User blog comment:Cackling Shadow/How long have they REALLY been here?/@comment-432124-20130114024526/@comment-34954086-20130114044848

Sorry dude, much as I'm absolutely loving this, the Reach are referred to as the Light's New Partner. Your ideas as for pullig strings still somewhat work for Apokalips, they're less recent then the Reach, and your ideas that they've [Reach] been there for quite some time have no refuting.

Will say a couple things to support you though:
 * Starro Tech, mind control. What's Darkseid's main goal, Anti-Life Equation, AKA Mind Control. If it were Darkseid to tell the light, they'd need to already have captured it themselves, (you do say something about a species), it's too alligned with their primary goals to entrust to backwater apes like us to try out first, even if they get some.
 * The Reds were part of what I call the Android Contract. The Light want the best of the best, Morrow and Ivo, probably a few others, competed in the robotic department to make super-robos for the Light, Amazo in particular could be said to be on impressive value to the Reach, replication of Meta-Powers and all. Similarly the Reds imbue powerful meta-powers into inorganic lifeforms, the Meatbag thing indicates a possible lack of organic nature present in the Reach.
 * The Ruins in Beneath. The Reach evidently have been to Earth ages back, at a period that the Light were somehow capable of knowing about when leading archaeologist had no idea. How? Well, insider knowledge could help, so could being a primary source as you say Savage could have been.
 * Also, Marianna's Trench is fairly well known in scientific circles for being the deepest part of the ocean, fact is we haven't fully explored it yet, it's too deep, so every time we do, we find ancient, majestic fish we had no idea existed or still existed as the case may be. It's really the perfect place to lay an Invasion force, and if it were sitting there for millenia in wait for Mode, it's entirely plausible.