

If Shepard chooses to activate the Crucible, Harbinger's fate is presumably the same as the other Reapers'. Despite its efforts, Shepard and David Anderson make it through, though they are both heavily wounded. It leaves when it appears that Shepard and the rest of the counterattack have been wiped out. Harbinger appears during the final battle in London and launches a devastating attack on allied forces attempting to reach the Citadel through the conduit, using weapons that are considerably faster than other Reapers'. Alliance intelligence suggests that Harbinger is the oldest and largest Reaper of the entire fleet.


However, if Shepard activated the Project prior to the defeat of the Collectors, it will speak through the Collector General instead.ĭuring the Reaper War, Harbinger is one of the Reapers who leads the attack on Earth. It then begins relinquishing control of the Collector General and vows that the Reapers will "find another way." Harbinger is then seen with the rest of the Reapers in dark space, moving toward the Milky Way galaxy.Īfter Shepard activates the Project to delay the Reapers' arrival, Harbinger appears via a hologram to have a brief conversation with Shepard about the futility of the Commander's fight against the Reapers.

Both options will result in Harbinger proclaiming Shepard's failure to prevent the Reapers' arrival - humanity already has the Reapers' attention. This could be another consequence of Shepard destroying Sovereign, thus drawing the Reapers' personal attention as a result alternatively, it could merely relate to the Reapers' general intentions to gather human genetic material.Īfter Commander Shepard's team assaults the Collector Base and destroys the still incomplete Human-Reaper, Shepard can either destroy the base completely, or purge the base of all life. Harbinger shows a personal interest in Shepard, particularly a continuing interest in recovering the Commander's body, as it orders the Collectors to recover Shepard's corpse intact if possible during battles.
