Thread:Wormulon/@comment-4242472-20120718001843/@comment-2199152-20120718030226

I have speculated this much in the past, but never brought it onto SporeWiki. Over the Internet, it is widely speculated that the Reapers have a hive mind and achieved singularity to some extant, and are capable of compressing space to cover vast distances in mere seconds. Also, being able to obliterate massive fleets unopposed for millions of years and are capable of crushing the Protheans and possibly more advanced precursor civilizations in a few decades or centuries, many of which can easily be a high Tier 2.

By my estimation, the Reapers could be a mid Tier 1 due to their nano tech and spatial compression capabilities and would be more than a match for many gigaquadrantic civilizations. However, they are limited to Mass Relay travel, and they may be able to be avoided due to the fact that most SporeWiki fiction (except Borealis) can travel through hyperspace without the use of Relays.

The Reapers display certain technologies that hint that they may be a Tier 1 civilization due to supposed control and perhaps even creation of wormholes and singularities and they have constructed many mega scale objects and possibly weapons. It is speculated that they possess some limited grid fire technology and can compress massive amounts of energy into minimal-scale particle beams.

Also, their indoctrination technology must be noted because they may be able to effectively crush and assimilate civilizations without firing any weapons. Their mental-manipulation technology is mostly cryptic, but it is powerful to a large extent and their nano tech is able to create shock troops by replacing organic matter with their own mechanical materials.

Again, much of this is just speculation, although it is based on what little we know of the Reapers.