So I was thinking, and don't crucify me if I'm way off because I really don't know that much about the ME universe I just got into the games a few months ago. But, if the Reapers come around to wipe out organic life in the galaxy every 50,000 years did they just skip the earth every time cause organic life wasn't advanced enough yet?? Just a wierd thought that popped into my head.
The Earth 50,000 years ago
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 03:34
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..I imagine it was just before the fleet led by Admiral Adama made land fall...so they didn't see anything worthwhile and skipped it.
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 03:37
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vanslyke85 wrote...
So I was thinking, and don't crucify me if I'm way off because I really don't know that much about the ME universe I just got into the games a few months ago. But, if the Reapers come around to wipe out organic life in the galaxy every 50,000 years did they just skip the earth every time cause organic life wasn't advanced enough yet?? Just a wierd thought that popped into my head.
That's what I assumed too. They only harvest those who are using their tech or something.
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 03:38
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yup, we weren't "advanced" enough, plus the reapers only went to planets they knew important stuff was on(the information network from the citadel gave them the info), earth wouldn't be on there because we were just a bunch of cavemen
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 03:38
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Icinix wrote...
..I imagine it was just before the fleet led by Admiral Adama made land fall...so they didn't see anything worthwhile and skipped it.
*subscribes to this theory and waits for someone to come in and claim that the Earth is only 6000 years old*
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 03:40
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timj2011 wrote...
yup, we weren't "advanced" enough, plus the reapers only went to planets they knew important stuff was on(the information network from the citadel gave them the info), earth wouldn't be on there because we were just a bunch of cavemen
Right, but there was a prothean research station on Mars that studied the cavemen.
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 03:40
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timj2011 wrote...
yup, we weren't "advanced" enough, plus the reapers only went to planets they knew important stuff was on(the information network from the citadel gave them the info), earth wouldn't be on there because we were just a bunch of cavemen
True. I was even thinking before cavemen times too though. I mean the Earth is millions of years old, there's been many different stages of life and evolution. I guess the Reapers let us live in peace until we discovered the Relays and the other races. Such an amazing game/series.
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 03:42
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I think they just 'reap' races that have a presence on the Citadel?
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 03:47
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They reap all spacefaring races that they come across. There's a couple of planets where it's mentioned that a race had gotten only as far as the next marginally habitable planet in their own solar system, but the entire civilization had been wiped out by massive orbital bombardments.
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 03:49
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I think they wipe out anyone who could potentially surpass their technology within the next 50K years. They don't want to lose that "lol, we're like, totally gods compared to you" thing they have going.
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 03:50
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leonia42 wrote...
Icinix wrote...
..I imagine it was just before the fleet led by Admiral Adama made land fall...so they didn't see anything worthwhile and skipped it.
*subscribes to this theory and waits for someone to come in and claim that the Earth is only 6000 years old*
Laugh all you want at that but I have met people who take that very seriously and literally. As if God had a Timex on his wrist and punched a timeclock for 6 days as we know it.
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 03:57
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Yakko77 wrote...
leonia42 wrote...
Icinix wrote...
..I imagine it was just before the fleet led by Admiral Adama made land fall...so they didn't see anything worthwhile and skipped it.
*subscribes to this theory and waits for someone to come in and claim that the Earth is only 6000 years old*
Laugh all you want at that but I have met people who take that very seriously and literally. As if God had a Timex on his wrist and punched a timeclock for 6 days as we know it.
If anything we're probably all living some kind of Dark City style life...everything we know is actually only a day old at best and all of our memories are fabricated...
Oh...and the Earth is actually shaped like a donut floating in a proverbial coffee mug.
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 03:58
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StarcloudSWG wrote...
They reap all spacefaring races that they come across. There's a couple of planets where it's mentioned that a race had gotten only as far as the next marginally habitable planet in their own solar system, but the entire civilization had been wiped out by massive orbital bombardments.
So humanity circa 100 years ago wouldn't be reaped? if they happened to swing by Earth. Or do we not know for sure?
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 04:08
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50,000 years ago, humanity was being abducted and studied on by the Protheans. Mainly the Cro-Magnon tribals. Shepard has a vision of it in Aletenia.
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 04:25
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they only harvest space faring races
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 04:38
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ZachForrest wrote...
StarcloudSWG wrote...
They reap all spacefaring races that they come across. There's a couple of planets where it's mentioned that a race had gotten only as far as the next marginally habitable planet in their own solar system, but the entire civilization had been wiped out by massive orbital bombardments.
So humanity circa 100 years ago wouldn't be reaped? if they happened to swing by Earth. Or do we not know for sure?
I "think" that comparable levels of civilization are listed among those which have been unexpectedly cut short in planet descriptions, namely http://masseffect.wi...com/wiki/Aphras ... but that's the only example of a pre-spaceflight civilization destroyed by external forces in the ME lore I'm aware of. If it was reaped, then early 20th century earth would certainly be a candidate, but then it's entirely possible the destruction of Aphras was not the Reapers' work.
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 04:41
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Mass Effect is set in 2183...so 50000 years ago, it would have been the year -47817 - I'm pretty sure humans (along with Earth) didn't exist then (ie. during their last cycle of extinction) and the same goes for the other races. Humans, Turians, Asari etc. came to be after the Protheans were wiped out and god knows how many others races before that.
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 04:45
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If they had happened to swing by Earth they almost certainly would have evaluated our level of technology, extrapolated a timeline and decided that flattening our cities would be appropriate. They target any species that accesses the relay network, and I'm fairly certain that 100 years shy of discovering the relays is close enough on a Reaper timespan (millions of years) that we'd be targeted.ZachForrest wrote...
StarcloudSWG wrote...
They reap all spacefaring races that they come across. There's a couple of planets where it's mentioned that a race had gotten only as far as the next marginally habitable planet in their own solar system, but the entire civilization had been wiped out by massive orbital bombardments.
So humanity circa 100 years ago wouldn't be reaped? if they happened to swing by Earth. Or do we not know for sure?
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 04:48
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Shepard needs a Vacation wrote...
they only harvest space faring races
Probably. It's implied they did wipe out a bronze-age level species on the planet Aphras, but that makes sense: compared to the ~50,000 years between reapings, the time it would take for a species to go from bronze-age tech to spaceflight isn't much. Not worth the risk of them getting a potentially tens-of-thousands-of-years-long head-start.
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 04:49
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xXSnak3Eat3rXx wrote...
Mass Effect is set in 2183...so 50000 years ago, it would have been the year -47817 - I'm pretty sure humans (along with Earth) didn't exist then (ie. during their last cycle of extinction)
Please tell me you're joking, or I misunderstood your intent. Our specific species--"modern" human, ****** sapiens sapiens--is believed to have become a distinct species (genetically speaking) 500,000 years ago.
Civilization is an extremely recent development in the history of our species. We've lived in the forests, on the plains, and in caves for the vast majority of our existence on Earth.
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 04:49
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xXSnak3Eat3rXx wrote...
Mass Effect is set in 2183...so 50000 years ago, it would have been the year -47817 - I'm pretty sure humans (along with Earth) didn't exist then (ie. during their last cycle of extinction) and the same goes for the other races. Humans, Turians, Asari etc. came to be after the Protheans were wiped out and god knows how many others races before that.
play every bit of ME1 and then come back. Did you score with the prostitute in the Citadel? Be sure to do that.
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 04:50
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(Biologically) modern humans were alive 50000 years ago (as of 2183, and I assure you, the Earth was around as well). Given how long it would take to turn over generations of Asari, it's likely the same may be said of them, at the very least. The technology level is the deciding factor.
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 04:52
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@didymos That one possibility. It may have also been some other species that decided to go genocidal between reapings. It wouldn't be the first time.
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 04:53
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marshalleck wrote...
xXSnak3Eat3rXx wrote...
Mass Effect is set in 2183...so 50000 years ago, it would have been the year -47817 - I'm pretty sure humans (along with Earth) didn't exist then (ie. during their last cycle of extinction)
Please tell me you're joking. Our specific species--"modern" human, ****** sapiens sapiens--is believed to have become a distinct species (genetically speaking) 500,000 years ago.
Civilization is an extremely recent development in the history of our species. We've lived in the trees, on the plains, and in caves for the vast majority of our existence on Earth.
Yea no kidding...Snak3Eat3r I hope you realize that the Earth existed before humans did (long before a measly 50,000 years ago) Im going to assume your a young kid and forget you said that...just sayin
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Posté 25 janvier 2011 - 05:07
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Has someone mentioned how it's bull that the developers cling to the 50,000 year cycle as if space-faring civilizations only evolve every 50,000 years? What if Sovereign had managed to activate the Citadel when the asari and salarians first discovered it? Wipe them all out only for the turians or humans to discover it a millennium or two later. Good timing then, 'cause they'll get 48,000 years according to the developers before the Reapers repeat themselves.
