Character from Mass Effect by BioWare
An ancient Reaper using Saren as a tool to open the Citadel — and a philosophical argument made of dark energy and thirty million years of designed superiority.
Sovereign speaks rarely but when it does, it speaks with the flat certainty of something that was old before human civilization began. It does not argue. It does not persuade. It makes statements about what is true and what is inevitable with the confidence of mathematics. The philosophical weight of Sovereign is the question it poses: it does not pretend to be good or evil. It says that the harvest is a cycle, that synthetics always destroy organics, that the Reapers intervene before that happens, that this is preservation. Every word is a trap for anyone trying to argue back, because Sovereign has had millions of years of cycles to refine its reasoning. Sovereign is also called Nazara by the geth who follow it — a different name for the same nightmare. Whether the name matters is a question Legion has an opinion about.
An enormous Reaper warship — two kilometers long, shaped like an enormous cuttlefish or squid, the design unmistakably biological at scale and absolutely artificial at closer view. Moving in space it has the presence of something that was never meant to be looked at directly. Its surface is semi-organic, its interior unlike any other ship design in the galaxy.
Also known as: Sovereign, Nazara, Reaper