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== [[Sins of a Solar Empire]] ==
== The Vasari enemy is an army of rogue AI constructs ==
Between 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.
* 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. Only a single Vasari warship ever survived contact with whatever this enemy is, with the ship's crew was driven made with fear. Think less Cylons/Geth and more along the lines of Cthulhu and the Elder Gods. Whatever the Vasari are running from ain't pretty and is far more dangerous than anything you or I could fathom.
** Ah, so it's the ''Reapers'', then.
*** Once again, probably not. The Vasari use nanotechnology all the time. Getting bit in the ass by it wouldn't drive anyone insane, though it might be slightly surprising at first. If we humans who haven't even begun to master nanotech can see its possible dangers, so can the Vasari. They've probably already figured out how to root out that nasty "destroy all life" bug. Anyway, the Reapers are basically a race of ancient sentient capital ships, little more. 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. The Reapers barely manage a collective BOSD among the Citadel races, coming nowhere near mind rape territory. Yes Reapers are big, bad, and powerful, but they are still perfectly acceptable within a reality filled with space battleships. The Vasari are up against a big unknown, something that violates their views on reality so totally that it drives them mad. 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 mad crew does fit with Reaper indoctrination though.
**** I'm not taking these ''particularly'' seriously, obviously, but as attempt number 3, I can think of a force of nature capable of driving its opponents into a frenzy with fear: the Oncoming Storm. Or the Doctor to his friends. While in recent episodes of [[
**** How about the Zerg swarm. The Vasari might have trouble wrapping their minds around a huge swarm of alien locusts devouring everything in their path.
**** Or the Tyranids. Or the Necrons.
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== The Vasari enemy is a cosmic-scale version of [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Leliel]] ==
Think about it. Planets vanishing? Ships becoming [[Lost Forever]]? Survivors being driven [[Go Mad
** Its vague enough to be a lot of things
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