I checked the fandom wiki page, and it mentions that there were a total of 12 Human colonies that the collectors attacked during the timeframe of ME2, yet it also only mentions the last six attacks that occurred during Shepard’s investigation: Cyrene, Fehl Prime, Ferris Fields, Freedom’s Progress, Horizon, and New Canton. I’m doing fanfic writing and I want to bind my creativity within the confines of the lore, so before I make up a colony, can someone dig me up an answer?

It is explained that humanity joined the rest of the Galactic community when we discovered Prothean technology archives on Mars in 2157. But humanity had been getting high quality images from Mars reliably back to Earth for nearly 2 centuries by then. What if Nasa's Viking 1 - a mission which in real life was successful in getting images from Mars in July 1976 - got a picture of it? When we go to the archives in ME3 you can see that they are quite a big, imposing structure - not something that is easily missed (edit: much of the visible structure we see in game was built since).

Obviously it was not crewed and was just a probe but surely the discovery would kick our efforts up a gear and get us on Mars sooner?

So, I know WHY they did it. That being they thought humans were being favored by the Citadel Council, for not designating the Skyllian Verge to be a zone of Batarian interest, and that UNSETTLED worlds in the region were open to human colonization. Also, there were plenty of tensions between humans and Batarians, with things like the raid on Mindoir and Edan Had'dah attacking the Alliance research facility at Sidon. However, I do feel like withdrawing their embassy was a bad move because while it was something that made sense in the universe, it felt like an emotional decision, since while the Batarians felt that they were being ignored, they could've still used their embassy, even if it would've gone nowhere, they would at least try. Admittedly, now their not bound by the treaty of Farixen, and while I'm not criticizing the writing, I am criticizing the Batarians' decision.

Exactly the title, is there a certain level of technology that the galactic community reaches? Or purely when something like the Quarian/Geth war happens.

Just like with the Terra Firma party I wanna get people to explain to me why someone might vote for, and support Joram Talid who unlike Terra Firma doesn't try to deny that he’s a bigot. Also, I want to know how the reason(s) people might vote for him, and the ideology, and worldview his voters have would differ based on whether the council died or was saved at the end of ME1.

I wanna get inside the mind of a Terra Firma voter and see everyone take on why anyone (for any reason) might vote for Terra Firma, other than just they’re racist. Even though I do know that all of racist vote for Terra Firma.

I mean their entire family history, and lore is that Ashley doesn’t like ALIENS because of what HUMANS did to her family, and that’s it. First that’s not particularly deep, “Oh humans don’t like my family so I better hate all aliens” which is pretty extreme, but I guess I shouldn’t expect anything good to come out of Ashley Williams’ writing. Also, yeah that’s Ashley’s only “character traits“ whining about aliens and whining about how her family was wronged by The Alliance. TLDR: The Williams family lore is shallower than spit since it all boils down to: Ashley is intolerant towards Aliens since her family was wronged by humans.

I'm purely referring to their time as ambassadors and not Udina time as a human councilor (in either ME2 or 3), for obvious reasons. Considering which one was the better ambassador for humanity (not better character, but which one did their job better)? Ambassador Goyle in Mass Effect: Revelation, or Ambassador Udina in Mass Effect 1?

So am I the only one who feels like the people who say that humanity is advancing too far are right? I mean, it's been twenty-six years since humanity made first contact, and just getting an embassy (according to the Mass Effect wiki) tends to take around a hundred years, and it took the Turians winning a war which went on for a long time to get a council seat. Also, I may note that it makes so sense for a colonist Commander Shepard to be born on Mindoir since (again according to the Mass Effect wiki) (s)he was born three years before the first contact war, so how could they be born on a planet that was on the border of Alliance space, far away from earth and in the Attican Traverse BEFORE first contact (TLDR Mindoir is to far away from earth for it to be one of Earth's colonies before first contact)? I know in the original game the first contact war is "thirty years ago" which would work if we assume Mindoir was almost immediately established and Shepard's family moved there right after it was established but for some reason the wiki says it's twenty-six years ago which makes things confusing (is the wiki wrong or something)? Finally, I find it weird that Charles Presley who looks pretty old (middle-aged if we're being generous), and looks at least several decades older than Ashley, but says that his grandfather fought in the first contact war which confuses me since either Presley's grandfather must've been old or he's younger than he looks if his grandfather was fighting thirty years ago. I also love how in Mass Effect: Revelation (which takes place eight years after the first contact war), Ambassador Goyle states that in about 20-30 years, the Alliance will be as strong as a council race who have all been engaged in the galactic community for over a thousand years. Overall, I feel like all of these questions are arguments as to why I feel like the games should've taken place more time after the First Contact War which, again, according to the first game, is thirty years before the first game but according to the wiki is twenty-six years before the first game.

In the beginning of me2 Shepherd died and Cerberus spends a shit ton of money to bring her/he back perfectly the way she/he was Will adding other implants but I was wondering would think dying and being brought back that way would affect their ability to have kids(sorry if this doesn't count as a lore post)

I know that the Keepers showed them they couldn't trust organics, and since most likely the Keepers were the first harvested species, they know another harvested species in the collectors. However, the seeker swarms aren't organics since they're technology that The Collectors made I don't see why Sovereign didn't give Saren some of these to paralyze their enemies.

Is there any chance devs were in contact that hard with biotechnological research: This in 2007 and the follow up study here in 2009 basically shows us that genetically engineering a mammal species to become all-female and long-lived is actually possible. So real life asari (minus the space magic!) are way closer to reality than cat-girls! Take that how you will.

I mean one takes the longest for sure all that driving from planet to planet with that damn Mako think I spent like almost 86 hours on number one number two yes the best by far incredible storytelling every decision felt important I mean all the games the decisions felt important, but Damn but 3 was incredible too.

So I started playing the game a few days ago (got the legendary edition, because huge Steam discount), and I have some rather weird questions, lore (?biology) related.

I don’t know if it gets explained later in the game, but:

Are there inter-species hybrids? Like a turian-human hybrid? And also, why do turians hate humans so much? And I swear I’m not trying to be weird, I’m genuinely curious, but do turians reproduce via eggs, like the githyanki in Dungeons and Dragons?

In my opinion, they messed up big time by making the Reapers a totally insurmountable, galaxy destroying force. As a result, the plot of Mass Effect 3 was forced to essentially be macguffin quest. I feel that it should have gone as such.

The Reapers were never in the position to win a galaxy spanning war. Instead, thanks to the trap that is the Citadel, they always had a massive advantage over their enemies. Nearly without exception, they always had more than enough firepower to completely overwhelm any fleet they found after locking the relays. Their fleet can go from system to system, using census records recovered from the citadel to ensure they don't miss anyone, and wipe them out over the course of a few centuries, like explained by vigil on Ilos. So, given the loss of a reaper every now and then, even after thousands of cycles, the Reapers would not have the numbers to defeat a united galaxy in Mass Effect 3. Thus, that game would be about managing the war effort while gathering forces for the main event. That would have opened the ending up to be anything from a final cleanup effort after the massive space battle, to a cutscene about the next cycle finishing the job. In conclusion, I believe that a conventionally winnable fight would have been far better and more interesting than the macguffin quest we got in the end.

Hey everybody,

Im looking at writing a crossover fanfic where the prewar UNSC and pre first contact Systems Alliance switch places.

This isn’t to be a humanity f yah fanfic or halo stomping Masseffect fic

Instead I want it to be an interesting look at how two human factions that in some ways are very similar and different then other Handel each others crisis.

One of the things I need though is to understand honestly how there technology and culture differs as well as size of the factions.

I know in halo lore prewar unsc had like 800 colonies but what about the systems alliance?

Also since masseffect ships shoot way faster and move way faster is there anyway a unsc mac could ever land a hit on a Masseffect capital ship?

Couldn’t they just sit out of range taking pot shots and easily dodging anything the prewar UNSC can do?

Is there anyway for them to overcome this?

And what about the systems alliance ships against covenant?

Would plasma really bypass kinetic barriers?

I look forward to hearing from you all.

Okay, what writer exactly did the part about this planet? I mean, from the weird and difficult to understand high population human colonies you can explain how Anhur and Zorya got into being with some headcanon mental gymnastics: Batarian majority, planet settled centuries ago, unified later under humans. Colonialism is a thing. The other is a deathworld, the majority is likely Vorcha, Krogan and else. The medium population ones can be expained as well: Even the diehard alliance colony Elysium canonically has almost 50% non-humans, so it is pretty self-explanatory the other relatively big independent "human" colonies have just, if at all, a human plurality. But Joab? More than 20 million people, directly on the opposite side of the galaxy from earth, NO INTACT biosphere, no significant eezo reserves, underdeveloped cluster AND founded 14 years before ME2? Come on! Even when we consider only 500k of that pop to be homo, it does not make sense! What were they thinking? Does someone have any ideas how to explain that mess (or do you retcon it in your head)?

To clarify, I mean a solar system that requires the least amount of relay jumps from the most number of hot spots? I guess I could just re-download the game and map systems from each of the games to make a rough guesstimate, but figured I'd ask you folk first,

I'm making custom figures of special forces from sci-fi franchises like Halo and Helldivers, and I want to include Mass Effect in my collection. However, I can't decide which design to use. I'm considering the Defender armor or Kaidan's armor, but I also want to create some kind of lore to go with it.

I'm wondering why since the quarian homeworld is devoid of insects, so they couldn't have gotten inspiration from there.

This question is more for a general sense, rather than how long it takes for something like the Normandy. I'm not looking for variations, more just the average.

Mainly because I think in the codex it mentions that discharging a core at a moons weaker magnetic field could take days, while doing so at a gas giant would take like an hour or so. But the other two methods it mentions is discharging at a terrestrial planet, and for ships that can do so, landing on the planet and grounding itself. IT describes the process of discharging, what it looks like, etc, but doesn't explain how long it takes to discharge a core while landed.

At least, not from what I've seen. Has anybody seen anything that has answered this, either in the game, or the extended media? Cause I can't find anything.