User blog:Echo 1/Theories About...

Okay, every time I put something on a talk page, I'm told to either put it in a forum or a blog. So, I decided to go with the latter, which made more sense.

Anyways, I've drawn up some theories from observing some stuff in-game and out of it, including the origin of the name "geth" and some ideas on quarian biology.

Origin of the Term Geth

 * I believe that Bioware created the name "geth" from the word together (together). I thought of this since geth are, in one way or another, a hive mind, so all units are connected and together. I'm not sure if this is true or not, but it seems like it could be.

Quarian Biology Theories
After playing Mass Effect 2 multiple times, and watching playthroughs of ME1, I've become fairly intrigued by the quarians, and have formulated some theories about their biology, biosuits, and culture.


 * The hoods on the females are used to help differentiate gender, as males have "hoods", but they're looser, segmented, and don't cover nearly as much space. And, if the females didn't have hoods, the only other ways to tell their genders apart would be by the hip width and the obvious.
 * Their luminescent eyes are likely due to HUD projectors, so that other races can tell the position of their eyes and thus appear more identifiable, and making it easier for them to relay their emotions (I remember Tali saying something about having to overdue body language to help convey emotions to non-quarians). Either that or they have very reflective eyes.
 * I'm fairly sure that they do have short-cut hair. Looking at some close ups of Tali in ME1, I was able to make out a ridge darker than the rest of the inside helmet, which are similar to "bangs" on a human. The ridge seems too low to be shading from her hood. And since quarians already resemble humans in many aspects besides their legs, hands, and internal and microscopic biologies, I'd say hair is most likely present in the species. More evidence for hair could be gleaned from the fact that they do have a few other mammalian aspects (live birth and mammary glands).
 * They probably do have human humanoid reproductive... procedures, judging by the hip structure on the skeletons we see in the ME2 mission where you save a stranded Quarian (I don't remember the name of the mission), and, as stated in an earlier discussion on the quarian talk page, Tali's behavior with Shepard. And Admiral Raan(? on spelling) stated that she helped deliver Tali, also suggesting mammalian reproduction.
 * I do believe it is worth mentioning in their respective article that quarians have the male/female shoulder/hip proportions like humans, but that they're slightly exaggerated. For instance, a male quarian has fairly wide shoulders and slenderer hips while a female quarian has slender shoulders fairly large hips.

Well, that's all I have for now.

--Sincerely, LCpl Echo 1