When they were there, they shut down into a very low power state until they got the signal from the Citadel. Its known as dark space mostly because the space between Galaxies are thought to contain very little to no amounts of matter and the distances are vast! They needed to be so far outside the Galaxy as to be undetectable to anyone looking out. You may be able to count the Reapers by the amount of estimated cycles there have been divided by the estimated start of the cycle.Īs far as Dark Space, they basically sat outside of the Galaxy. Humanity comes into contact with numerous other space.
In 2148, humanity discovered an alien outpost on Mars, and learned that Charon is actually an alien artifact known as a 'mass relay' that enables faster-than-light travel to other mass relays located across the galaxy.
I think in the Leviathan DLC, the Leviathans had said that it may have started a billion years ago when they made the algorithm to save organic species, and after many failed iterations, harvesting was the final answer.īut it took them a long time because at the beginning, there were few reapers and they didnt have the Mass Relays. The Mass Effect original trilogy takes place in a fictional version of the Milky Way towards the end of the 22nd century. There was a 37 million year old reaper that was found. They have been harvesting the Galaxy for millions of years.
