@Psychevore
So, it's a war that lasted for tens of thousands of years? From the birth of the Protean Empire to it's fall.
The Proteans subjugated everyone else, but they failed to subjugate the Zah'til until milenia later when the Reaper attacked.
Biowares storytellign never ceases to surprise me...
https://www.youtube....5K1id-kKw#t=851
The war caused the "unification" but the war didn't even end before the Reapers attacked.. Millenia later...
Maybe that was possible because the Zah'til didn't push, but satisfied themselves with defending themselves until the Reapers attacked and changed the Zah'til to turn them into shocktroops.
We don't know if they turned them like they turned the Geth or if they turned them like they turned the Batarians. It likely would have seemed like the same thign to Proteans who had been at war with them for thousands of years.
I don't know how long the Protean Empire existed before the Reapers arrived, but from the lore I read long ago I seem to recall it lasted for a fairly long time.
From the Wiki:
It is unknown precisely when Prothean civilization arose and how long it persisted, but one of their communication devices discovered on the planet Fehl Prime has been dated to as early as 68,000 BCE.
The Protheans' belief that they could hold their own against machine intelligence was shattered with the arrival of the Reapers in approximately 48,000 BCE,
so... 20 000 years+?
I'm not head cannoning it, Javik says it himself, they encoutered them early, they realised they couldn't defeat them, so they instead conquered others. The Zah'til couldn't be defeated by the strength of the Proteans alone, still they could afford attacking other species and wage war on several frons... Why? The Zah'til didn't atempt any serious expansion other than refusing to serve the Empire?
Then the Reapers arrival after 20 000 years of trying to conquer the Zah'til, the arrival made the Zah'til far more agressive and the Proteans got desperate.
It's not, my head cannon, it's Biowares writing. If you got a problem with it, point your finger at Bioware.
You are headcanoning it. The Protheans were not at war with the Zha'til until the Reapers came.
The Metacon War was with with other Synthetic life, which do not get a name in the game. (the Zha'til aren't true synthetics btw, they are symbionts)
That video you posted is all fine and dandy, but there's no mention of the Zha'til. The Zha'til are mentioned at a different time in the game, and they were only turned against the Protheans after the Reapers came and subjugated their symbiotic AI.
Again:
Zha'til:
The zha'til were a synthetic race that existed at the time of the Protheans. They originated when a race known as the zha implanted themselves with symbiotic AI technology to enhance their intelligence in order to survive as their homeworld became inhospitable. When the Reapers arrived, they subjugated the AIs, known as zha'til, who then seized control of the bodies of their masters and altered their genetic material at the deepest level, transforming the zha into synthetic monsters and their offspring into slaves. The zha'til proceeded to multiply into "mechanical swarms" that "blotted out the sky". With no other recourse, the Protheans sent the star of the zha's home system into supernova, destroying the zha'til entirely.
Not a single mention of war with the Protheans until the Reapers arive.
Metacon war:
Early in their development, the Protheans encountered a hostile machine intelligence which threatened to overwhelm them. To defeat the machines, the Protheans decided to unite all of the galaxy's sentient organic life under their empire. The other organic races were free to resist, but those that tried were crushed, and none ever managed to best the Protheans' might. In time, each of the subjugated races assimilated into Prothean culture and came to think of themselves as Prothean. United under a single cause, the Prothean Empire successfully held off the enemy machines in a conflict known as the "Metacon War"
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