雷克耐战争是对雷克耐与银河系其他种族间爆发的一系列冲突的总称。这场战争始于公元1世纪，当时，神堡议会激活了一台休眠中的质量中继器，打开了通往雷克耐控制区的道路。雷克耐是一个拥有高度智慧且异常强悍的集群式种群，不仅拥有在宇宙中活动的能力，而且异常强悍、富有敌意。他们的领袖雷克耐女王潜伏于易守难攻的星球地底，当地环境如此恶劣，以至于神堡议会的军队甚至无法在星球表面活动。
历史沿革[]
第一次接触[]
大约在公元1世纪时，赛拉睿探险家启动了一台通往未知星系的质量中继器，并且第一次接触到了雷克耐。who promptly captured them. The rachni used extensive research on element zero gathered from Kashshaptu to reverse-engineer the FTL drives of the explorers' starships. They proceeded to construct FTL vessels of their own and rapidly expanded into the galaxy, ushering in the Rachni Wars.
Attempts by the Citadel races to negotiate were futile, as it was impossible to make contact with the hive queens that guided the race from beneath the inhospitable surface of their homeworld. It was assumed that the rachni were irredeemably hostile and could only be stopped through warfare, but the rachni had the upper hand and overwhelmed defenses with their sheer numbers.
Uplifting the Krogan[]
This period saw the Citadel races fight a losing war against the rachni for nearly a century until the salarians "culturally uplifted" a new species, the krogan. The volatile krogan homeworld, Tuchanka, had been ravaged by a nuclear winter caused by a krogan civil war. The salarians helped the krogan by giving them advanced technology and relocating them to a planet not cursed with lethal levels of radiation, toxins or deadly predators.
The true purpose of this salarian altruism soon emerged; the krogan were needed in the Rachni Wars as reinforcements. Unlike most Citadel species, the krogan had an extremely rapid breeding cycle. They had not only the numbers to drive the advancing rachni back, but the ability to endure the harsh conditions of the rachni planets.
灭绝[]
克洛根人很快发动了对雷克耐发动了进攻，他们快速收复了被占领的神堡世界，并逐步向雷克耐的母星逼近。When krogan fleets pushed the rachni back to their homeworld Suen, the rachni refused to surrender. The krogan response was swift and brutal: they bombarded Suen's cities and detonated powerful bombs in the rachni's underground nests, obliterating them and creating massive sinkholes on the planet's surface. The Citadel Council would normally have objected to such total destruction, but after centuries of relentless war, complete eradication of the rachni seemed the only possible solution.
公元300年，雷克耐被宣告灭亡。although in caution the Citadel Council left a listening post in the rachni's home system to monitor for any survivors. As a result of the Rachni Wars, the Council established new policies prohibiting the activation of any dormant mass relays that led to uncharted systems in order to prevent other disastrous encounters with undiscovered hostile races.
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Causes[]
It is postulated that another party, possibly the Reapers, manipulated the rachni into starting the Rachni Wars. 在《质量效应》中，当薛帕德在诺维利亚星遇到雷克耐女王时，她曾提到自己并不明白为什么雷克耐和银河系其他种族会爆发战争。While in her egg, the Queen heard only the sounds of "oily shadows" and a "tone from space that hushed one voice after another" and "forced the singers to resonate with its own sour, yellow note."如果薛帕德放了雷克耐女王一条生路，并让她逃离顶峰15号的话，在《质量效应2》中，一位暗中为雷克耐效力的阿莎丽人会出现在伊里姆星，并与薛帕德等人接触。她声称雷克耐并非天生好斗的种族。薛帕德可以询问雷克耐在与神堡种族第一次接触时发动攻击的原因，并指出当时雷克耐是否有可能被洗脑？那名阿莎丽人不敢肯定，但根据雷克耐女王的描述，她的族群当时遭遇的情况非常接近收割者的“教化”。
Dr. Garret Bryson speculated that the mythical Leviathan was responsible instead, and may have been trying to create an army to confront the Reapers. Since the Reapers were in dark space at the time of the Rachni Wars and the ancient rachni bore no traces of the cybernetic augmentation that the Reapers utilize to convert organics into troops, Bryson believed that they could not have been responsible. Bryson attempted to use the activity patterns of the ancient rachni to track possible Leviathan artifact sites, but this parameter turned out to be irrelevant to the search and Bryson's theory remains unconfirmed.
延伸阅读[]
- 银河大百科
- Galactic Codex: Essentials Edition 2183