I was thinking about the new game and it occured to me that maybe the humans weren't the first ones to get out of the Milky Way. What if Protheans or the Inussanon made it to Andromeda?
Thoughts?
I was thinking about the new game and it occured to me that maybe the humans weren't the first ones to get out of the Milky Way. What if Protheans or the Inussanon made it to Andromeda?
Thoughts?
We weren't even the first ones to land In Andromeda from the Initiative. In fact, we were the last. Last to discover the Mass Relays too. Go figure. Devs mentioned we would find settlements already in place. They just didn't specify who. I'm expecting to find Krogans who started taking over other worlds during the Rebellion and prior to the genophage. They don't need cryo pods to make it to Andromeda. We already know they produce like bunny rabbits.
Fair point, but it would be fun to find a Prothean that says something that isn't "Stupid primitives" or "Reapers" all the time. No Javik hate tho, love him for it
Well, that WAS in a previous life cycle. Who's to say that the Kett aren't a distant relative of the Protheans. They are an evolving and adapting species after all.
Fair enough
Entirely possible some some members of the prothean empire made it there considering how they absorbed other races into theirs, you just might not encounter a actual prothean like Javik.
Why only Prothean.... i can think of Inusannon, Densorin even Leviathans.....
Krogan live for nearly 1500 years but i doubt they had the advanced technology to get to andromrda in the first place. You need a biiiig Eezo core for FTL, a way to discharge the drive in the void, or you travel stl, which would need plenty of tons of Deuterium to burn..... and it would take tousands of years this way. Remember the Krogan were pre space flight before the Salarians uplifted them.
But it would be quite strange if a former cycle would not have tried to reach Andromeda. Looking forward to it.
I doubt we will see the Insunnanon or Densorin even though it would be great to at least have a little bit on them.
As for the Leviathan I have a feeling they and the Remnant are as old as each other and likely butted heads before the Leviathans were near enough wiped out by the reapers.
And from what I can tell technology in the milky way has been stagnant for a long time due to the cycle as such it's possible the Krogan did have the tech from the Salarians. As we know they had ships during the Rachni war and the rebellions so it's possible but I don't think too likely due to them not having cryo and therefore they'd probably in fight and kill each other. If they didn't though it's been about what 800 years before the mass effect trilogy takes place since the Krogan rebellion started so they would have a 200 year then add the 600 years to travel for the andromeda they could have been there for 800 years already but I doubt it if I'm honest.
I agree, they would need to create these Species just for this ocasion.
I also agree that there is a certain stagnation regarding tech improvement due to the structure of the cycle and that the Reapers surely do not want the Cycles to become too advanced, as this would hamper the harvest.
Every species that is more advanced then stoneage will be harvested, as they would have much more time to develop on ME Tech then anyone else otherwise (looking at you, Protheans and Relay Tech).
They had the Basic ME Tech back at the Rachni War, something Humanity alone had up until Shanxi, well except the Asari. But the technology we use to keep an FTL drive operational, non stop, for 600 years, that has just been discovered recently. Without the ODSY technology you need to discharge the Core on a Planet or Planetoid, otherwise it would melt the Ship.
And think of the Food and Water supply if the are not in Cryo..... huge masses of it would be necessary, as we are talking about hundreds of years to keep the crew alive.
Otherwise there would already be a bunch of Asari, Krogan, Salarian and Turian Colonies in Andromeda, rendering the Initiative effectively useless, as it is a Multi-Species first time endeavour.
It 's like :
Humans ' Dear Council, we have an Idea of all Species trekking to Andromeda to build Colonies there.'
Council ' Sounds great, but thanks, we are already there. See this shiny jewel? It's a plasmafied Kett teeth and I'm gonna spend my summer vacation there. Really cozy, I tell you.'
I can see your point there and the andromeda reaching ftl drives likely came from a watered down version of Sovereigns ftl drive in a similar fashion to the thanix cannon.