A reboot is meaningless if the very idea of continuity is meaningless.

Comic book movies prove me wrong, though. People can like both the Tim Burton Batman movies and the Dark Knight Trilogy, but at this point I think we're just jaded about superhero movie reboots. It also helps that there's usually a long cooling-off period between series. There was eight years between Batman and Robin and Batman Begins and most people's reaction to the announcement of the latter was "Too soon."

: As long as it's a real detective story and has nothing to do with military
: service and honour and duty.

Detective story? It starts out that way, but veers toward intrigue at the end. And it's got more to do with burying the hatchet and communicating honestly than the standard tropes of honor and duty.

: Well we might be safe from an array activation...

If I recall correctly, one array is enough to sterilize most of the galaxy. Seven arrays is just redundancy.

: But weren't the Brutes the only race to: raise to advanced civ bomb back to
: stone age raise to civilisation and then bomb themselves back again

: 11 out of 10 for tenacity but it looks like self preservation can't get the
: better of their innate nature. I quite like that idea - a race that just
: wont learn. :-)

Well, we have one Brute who can assemble a multi-species mercenary faction and keep it going, so that speaks to some degree of intelligence.

Heh. Remember that one Krogan mechanic in Mass Effect 2?
"What? You thought we kidnapped Quarians and made them do all the hard work? Not no more we don't."

It would be hilarious if that was the fate of the Prophets. They aren't missing, they're just imprisoned and doing menial maintenance work for a minor Brute warlord.