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[Silentblaze]

ladyvader wrote...

*tongue planted in cheek* Who said they didn't?  Maybe they are the ones that created the crystal skulls. 

Or maybe their the ones who taught us how to build the pyramids.

[SkittlesKat96]

 They probably had tons of other planets to colonize and didn't feel like bothering the humans or something.

[BelgianGuy]

ModestmeNTaLmogul wrote...

SennenScale wrote...

ModestmeNTaLmogul wrote...
The Sumerian civilization are about 2270 BC.
Very possible.

That is not even 5,000 years ago, let alone 50,000.

Yeah,I suck at math,human still Neanderthal back then when the Protheans are around..

****** Sapiens (us) aren't descendant from Neanderthals.
They both lived at the same time, Neanderthals in icy Europe and parts of Asia and ****** Sapiens in Africa / Asia untill the ice age stopped and ****** Sapiens colonized Europe, making the Neanderthals go extinct.
First ****** Sapiens lived about 200.000 years ago,

Funny enough, 50.000 years ago, humans are considered to have become behavioral modern, aka The Great Leap Forward.

My very vague and purely theoretical guess is that when faced with extinction, the Protheons did do something to the ****** Sapiens to make them evolve faster, maybe engineering us in the hope we would someday stand up against the reapers?
(Not just us, possibly other races too like the Hanar)

[marshalleck]

BelgianGuy wrote...

ModestmeNTaLmogul wrote...

SennenScale wrote...

ModestmeNTaLmogul wrote...
The Sumerian civilization are about 2270 BC.
Very possible.

That is not even 5,000 years ago, let alone 50,000.

Yeah,I suck at math,human still Neanderthal back then when the Protheans are around..

****** Sapiens (us) aren't descendant from Neanderthals.
They both lived at the same time, Neanderthals in icy Europe and parts of Asia and ****** Sapiens in Africa / Asia untill the ice age stopped and ****** Sapiens colonized Europe, making the Neanderthals go extinct.
First ****** Sapiens lived about 200.000 years ago,

Funny enough, 50.000 years ago, humans are considered to have become behavioral modern, aka The Great Leap Forward.

My very vague and purely theoretical guess is that when faced with extinction, the Protheons did do something to the ****** Sapiens to make them evolve faster, maybe engineering us in the hope we would someday stand up against the reapers?
(Not just us, possibly other races too like the Hanar)

They dropped a big black monolith near a tribe of sleeping cro-magnons and let our curiosity and creativity do the rest. 

Modifié par marshalleck, 13 juin 2011 - 10:57 .

[Ianamus]

Perhaps Mars was full of life back when the Protheans landed there. It might have only become a wasteland after the Reapers 'reaped' it.

[Halfdan The Menace]

marshalleck wrote...

BelgianGuy wrote...

ModestmeNTaLmogul wrote...

SennenScale wrote...

ModestmeNTaLmogul wrote...
The Sumerian civilization are about 2270 BC.
Very possible.

That is not even 5,000 years ago, let alone 50,000.

Yeah,I suck at math,human still Neanderthal back then when the Protheans are around..

****** Sapiens (us) aren't descendant from Neanderthals.
They both lived at the same time, Neanderthals in icy Europe and parts of Asia and ****** Sapiens in Africa / Asia untill the ice age stopped and ****** Sapiens colonized Europe, making the Neanderthals go extinct.
First ****** Sapiens lived about 200.000 years ago,

Funny enough, 50.000 years ago, humans are considered to have become behavioral modern, aka The Great Leap Forward.

My very vague and purely theoretical guess is that when faced with extinction, the Protheons did do something to the ****** Sapiens to make them evolve faster, maybe engineering us in the hope we would someday stand up against the reapers?
(Not just us, possibly other races too like the Hanar)

They dropped a big black monolith near a tribe of sleeping cro-magnons and let our curiosity and creativity do the rest. 

Who build the pyramids? what about that Prothean pyramid on Elotania?

[Commander Shep4rd]

EJ107 wrote...

Perhaps Mars was full of life back when the Protheans landed there. It might have only become a wasteland after the Reapers 'reaped' it.

Sounds like an inetresting theory....

[Gabey5]

they had enough planets and they didn't want to mess with our development.. thus they studied us

[x-Legion-x]

Commander Shep4rd wrote...

This question has been buggin me since the first game came out,why colonize a deserted,cold, with very thin atmosphere and no oxygen
serously that planet just screams: "Colonize me!" Before you go saying "Its their livable conditions idiot" consider the Citadel,Protheans lived there right? and Ilos  Had about the same conditions as Earth which means their species favour Planets like that. so why would protheans not colonize earth?
Just a queston,.

good question, I couldnt tell you

[ramnozack]

The reapers HARVESTED the dinosaurs........o m g......T REX REAPER

[Onilink1230]

i think two thoughts should be combined together

BelgianGuy wrote...
****** Sapiens (us) aren't descendant from Neanderthals.
They both lived at the same time, Neanderthals in icy Europe and parts of Asia and ****** Sapiens in Africa / Asia untill the ice age stopped and ****** Sapiens colonized Europe, making the Neanderthals go extinct.
First ****** Sapiens lived about 200.000 years ago,

Funny enough, 50.000 years ago, humans are considered to have become behavioral modern, aka The Great Leap Forward.

My very vague and purely theoretical guess is that when faced with extinction, the Protheons did do something to the ****** Sapiens to make them evolve faster, maybe engineering us in the hope we would someday stand up against the reapers?
(Not just us, possibly other races too like the Hanar)

and the reason a lot of prothean planets had harsh environments were because...

EJ107 wrote...

Perhaps Mars was full of life back when the Protheans landed there. It might have only become a wasteland after the Reapers 'reaped' it.

if the scientists on ilos had their contingency plan to stop the reapers from commanding the keepers from opening the giant mass relay then it is quite possible that there was a backup plan for the contingency plan...humanity

[Clonedzero]

because its kind of messed up to steal planets from developing species?

[VendettaI154]

Obviously after the Reapers destroyed the Prothean colonies, a small rag-tag fleet of surviving ships set out to find Earth and escape the Reapers. After years of searching and following ancient prophecies they eventually found Earth when a Prothean thought dead miraculously returned with knowledge about the planet, but after discovering it, realised it to, had been destroyed by the Reapers. After launching a suicide mission on a Reaper base to rescue a child that was taken by the Reapers, the returned to life Prothean jumped the ship to co-ordinates that she got from a mysterious song her father used to play to her. The ship arrives at a garden world teaming with life and with primitive humans living upon it. The fleet then decide to abandon their ships, and to live on this world and name it Earth. Duh.

Modifié par VendettaI154, 13 juin 2011 - 11:27 .

[Spiratic]

While it's basically true that Neanderthals are extinct and that we aren't descended from that it's not entirely accurate. The best example I can give to compare it is saying dinosaurs are extinct, while technically true it's not entirely accurate, the raptor family of birds for example. There is evidence of successful inter species breeding and an impressive number of us today still carry Neanderthal genetic markers.

Back on topic... It's probably some type of prime directive type thing, especially sincethe protheans fill the lonely species trope.

[Durgon Ironfist]

JadeEffect wrote...

A Prothereans attempt to educate 'early humans'

You sir are the man.

[mcsupersport]

Commander Shep4rd wrote...

Never found the prothean ruin on Eletania was busy trying to hunt that stupid monkey,but i really wanted to finish ME1 that day since i was going to buy the second one next day so my impatience won over me and left the planet and went to ilos to finish the game
Never did that SQ in my next palythroughs since i was just rushing trying to get my classes over to ME2. now i wish i would.

This is a shame since it IS a flag carried over into ME2 and thus you would think has meaning in ME3.  It is an odd thing to have flagged out of all the stuff that isn't but there you go.

[TheCrakFox]

Because colonising a planet that is already home to a developing sapient species is pretty immoral, the Protheans didn't want to mess with our development.

I don't think there's any hidden meaning behind them studying us either, just scientific curiosity.

[aTrueFool]

From Cerberus Daily News

03/14/2010 - Earth Scientists Win Hitara Prize
“A team of Earth scientists in Australia have won the Hitara Prize for Biology for their work on Prothean comm towers. Their research found that the towers produced small but significant amounts of ionizing radiation, enough to damage the DNA of Earth creatures such as fruit flies and bees. It is now believed the Protheans were resistant to low amounts of radiation and avoided deploying comm towers on planets where they would have an ecological impact. This research marks the first Hitara Prize for humans in a scientific field, where they are often at a disadvantage compared to species that have longer held advanced technology.”

[archurban]

they are not like batarians or geth. they don't just go somewhere to attack people for making colonies. they are civilized. most occupied planets were not result as war or anything.

[Hathur]

Commander Shep4rd wrote...

Northern Sun wrote...

Commander Shep4rd wrote...

I´m wondering why they couldn´t share their planet if they did found us a fascinating species they could have help us develope MUCH faster and share planets.

Probably for the same reason the salarians regret uplifting the krogan.

i wouldn´t uplift an species that are much more durable,faster and pwoerful than us which was the salarians error.

True.. but the Protheans would have seen what a horrifically violent and uncontrolled mammal we are - so very prone to acting on base impulses rather than controlled reason.... at that stage in history humans killed with even greater wreckless abandon than we do today.... we humans today have a ******-poor appreciation for human life even now... it was immensely worse 50,000 years ago.

They had no way to know how we'd react if they put advanced technology in our hands at such a early stage (afterall, 50,000 years ago human being were predominately tribals and nomads still... we hadn't even developed agriculture yet. Forget technologically speaking - sociologically we were mind numbingly primitive.

Frankly if you saw a group of primitive aliens stumbling about on their world with nothing more than clubs and not even understanding simple concepts as rudimentary construction of shelter & tools... would you suddenly hand over to them vast amounts of knowledge? 

Your first problem would be that they wouldn't understand a damn bit of it - they need time to develop and understand... you don't just drop concepts like physics, mathematics, biology, etc on a primitive species that can barely make fire.

Modifié par Hathur, 16 juin 2011 - 12:16 .

[marshalleck]

Hathur wrote...

Commander Shep4rd wrote...

Northern Sun wrote...

Commander Shep4rd wrote...

I´m wondering why they couldn´t share their planet if they did found us a fascinating species they could have help us develope MUCH faster and share planets.

Probably for the same reason the salarians regret uplifting the krogan.

i wouldn´t uplift an species that are much more durable,faster and pwoerful than us which was the salarians error.

True.. but the Protheans would have seen what a horrifically violent and uncontrolled mammal we are - so very prone to acting on base impulses rather than controlled reason.... at that stage in history humans killed with even greater wreckless abandon than we do today.... we humans today have a ******-poor appreciation for human life even now... it was immensely worse 50,000 years ago.

They had no way to know how we'd react if they put advanced technology in our hands at such a early stage (afterall, 50,000 years ago human being were predominately tribals and nomads still... we hadn't even developed agriculture yet. Forget technologically speaking - sociologically we were mind numbingly primitive.

Frankly if you saw a group of primitive aliens stumbling about on their world with nothing more than clubs and not even understanding simple concepts as rudimentary construction of shelter & tools... would you suddenly hand over to them vast amounts of knowledge? 

Your first problem would be that they wouldn't understand a damn bit of it - they need time to develop and understand... you don't just drop concepts like physics, mathematics, biology, etc on a primitive species that can barely make fire.

Yeah, 'uplifting' a stone-age tribe to space-age technology and capabilities just couldn't happen in a reasonable amount of time. They would have absolutely no intellectual framework with which to comprehend what you're trying to convey to them. The krogan, despite being considered primitive, were at a sociological/technological level comparable to modern day Earth--the only difference is given their much more violent nature, they'd managed to nuke their entire planet and were suffering through a global nuclear winter. They still possessed knowledge of physics etc. which made grasping knowledge of advanced physics possible. 

Modifié par marshalleck, 16 juin 2011 - 12:47 .

[Zelnik]

Who said they didnt? look at keith richards.

[Gill Kaiser]

Keith Richards will still be alive in 2185.