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[GarethLorn]

So, I'm just flying around the galaxy, checking out random planets, and I come across Aphras. It's a planet capable of sustaining life, and apparently fossil evidence has been found there that suggests of a sapient species that reached its bronze age before being wiped out in a planetary extinction event. Further investigation on the planet showed that what was originally thought to be a random shelling by asteroids was actually a coordinated attack. To quote, "...the impact craters were aimed directly at habitation centers". The planet is Aphras. It's in the Xe Cha cluster. And then there's its sister planet, Tossal Nym. The description is very similar, going so far as to literally say the damage is from a coordinated, orbital attack.

This got me thinking about that planet in ME1 that had the huge mass accelerator impact crater on it, and then you go there in ME2 and there's a derelict reaper just chilling above it. What other subtle clues about reaper attacks has BioWare dropped, do you think? This was the first time I've noticed it, but if anyone else has anything to contribute, I'd be willing to keep a compiled list in this thread. Currently there's just the three, but I'd bet money there are more!

1) Aphras, Xe Cha Cluster, The Shrike Abyssal
2) Tossal Nym, Xe Cha Cluster, The Shrike Abyssal
3) The Reaper IFF One (I'll get the specifics later, I don't want to accidentally trigger the mission)

Modifié par GarethLorn, 11 février 2010 - 02:42 .

[NvVanity]

There's a bunch of planets in similar situations. The Mass Effect wikia should have a list of them.

[Chuvvy]

There's one that starts with an m or an n I know it has one of those in it. I am so damn good at giving info it's scary.

[Reconfire89]

Jartar in ME1, I think it was.



Batarians found a massive Ship, and named it the Leviathan of Dis.



Presumably a Reaper.

[Stoko981]

Reconfire89 wrote...

Jartar in ME1, I think it was.

Batarians found a massive Ship, and named it the Leviathan of Dis.

Presumably a Reaper.

Maybe not, supposedly it was a living ship, as in biological in nature. Possibly the creation of some other long dead civilisation.

[GarethLorn]

NvVanity wrote...

There's a bunch of planets in similar situations. The Mass Effect wikia should have a list of them.

I checked. It doesn't.

[Zemore]

Stoko981 wrote...

Reconfire89 wrote...

Jartar in ME1, I think it was.

Batarians found a massive Ship, and named it the Leviathan of Dis.

Presumably a Reaper.

Maybe not, supposedly it was a living ship, as in biological in nature. Possibly the creation of some other long dead civilisation.

thats a reaper they technically are Alive as in fleshy but coated in metal.

[Stoko981]

Zemore wrote...

Stoko981 wrote...

Reconfire89 wrote...

Jartar in ME1, I think it was.

Batarians found a massive Ship, and named it the Leviathan of Dis.

Presumably a Reaper.

Maybe not, supposedly it was a living ship, as in biological in nature. Possibly the creation of some other long dead civilisation.

thats a reaper they technically are Alive as in fleshy but coated in metal.

Uhm... no? You walk around inside a derelict one, it's clearly mechanical in nature. Sure, they were using people-paste to create the Human Reaper. Maybe that means the derelict one we walked around inside had ancient alien-paste pumping through tubes somewhere deep inside. Emphasis on "deep inside". No one would look at a Reaper, heck, no one would walk around inside one and call it organic.

The Leviathan of Dis was described as an organic ship. As in a big, living space thing, that is also a ship. Like Moya on Farscape, or like Wraith Hive ships on Stargate. I don't know if either of those references will mean anything to you, but the fact is, they would have had to have dug very very deeply into the Leviathan of Dis to find something organic if it was a Reaper. There wasn't time for that. Because a) the Leviathan disappeared far too quickly for them to have had time to examine it that thoroughly and  even if they did have time to get that deep, they'd be indoctrinated well before that.

Reapers have an organic component, yes, but it's so well buried they managed to shower the Citadel with Reaper pieces, and people still believe it's a Geth mothership of some kind. The description here clearly implies something totally unrelated.

Modifié par Stoko981, 11 février 2010 - 05:15 .

[Volourn]

Star Trek also had 'living' ships.

[DirewolfX]

I don't think Aphras was destroyed by the Reapers. The civilization was just in its Bronze Age; don't Reapers generally target species who have already reached space and used the Mass Effect relays? Otherwise, Earth could have been a target (we were in our Stone Age last time the Reapers were in this part of the neighborhood). I suspect they were shelled by another organic species that was not quite as benevolent as the current races.

[El_Presidium]

DirewolfX has the best theory, I think. I'm gonna start reading the mass effect novels, though, and if I happen to find any clues about Aphras or Tosal Nym, I'll post again