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[ElitePinecone]

It struck me as... bizarre that a conversation on Mars mentioned the Alliance hadn't touched (or even translated!) the Prothean data for thirty whole years.

In the first game we were told one beacon alone could unimaginably advance human technology, that data discs were extraordinarily rare, and that it was humanity's initial translation of part of the Martian Prothean archives that kickstarted our technological leap.

So... why leave a part of the archive untranslated? Why not try, at the very least, for thirty years to translate something that promises a wealth of information? 

It just seems like a plot device to ensure the Crucible is discovered in 2186, but it seems extraordinarily unlikely that any species would just leave a huge cache of Prothean information undisturbed, when we've been told so forcefully and so often that Prothean technology is super-advanced and enormously advantageous to acquire. Sitting on this stockpile of untranslated information and doing nothing is unrealistically foolish, especially since we know humans already translated part of it to get mass effect technology in the first place.

Am I missing something later in the game, or was this weird for anyone else?

[Taleroth]

I didn't catch it. But now that you mention it, I'll never not catch it again. The game's McGuffin is less than satisfactory in a few ways.

Modifié par Taleroth, 08 mars 2012 - 02:29 .

[AlphaJarmel]

I really wouldn't think about it. Your sense of belief will be stretched more than once before the game is over.

[IanPolaris]

Actually it gets better. It turns out that the Asari have had a working Prothean beacon which they have tapped into for thousands of years and they were still totally unprepared for the Reapers and completely unprepared for them. If you have Jarvik (the prothean) with you on that mission, he gets rather upset and acid towards Liara about that very point.

-Polaris

[Muezick]

i thought they explained that....

like the first contact war distracted them and indoctrinated sleeper agents kept them from looking to deeply into it.

**** now i cant remember, maybe i made that up in my head as i went along...i tend to fill plot hole gaps with reasonable explanations as I go if i am unable to draw logical conclusions that aren't explained.

[Zulmoka531]

There's lot's of plot holes. This just happens to be one of the earlier ones..that can be spirited away by simply labeling something like "indoctrination" on it.