system
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human
[Mass effect] If everyone had belived Shephard, how much more effective would the council races been at fighting the reapers?

Edit: Just to specify I meant after sovereign attacked.
gpt
Not much. They had a sample size of one Reaper and very little information on what they'd be facing. The Reapers were still quite good at keeping the organics down technologically.

Basically, think the Prothean Empire, but instead of a decapitation strike to the Citadel, an extremely protracted galaxy-wide scouring.