Wynne wrote...
Dude? The salarians already look like the greys! C'mon, if you think about it, that would be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO lame. Seriously. To expect something aristocratic, fascinating, and original and then to just see more salarianesque grey aliens... lame, lame, lame, lame, lame, I have to say. Especially considering the look of the statues on Ilos doesn't resemble a grey.Tooneyman wrote...
In Mass Effect Universe. I would love to actually see a real prothean. I'm hoping by ME 3. We can see what the prothean's actually look like. No they are not the collectors. I'm hoping they look like the grey aliens from Roswell. That would be Awesome!
But I'm with you on the Protheans. I would just gut a nug to see a real one, even if it was merely artwork. I want to know what they were like before the modification.
To anyone saying the vision in ME2 must mean that the Collectors and Protheans look exactly alike--
Remember that the beacon was created by the researchers on Ilos after CENTURIES had passed. Centuries during which the Reapers were using indoctrinated and no doubt genetically modified Prothean agents to round up other Protheans when they first invaded, and the beacon was intended to be a warning of what the Reapers had done.
In other words: "Witness the horror of what they are doing to our species!" was the warning. The vision of the beings that look like the statues on Ilos are shown FIRST in that vision, THEN the Collector form is made visible. As if to show the Protheans being twisted.
Vigil says, "Within a few centuries every Prothean was enslaved or killed..." then, after the Reapers were certain they had extinguished all organic life, after every planet was stripped bare of resources, technology, and slaves, you ask about the beacon--"once the Reapers were gone, the survivors here on Ilos decided to risk sending out a message. We knew it was unlikely there were other survivors, but if there were, we wanted them to know about Ilos." So it was very late in the game when the beacon was activated with that message--centuries after the Reapers had invaded, after Vigil shut down all but the most essential personnel's cryogenic pods.
That was a vision of what they were being twisted into; the vision was very abstract in the first place and in the ME2 vision may well have been intended to horrify other Protheans by showing them what was being done to their species. Like the Keepers, they were altered to suit the Reaper's needs--after all this time, they would've evolved anyway. With the Reapers screwing them up, there's no way that they'd even look exactly the same as they were so long ago. Besides, it would be a huge letdown if the mythic Protheans looked like four-eyed bug things.
What is fascinating is the implication. The Protheans sent out a message. And if the Reapers missed that beacon in their slow, methodical process of wiping out all evidence of the Protheans, then who can say what else they might have overlooked? Maybe there were Protheans on the far edges of the galaxy, colonists who hid in a similar way to the Protheans. Maybe they received the beacon's message and left their colonies. Maybe they found the researchers on the Citadel and rescued them. And maybe, just maybe, enough of them were gathered due to that beacon that they were able to find a way to hide far from any possibility of detection. Hide, and recuperate.
Maybe they withdrew somewhere far beyond the Milky Way. And maybe if you can somehow uncover that place, you'll find them recruitable as allies in ME3... a species that has been hiding in fear of the Reapers for ages, preparing for a war they hoped never to have to fight. Maybe the Protheans--their descendants--can become part of the galaxy again. Can fight the battle their ancestors never had the chance to fight. It would be epic.
It's quite far-fetched I'll admit that; a doubtful theory... but it's possible, and I would flip if it turned out to be a plan for ME3 all along. I mean, the connection I felt to the Protheans in ME1... it was incredibly moving.
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i dont believe the protheans looked like those statues they could have
been anything and those things in the visions could have been protheans
partialy melted down already
also they had a double helix dna
strand like most species but the reapers added a strand of genetic
material down the middle of the dna.
another thing seeing as
reaper ships are made to resemble the races they are made of why does
the prothean reaper look nothing like those statues? it looks almost
exactly like the collector general though
also the protheans on
illos were in cryo-sleep untill the reapers left and the AI woke them
up so they would know nothing about the collectors since they could not
exist yet and by the time they woke up the collectors would be back
behind the omega 4 relay and the reapers back in dark space
so
all in all the "collector" in the vision was what protheans looked like
and the other ones were protheans patrialy melted and that whatever
filled the roll of collector when the protheans were wiped out was not
the protheans
omg did noone read what i posted there is no way the protheans could have known about the collectors!!!
btw the reason that some races think of the protheans as gods is because they left ruins on their planet I.E. the hanar, which uplifted their society from a dumb caveman type of society to one that communicates and develops tools and such
either take each one of these arguments and disprove it completely or admit that i and the others could be right!
if not then i am just gonna leave because people wont see reason and just argue blindly ignoreing facts
(PROTHEAN REAPER DID NOT FAIL!!! WHERE THE HECK DOES IT SAY THAT!!)
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