So in mass effect 2 we learn the collectors are protheans of Javiks species heavily modified and most functions supplanted with reaper technology but in ME3 during Javiks mission we see that the reapers already had fully functional collectors in Javiks time.
Are the collectors designed to be kept as a failsafe or were they basically the husks of Javiks time and if they were husks then what was the reaper purpose for keeping them alive afterwards and if they as husks were kept as a failsafe does that mean the reapers had a special fear that in the next cycle something would not go to plan in the same way it had for a billion years? or did they always keep a modified species in the galactic core as a failsafe?
Question About The Collectors?
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Saren100
, sept. 04 2012 06:48
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Posté 04 septembre 2012 - 08:09
Neoleviathan
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I think they were implied to be more like what Saren was trying to do or how Cerberus started to go. Groups or species that showed their usefulness were indoctrinated & served to prepare the next cycle. If Saren had succeded he would have likely filled a role to the geth in a simillar way that the General did to the Collecters. & it seemed Cerberus was acting allot like how the Collecters in Javik's time did, so maybe they were being prepped for the roll.
Having a new race take a Collecter role after each cycle makes sense becuase long term indoctrination is unsustainable. Perhaps the Collecters in two had already been close to dying out, did not seem to be very many of them after all.
Having a new race take a Collecter role after each cycle makes sense becuase long term indoctrination is unsustainable. Perhaps the Collecters in two had already been close to dying out, did not seem to be very many of them after all.
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Posté 04 septembre 2012 - 08:15
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Wouldn't have been sloppy writing... nah, couldn't have been. <evil grin>
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Posté 04 septembre 2012 - 07:05
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PsiFive wrote...
Wouldn't have been sloppy writing... nah, couldn't have been. <evil grin>
What... no
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Posté 04 septembre 2012 - 10:01
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I swear I've found a statement somewhere that the Reapers were, for some reason, unable to process Protheans into a Reaper. Right now I don't remember whether it's mentioned in-game, or if I read it somewhere else, but it's given me this idea of Reapers deciding to keep a group of Prothean husks (Collectors) in the Galaxy as mooks just in case and turning to use them to target humans in ME2.
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Posté 14 septembre 2012 - 12:31
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I suspect they kept them as war tools for help in harvesting. Not all died. Some were saved to help in future harvestings. Wasn't the point to keep some and wipe out the rest? Reapers, no matter how powerful, needed ground forces to be fully effective. I suspect if Shepard hadn't wiped out the collectors they would have been in ME3 along with the newly transformed races. Ground forces do a lot of damage where ships cannot.
