User blog comment:SanjayBeast/Anyone else pissed about lack of Protheans in MP?/@comment-188.61.41.2-20120528180506/@comment-4950455-20120528211529

We have one Prothean. One. Not a whole army of them. "The Alliance could clone Javik" is an extremely tenuous handwave - while it's passable for the purpose of theoretically introducing Protheans to MP, it's far-fetched (for reasons several people have already listed) and I'm just as glad they didn't use it.

Also, the From Ashes storyline is not a deus ex machina; that's a very specific term, not an all-purpose catch for implausible plot twists. Javik's existence may have some plot holes, but it is not a deus ex machina.