Weskerr wrote...
Chubark wrote...
But the Reapers can still count, because they're non-organic life forms and their bodies are mainly comprised of non-organic parts. Considering how advanced Reapers are in terms of technology, their parts can probably last a very long time without any sort of decay. But the fact is, the Reapers' parts would still decay regardless. Considering it would drain an unfathomable amount of resources to replace every single piece of machinery on a Reaper fleet, I would bet some parts on some Reapers would be millions of years old. True, they exist mainly in Dark Space and the most dire threat would be a rogue planetoid suddenly appearing, but after so many extinction cycles, the parts would still start to decay.
But, in any case, their mastery of materials shows their metal parts can survive millions of years. It does seem a little suspicious that the statues are so well intact, especially considering that they survived that long, but if you consider they were made by a species who traveled between stars and made metal so strong they could survive space, as well as the fact Ilos is a dead world where the most threat to them would be rain and oxygen, you can see why that their metal, being specifically tempered by a spacefaring species with the sole purpose of making statues, would last so long inside Ilos' atmosphere.
I understand what you're saying, but this is your explanation, not the game's. If a codex entry were created that made this retcon more believable - like saying that this pre-Prothean species invented a material that significantly slows natural decay - then I'd be more inclined to accept it. Still, why did they choose to retcon the Protheans at all? What's wrong with how the Illos Statues looked?
It is very easy to accept the fact that Reapers are built with anti-aging technology because they've been around for eons and are a super-intelligent machine/organic hybrid species. You can't say the same for the pre-Prothean species who are now represented by the Illos statues. Where are the other examples of their culture? Why did only their statues survive and not their buildings?
I'm very inclined to agree with you that a simple codex entry could fix all of this, and my explanation is that, while still based on the lore, is still non-canon. To your second question, I also guess it's just because of the 'lolbugs' BioWare pulled on us with the Collectors in Mass Effect 2.
And I have an interesting theory on that... What if Ilos was a Inusannon colony? I mean, the Prothean stasis pods really do not match the rest of the architecture, as well as their terminals also not intergrated into the architecture. Because really, the only place we did see the statues was on Ilos, because Donnovan Hock's statue did come from Ilos. It would also explain the beacon because it may have been an Inusannon warning that the Protheans found on Ilos, tuned to Prothean brainwaves and they tried to descipher it, and when the Reapers finally came, the Protheans finally understood the message and sent it out instead of a custom message to warn others?
Modifié par Chubark, 26 février 2012 - 10:49 .
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. Much better than what my current career track will entail.
