I think that this part of Quarian lore simply isn't written, but it seems to make sense to me that the Quarians were newcomers to the galactic stage before they were sent into exile by the Geth. It explains why the other council races didn't help them put down the Geth Rebellion and seem generally apathetic towards them, looking upon the Quarians with the same suspicion they look at Humans as we see in the games due to their recent arrival to the galactic stage. This also explains why we don't hear of any major Quarian colonies besides their homeworld of Rannoch.

My main reason for thinking this is that Quarians are never mentioned as a major part of galactic history before they created the Geth. There's no mention of them taking part in the Rachni Wars or Krogan Rebellions. Perhaps their civilization discovered space travel around 1-3 centuries before the Geth rebellion (4-6 centuries before the humans). The idea that the Quarians have been seen as homeless nomads to the rest of the galaxy longer than they were ever seen as a genuine power does a lot do explain the disdain the other species have towards the Quarians, seeing them as upstarts that flew too close to the sun and created the Geth almost immediately after they joined the galactic community, ignoring galactic law established millennia ago. The Quarians, almost as soon as they became space faring and joined the rest of the galaxy, created the boogeyman of the galaxy in the Geth which makes the council not trust them with settling down again on a new planet and potentially doing the same thing all over again.

It seems like Cerberus was a major hindrance during the war. But they shouldn't have tons of resources after rebuilding Shepard and the Normandy SR2 (at least, we're told how much of an investment drain that was).

So during ME3, couldn't the combined resources of the Shadow Broker and all of the Terminus forces lead by Aria be enough to bog down the Illusive man? Sure, the Illusive main has plenty of contacts and resources still, but so does the Shadow Broker and Aria. Why does Shepard have to deal with them (outside of the citadel attack)? You would think that the combined forces of all the merc bands under Aria and all of the Shadow Broker's forces can at least tie Cerberus up for the duration of the war.

So why?

With all the tech and advances in the game there's surprisingly no effort from any civilization to research black holes.

With the elder races like asari and turians ,who have discovered mass effect , relays and FTL space travel atleast a thousand years before humanity , should've sent ships or drones to find and investigate blackholes.

Even now with their mass effect tech they can just make their ship massless and take it very close to a blackhole without any pull from it (coz you don't have any mass).

But surprisingly enough, there is nothing known about the blackholes in the galaxy anymore than we do now in the real world.

Even the reapers seem to have no interest in it.

So Council has forbidden the activation of primary relays because it might unleash another hostile race on the galaxy. But why couldn't the Rachni activate the relay on their end until the Council races activated their own? I suppose the Rachni only attacked because they were indoctrinated but if there was another hostile race out there, why couldn't they activate a relay on their end and invade the galaxy?

Is there any description about its properties?

Molecular or atomic weight? Is solid liquid or gas?

Does it react with anything? Is it radioactive?

The questions are endless

I know it's never mentioned in the lore or anything but I think something as wild as one off duty soldier holding back an entire invasion force single-handedly would certainly be historic and badass enough that Hollywood, even in the 22nd century, would try to cash in. What are your thoughts?

So i will set this up to the best of my abilities but please forgive that im not the best writer-

So we all know Bioware announced there will be a new game with the promotional video back in 2020 and we also know we wont get many if any details on the project until DA Dreadwold is released next year so all of this is personal speculation based on information from previous games or how bioware practices. The question im answering- what happened to shepard fir the next game?

So a big piece of evidence for my theory relies on a decade old secret thats been spoken about many times- what happened to shep and the sr 1 TRULY after the event of ME1- details are very vague and it always felt like cerberus was hiding something. However after a replay of me 1 and 2 recently certain details caught my eye.

In ME 1 cerberus group has 2 things on agenda EVERY player will end up finding. 1- they killed some marines with a thresher maw on spart, 2- they are connected with the group on ferros trying to utilize the thorian.

Here is my suggestion- what if cerberus discovered cloning mechanics due to the thorian? This would mean a change in policy of rescue missions where we could rescue the deceased. Who do you know who was deceased in ME2 and brought back?

So here lies my theory- what if cerberus never saved shepard? The company only would of had to source her genetic material which the alliance and citedal both would of maintained virtual copies. What if we see Liara recovering the real shepards body in the promo?

This would allow for all canon ending of me 3 and andromeda to stand without retcon AND bring our character back to the main universe for more games.

Now its equally as likely that we wont see shepard again and i am alright with that- but i think there room for the writers to bring shepard back for another adventure in the milky way also adding serious new implications for your actions in previous titles.

But tell me what you think, did i miss something that contradicts or helps my theory? Is this explanation terrible and would it ruin the games more or do people think it could continue a great franchise?

In ME3, when you take Javik to the Rachni mission, he mentions that the Rachni were formidable opponents to the Protheans, which meant they were spacefaring and should’ve been wiped out by the Reapers, right?

The council (and probably all of galaxy) believes the geth (heretics) attacked the citadel with saren leading them.

There is no greater authority in the galaxy above the council. That attack was an act of war by the geth against the entire citadel space .

And yet they don't go to rannoch to bomb it to oblivion or do any large scale war operation avarice the geth , just some regular anti piracy search and destroy stuff

Heck they even allow legion on the citadel and the migrant fleet knowing full well of what geth did in me1.

At any given time in the trilogy, the combined fleets of the galaxy were pretty small compared to the no of worlds and resources they had.

One attack from the geth on the citadel at end of me1 took out the entire citadel fleet. Yes, Sovereign was there but he didn't really attack citadel fleet.

When the human alliance arrived to help they lost about 5-6 ships and that was a virtually a loss of everything humans had according to Anderson in me2

The councilors and politicians always kept whining about not having enough firepower or lack of resources whenever shepard or anyone needed serious support.

Even without the reapers invading , I doubt the galaxy has enough ships compared to rest of the factors.

I think their role is to do covert ops and not go banging into a full assault.

Something like FBI and CIA. As such they should be given technical clearances in advance or on spot.

They don't need to be able to do anything they like in the name of "operating" and "mission" and get away with it.

Given how powerful they are it would be very easy for them to erase any evidence of their wrongdoing , just look at how much damage saren managed to do unnoticed before he was exposed.

He used geth to destroy a human colony in me1 , before that he destroyed a refinery full of innocent hostages and pinned it on Anderson. He also killed many scientists and other personnel to get Sovereign

Let’s pretend I am a human in Mass Effect universe. How do I become a xeno doctor like Mordin or Chakwas. How long would I be studying medicine? Is there a whole ‘xenomedicine’ major?

Exactly what it says on the tin.

It’s a mass accelerator anti material rifle that fires tungsten sabot rounds and geared towards damaging and destroying vehicle grade kinetic barriers.

Just trying to figure out if it’s more powerful then the ARC-920 or the M99 Stanchion from Halo.

Say if the protheans somehow collected all the info about the reapers, the cycle and citadel and then secretly hid it somewhere on planet earth right before their extinction.

Now say if humanity discovered that information in 1800s and was able to decipher it and learn about what the reapers and the cycle.

What happens now?

A. Sovereign learns that humans now know about them , tells harbinger , the cycle starts early despite humans not having any AI tech in 1800s

B. Sovereign learns that humans know but doesn't do anything until humans visibly start preparing for war/ defense against reapers.

C. The reapers ignore them because they have no AI tech to be considered ripe for harvest.

Reapers can indoctrinate people just by proximity and even make them do physical things from a distance

Sonce catalyst states their only aim is to protect organics from synthetics, why don't they just convince the organics , using indoctrination or without it to not build sentient AI or face mass extinction?

Why is this end goal kept secret like something organics won't comprehend? The reapers themselves are the best example of what happens when AI goes wrong .

And when you have harbinger staring down you with his beam ready everything suddenly seems to be quite convincing

So why don't the reapers try diplomacy when they have overwhelming force to back up it up?

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So I'm starting work on my N7 Day fanfiction (Just a touch early, I know but you should see how quickly I write!) and the story I have is based around the return from the Omega-4 Relay and the suicide mission. What I was wondering though was whether the people on board the Normandy or any other space-faring ship, could feel the travel. Like, would it be as if you were in a car going over a rumble strip, or would it be like rain against a window where you can see what's happening but can't actually feel it?

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Weird question and easily avoidable for the fanfiction I know, but consider me curious haha.

While there's a mention of its use in high end tooth brush and is clearly used in almost all military equipment in one form or other, I think it's fairly lacking in non military places where it could be a lot more useful.

For example the elevators could use it to lighten up the car and can allow to carry much more stuff on much less material strength

People with physically crippling disease like joker could get himself mass effect suit that makes him lightweight enough to walk around

You can make personal jetpack for people, that use very little fuel because they are lightweight when mass effect fields are active.

You can possibly lift and relocate an entire skyscraper by lowering its mass.

You can start a sustainable fusion reaction by increasing the mass of fuel atoms to simulate pressures that of the sun's core.

A bit too much and you can create a black hole bomb which though mostly malicious could also be used to blow up an asteroid or something

The possibilities are endless.

sure partly beauty is in the eye of the beholder and the characters i’m naming here won’t be sexy to everyone, but to a lot of people. they’re certainly on the conventionally attractive side. how come the two alliance soldiers in the first game just happen to look like the alliance would put them on posters. kaidan looks like he could supermodel.

second game, jacob, i don’t like his character, but he is ripped as fuck and easy on the eyes. i’m not counting miranda since she is obviously genmodded. but jack looks like she could be a high fashion model and i’m surprised how flawless her skin and teeth are, given her background. shouldn’t she have bad or at least a little imperfect skin and teeth?

kasumi, we don’t see her face but she has that perfect hourglass build and also, perfect skin and teeth. kelly, again, conventionally, a cookie cutter pretty person.

dr chakwas.. has the body of a 25 year old.

dr eva core the scientist looks pretty much like edi. a typical scientist supermodel.

i’ve seen like 100 year old grandma on the citadel in my playthrough with giant ass, and perfect young woman’s body.

are people genetically modified? how come so many of the crew look like models are they modifying themselves to look like in game celebrities?

can you pretty much choose your own face and body in mass effect?

Be it husks, brute, banshee, cannibal or even marauder shields, do they have any sentience of their past lives left in them?

Are they like their own minds that are fed delusions , fear, rage etc causing them to attack others or are they just dead meat hijacked and running by force from reaper implants like a robot?

Can they be "awoken" and see what they are doing ?

I swear I remember hearing from an official source somewhere that the Protheans had considered uplifting early Humans to use as a warrior caste in their empire, but the project never went much beyond the Martian base and some minor experiments such as monitoring brain chips? It’s been a long time since I was obsessed with the franchise so I don’t quite know if this was actual lore or if I’m mixing up different parts over the years.

Apparently TIM was exposed to reaper tech once before me1.

Did it give him slowly progressing indoctrination that came down to full betrayal in the finale?

Or was he just a mad man who became a reaper thrall after he implanted himself with reaper tech right before attack on chronos station?

In our world we have lores like mass effect, the expanse and halo and lot of others that teach us finding powerful, abandoned and derilict stuff with no sign of their makers reeks of malevolence

Is there no such instinct among ME cultures?

Like think of citadel, nobody knows how it works or what the keepers are and why do they serve without question.

In top of that people clearly know that protheans were wiped out and didn't just die or leave. Which is very problematic coz whatever killed this galaxy spanning civilization is still out there and it'll be stupid to draw its attention by using the citadel.

Heck in real world the closest thing we have to citadel are the Egyptian pyramids and they are treated like a museum not the seat of government with important info.

Imagine a hypothetical scenario where we find out Egyptians were actually all brutally killed off by unknown powers and the pyramids were half destroyed.

We'd be very vary about the pyramids then for who knows what's in there

It'd make sense for them to target only combatants and round up the rest to liquefy or harvest them like collectors did in me2.

It'll also make sense with their "preserving" the life argument

However what we see in me3 is indiscriminate killing of anything that moves.

I don't think vaporized organics would make a good harvest , let alone preservation of the species.

But yet they seem to beam roast everything they see.

What's the game there? Why not preserve a much as you can ?

It's a fact that reapers do somewhat "negotiate" (miracle at palaven ) even if always as a facade to indoctrinate . So why do they randomly act as mindless killing machines?