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[babylonfreak]

In Mass Effect, a random planet descriptions turn out to have a plot significance is Mass Effect 2. To facilitate further speculations, I collated the most interesting information gleaned from other random planets that may or may not have a link to the main plot, including past civilizations destroyed by the Reapers and unexplained mysteries. I did not copy the exact text, I simply drew the salient points, and on occasion commented on them. Any speculation is personal and in no way canon. If there are any planets you think should be added, feel free to mention it. I may not have seen a detail, or may have skipped a planet entirely on accident.

Anjea:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Anjea
5th Planet, Amada System, Omega Nebula Cluster.
Scans have revealed artificial hollow ojects 3.14x12.56x28.26 (meters?) floating on sails in the gas giant's winds. It is uncertain whether they were built by either of the races involved in the battle for Eingana, or whether they were built by a third, unkown race.

Aphras:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Aphras
2nd Planet, Xe Cha System, Shrike Abyssal Cluster.
Evidence points to orbital bombardment of the planet, causing a mass extinction event. Remains of a Bronze Age civilization have been discovered. Since they could not have built the mine on Zada Ban, nor have revealed their presence via radio signals, it is unknown how or why the planet was destroyed. If there had been another race, space-faring this time, in the system, it is possible the Reapers opted for a blank slate solution and destroyed the planet as well. See entry on Tosal Nym.

Armeni:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Armeni
4th planet, Knossos System, Artemis Tau Cluster.
Cemetery world for an ancient space-faring race, called zeioph. Anti-looting Council laws prevent Alliance
scientist from closer examination. Origin world unknown. Possibilities: If the Council was killed, the Alliance might be able to start an in-depth survey.

Bothros:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Bothros
3rd Planet, Hekate System, Hades Nexus Cluster.
Colony of a space-faring race of unknown origin. Fleeing aliens in exosuits have been found trapped in ice layers. Impact craters from dreadnaught-class weapons proved that habitation centers were hit with 120-Kt force mac slugs.

Eingana:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Eingana
3rd Planet, Amada System, Omega Nebula Cluster.
127,000 years ago, the site of an orbital battle for control of the planet, between two races, the thoi'han and the inusannon. The battle caused ships to plummet into the planet, polluting it with large concentrations of eezo, rendering it uninhabitable.

Etamis:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Etamis
2nd Planet, Schwartzchild System, Hawking Eta Cluster.
The planet shows evidence of saturation bombing. Remnants of a space-faring civilization have been dated between 20 and 40 million years old. It is more than likely that this is the race that built the Reaper-killing supercannon, as both Klendagon (see entry on) and the Derelict Reaper are in the same cluster, and the event was dated at 37 million years old.

Farcrothu.
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Farcrothu
4th Planet, Han System, Gemini Sigma Cluster.
Several moons were carved into the likeness of an alien race 500,000 years ago.  The ability to sculpt a moon is probably beyond current technologies, indicating a potentially higher tech base. Nothing else is known about them.

Gei Hinnom:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Gei_Hinnom
1st Planet, Sheol System, Hades Nexus Cluster.
Prothean burial grounds. Early looting of tombs for valuables and eezo led to sanctions, but the looting is on-going.

Helyme:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Helyme
2nd Planet, Zelene System, Crescent Nebula Cluster.
Possibly the homeworld of the arthenn, said to have vanished 300,000 years ago. Evidence that biological weapons were used make the planet a no-land zone. Several other planets in this system bear traces of their passage. It is likely a moon of the gas giant Gaelon was completely pulverized by mass accelerator fire.

Jartar:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Jartar
1st planet, Dis System, Hades Gamma Cluster.
Home of the famous Leviathan of Dis, smuggled away by Batarians. A favorite topic of speculation.

Joab:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Joab
3rd Planet, Enoch System, Rosetta Nebula Cluster.
Examination of "time capsules" revealed the existance of a primate-like space-faring species. The planet shows sign of heavy bombardment. Evidence around the gas giant Mizraim and the terrestrial planet Laban, in the same system, points to the bombardment and destruction of colonies on and around those worlds.

Junthor:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Junthor
1st planet, Gagarin System, Armstrong Nebula Cluster. 
Hollowed-out arcologies litter the surface. A column bears an inscription similar to the one found in the poem “Ozymandias”. Graffiti added at a later date references the Monsters of the Id, a thematic reference not unlike that of the movie Forbidden Planet. The latter would seem to indicate the race was responsible for its own destruction. Though highly unlikely, they could be the creators of the Reapers. 

Klencory:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Klencory
2nd planet, Newton System, Kepler Verge.
Another favorite. Volus billionaire Kumun Shol is funding an operation to find the “lost crypts of the Beings of Light” who were created at the dawn of time to fight the “Machine Devils.” There are too many theories floating around to list them all here.

Klendagon.
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Klendagon
2nd Planet, Century System, Hawking Eta Cluster.
The planet whose rift was positively identified as being caused by the supercannon that disabled a Reaper 37 million years ago. Weapon is said to be of little value. Damaged Reaper subsequently crashed into a brown dwarf. 

Logan:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Logan
5th planet. Theseus system, Attican Beta Cluster.
The survey team who charted the system twenty years ago reported many strange disturbances in Logan's cloud bands, suggesting many remarkably large solid objects were present beneath the cloud tops. As the ship approached, however, they subsided one by one. These disturbances have not been reported again.

Parnassus:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Parnassus
2nd Planet, Phi Clio System, Rosetta Nebula Cluster.
Although scans reveal the presence of active geothermal plants, there is no entry in the Citadel databanks, leading to the suspicion records have been altered or erased. A relatively intact He-3 refinery of archaic design in orbit around Cyllene seems to indicate a race had acheived FTL travel independantly of the Mass Relays.

Ploba:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Ploba
3rd Planet, Antaeus System, Hades Gamma Cluster.
Massive artificial structures were detected in the atmosphere of this gas giant. When deciding whether to investigate the Klendagon Rift or Ploba, the Alliance science division elected on investigating Ploba (perhaps influenced by Cerberus to keep them away from Klendagon). Rumor has it that Ploba is a Jupiter-brain supercomputer. Other rumors speak of an ancient race dumping their weapons of mass destruction into the planet. Since the world is now under close investigation, more data might become available at a later date.

Preying Mouth:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Preying_Mouth
6th Planet, Relic System, Eagle Nebula Cluster.
A gas giant, Preying Mouth has been dubbed a "ship-killing enigma". Common theories as to why ships disappear around the planet range from dromant disruptor torpedoes to abandonned magnetic mines, even miniature black holes. Either way, too many ships have vanished to be random happenstance.

Quaji:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Quaji
2nd Planet, Erbeus System, Styx Theta Cluster.
Initial scans showed geometric patterns in the Near UV spectrum. Though Normandy’s sensors have no detected any such thing, it might be too early to dismiss the world entirely.

Siano:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Siano
1st Planet, Dirada System, Pylos Nebula Cluster.
Tidally locked, remains of structures have been found on the sunward hemisphere. The far side holds evidence of bunkers filled with fission waste and by-products. It seems unlikely that a space-faring race would be using fission, rather than fusion power.

Sinmara:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Sinmara
Moon of Surtur, 1st Planet, Solveig System, Caleston Rift Cluster.
Sinmara is home to a research station tasked with studying Solveig, a star that seems to be erupting into a red giant prematurely. It is linked to the extranet on a high priority channel. There is a possible link to Dholen, Haestrom's star, which is also in an accelerated aging process, due to Dark Energy.

Tosal Nym:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Tosal_Nym
3rd Planet, Xe Cha System, The Shrike Abyssal.
Tosal Nym shows evidence of extinction thorugh mass accelerator bombardment, but little remains. It is possible it was the homeworld of the space-faring race which built the Zada Ban mining facilities.This would make them contemporary to the Protheans, and suggests they had not attained FTL. Presumably radio broadcasts revealed their presence to the Reapers. If they were contemporaries to the bronze age civilization of Aphras (see entry on) it is possible they doomed them to destruction involuntarily, as apparently they themselves had elected not to make contact.

Vecchio:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Vecchio
2nd Planet, Aquila System, Isma Frontier Cluster.
Graves for a humanoid species were discovered, but other than prmitive pottery fragments little else survived intact. Since the planet in inhospitable, the theory is they were from a space-faring species, but the only habitable planet in the system, Volturno, shows no signs of intelligent life. Human universities are planning a more thorough survey.

Zada Ban:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Zada_Ban
1st Planet, Xe Cha System, The Shrike Abyssal.
Volus exploration probes have discovered the remains of mining stations dated approximately 50,000 years. Since this would put it at the time of the Prothean extinction it is possible that it was a Protean operation, however it is not named as such, implying it might belong to another race which had achieved space flight, but maybe not FTL. See entry on Tosal Nym.

Zaherux:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Zaherux
2nd Planet. Grissom System, Armstrong Nebula Cluster.
Covered in “seas” of loose silica dust, some rumors circulate that the planet may be covered in disassembler nano-technology robots, a potential gray-goo scenario. Most scientists have dismissed this claim, but then again so have they dismissed Reapers. If the rumors are true, this technology is far more advanced than current tech levels.

Modifié par babylonfreak, 26 février 2010 - 04:24 .

[babylonfreak]

Have added a few planets from ME2. Will keep adding to it as I go. ME1 and ME2 planets are not differentiated, all planets are listed in alphabetical order.

[marshalleck]

Logan: 5th planet. Theseus system, Attican Beta. masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Logan

Logan is a standard hydrogen-helium gas giant. The survey team who charted the system twenty years ago reported many strange disturbances in Logan's cloud bands, suggesting many remarkably large solid objects were present beneath the cloud tops. As the ship approached, however, they subsided one by one. These disturbances have not been reported again.

Modifié par marshalleck, 23 février 2010 - 06:38 .

[boardnfool86]

Can I just add this... how is the whole galaxy resolute in their disbelief in Reapers? I can understand not wanting to-after all out politicians can't agree on the color of the sky... but how are there not more respected scientists going look! look at all these mass extinctions cause by saturation bombing? Look at how they occur periodically? You don't believe in Reapers because we have no evidence, but we have no evidence on how the Protheans went extinct, and yet they did... and look, SATURATION BOMBING! If someone kept wiping species out periodically and were never known to exist WHERE ELSE WOULD THEY GO BUT DARK SPACE, and they could only BE MACHINES TO BE ABLE TO HIBERNATE AND SURVIVE OUT THERE!



I hope we get to knock some nay saying heads in ME3

[babylonfreak]

Logan added, thanks marshalleck. I dimly remembered that one but it slipped though. good catch

[babylonfreak]

Updated with more planets from ME2. Some systems have 2 or 3 noteworthy planets. In most cases they are referred to under the world that seems to have been the main colony or homeworld rather than individually, unless the link is not evident.

[babylonfreak]

Project completed. Again, any additions or comments are welcome.

[babylonfreak]

Edited for format, content and spelling. Will continue to work on improving it

[babylonfreak]

boardnfool86 wrote...

Can I just add this... how is the whole galaxy resolute in their disbelief in Reapers? I can understand not wanting to-after all out politicians can't agree on the color of the sky... but how are there not more respected scientists going look! look at all these mass extinctions cause by saturation bombing? Look at how they occur periodically? You don't believe in Reapers because we have no evidence, but we have no evidence on how the Protheans went extinct, and yet they did... and look, SATURATION BOMBING! If someone kept wiping species out periodically and were never known to exist WHERE ELSE WOULD THEY GO BUT DARK SPACE, and they could only BE MACHINES TO BE ABLE TO HIBERNATE AND SURVIVE OUT THERE!

I hope we get to knock some nay saying heads in ME3

I had to think a little about this, but here's what I concluded. Liara does say that the hints are there for cyclical extinction, but that no one listens to her theory because she is so young for an asari. Half the worlds explored were only superficially scanned, and most are in the lawless Terminus Systems, an impediment to scientific examination of the ruins. Furthermore some of those ruins date from 37 million years ago, while other from *merely* 500,000 to 100,000 thousand years. For scientists to piece this together would be like haveing a paleontologist and a historian specializing in 18th Century Mongolia get together and compare notes, not something that happens often I would guess. Lastly, we already know about the Reapers, so it's easier for us to reconstruct the evidence starting from the conclusion. It's a lot harder to work from the ground up to the conclusion.

That's all I got for now.

[Lambu1]

was i the only one that expecting to see the giant rift valley on klendagon? when i finallly found the planet i spun it all the way around and saw nothing. it didn't even look the same as it did in the first game. i don't think it would have been to much to ask for one unique skin to show what the game talks about. it could be seen in the first game if you looked up just right, why not in the second game?

[Gamer Xtreme]

Thanks, I used to read all of the descriptions but the new text made it impossible

[babylonfreak]

I din't look at the models that closely, however at orbital distances even the Grand Canyon is far from an obvious geological features. Planets are very very big. Even a giant mass accelerator can only have so big a caliber, say if we exaggerate by several orders of magnitude, a one kilometer caliber. Klendagon has a mean radius of 7,377 kms, (Earth has a mean radius of 6,371 kms) or a diameter of 14,754 kms. At an altitude of say 300 kms (Low Earth Orbit) a one kilometer scar might be barely visble as a thin line. At a geostationary distance, ~ 46,000 km, it would be invisible.

[Lambu1]

yes i see exactly what you are say and would even agree with you except that it is clearly visible from its moon in the first game. and the grand canyon is quite visible from orbit, and i think the rift is much larger than one kilometer, it does say it extends across half the southern hemisphere.

i present exhibit A:  http://images2.wikia...pScreenshot.jpg

Modifié par Lambu1, 24 février 2010 - 10:03 .

[babylonfreak]

I stand corrected. I'd looked on the planet info screen, didn't think to land and look up.



Obvious things escape me sometimes O.o

[GnusmasTHX]

Awesome thread.

[Lvl20DM]

I'm curious how many of these mysteries will every be addressed. I think they are meant to give us the impression of an unimaginably ancient universe - a committed survey hints at the cycle that is at the center of the game.

[samyikin]

Nice. As I was scanning these I was wondering "how the hell does the council not accept this as proof of the reapers?"

Though because they are all in the Terminus systems i suppose it does make sense.

[Tennyochan]

very cool thread. informative. good work man

[SXOSXO]

What about the planet that is said to be like a "Bermuda Triangle" that has far too many ships dissapearing when orbiting it? I forget the name and system, but it's in ME2 and has a predominantly purple color. Anyone know the one I'm speaking of?


Oh, and this thread should be stickied.

Modifié par SXOSXO, 25 février 2010 - 03:28 .

[Sigma Tauri]

Preying Mouth.

Modifié par monkeycamoran, 25 février 2010 - 03:33 .

[Mr.BlazenGlazen]

i'm saving this thread. thanks

[babylonfreak]

Thank you for all the good comments.



I will add Preying Mouth.

[Stinkface27]

Really awesome thread. Great to have all of this compiled into one place. Nice work! =)

[boardnfool86]

babylonfreak wrote...

boardnfool86 wrote...

Can I just add this... how is the whole galaxy resolute in their disbelief in Reapers? I can understand not wanting to-after all out politicians can't agree on the color of the sky... but how are there not more respected scientists going look! look at all these mass extinctions cause by saturation bombing? Look at how they occur periodically? You don't believe in Reapers because we have no evidence, but we have no evidence on how the Protheans went extinct, and yet they did... and look, SATURATION BOMBING! If someone kept wiping species out periodically and were never known to exist WHERE ELSE WOULD THEY GO BUT DARK SPACE, and they could only BE MACHINES TO BE ABLE TO HIBERNATE AND SURVIVE OUT THERE!

I hope we get to knock some nay saying heads in ME3

I had to think a little about this, but here's what I concluded. Liara does say that the hints are there for cyclical extinction, but that no one listens to her theory because she is so young for an asari. Half the worlds explored were only superficially scanned, and most are in the lawless Terminus Systems, an impediment to scientific examination of the ruins. Furthermore some of those ruins date from 37 million years ago, while other from *merely* 500,000 to 100,000 thousand years. For scientists to piece this together would be like haveing a paleontologist and a historian specializing in 18th Century Mongolia get together and compare notes, not something that happens often I would guess. Lastly, we already know about the Reapers, so it's easier for us to reconstruct the evidence starting from the conclusion. It's a lot harder to work from the ground up to the conclusion.

That's all I got for now.

Legit explanation, its just when I was told 'ah yes "reapers"' I wanted to punch that turian in the face then shake my head at his ignorance

[PARAGON87]

This is cool. I hope the ME wikia makes this an article, as this is a good amount of information that deserves it's own wikia page.