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[The Real Pearl #2]

what are you trying to trick me ehh? I know that's not a video. it's a jpeg. 

[Master Warder Z_]

what are you trying to trick me ehh? I know that's not a video. it's a jpeg. 

 

[Larry-3]

... What if we had a Raloi squadmate?

[Laughing_Man]

... What if we had a Raloi squadmate?

 

...then we won't need to eat only combat rations at thanksgiving.

[DarthSliver]

I hope the Raloi are in the game and they don't get counted as one of the new species since they were mentioned in ME3 lol. 

[Larry-3]

...then we won't need to eat only combat rations at thanksgiving.

[+5 Renegade]

[DWH1982]

 However, I'm not 100% certain that the rest of the galaxy would harbor too much ill will against them, as their current technological level of advancement was only capable of launching a space telescope.

 

That's a reasonable point, but I think a lot of folks would say "they can still hold a gun." They could have sent troops to bolster the defenses of the rest of the galaxy, even help by supplying food and raw materials. Instead of making a contribution to the fight for the future, they decided to hide out on their homeworld and let everyone else die in their place.

[General TSAR]

For those who may not know, the Raloi were a new species that had been welcomed to the galactic community during the events of ME2.

Was it ever discussed whatever happened to the Raloi? The last I heard they were pretending to have never reached the point of space travel and were holding out on their planet. Do you think they're dead? If not, what do you think is the likelihood of them making an appearance in ME:A?

I think the Reapers figured out the Raloi were being disingenuous and dropped an asteroid on their home planet. 

 

The Raloi may have destroyed their satellites, ships, and communication hubs but what about digital information or data caches of their existence in galactic affairs?

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

They probably weren't considered a threat by the reapers and were put on the back burner while the reapers took out the major resistance. I mean they'd just made first contact not that long ago, right?

 

Then again.... Bekenstein. Binoculars.... they glassed the planet.

 

So no, I don't think we'll see Raloi. 

[Master Warder Z_]

They probably weren't considered a threat by the reapers and were put on the back burner while the reapers took out the major resistance. I mean they'd just made first contact not that long ago, right?

 

Then again.... Bekenstein. Binoculars.... they glassed the planet.

 

So no, I don't think we'll see Raloi. 

 

your planet will burn until its surface is but glass

[Hanako Ikezawa]

your world will burn until its surface is but glass

Fixed it. Truth said world, not planet. 

[Master Warder Z_]

Fixed it. Truth said world, not planet.

Do what?

No I paraphrased what Gihren said to the Feddies in the Jaburo ending in Gihren's greed where they hijack a Colony from Side Seven in November and nuke Jaburo from Orbit before invading South America with practically everyone they have while their space forces tow the Colony Laser into orbit above the Moon.

Gihren follows up with this rant that's broadcast across the planet and Sides declaring victory and the order for the Federation to unconditionally surrender or he'll start erasing countries from orbit.

 

The full speech is something to the effect of and note I played this game like...two years ago so my recollection may be imperfect. 

 

"To the brainless fools of the Federation who deny the inherent right granted to us by God to be free of those who dwell upon earth. I address you today as the victor, by now our forces are assault Jaburo, within hours the flaming wreckage that was the pride of the Federation shall be extinguished from existence, I offer you now a choice."

 

The picture then pans to space where you see the Colony Laser looking pretty comfortable next to the moon surrounded by Zeon ships.

 

"Surrender. Now or I will burn your planet into glass."

 

 

You then get this lovely cutscene

[Hanako Ikezawa]

Do what?

No I paraphrased what Gihren said to the Feddies in the Jaburo ending in Gihren's greed where they hijack a Colony from Side Seven in November and nuke Jaburo from Orbit before invading South America with practically everyone they have while their space forces tow the Colony Laser into orbit above the Moon.

Gihren follows up with this rant that's broadcast across the planet and Sides declaring victory and the order for the Federation to unconditionally surrender or he'll start erasing countries from orbit.

Ah, okay. Sorry. The Prophet of Truth from the Halo franchise has a line in Halo 3 that is practically identical, the only difference being what I pointed out earlier, so I read the reference as to that. 

[Master Warder Z_]

Ah, okay. Sorry. The Prophet of Truth from the Halo franchise has a line in Halo 3 that is practically identical, the only difference being what I pointed out earlier, so I read the reference as to that. 

 

I should have known, Having played all of the Halo Games, and I do sort of recall Truth saying something like that in 3.

 

Truth lacks the style of the Zabi dictator though, Gihren is a bad ass in his campaign.

 

He had a statue of himself built that is roughly the size of the Statue of Liberty in North America.

 

 

Really I like all of the Zabi's even that one that didn't exist until like six years ago.

[Dantriges]

That's a reasonable point, but I think a lot of folks would say "they can still hold a gun." They could have sent troops to bolster the defenses of the rest of the galaxy, even help by supplying food and raw materials. Instead of making a contribution to the fight for the future, they decided to hide out on their homeworld and let everyone else die in their place.

 

Possible. OTOH I understand the Raloi. They just joined a few months ago, the council knew the Reapers were coming. If it was humanity and we just met an alien species now, which telly us a few months later, oh grab a gun to fight this galaxy wide spanning threat that will destroy all spacefaring races and well we uplifted you just a few months ago, so you could be on the menu, the willingness to die because of these jerks would be rather low.

[DWH1982]

Oh, I understand where the Raloi were coming from as well, even if I think their decision was a bit short sighted. I just think a lot of folks who actually fought the Reapers might have a hard time accepting it if the Raloi ever come back to the galactic stage.

 

You know, it occurs to me that while the Raloi government may have decided to cut off their homeworld, individual Raloi may have stayed in the rest of the galaxy and even joined the war effort. If you think about it, there's no way for the Raloi political body to force a Raloi on the Citadel to come back to the homeworld. I'm sure there were some there - and elswhere - before ties were cut, and there may have even been a few who found a way to get off the homeworld when they figured out which way the wind was blowing. So, there may have been a small number of individual Raloi who joined the war effort in some way.

 

Which actually makes the decision by the Raloi government all the more stupid. Even if the Reapers weren't aware of what they were doing, wouldn't they begin to question why members of a pre-space flight species are showing up on the Citadel, or on transport ships, or in various defense forces?

[DarthSliver]

I think the idea was the Raloi weren't really part of galactic society so I would think the plan was to send them back to pre-space flight and technology impaired so they wouldn't be a threat to the Reapers or be passed for the next cycle if we failed. Now that I think of it maybe the Raloi were the back up plan the Asari Council referred to in ME3. 

[Neoleviathan]

They probably weren't considered a threat by the reapers and were put on the back burner while the reapers took out the major resistance. I mean they'd just made first contact not that long ago, right?
 
Then again.... Bekenstein. Binoculars.... they glassed the planet.
 
So no, I don't think we'll see Raloi.

I forgot about that. Got a good laugh out of it again the second time around. Binoculars. That line made Aller's look really dumb.... I mean even more so. But now with Andromeda Bekenstein being a manufacturing giant & how badly it got taken out is interesting. The Reapers weren't taking chances, they went for the kill. Maybe Bekenstein built the Ark or most of it. And Allers is just regurgitating the kind of misdirection Beckenstein hoped the Reapers would fall for. That would be pretty cool.

[Helios969]

Live in the Southern United States now, but I was born over in Norway, a place where you have a heavy influx of fish dishes, we have other things such as meats, grains and what have you but given our commercial fishing is a expensive industry, a lot of what you see on sell in markets and such most of the year is fish related. All of our national dishes are fish related as well...

Such as lutefisk?  Now that's definitely an acquired taste.

[KaiserShep]

They probably weren't considered a threat by the reapers and were put on the back burner while the reapers took out the major resistance. I mean they'd just made first contact not that long ago, right?

 

Then again.... Bekenstein. Binoculars.... they glassed the planet.

 

So no, I don't think we'll see Raloi. 

 

To be fair, the reapers only assaulted Bekenstein once they made their way to the Citadel, since it's in a neighboring system. It's possible that Turvess is enough out of the way of any direct points of interest that they might have lasted most of the war without being noticed. The salarians, after all, avoided direct confrontation with the reapers for a great deal of the war solely because of their being farthest away from the edge of the galaxy, and these guys are among the big 3 of the aliens. 

[WittyUsername]

It's never good with me. It's AWESOME!...and random Hi5!

 

This was posted somewhere by Bioware a long time ago (can't remember if it was their website or some social media)
http://vignette1.wik...&path-prefix=es

 

Huh. I heard they were birdlike, but I often hear people say the Turians look like birds and my thoughts are they're more like ant-people.

 

Anyway, I can understand why the guys did what they did. I mean, they finally reach Galactic level and in a VERY short time, here comes a bunch of giant metal squids bringing down mutants to destroy everything around you. It's a huge "HOLY CRAP WHAT?" thing you obviously didn't expect. The Citadel races didn't even want to believe there wa such a thing.

 

If they did survive, I wonder how other races would treat them for that decision, though. If we weren't shuffling out of the Galaxy before the end of Mass Effect 3, then it'll be interesting to see how the "cowards" are treated.
 

[Ralfufigus]

That's a reasonable point, but I think a lot of folks would say "they can still hold a gun." They could have sent troops to bolster the defenses of the rest of the galaxy, even help by supplying food and raw materials. Instead of making a contribution to the fight for the future, they decided to hide out on their homeworld and let everyone else die in their place.

Actually, this contrast in opinions brings me to a really interesting point; what if the galactic community is split down the middle on their feelings about them? Half see them as deserters and the other half acknowledge that they were just scared and facing a threat unlike anything they've seen before. As a result, the Raloi themselves are unsure of their place in the galaxy [galaxies, I guess, now]. It would add a nice layer of depth to their race.

[Lucca_de_Neon]

Huh. I heard they were birdlike, but I often hear people say the Turians look like birds and my thoughts are they're more like ant-people.

 

Anyway, I can understand why the guys did what they did. I mean, they finally reach Galactic level and in a VERY short time, here comes a bunch of giant metal squids bringing down mutants to destroy everything around you. It's a huge "HOLY CRAP WHAT?" thing you obviously didn't expect. The Citadel races didn't even want to believe there wa such a thing.

 

If they did survive, I wonder how other races would treat them for that decision, though. If we weren't shuffling out of the Galaxy before the end of Mass Effect 3, then it'll be interesting to see how the "cowards" are treated.
 

What if the "ark" was their idea? that would be an interesting twist. Also..i'm not thinking straight right now. Happy new year!

[WittyUsername]

Would be, but I doubt they'd have the influence or finance to come up with the Ark in a short amount of time. It'd have to be a council race or a collection of organizations to pull this off.

 

It'd either be the Salarian, Asari, or potentially the Quarians (I only say this because, well, who knows living on a ship better than the quarians? But they're not an influential race due to the whole Geth thing, so I doubt too many people would listen to "suit rats.")

[Lucca_de_Neon]

Would be, but I doubt they'd have the influence or finance to come up with the Ark in a short amount of time. It'd have to be a council race or a collection of organizations to pull this off.

 

It'd either be the Salarian, Asari, or potentially the Quarians (I only say this because, well, who knows living on a ship better than the quarians? But they're not an influential race due to the whole Geth thing, so I doubt too many people would listen to "suit rats.")

The construction of the Ark (if there's an Ark at all) is the result of the effort of all races,  but the raloi could have been the creators behind the project. After all, intergalactic travel was not possible until very recently. What's true is that so far, we don't have enough facts to come up with something solid