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Did the PremiseVerse ancient Krogan devastate Tuchanka with a nuclear war, that regressed their technology? I ask, because Okeer is described as inventing and developing a few things, and I wonder to how unique or superior his contributions are, relative to the ancient Krogans.
What do the Reaper time measurements such as stancycle and megacycle translate to, in more precise terms? Or is it irrelevant, just understand them as “long periods of time” ?
What’s with the Hanar and the Protheans? Is their Prothean fixation just an obfuscation to the rest of the galaxy?
Why bar the Citadel access to any Prothean sites in Hanar territory, and strip mine ones they can take? Why do they seek out the Mars Archive and others unsuccessfully? What advantage do they gain by this?
Was the ship the Hanar found, that eventually inspired the Second Refusal War, even Prothean?
Are you preserving the canonical timeline with Protheans and their study of humankind? The Cro Magnon were 43-45k years at the earliest, with the Prothean extinction 50k years ago. What were the Protheans doing in the Sol system, several thousand years after the obliteration of their civilization, and where did they go?
=Not questions, just observations=
If Ketha successfully indoctrinated the whole Prothean race, he should know what the contents of the Prothean ruins are, and replicate them with his High Ascended skills. This is puzzling to me.If the Protheans were indoctrinated by Ketha, that would go a long way to explaining why Vigil’s advice was ignored, with the exception of the Keepers rewrite.
That may even explain why the Protheans submitted to the Reapers to become Collectors, and I still like the notion that the dark secret deep in The Thirty is that the Collectors/Reapers, not the Protheans, were the ones who ascended them.
The codex states that the Mars Archive communicates with observatories on the near side of the moon. Given the Prothean message mentioning Holdfast, and the Manswell moon base was called the Zurich Holdfast, I also find it satisfying to believe Manswell had advance knowledge/small bits of tech of the Prothean base on Mars.
(As an aside, this is also the closest I get to wanting to write ME fanfic/love letter to Apollo missions. If I do, it would be an Apollo 18 moon landing, discovering some Prothean tech, and jump starting us.)
Best of luck to you researching your works, and writing what appeals to you. Will be waiting patiently for your next OSABC chapter.
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Following up on my Prothean questions after reading your STG report on Uressa T’Shora.
So she’s clearly had some exposure to the Asari Prothean Beacon, right? If Shepard got a vision from a damaged, having no prior history of human contact Beacon on EP, I would imagine the Beacon on Thessia was explicitly designed with Asari physiology intact, and is thus capable of a gentler and more informative information exchange.
That the Asari have access to Prothean and Inusannon technology on their homeworld is nicely contrasted to what degree of technology is in the Mars Archives.
SUGGESTION: My head canon for the Mars Archives is the secondary base, mentioned in one of the tablets during the Priority: Mars mission in ME3, has something like 10,000 cylinders for genetic alterations. Stored in the archives is an alteration to the human genome to make us smarter, stronger, faster, biotically capable, etc etc super soldier.
This also drives a major conflict post ME3, to whether or not humanity uses this tech as an equalizer to the rest of the Our Elves are Better species of the galaxy, or if we’d lose something in the process. You could tie this into your future humari plans.
I close with a final question that is more on your author style than story content.
In writing in an established universe, there are limits to how far you can travel away from the existing story before you’re arguably just playing with tropes and you should be writing original fiction, the Stations of Canon, and all.
As an ME author, what is your thought process on the arguably just plain superior degree of alien species compared to humans, especially when gifted advanced tech right on their homeworld? How do you write without making humans uninteresting and insignificant?
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