Mass Effect - Sovereign's Assault

[2muchspendtime]

"Citadel controll! Citadel controll do you copy?" Those were exact lines from Fallout 3 Broken Steel =D

[FreonRose]

it's almost as if to say "hey i just want to go home get a few buddies and we'll have a party on your lawn no biggy. there will be women and beer and wait till you see the finaly where we litterally burn your house down to the ground then collectivly piss on the ashes just for kicks. I mean reaper assault is covered on your home owner's insurance right?" lol

[xPloSiVgT]

Sovereign is such a gangster

[mamobster1500]

The first 5 seconds just make ya go oh shit

[GangsterHutterite]

Enemy rock lobster!

[Darkwarlord1533]

at 0:58 Saren walking away looks like the ultimate badass

[sartte]

Renagade Asari!?!?

[Killswitch342]

00:12 looks like the scen efrom Halo 2 when the Covenant armada locates Earth... how original.

[QuassDebonair]

@Killswitch342 in case you haven't noticed nothings original anymore. Halo rips off other things as well.

[551Music]

@Killswitch342 umad? lol

[TheBalls17]

Sup guys? I'm soverign, I came here to bring my buddies in you're galaxy. We throw a party every 50 thousand years or so. a few years back we found out our parties get a little out of control. We all get shit faced than we somehow eradicate all life in the galaxy. When we found this out we thought, well what the fuck? We all felt really bad. but than the genocide life grew on. So now when we come to party we kill the shit out of all of you. And that sums up why we kill you noobs every 50000 yrs

[MrBillhj]

This is my hypothesis, the original builders of the reaper ships became indoctrinated by their own creations whenever the reapers rebelled in an event similar to the geth's rebellion against the quarians.

[sartte]

0:53 Citadel Control is takin a long dirt nap.

[GvasOfVanargand13]

This is what will happen in Mass Effect 3.

Except that for every Geth ship that is in this video, there will be one Reaper.

Yeah, we're screwed.

[tenou123]

Just did the math (bored). Each of the Destiny Ascension's main gun shots have a force of 644 kilotons (644,000 tons), instead of the usual 36 k. At that speed, aiming would be much easier as well, making this ship the most accurate dreadnought as well as the most powerful.

[tenou123]

PS: The Destiny Ascension's main gun is a great deal more powerful than the usual 36-kiloton (that's 36,000 tons) per shot. It's four times longer than the largest human dreadnought and much bigger as well. Instead of the usual 800m cannon and 20-kilo projectile, it could well be firing a 40-kilo shot and accelerating it to over 4 times the normal speed, exponentially increasing the resulting force of the shot to preposterous levels

[tenou123]

General Statement: The Destiny Ascension's gun couldn't fire because the Geth and Sovereign were too close. Its range is measured in tens of thousands of kilometers, so it couldn't aim.

(Considering sovereign's sheer size, the explanation that it couldn't aim is bollocks, but that's what canon indicates.)

[cami80104]

sovereign looks like a squid at first but a lobster at second

[TheNinjacat12]

i thought that geth was legion then...

[sakaraist]

@dinkcool

because if the ascension fires its main weapon (a 20 kilo slug with the force of a 36 ton nuclear weapon) it would probably destroy the citadel and every ship around it too lol

[notfromphoenix]

@sakaraist Then why the hell is the gun so damn big? The Ascension's main purpose is to protect the Citadel, so if it's armaments destroy the Citadel itself then, why?

[Apocol0id]

@astro568 What? Hah! Huh?

[Poondaddy804]

Ramirez! Take that reaper down!

[dinkcool]

could someone explain to me why none of the ships use their main guns? The main gun of the ascension would be able to take out sovereign in one shot.

[Nightfox141]

@dinkcool uh.... no

[GoldenHurricane]

I know Sovereign is just a giant lobster spaceship, but I swear, after he makes the jump in the beginning, he moves almost like he has an aura of authority.

[killnewb]

I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite space battle on the Citadel.

[CrypticWatcher]

Would fried turians taste like chicken?

[ImCool771]

@CrypticWatcher idk we should try it.

[CrypticWatcher]

@ImCool771 Incendiary Ammo

[1Aranil2]

I remember the Geth dropships from ME1, and when I saw one for the first time, me and my little FemShep Infiltrator felt so damn small. Then this came and showed how big Sovereign actually was. Damn that shit was epic... :)

[lewis4642011]

@astro568 once i read ramirez i was crying with laughter

[GodofChaos45]

I love the song when sovereign enters the arms and heads for the presidium. It's cool.

[bestechbg]

I am never eating sushi again...

[incinerator327]

CITADEL CONTROL IS DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!NOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Deregor09]

Turin peacemaker my ass

[ForerunnerConstruct]

All shall fear the space octopus and it's legions.

[SuperHaloStarwarsFan]

Holy Bitch.

PS- To any SoaSE fans, doesn't Sovereign look like a Reverence-class Battlecruiser @ 0:07?

[Shatteredworld]

@SuperHaloStarwarsFan =O

[BumperSticker95]

"I am Sovereign. And this station is MINE"

[acboyer83]

Ok to all those who wished to get something epic in ME2 like this just remember... Hoth was no Death Star battle... but the lack of an epic battle in Empire was forgotten as soon as the Battle of Endor started in Return of the Jedi. ME2 sets up the pins for ME3 to knock down. When ME3 hits I hope everyone has got their diapers on cause we are all going to crap our collective pants.

[MarcusKiner]

I follow you a bit, but I will add to your analogy on Hoth to Mass Effect 2. The story was much, much darker, and as a player you feel a bit more connected because the ending is sort of an ultimatum.

[maxmachines]

@acboyer83 ooook... you do know that not even a word makes sense do you?

[liidan15]

cause Mass Effect 3 is gonna be more epic....duh lol

[MrAdmiralsnackbar]

I was disappointed when Mass Effect 2 didint have something as epic as this scene.

[RocknLauncher017]

the suicide mission was awsome. besides, its like the conflict in the game, like no one is gunna help you because your working with cerberus

[xxGitty101xx]

Well, the relays themselves are based on Reaper technology. It is possible that they could adapt their own technology in order to make the journey from Dark Space.

Pesh, we'll find out next year ^^

[SuperElReno]

I bet when Sovereign died it sent out a message telling the other reapers to awaken and that its time

[Cordar]

No, just no. The Harbinger was already active at work all the way, just busy elsewhere. It was only after the Collector base was destroyed that the Harbinger saw the necessity to wake up the Reaper fleet, which it did.

[ApocDevTeam]

What happens when you send a mass relay through a mass relay? :D

[darfjono]

shit fucking blows up everywhere forever

[33hegemon]

Fuck yeah, Sovereign doesn't even need a gun, he just barges through his enemies! LOL

[dano25655]

This reminds me of the scene from Serenity, when the Reavers comes out of the electrical storm.

[xBruce88x]

@dano25655 lol yea that was a pretty good scene, too bad they scrapped the tv series (The movie finished it up i guess)

very good game, i've got about have of the acheivements, the only ones i'm missing are things like kill "x" amount with "x" weapons and the renegade

[ZeeZarian]

I've been wondering: What happens if no-one ever sends the signal to the hibernating Reapers telling them it's time to return? Do they just remain in limbo forever? Or is there some point where they automatically awaken if too much time passes?

[po0po0nanA]

sovereighn was probably in contact with the other reapers through the game

[JCDentonCZ]

Well, at least the ME2 ending shows that the Reapers are coming, and are awakened.

Luckily they dont seem to have super fast hyperdrives or mass relays nearby ;) They should've thought of that..

[ViktorDragoon]

I am sure they are not in any rush, they are eternal after all =P, but yeah they should have had a backup way into the galaxy.

[Cordar]

They most likely got the means to enter the galaxy. (how else would they position the mass relays across the galaxy in the first place?) They just weren't jumping in the scene partly because everyone had not awakened yet, and partly because they are in no real hurry. And taking down a whole galaxy without the Citadel as the entry point will take a long time. So might as well take it slow and be very thorough, and indoctrinate along the way, create an army to support them etc.

[JCDentonCZ]

Understandable, there. Still, judging the many references in-game mentioning 'in 1 year this, in 1 year that'; Would it be possible for the Reapers to start in 1 year, or would we, more logically put, have around a 5 to 10 year time gap?

Either way, agreed; they have all the time in the galaxy, so there's no rush for them. Definitely agreeing with your analysis there, Cordar.

[Cordar]

That would depend on how effective their preparations are. Information must be gathered, as well as allies.. mostly indoctrinated slaves to use as soldiers or infiltrators.

Sovereign had to work for centuries to get what he needed. But with a fleet of hundreds or thousands, the preparations might just take a couple of years at least.

[paper2537]

@Cordar aaah teleport!:!::!#>???@!

[Kujakuseki01]

I think that the distance from DARK SPACE to the MILKY WAY is SO MASSIVE that it is taking them a long long long fucking time. In conventional terms, it would take hundreds and hundreds of years at light speed to reach it. Possibly thousands of years.

This is fiction, though, so the Reapers may have the ability to fly in or something.

[Cordar]

If every race travelled at light speed, then they would not had gotten anywhere in any reasonable amount of time. The races in Mass Effect travels faster than light speed.

But besides that, the Reapers either got the speed to move even faster, or they got a "back door" somewhere.

[askjiir]

@Kujakuseki01

It would at take tens of thousands of years at the very least.

[Kujakuseki01]

They were sitting and waiting for the Citadel relay to become active. They DID think of it, it just never happened.

[askjiir]

@ZeeZarian

That's the thing. The signal was never sent, and that's why they had to do things differently to return.

Sovereign was a sleeper agent in the milky way, watching on behalf of the other reapers in dark space.

[Executus300]

When I first saw the transmission from Eden Prime I swear I thought Sovereign looked like a giant hand reaching down from space.

[Kikuta1Kotaro]

LOL it looks like a cuttlefish and his brood as the sovereign an the geth attacks the citadel^^

[Uglamre]

OMFG ITS A FUCKING LOBSTER!

[DreadLordBalnazaar]

@Uglamre Lobschtersch are EEEEVUUUULLLL!!!!!!!

[Ithirid]

@Uglamre A HEAVY METAL LOBSTER

*puts on sunglasses* YEAH

[wargenie]

sovereign is the best character

[0neofthem]

the best cutscene is when the alliance takes down sovereign.

[makka432]

Sovereign looks like a giant cuttlefish.

[runefan213]

i somehow agree with you.

At first sight i thought it looked like

The hand of nod than i went

Whoa cthulhu

[MIlarkey]

@makka432 according to mass effect wiki thats exactly what they are based off of, cuttlefish

[Sander176Cohen]

@makka432  i thought he looked like a giant squid

[uio223]

@makka432 Its based of the reaper cuttlefish Hence the name "REAPER"

[RizonReason]

@makka432 the giant cuttlefish of DOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM

[Palafico3]

@makka432 if only they were as cute and cuddly as them.

[ThaPoopa]

Sovereign looks just a little bit like my Shepard's-

[ThaPoopa]

About the same size, too!

[ThaPoopa]

Sovereign looks like a gigantic claw.

[bevonator]

looks more like a giant squid lol

[cadettony712]

well if a repear ship look like dat of course they darken da sky they so DAMN BIG! i dont know how da fuck we gonna fair against da army if 1 ship almost killed everyone!

[ghost1800]

Well to be fair, it was probably the geth ships that inflicted the most damage initially. Sovereign just plowed right through everything to get inside the citadel.

Of course that doesn't leave us in a much better scenario, just imagine if sovereign had actually mopped up everything before going in.

[danyeo]

Sovereign's main objective was to bring the other Reapers into Citadel Space. The Citadel fleet was probably not considered a threat. Later in this battle Sovereign was taking down those heavy attack ships with one shot. Those ships are over 1 mile long according to the data base info in the game. To one-shot a ship that's over 1 mile long means incredible power. And i believe Sovereign actually took down about 3 ships all at the same time. The Reapers are plain scary.

[mamobster1500]

@danyeo are you talking about when he beamed those alliance ships

[nyuurocks]

Wait,so the Council wasn't on the Destiny Ascension?The asari lady said evacuate the Council,but Saren was already there.

[humanbaraccuda]

You know what it takes to turn a dreadnought around, and use the weapons at that range? They were and easy pray for geth at that range.

[Jort007]

Lol you don't see saren's ear things.

[CircleOfHatred]

might of one reaper....

[saviordd1]

ya.. imagine if soverign DID open the citdel mass relay? haha they can barly stand up to one, what about 1000?