I'm currently re-playing Mass Effect after having put the game down for several years and I ran into something I never found before (or perhaps had completely forgotten) on the planet Eletania; a use for the Prothean trinket the Asari Consort gives you. On this world, you find a silver sphere you can insert the trinket into and when you do, you recieve the following message:
Examining the strange Prothean artifact reveals a small, irregular
slot on the underside of the surface. Remembering the strange trinket
you received from the asari Consort on the Citadel, you pull it out and
place it in the slot. The ball explodes in a brilliant flash of white
light, momentarily blinding you and disorienting you.
Slowly your senses return as you wake from a deep sleep. You are
alone in the forest, though you are not far from the caves you share
with the others in your tribe. There is a pain and a small lump in the
back of your skull, as if a chip of flint has been forced under the
surface of the skin.Leaning on your bone-tipped spear for support, you rise to your
feet. A sound draws your attention upwards, where a strange creature
hovers high above you. It is unlike the birds you hunt by the lake's
edge – it has no head and no wings yet somehow it flies. It is a beast
of shining silver; hanging motionless in the sky like a cloud. You
sense it is watching you, studying you.
Raising a hairy fist, you shake your spear at it in anger and the
creature rises up quickly until it disappears from view. With a
satisfied grunt you make your way back to your caves and the rest of the
tribe.
You fall into the familiar patterns of life – the hunt for food,
the struggle to claim and keep a mate, the battles against the other
tribes that would claim your territory. Days roll into nights and back
into days. Each time you rise from sleep there is the sensation that
you are not alone; that some "other" is with you sharing all you see,
hear and feel. At these times your hand goes to the strange lump at the
back of your skull and you remember the silver creature from the sky.
The air grows colder, winter falls. You must range farther for
food, clutching the furs tight against you to ward off the chill. It is
on one of these long hunts that the strange bird returns. You hear it
before you see it, its call a deafening roar as it descends from above,
swooping down on you. A single great eye opens on the underbelly, a
glowing red orb. You try to run, but a finger of red light extends from
the eye and engulfs you, and all goes black again.
You wake an instant later to find yourself on Eletania lying on
your back, the Prothean artifact looming above you undamaged and your
companions standing over you. They help you to your feet, puzzled.
"There was a flash of light and you just sort of toppled over," one
explains. "Are you okay, Shepard?" the other asks. You don't answer
right away, wondering at the implications of what you have seen: the
memories of a Cro-Magnon hunter, captured by an implanted Prothean data
recorder. How long did they study the primitive humans, observing them
and analyzing the results at their base on Mars? And what, if anything,
did they learn from us?
"I'm fine," you finally reply, realizing that this is a mystery you will probably never solve. "Forget about it."
According to the wiki, this is marked as a flag for import into ME2 but no one has been able to determine what effect, if any, it has.
So I'm curious if anyone has any ideas or theories about what this might develop into. I also wonder why a recording device used on Earth would have ended up on Eletania. Was it supposed to be the same sphere that visited Earth in the flashback?
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