Ah, that is indeed quite the retcon isn't it? I'll have to reevaluate my opinion of the protheans now. After ME I of saw them as a sort of benign, enlightened race. After all, they did uplift the hanar and set up a peaceful observation post on Mars to study Cro-Magnon culture.

As to the reveal you refer to in ME2, I'd assumed the appearence change was down to all the genetic tampering the reapers had done. So now we are to believe that the protheans that became Collectors are a different race than those who inhabited Ilos?

I've heard a few negative opinions of Walters before but I have no first hand knowledge - I don't even know which bits of ME2 he is responsible for. I thought both he and Drew Karpyshyn had major impact into the story.

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Actually in ME1 I'm pretty sure it does say somewhere something about the Protheans conquering galaxies. Also, tbh, I don't mind the explanation. People often see the Romans are "enlightened", etc. but they pulled the same stunts with the ramming their culture down peoples' throats, thing.

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Im much more disturbed about EDI being a squad mate, surely shes not going to be romantic option lol!

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@ Biotic - the issue arises when it comes to "prothean" DNA which they could really only get from Ilos, seeing as everything else was mostly eradicated. technicaly, you could explain away the statues as predating the "protheans" or something, but... meh

That's a good point, Biotic. Mass Effect was vague enough about the protheans to make your roman analogy plausible. I'll have to read the codex entries again, as I could have had the whole "enlightend aliens" concept wrong all this time.


Leah, it's confusing ain't it? Iirc, EDI identifies the Collector DNA as belonging to protheans originating in the Styx Theta cluster. If protheans are made up of different races, wouldn't the only sure way of identifying their DNA as prothean to be to date it?


For example, Britain was part of the roman empire until the begining of the fifth century. If a skeleton was unearthed and DNA was able to be extracted, we wouldn't know if this person was roman or not until we were able to determine the age. If he lived in AD 356, we could probably say he was roman. If he was alive in AD 520, he probably isn't roman.


So for EDI to say this "Collector is prothean" wouldn't she first need to know all the different races that make up the group collectively refered to as protheans, have a sample of each race's DNA, the dates they beacame part of the prothean "empire" and a digital dating system to ensure that she wasn't identifying a pre-prothean group?

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Me too. Especially Thane. D:

I interested to see Bioware explain where this prothean was for the last 50 000 years

I've seen this information in several places now...
I'm honestly unhappy about both. Can EDI just be an awesome and slightly creepy voice that enjoys teasing Joker and making him slightly scared of her? I don't want her more than that. It just feels...wrong. Plus - if they have her a romance option...then I am sad. Or if Joker/EDI becomes canon. More sad.

The Prothean is kind of cool - but I might accidentally keep shooting at him because he looks like a Collector (I know they're the same thing - but still). Kind of like how I accidentally shot at Legion a few times. Awkward. From what I've heard about the Prothean story is kind of...bleh. WITH THE GALAXY IN PERIL THE PROTHEANS CONVENIENTLY APPEAR AND SAVE THE DAY. Uhhhh...no. Can we just get Blasto in here to kick some butt? Sounds like a plan.

Yes, I want my Shepard to be with him when he dies (or finds a cure, who knows) so I can cry myself to sleep and spend the next 3 months in my emo corner.

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Exactly. Do we really need to make her into this sexualized being? I really liked her the way she was. And dear god, I really hope they don't make her a romance option! I guess the upside would be that I would have the choice to not make her a LI...but still... It would be awesome if they made Joker a LI! All in all, I'm not really interested in a bunch of new squadmates. I just want to see all my old ones from ME1 and ME2. And I stayed faithful to Kaidan, so I am expecting some good lovin! :P