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The mad crew does fit with Reaper indoctrination though.

But their MO is a lot more powerful than *just* being really old, really sentient, really big star ships.

Are the Readers the Vasari's enemy? No, not really for obvious reasons. Yes, a setting featuring massive numbers of massive spaceships means that huge sentient capital ships aren't outside of reality as the Citadel species understand it, but the Reapers do *plenty* more than just that. It also plays up the Eldritch part of them. Especially given the time lapse involving at *least* Mass Effect 3 coming out which shows that the Citadel races *aren't* exactly limited to a collective BSOD.

Now, this is a late entry, but given the timeline for these posts, it's pretty clear that at *least* this is obsolete, and the above Troper *seriously* underestimated the power the Reapers are capable of.

This troper stands by his original claim: the Vasari are running from something with powers beyond imagination something having more in common with a black hole, supernova, or pulsar than a simple armada of warships.

The Vasari are up against a big unknown, something that violates their views on reality so totally that it drives them mad. Yes Reapers are big, bad, and powerful, but they are still perfectly acceptable within a reality filled with space battleships. The Reapers barely manage a collective BOSD among the Citadel races, coming nowhere near mind rape territory. A reaction to them would be more along the lines of "oh shit, we're f***ed" as apposed to clawing one's eyes out. Anyway, the Reapers are basically a race of ancient sentient capital ships, little more. They've probably already figured out how to root out that nasty "destroy all life" bug. If we humans who haven't even begun to master nanotech can see its possible dangers, so can the Vasari. Getting bit in the ass by it wouldn't drive anyone insane, though it might be slightly surprising at first. The Vasari use nanotechnology all the time. Whatever the Vasari are running from ain't pretty and is far more dangerous than anything you or I could fathom. Think less Cylons/Geth and more along the lines of Cthulhu and the Elder Gods. Only a single Vasari warship ever survived contact with whatever this enemy is, with the ship's crew was driven made with fear.

Considering the fact the Vasari make heavy use of nanotechnology, this sounds plausible at first, but when you really think about it long enough, it is pretty unlikely.

The Vasari enemy is an army of rogue AI constructsBetween the Flotilla fleeing from the Geth in Mass Effect and the Colonial Fleet legging it from the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica, the Vasari story has some strong precedent resonance.