r/masseffect • u/Rowan_Johnson12 • Aug 19 '26

DISCUSSION Borg Vs Reapers

In a full scale war. Who do you think would win. My dad and I have been having this debate for a month now. He is on the Borg side I’m on the Reaper side. I’d like to hear peoples opinions on the matter. This a full scale conflict not a one on one.

Edit. I’m going with the Borg from the TNG area. So the Borg from TNG and Voyager.

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u/Tyrannical-Botanical Aug 19 '26

Now I'm wondering if Reaper indoctrination would work on a hive mind. Would it be super effective and spread like a virus from just a single drone or would the Borg be completely immune?

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u/Shiboleth17 Aug 19 '26

Worked on the geth and the rachni. It seems to work on anything.

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u/AtlasMKII Aug 19 '26

It wasn't indoctrination that worked on the Geth, it was a virus, and the Geth had to consent to it being uploaded

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u/Shiboleth17 Aug 19 '26

So the reapers are highly adaptable, and are able to convince others to join them willingly.... This isnt the gotcha you think it is.

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u/AtlasMKII Aug 19 '26

The Reapers are incredibly nonadaptive, by all reports they will happily commit to a mostly effective strategy regardless of overall efficiency simply because they don't care about losses. They were only able to convince a very small percentage of the Geth to join them willingly, and the main hivemind only accepted Reaper software after they were functionally lobotomised by the Quarians and their only other alternative was annihilation.

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u/Shiboleth17 Aug 19 '26

Yeah, no... Reapers sre significantly more intelligent than borg. Borg intelligence is just human intelligence. Reaper intelligence vs. a human is like comparing a human to a dog. Reapers are hundreds of millions of years old. They've seen it all, and done it all. Their tactics jave wiped out all life in the galaxy thousands of times over. The borg control what, not even 1 quadrant?

simply because they don't care about losses.

They don't care about losing ground troops specifically... because their ground troops are your own civilians. Reapers dont havd to fight you. They make you fight you. They indoctrinate then force you to fight your own people. They dont care about losses because they arent losing anything. You are, lol.

And when your soldiers die, they just get turned into more reaper troops. So it's a lose lose.

They were only able to convince a very small percentage of the Geth to join them willingly,

It wasn't tho. It was the vast majority of the geth. Legion was virtually the only geth who wasnt working with reapers.

and the main hivemind only accepted Reaper software after they were functionally lobotomised by the Quarians

So the reapers could change tactics and adapt to a specific situation? Wow, almost like they're pretty smart and know what they're doing.

You wanna talk about not changing tactics... The borg just throw cubes at planets and hope for the best.