The key could be the Skyhook effect of Prothean technology and the nature of the relevant uplifting in the race.
The Protheans uplifted the Asari, the Salarians, Turians etc and left data troves of their technology. You could assume that this "skyhook" effect would cause a rapid increase in the tech capability of the "next generation" BUT the Protheans could not make the uplift happen too quickly for fear of attracting Reaper attention. The Prothean data archives on homeworlds were limited in the technological lessons and progresses they made.
Of course we saw that the Asari Deified the Beacon, but they also did something more. The subliminated the Prothean legacy for an Asari iconography and built an organised controlling religion, that kept this power in the hands of elites. Long lived beings that could create powerful dynastic legacies of control, very subtle manipulation of the social structure of the Asari
The Salarians also have a control mechanism imposed by their society, in their form of breeding and pedigree. What if that was a control system by a power elite? Like the Asari temples, the dalatrasses are more concerned with dynastic legacies, than social progression, like the Asari this is subtle social manipulation.
Then you have the Turians, militaristic dynastys that have rigid social structures. Again the majoirty of the population are controlled by tradition in this case.
So there you have 3 powerful dynastic regimes, ruled by elites. The next thing is they become a Triumvirate of mutual interest and this also inhibits the progression of the Entity that the regimes created, the Council of Races. None of the 3 can rush ahead of the other, without upsetting the sytem and creating imbalance. The Key is retetntion of power and influence of a relative few elite dynasties, the multitudes below are not allowed to progress too much. All factors that inhibit growth
Further evidence that could support an acusation of dynastic engineering is the Triumvirate's attitudes to "client" races, Volus, Hanar, Elcor, Quarian and Krogan. None are allowed a seat at the table, and dissent or "imbalance" is dealt with ruthlessly, and there is no real philanthropic attitude at elite level. The Rachni extinction, The AI betrayal. Krogan Genophage, The plight of the Quarians, the degradation of the Volus, the failure to intervene in the ongoing Drell extinction event, failure to police against an organised and systematic slaver system (Batarians) that degrades their own peoples. Creation of a legal system that operates wetware assets with impuinity (Spectres). And the exodus of large swathes of beings beyond the reach of council power, that are never allowed to progress beyond "barbarism" and "bandit" empires.
That was the political structure at the Council, and there was another thing in place, the Relay Network was a skyhook system that uplifted all the races equally. There has been very little research into this system, possibly because there was no need? Also possibly because the Elite discouraged anything that is beyond their control.
But all changed with the arrival of humanity, and the nature of our "skyhooks" The human expansion is exceptionally explosive event and looks strange, but when you look at certain events, maybe there are clues to explain how we were "Skyhooked" and how aspects of our own civilization impacted on more rigid social systems.
Human Skyhook is the base on Mars, a lore entry mentions the Mars Prothean site and that we actually had Prothean Ships, also our system had another incongruity. The relay had been sabotaged and the Reapers never attacked this system. You could infer that the Protheans who retired to the Mars base were an enclave that retreated from the Reapers, tried to disconnect from the system and possibly start again, hiding on Mars, but they never woke up, or were killed off.
Humanity learned the Mass Effect and Prothean technology very quickly, around a year or so, strange? Not if you consider how Shepard's own initiation into the Protheans. The Cypher, Possibly some human researcher got hit with a cypher event, either from an Orb or a Beacon. One that gave details of how to reverse the sabotage of the Relay and all the rest, possibly a galactic map of the Prothean Empire, because if you look at human colonisation, a lot of the sites are close to, or on Prothean sites.
AND most of the planets share another thing in common, they are "company" planets of the EAE empire. This is another key as to why humans exploded, unlike the others we are a capitalistic, entrepreneurial system, we will exploit and create colonial opportunities and economic revolutions very quickly, and we can "Bubble" our econmoies to suit new opportunites. It isn't technology, nor military might nor political influence that has fuelled our Bubble of economic migration, it has been through the economy.
The Triumvirate of races are like the ancient Asian and African empires that were outflanked through the power of a capitalistic system. Humans are doing to the Council Elite, what the Europeans did to the great Asian Dynastic empires of the 18th and 19th centuries. The power to move people, the fuel that lights the darkness, the flame of change is humanity, and it is because we are greedy, opportunistic little capitalists on the make, and the guys who rode the hog's back of human expansion have became very, very rich in this moribund galaxy.
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