The Reapers can't be the solution to the Fermi Paradox because the other space-faring species of the galaxy were all active during the 20th century, and had been for hundreds if not thousands of years. The vikings on Earth were still raiding European coasts during the Krogan Rebellion, for example. When Fermi proposed his paradox, the galactic community was thriving, and humans just didn't have the technology to detect that.
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The Reapers can't be the solution to the Fermi Paradox because the other space-faring species of the galaxy were all active during the 20th century, and had been for hundreds if not thousands of years. The vikings on Earth were still raiding European coasts during the Krogan Rebellion, for example. When Fermi proposed his paradox, the galactic community was thriving, and humans just didn't have the technology to detect that.
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