User blog comment:JediSpectre117/Regarding the surviving Prothean./@comment-737801-20120222035845

There has been a question burning in the back of my mind for a while now. We obviously know very little about the Protheans, but we do know that the Ilos facility was equipped with stasis pods, which were deceived when Vigil started running out of power. However, the one thing that keeps coming back is how did he survive 50,000 years in stasis? I mean several other TV shows, including Stargate Atlantis have had people in for shorter periods of time, and most are in the prime of their lives, or with a few years. Elizabeth Weir was only in stasis for 10,000 odd years and when she entered the stasis chamber the first time, she was only 34, and she was like around 100 when she got out.

To me this says that either the Protheans have much more advanced stasis tech, or they have really long life spans. While either is possible, I look forward to seeing how BioWare is going to explain this as from my research, the max I've found is the Atlantis example, and that's pushing 10,000 years. And 50,000 seems a little unreasonable for me.