

Would be interesting to see how the Vong would react to the reapers tbh

Now I have to play the entire series again.

The Twilight vs. Slave 1

Here are some match up ideas that don’t include Halo in cause you start to feel burnt out on it (Star craft) Battle cruiser vs Raider class corvette (Star craft) Protoss Carrier vs Venanator (Mass effect) Destiny ascension vs Victory one class star destroyer (Mass effect) alliance cruiser vs Corellian corvette (Star trek) Intrepid class vs Arquintes class light cruiser

Imagine Turian Husks with Force Sensitivity, let alone Saran with such

It’s all fun and games until Lord Vader pulls a reaper out of the sky using the Force 🤣

Mantis vs at st

The Reapers are incredibly patient. I think they would wait and watch and when the Rebels finally defeat the Empire and the ruling faction is scattered, they would take advantage of the Remnants desperation. They would indoctrinate entire fleets by offering up their forces and there would be no Emperor or Vader to stop them. When the New Republic finally realizes what’s going on it will be too late. The Remnants would be unified, they could hold off Republic Capitol ships while the Reapers took the fight to the ground where there firepower is superior.

Palpatine: Vader, assemble your A-team Vader: "Thrawn, Tarkin....Gonk droid, get ur asses to Coruscant.....shits about to get real"