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[Fuzzyrabbit]

marshalleck wrote...

Fuzzyrabbit wrote...

What makes you think there weren't others?

The fact that the Codex says the Protheans never encountered any other space-faring civilization? 

The codex isn't from the point of view of some omniscient or infallible onlooker. It's information known to the Systems Alliance, and neither they nor any of the other Citadel species know everything about the protheans. I'm sure the codex will be expanded in ME2 as we discover more about them.

[Borschtbeet]

marshalleck wrote...

Borschtbeet wrote...

marshalleck wrote...

Borschtbeet wrote...

I think perhaps the Protheans didn't subjugate humanity because they felt that they were too primitive to pose any imminent danger and thus it would be a waste of resources.

One thing I do find confusing though is why did the Protheans choose to colonize Mars and not Earth?

Either Mars was more habitable back then for whatever reason or the Protheans had a vested interest in seeing and studying the humans evolve without interference.
Whether this was for malevolent, benevolent, or purely benign reasons is purely speculative.

First, they didn't "subjugate" humanity because they were interested in studying us, as they are understood to have studied at least one other contemporary species while it was in a primitive state.

Second, they didn't colonize Mars. It was just a research outpost

The question remains though, why didn't they colonize earth?  The living conditions of the citadel and other Prothean colonies suggest that Prothean biology favors an Earth like planet so why the Protheans would neglect such a perfect world because of primitive humans is a mystery.

The Protheans obviously had some sort of interest in our species, enough so to forego colonization of the planet perhaps so what that exact interest was is a curiousity.

Probably because they had what some people refer to as "ethics."

Earth was already occupied by a burgeoning sapient species. There are plenty of other planets in the galaxy that could be colonized. Moving in and exterminating the native population would give them no insight as to how organic life can originate in a galaxy simultaneously on different planets seperated by light years of empty space.

Not exterminating them yet maybe, probably because they were many millennia away from every achieving such a feat and the Protheans wished to learn as much from them as possible before claiming the earth as their own.

I still think it's a little bit more than a coincidence that the Protheans were the only spacefaring species in the galaxy.  What are the chances of that considering how huge the galaxy is?
Their empire lasted for many thousands of years, much longer than when the Asari first contacted the Salarians.  I think the Protheans were an imperialistic species that wanted to make sure that the relays fell into no other race's hands...or tentacles.

[marshalleck]

Borschtbeet wrote...

Not exterminating them yet maybe, probably because they were many millennia away from every achieving such a feat and the Protheans wished to learn as much from them as possible before claiming the earth as their own.

I still think it's a little bit more than a coincidence that the Protheans were the only spacefaring species in the galaxy.  What are the chances of that considering how huge the galaxy is?
Their empire lasted for many thousands of years, much longer than when the Asari first contacted the Salarians.  I think the Protheans were an imperialistic species that wanted to make sure that the relays fell into no other race's hands...or tentacles.

Okay. There's certainly nothing now that suggests such is the case, but the writers could always change that.

Personally I think the Prothean part of the story is over, and don't expect to hear much more about them.

[Medhia Nox]

There's just too little information.



We can really go on what we know.



- For whatever reason, they made a base on Mars and observed humanity.



- They seemed to be the only space faring species of their "Cycle". (We know the Thorian and the Keepers existed - though one isn't space faring and the other is an organize automaton.)



- They seeded the galaxy with answers enough for the "next Cycle" to fight back against the Reapers. This makes them not just benevolent, but transcendent - they knew it was time to go, and they went - but they wanted to make sure the next Cycle had a chance. Sure, maybe it was vengeance - but it could have also been a kind of galactic transcendental morality. They didn't believe they would go extinct - they observed many possibilities and acted on behalf of the better ones.



- Looking at the current Mass Effect games.. the Reapers didn't give "our Cycle" enough time to generate an all powerful - space faring - conquerer race. Once the Citadel is reached - the Reapers are alerted and their plans start taking shape. I don't think the Protheans would have had enough time to conquere every other space faring race before the Reapers showed up en mass.