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[Clips7]

For this game to be about space aliens and creatures from other universes....do the characters themselves ever acknowledge that they themselves are based in-directly on earth creatures?

Drell - (i initially thought he was frog related)
Salarian - obviously a salamander
Krogan - not sure...i thought they were part of the frog family as well...lizard maybe?
Asari - based on human females
Quarians - Not quite sure since nobody has seen their face, but they are maybe based on some sort of animal due to their physical appearance in terms of their hind legs...

Geth - Any robot or android on earth...
Turian - I'm kinda stunned on this one...maybe a genuine alien design? can't really think of any animal they could be related to...

Don't get me wrong, i know the creators wanted the characters to end up the way they were...like i said. i wonder if any of the characters think how these characters look to certain animals on earth...probably not, i guess it's moreso we as the players that notice these things...

[Sir DeLoria]

Quarians and Batarians are humanoid except for a few off features. I guess primates evolved on more than one planet.

Turians are between birds and reptiles, that's actually mentioned in the codex.

Krogan are turtle-dinosaurish creatures.

Vorcha are the only aliens that resemble nothing we have on Earth.

Modifié par Necanor, 03 octobre 2013 - 12:11 .

[Kataphrut94]

I find the asari to be the strangest of them all, actually. While the others are sort of plausible as evolutionary tangents, the mono-gendered female squid-head primates who can mate with anyone, have natural biotics and can live to a thousand years are hard to wrap my head around. Especially that last part- the krogan make sense living that long because they were built tough by evolutionary needs and the factors of their environment. Why do the asari have to live that long? They certainly don't have the body type that would imply physical resilience and their mating system makes reproduction so easy that it can't have anything to do with needing to live long for breeding purposes.

[Clips7]

How did the asari come to be if they are a female species anyway?...how did they multiply?

[Armass81]

Quarians, Batarians, Humans - Simians, primates
Krogan- Turtles, dinosaurs
Turians- Dinosaurs, birds of prey, hawks
Asari- human females
Hanar- Jelly fish
Elcor- Elephants
Salarians- Frogs, salamanders
Volus- No ideas.... they look like manatees or moles in suits. If anyones ever played Rogue Galaxy, theres a character called "Simon" that looks very similar to the volus.
Vorcha- No terrestrial animal analogue, goblin like, face kinda reminds you of a hellish bat thing

Modifié par Armass81, 04 octobre 2013 - 10:39 .

[hiraeth]

Clips7 wrote...

How did the asari come to be if they are a female species anyway?...how did they multiply?

they're not female, they're "monogendered." here's the clip where liara explains it in ME1:

http://www.youtube.c...8XDE4irUE#t=369

Modifié par MassEffectFShep, 03 octobre 2013 - 01:12 .

[Han Shot First]

Clips7 wrote...

How did the asari come to be if they are a female species anyway?...how did they multiply?

Like sharks basically.

Some species of sharks on Earth can reproduce by parthenogenesis. This was discovered a few years ago when a female hammerhead shark in an aquarium that had no contact with males of its species, suddenly gave birth to live young. Its now known that some species of shark are able to either produce sexually or by parthenogenesis in the absence of members of the opposite sex. To quote Jurassic Park, life finds a way.

Going into a head canon territory, my guess is that the evolutionary ancestors of the Asari were probably a bit like the hammerheads. They could reproduce either sexually or by parthenogenesis, and overtime they gradually evolved to only reproduce by parthenogenesis. That would also explain why the Asari are physically compatible with humans despite not reproducing sexually.

MassEffectFShep wrote...

Clips7 wrote...


How did the asari come to be if they are a female species anyway?...how did they multiply?

they're not female, they're "monogendered." here's the clip where liara explains it in ME1:

http://www.youtube.c...8XDE4irUE#t=369

Monogendered doesn't mean "no gender." It means one gender. The prefix mono means "one" or "single." For example someone who is monotheistic worships one god as a opposed to a polytheist who worships many. Someone who only has one sexual partner is said to be monogamous while people with open relationships and multiple partners are said to be polygamous. Ect, Ect.

Also, from the codex:

An all-female race, the asari reproduce through a form of parthenogenesis.

[Jukaga]

Humanoid aliens don't bother me, ok Star Trek's 'nose wrinkle of the week' aliens got old real quick, but I mean the basic shape. We've had two parallel evolutions on earth with two different bio-chemistries and the forms evolved are remarkably similar. Deep-sea vent creatures get all their nutrients from toxic thermal vents but they still evolved along forms we recognize.

For alien life that evolved under somewhat similar conditions to Earth, I see no reason why most tool using aliens wouldn't be roughly bipedal with arms and a sensor booth (head) on top. It's a form that makes sense and it works. Obviously there would be variation, and likely some really weird looking aliens, but I wouldn't be surprised if most had a similar form to us.

[Jukaga]

StreetMagic wrote...

Necanor wrote...

Vorcha are the only aliens that resemble nothing we have on Earth.

Could've sworn I read somewhere that they had some anatomy typical of worms (although they're not actual worms, of course).

Or maybe I dreamt that.

Well, most animals do. We are basically walking tubes with appendages. Food goes in one end, waste out the other. Details may vary.

[Reorte]

Jukaga wrote...

Humanoid aliens don't bother me, ok Star Trek's 'nose wrinkle of the week' aliens got old real quick, but I mean the basic shape. We've had two parallel evolutions on earth with two different bio-chemistries and the forms evolved are remarkably similar. Deep-sea vent creatures get all their nutrients from toxic thermal vents but they still evolved along forms we recognize.

For alien life that evolved under somewhat similar conditions to Earth, I see no reason why most tool using aliens wouldn't be roughly bipedal with arms and a sensor booth (head) on top. It's a form that makes sense and it works. Obviously there would be variation, and likely some really weird looking aliens, but I wouldn't be surprised if most had a similar form to us.

Vaguely the same shape I would be reasonable but most of Mass Effect's aliens, like most science fiction aliens, take that too far. A lot of them are more human-shaped than chimpanzees, humans' closest living relatives. However it's one of those areas that I find fairly easy to suspend disbelief for, partially because it's enough of a convention that I'm used to it and partially because until / if we do contact life on another planet we've precious little idea of what is plausible for life on another planet.

[o Ventus]

MassEffectFShep wrote...

Clips7 wrote...

How did the asari come to be if they are a female species anyway?...how did they multiply?

they're not female, they're "monogendered." here's the clip where liara explains it in ME1:

http://www.youtube.c...8XDE4irUE#t=369

You can't be monogendered and be without a gender. That's a contradiction.

Asari are monogendered. Guess what that gender is.

[KaiserShep]

Vorcha faces remind me of deep sea fish like the angler.

[Ice Cold J]

OP, Turians are based on birds of prey, as someone said before me.

Ironically enough, Casey Hudson has said that the Krogan's face was designed to resemble that of a bat. Although their bodies are reptilian, I found that a very interesting fact.

[hiraeth]

Han Shot First wrote...

Monogendered doesn't mean "no gender." It means one gender. The prefix mono means "one" or "single." For example someone who is monotheistic worships one god as a opposed to a polytheist who worships many. Someone who only has one sexual partner is said to be monogamous while people with open relationships and multiple partners are said to be polygamous. Ect, Ect.

Also, from the codex:

An all-female race, the asari reproduce through a form of parthenogenesis.

o Ventus wrote...


You can't be monogendered and be without a gender. That's a contradiction.

Asari are monogendered. Guess what that gender is.

I'm going by what Liara says: "Male and female have no real meaning for us." When we say they are "an all-female race," it seems like a label given more so that humans can relate them to human concepts rather than a label that they apply to themselves. They are one gender, but I hesitate to label that gender "female" when they don't see themselves that way.

Modifié par MassEffectFShep, 03 octobre 2013 - 10:36 .