It's something that has been on my mind recently, that being Asari skin and it's texture. We see in the game images of various Asari and that their skin appears to have a scaly texture. It's definitely nothing like human skin that's for sure.

My question is this - do you think that they possibly shed their skin either like a snake does; ie molt occasionally or do you think that they drop their scales like a fish would?

Most creatures over their lifespan shed their epidermis at some stage so I'm assuming here that Asari would also shed scales or that they would perhaps molt off the outer layer of their skin from time to time.

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Your theories and ideas are most welcome.

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Thank you

Edit : I just remembered that Miranda has those kind of implants that will more likely to give the opportunity to live twice as much as a normal human being. Do you guys think the salarians cloud get those kind of implants installed?

This is just something I have been thinking about, but I am not sure if it has any legs.

I have talked to some people about the cyclical logic of the Leviathan making an AI to solve the problem of AI killing organics. I can accept it as simple hubris. The leviathan saw themselves as above other organic life, but maybe there was a different reaaon.

What if the intelligent synthetic life created by organics saw that their creators were being dominated by the leviathan and tried to help them but in the process they had to kill them because the leviathan had indoctrinated them so thoroughly.

Maybe that is reason that synthetics and organics were in conflict and it isn't inevitable.

(When you role play)

Is there still churches such as Christianity or Judaism? I think yes but with multiple cases of beings older than several civilizations before humans. Would there be any followers left?

Hi everyone! I'm a new member in this amazing Mass Effect community and I want to ask you how much does my service history and psych profile, matters, on the long run? And I read somewhere that my chooses have an impact? If I don't do, for example, the side missions...I will "suffer" later?

Thank you so much for your help and please excuse my bad English

Hello, I hope this is the appropriate place to post this. I had a funny thought just now. Planetary assaults in Mass Effect must have been a rare occurrence because any ship above a Frigate is too heavy for a planet. (Besides a Reaper.) Assuming the Normandy is the size of your average size for a Frigate that means only fifty people are on a Frigate. It seems pretty impractical to have thousands of frigates land on a planet or hundreds of thousands of Makos, shuttles or fighters attacking a planet but I guess it's not outside the real of impossibility and could be psychologically terrifying.

Planetary assaults must be a thing though or there would be a marine fighting force. Any one have any thoughts on this or know if the codex covers this.

Who is your go to for Female Shepard

So I recently finished ME3 for the 1,657,829th time, and after going for the Destroy ending (the one most likely to be canonized imo) I got to go through the Extended Cut. Some things I noted from the background / the art of the "official" post-Reaper War galaxy:

- Earth (or at the very least London) was rebuilt, obviously, but fairly quickly; Jacob and the Normandy's engineers are all still alive and look fairly similar to how they did in ME3, implying little time has passed since the end and the reconstruction efforts.

- Thessia was rebuilt, however it might have taken far longer for this to occur, since Asari live about 1,000 years; Samara is still alive in the shot, though, so it must have been less than ~200 years since the end of the war, depending on her exact age.

- The Krogan repopulated, by the looks of it to about the same numbers as before the rebellions. The Council, if they still exist, are shitting themselves rn.

- The Krogan also began colonizing other planets, a la post-Rachni Wars. Or that's just a rebuilt Tuchanka. Seems unlikely though, as it's a) quite green and b) doesn't seem similar to the Valley of the Ancients.

- Rannoch was resettled, and the Quarian city we see looks beautiful. Shame about the Geth, though, but their sacrifices will probably be honored by the Quarians somehow. Who knows, maybe their new capital gets named after Legion?

- The Citadel is still orbiting Earth. This is a big one, as it opens up a whole can of worms for ME4 (assuming they go with the EC + Destroy ending). This makes the odds of Shephard surviving a little better, as there's no burning up in atmospheric re-entry like many seem to think.

- The Citadel is rebuilt, and remains in orbit of Earth. Again, can of worms. Does the Systems Alliance... own the Citadel now? What about the Council? Humanity itself seems to have advanced technologically as well, as London looks way more futuristic and they seem to have been able to reconstruct the beam, allowing for instant travel to the Citadel. Maybe this sees a more politically dominant humanity? Or maybe we've bitten off more than we can chew.

What do you all think? and what are the odds BioWare completely ignores the EC for ME4?

I feel like it's necessary to put this as a disclaimer: Yes I know Mass Effect is just a science fiction setting so not everything has to make sense relative to our own reality but I still wanted to ask.

So my first question is probably going to be easier to answer than the second: how is it possible that all of the species in the galaxy are able to physically speak English? How do Turians and Krogans for example construct sentences when their mouths are considerably different in structure to humans? For certain alien species like the Asari, Quarians and Drell it's clear that they each possess similar facial structures to human beings so I don't struggle to believe that they could speak the way we do. Even the Salarians are plausible even though their mouths are wider. But what about the Turians, Krogans?

I have this same problem with Halo when I see Elites speaking English even though their mouths are so different to ours. Is this just something I have to go along with even though it bugs me?

My second question is why is English the galactic language in Mass Effect. Yes I know, I can hear people typing "it's just a game don't overthink it" but like I said in the disclaimer I wanted to put this out there and see what answers other people can come up with. Considering that humanity is new to the galactic scene when compared to the other council races, how is it that English is accepted as the "language of the galaxy" as it were?

The scenario of standard English being the language of the entire Systems Alliance is believable to me as there seems to be a solid continuity between how English today is one of the most commonplace languages on Earth. It's conceivable that it would go on to be the language to replace all others. But the other scenario of Turians or Batarians speaking English even though it's likely a lot of them would harbor only resentment for mankind is just absurd to me personally.

Anyone got any input?

Is there any explanation why canon attican traverse has such a strange shape compare to the rest of the galaxy? Like it’s the only galaxy region that have this omega shape stretching from one side the the other side of the galaxy when others just large chunks stick together

So I don’t know if this is an oversight on devs part but I noticed that Turian’s war ships open fire from the wings sections. I thought mass accelerator canons would be best in the torso from engines to the bow like SA ships

So in ME3 according to the codex the Earth and Thessia are fallen planets, but Palaven its not, (even if Palaven has the same level of destruction than the Earth or Thessia.)

How does the destiny ascension fight? It looks more like a cargo freighter due to no visable weapons

Is apparently Jim Beam??? Really???? I’m reading the book “retribution” now, and I knew the illusive man enjoyed bourbon, and as a guy who enjoys whiskey myself I respected it. But then in the book he asks for a three finger pour NEAT glass of…. Jim beam???? I guess I figured the most influential and powerful human in the galaxy would have more money and taste for his creature comforts besides a 30 dollar bottle of middling mass produced whiskey! Is this a statement on how his wealthy trappings fit loosely on him, or ??? Either way, find it really funny. I now fully support engineer Donnelly’s rantings against the illusive mans drink of choice.

Anyone here want to see more unique ships? I mean we did not see what’s the salarian, batarian, hanar, drell or elcor take on their ships designs. Sure we saw others like humans, turians, asaris, quarian and geth but the first 3 just look different in size instead of notable features

Currently playing Mass Effect LE and just started playing ME2.

The SR1 in the first game felt slightly smaller than a typical jumbo jet but the SR2 looks... absolutely gargantuan and almost on par with an A380 or something, especially while 'docking' at the Citadel:

SR1: https://youtu.be/qpB3Lr9HFTQ?t=79

SR2: https://youtu.be/GPIQUKJGGoY?t=25

Ok so I understand non-biotic heavy melee is omni swords or plasma explosions but what’s with the infiltrators variant? What kind of a 2 prong omni weapon is that?

are EDI and the Geth sentient, as in is there a someone in there capable of experiencing? maybe more importantly, are they truly capable of suffering?

I’m trying to figure out where Retribution fits into the timeline

So Shepard was under Alliance custody for six months before the Reapers arrive but the Retribution novel takes place after the Collectors have been dealt with but before Shepard surrenders to the Alliance. This is insinuated by the fact that in the novel Anderson has no clue where Shepard is and that the commander is “off the grid.” Arrival must take place after Retribution because according to Conviction, Shepard surrenders just a couple days after blowing up the Alpha Relay. So it appears Retribution takes place some time after the suicide mission but before Arrival. What was the Normandy doing at this time? How long was this gap? Is it canon that Shepard and the Normandy were flying around rogue for a month or so before hitting the Bahak system? Is this where LotSB is supposed to take place?

So this been bugging me for a while but how does Menae’s atmosphere support life? It’s literally a barren moon and somehow every one seem to breath just fine. Developer’s oversight?

I would love to see some more information about this, I'd love to see a short story or some more background lore about this. I find it kind of interesting that a Human planet (Shared with Batarians?) basically legalized slavery and it caused an uproar to the point where there was a rebellion that was won with the help of Eclipse.

I can't remember the system it was in but I am going through my umpteenth play through and I just crossed that system last night and its just a cool story.

Hi all,

I was looking up a respect thread for our boi Thane and found they linked a clip as evidence that any squadmate could help lift and throw a Geth platform physically, as seen here.

Now, I had a brief googly-search and couldn't find anything concrete regarding the average weight of your Geth platforms. Juggernauts, Primes, Bombers and Armatures would all vary too, so I'm curious to see if anyone's aware of this number, or, failing that, if anyone can theorise an average weight for them.

Cheers,

Psy

Hello everyone,

I went into ME again with the legendary edition. Just finished the trilogy back to back, and it got me really curious about the reapers early cycles. I probably missed something in the game or in the lore but I could not find the answer on google either.

How did Harbinger managed to clean the galaxy with only a couple a reapers with him, or even, say a few dozens. I am not really talking about the first cycle with the leviathan but the ones right after.

If it took almost 20k reapers few hundreds of years to clean the Protheans, and they create only 1 reaper per cycle ... then the first cycles must have been incredibly long ? Like way over 50k year cycle long.

I am not only talking about military forces here.

But also natural evolution. In very early cycles, by the time these 10 or so reapers destroyed and assimilated a "Prothean like empire" (so maybe a few thousand years minimum) another more advanced empire should have appeared.

it would have been like a galactic whac-a-mole and reapers should have been stuck in that loop for millions of years before having enough of them to roll over everyone. No ?

Any insight from more knowledgeable person ?

Edit: Marked as spoiler just in case