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I'm finally able to properly portray the enormity of a Reaper. The late-21st-century structures in the game are far taller and larger than in our time, so it made the Reapers look smaller than it really are. At 2 kilometers (6,561 ft) long, it's 2.4 times taller than the currently tallest building in the world, Burj Khalifa (829.8 m/2,722 ft), the tower in the center.
Can you see the 5 bold brown-gold bars at the Burj? From the base, it marks its height from around 50 m, 150 m, 250 m, 400 m, and 500 m respectively, so it's useful for comparison.
Just imagine and compare:
Its front "leg" alone is about 300 m long, nearly as long and probably as big as a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier (333 m/1,092 ft).
If it landed in a relatively flat terrain with no mountains nearby, you would be able to see it even if you're standing 200 km (125 miles) away. Heck, you might even be able to see it walking behind some mountains.
It's taller than the highest point in New York State, Mount Marcy (1.63 km/5,343 ft).
The Reaper Destroyer, its smaller variant, is 160 m tall, slightly more than the 2nd bar.
Most incarnation of Godzilla puts him and his enemies at around 50-100 m (164-328 ft). The closest building on the right side of the Burj is around 50 m, and the tallest incarnation of Godzilla at 100 m would stand around the 1st and 2nd bar.
Gipsy Danger from Pacific Rim is 79 m (260 ft), about the same height as the first setback (a step-looking recession at the building) on the right. Most Kaijus are around 92-96 m, which is slightly more than the 1st setback. The largest Kaiju ever seen, Slattern, estimated to be 181 m tall, would be able to look at the 2nd setback windows on the right.
In front of the Reapers, humans really are just mere protozoa, which is really saying something considering one of those lowlifes is able to screw up their plans and annoy them.
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Comments: 11
Neframe [2015-11-16 07:15:35 +0000 UTC]
If that thing lands here in the city I live in it would be the highest point in sweden.
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N7Cha05hunt3r [2013-11-27 13:33:54 +0000 UTC]
Okay, is now the time to panic?
This piece is a real menace but I am amazed by it. Great job
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Cylor [2013-11-26 15:29:18 +0000 UTC]
That is pretty darn cool.
I think it also kind of underscores the ultimate futility of a conventional war against the Reapers, even in 2186: there are at least 20,000 of these things. The combined human, turian, salarian, asari and volus fleets have fewer than 200 dreadnoughts. Maybe double that, factoring in the geth, quarians and what's left of the batarians. But the larger point remains.
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LazyRemnant In reply to Cylor [2013-11-26 16:27:11 +0000 UTC]
Exactly. Ever since the final scene of ME2 until ME3's release, I kept thinking, "How the hell are we supposed to win against thousands of Reapers? It took an effort of a whole fleet just to bring one down!"
A bad ending where the Reapers just win despite everyone's best effort, or at best a Pyrrhic victory, kept stuck in my mind. Fortunately they got a deus ex machina in a form of the Crucible. This is one of those few times I think the use of deus ex machina is necessary. Without it, they're absolutely unstoppable, just like in the "Refuse" ending.
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Cylor In reply to LazyRemnant [2013-11-27 06:03:53 +0000 UTC]
I've had that debate with quite a few people...many fans seem to hate the very idea of the Crucible, and up to a point, I can understand that...but there was simply no way that any sort of victory against the Reapers was ever going to be possible without a Crucible, or something else like it.
And as for the Crucible itself, I think one of the most interesting and often-overlooked aspects of it is the fact that it requires an enormous sacrifice -- an ultimate sacrifice -- in order to perform its function: either Shepard's own life, or the "lives" of all Reaper-based synthetics in the galaxy. That, in my view, redeems the Crucible and makes it much more than a "pure" deus ex machina or the kind of cheap cop-out plot device that many fans dismiss it as being.
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