Grissom Academy is a great mission - the atrium fight is right up there with one of the toughest in the game - especially if your team mates forget how to use doors. Meeting Jack is the highlight and seeing David doing well is also heartwarming. The "I've been counting' line gets me everytime though.
Jack's character development in ME3 is why now I always have her be the biotic in the suicide mission that shields us from the swarm. I think it fits, we show her there are people who she can trust when we do her loyalty mission and we show her some people trust her enough to put their lives and the mission in her hands and that she can actually deliver when it happens. It shows her the strength there is in working with a team of people you can rely on. That ties perfectly with who she becomes in ME3.
It's worth noting Javik was never MEANT to be Day One DLC. EA overruled Bioware and FORCED them to make Javik Day One DLC, had the dev team got their way, he'd not only have been built-in at release, his recruitment mission would be the end of the tutorial section before you go to Palaven.
Don't forget the initial game release was delayed. This pushed back the drop date until the same day they planned to release the From Ashes DLC. It ended up being $5. I remember those days vividly. Internet was so slow, it took a day to download. 😂 Also, it's worth noting the original release had multiplayer and all DLC had multiplayer content attached. Loved running around as a Biotic God Volus. 😂
Good to see someone make the connection between the anomaly on Eletania and Javik's revelations. Not sure the returning "silver bird" is a Reaper (I tend to think it's just the protheans checking on humanity's progress), but it's possible. And yes, it's absurd that Bioware were forced to carve Javik out and repackage him as DLC. I certainly played the game (possibly more than once) without him back in the day. I just assumed that, as a DLC character, he would be no more integral to the plot than Kasumi and Zaeed were to ME2. Couldn't believe how important he was, when I finally bought the DLC and played the game with Javik included.
Well in the vision the first bird is silver without wings but the second : "You hear it before you see it, its call a deafening roar as it descends from above, swooping down on you. A single great eye opens on the underbelly, a glowing red orb. You try to run, but a finger of red light extends from the eye and engulfs you"really really smells of reaper. If they didn't want to hint at us it was one they would have dais the silver bird was back IMO.
The Dr. Bryson's lab mission begins a DLC set. These missions can be done between other, unrelated, missions. The only flaw with doing the Dr. Bryson DLC "too soon" is that it will spoil enemies the main game has not revealed yet. Therefore, I recommend waiting on that until after you get an update on Samara. By then, you should have met all of the enemy types that are involved.
Mass effect 2 drinking game: take a shot every time you meet a character voiced by Steve Blum Mass effect 3 drinking game: same but with characters voiced by Laura Bailey 😁
The way the Prothean artefact story reads I almost wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the Protheans coming down and just blasting this one poor cro magnon dude rather than bothering to scoop him up and remove his chip. Easier just to obliterate the technology that would be left behind than bother with a surgery. Like the protheans would even care about a single primitive individual.
The Shrike Abyssal is a side quest for a region that's not unlocked yet. Every now and then you'll get missions for areas which aren't accessible at the time. Just be patient and they'll open up after wrapping up a priority mission or two. *Cavemen* It's confusing at the time, but you're actually able to make sense of it because you've talked to Javik. For many of us back then, we only had theories what this meant and it was never explained - unless you'd bought the Eden Prime DLC. Such a nice throwback, no? I've bought all three games, but without the DLCs, so I've never even had this info until I'd bought the Legendary Edition. As for why it's a day-one DLC, I recall from an interview that they couldn't finish this part before it had to be shipped, so they had to make it a seperate part. It was never meant to be a DLC, but time constraints forced them to. Since EA was the one doing the distribution, they are the ones to set the date. Bioware didn't really have an option to extend the release date, because EA had already put out all kinds of advertisements with that date. And of course EA saw the opportunity to capitalize on that and ask money for the DLC, rather than provide it as a free-to-download update/patch. *Dr. Bryson* I know you're not throwing it out there, but I'd recommend to wait with Dr. Bryson until late in the game. It's going to provide you with knowledge that you really want to save until late-game, because it'll make more sense to gain that knowledge at that point in time. *Quick Slots* Why do you have your ammo types in your quick slots? Once you trigger it for a weapon, it _stays_ on for the rest of the mission. So you're pretty much using it once, unless you use a work bench, which resets it. That should save you a lot of room for other powers you want to use regularly during combat. But to be fair, I've never seen someone switching between them during battle. Most people (including me) would just use other powers to incapacitate or damage the enemies while sticking with a single ammo type. I personally like the Cryo ammo on my assault rifle/pistol/submachine gun, freezing them, then let someone hit them with a Concussive Shot to shatter them. For my sniper rifle I'd like to use Incinerate Ammo, which sets them on fire and make them panic if they're not dead after one shot. That usually allows you enough time to reload and finish them off, since they cannot do anything while panicking. As the datapad showed you, it's a good thing to find combinations; Singularity and detonating it with Warp is a good one, but there are various other combos you usually only notice when you accidentally execute them in a specific order. You just have to experiment a bit to find them. *Dead Student* That's not your fault. Right before you entered, a Cerberus guy said: "Watch it with the headshots. We need them alive." so it makes sense that someone shot that student rather than catch them alive. *Doors* At 1:45:30 that's something many of us experience at some point, where you go through the door and it locks behind you before your squad mates can follow you. That happens in a few places, but this door is notorious for that because your squad mates take cover behind the door. It's a sound tactic; nobody shoots at you behind a closed door, but it's a pain for the person who goes through the door. *Jack* If people show up in the 'War Assets', they're not going to be on the ship. *Indra* This is sort of an assault rifle for classes that can't use assault rifles, but can use sniper rifles.
If you are worried about going the way the game expects you to go, remember that there is a key/button to show the current objective marker. Also, the bug where the doors in Grissom Academy gardens close too early and leave your teammates separated seems to be a very common problem, although I don't remember getting it when I played on console. Either I got lucky or the bug is more prominent on PC.
You need to advance past the doors so that your squadmates follow you into the room. If you pause by the doors to long, the doors will automatically seal, trapping them.
Kahlee Sanders is the heroine from the 3 tie in novels of ME, written by Drew Karpyshyn, the main writer of ME1. She was also a romantic intrest for David Anderson.
No, the beam abducting the prehistoric human could not have been the Reapers. Otherwise that episode could not have been recorded, preserved, and ended up in a Prothean record on a planet half a galaxy away. If the Reapers were at Earth already at the time, Prothean base would have been toast, the mass relay network mostly closed to them, and recording and transmitting the data about primitives would have been the absolutely last thing on anyone's mind. Not to mention that all such research was curtailed and the bases abandoned at once when the Reapers appeared, as Javik explained. This was simply an episode of Prothean research before the invasion. Taking EDI to meet Jack again would have led to a hilarious comment. :) Dr. Bryson is a DLC that is better done closer to the end of the game. It's not a necessity, but it flows much better thematically this way.
It could have been the reapers, the data could have been transmitted in real time not just to Mars but also to another location ? They were studying more than just us, we know they worked on the Hanar, they knew about Turians, Salarians and Asari so they might have been watching them too. They might have had a research headquarters with a backup of all the data that was being recovered. So think about this, the caveman was implanted before the reapers invaded obviously and the chip automatically transmits the data not just on Mars but also to the headquarters for backup and/or analysis. When the reapers get to our solar system to harvest the Protheans who are there studying us they also take the time to clean up any traces of them on earth. We are told from ME1 when we get Liara and then when meet Vigil that the Reapers clean most traces of the previous civilization, they wouldn't leave an alien chip to be discovered by the civilizations of the futur cycle in some dig site. Now why that small bit of data is found on a solitary prothean relic in the middle of nowhere and needs a key to be accessed? Well I don't know if they ever had a reason for it or it's just something we have to suspend our disbelief on but I would bet the second option.
@@JezaGaia Most Prothean relics are in the middle of nowhere *now* . That wasn't the case in their time. The Eden Prime beacon was first found in the middle of nowhere. Now we know the planet was a major settlement that was destroyed so thoroughly that we needed a lot of time to find any traces. The transmission in real time idea doesn't work for two reasons as I noted. First, Earth is nowhere near the Reapers ingress into the galaxy (Citadel), nor was it even a Prothean world at all, it was simply a location of a small research base. Thus it would have been quite some time before the Reapers got to it and by that time the research would have been completely curtailed, as Javik noted. Second, the invasion started with the Reapers taking control of the Citadel and the *mass relay network* . They essentially crippled the network, locking the Protheans out of the major connections because they were in control of the network hub - the Citadel. Both Vigil and Javik told us that. Even elementary war coordination was almost impossible throughout the empire at that point, not to mention routine transmissions of inconsequential anthropological data from some primitive planet on the outskirts.
@@hedinsee6830 So if the chip is transmitting in real time there doesn't need to be any direct action from the research team for it to be sent. They could have left the solar system years ago and the data would still have been transmitted. As for the fact that the data couldn't travel without the relays being open well you're pointing out either a huge mystery we never got to solve or a huge plot hole in the whole series. Remember Ilos, Vigil knew basically all that was happening in the entire galaxy to the point of being able to tell when the reapers left after the harvest. How could it have gathered all this data while stuck in the secret archives on Ilos ? How could it then have sent the message to all the remaining beacons about Ilos and the conduit when all the relays were still closed and there was no comm network available ? Even in ME1 there was an obvious incoherence. Then Javik tells us they couldn't communicate and coordinate and each system was on it's own but he also tells us he knew about the crucible being built somewhere, and that the strategy they adopted was to fight planet by planet, system by system and what is this if not a coordinated strategy between different solar systems ? How did they communicate ? Also if the relays are closed and there is no comm system how did the plans for the crucible end up on Mars ? As you pointed out it wasn't even a colony it was just a tiny research station, they wouldn't have been the ones trying to build the crucible. And without spoiling anything think about where else in the game we find information about the crucible ... a completely different solar sysem far away from ours .... So information can travel when the plot needs it to it seems ... As for the thing I said about the relic, think about it, what we call relics are data storage systems it seems, at least the one on Elathania was. It's very convenient that the relic we happen to find by pure chance on a desolate world contains just one single information and it relates to us and not say the Hanar being worked on or studied? Also how convenient and improbable that the relic is just there in the middle of nowhere in the open and not inside ruins of a bigger structure. Had we found the relic say on Therum when rescuing Liara or on Feros with all the prothean structures it would have made more sense. That's why I say we have to suspend disbelief. And if you think about it most of the relics we find in ME1 have been dug out by someone else and we just happen to come by and get the data that was extracted. But not hat one.
When it comes to the books the only one I would actually *recommend* is the first one. By the second or third book the writers change hands and it’s just not as good.
Chris don't forget about going to Diana Aller's room on the engineering floor. You've been skipping past her room on the right side when you come out of the elevator.
Shepard: Those troops had you on the ropes Jack I just saved your @ss. I Know not as great as others but like I said earlier Shepards best dialog in ME3 is the out of dialog, dialog when he's walking around and starts talking to the team.
About the Protheans and the other races, They started assimilating "lesser" races to their empire well before the reapers invaded so well before they knew anything about the reapers. If I remember correctly some other race made machines who destroyed them in the end so the protheans decided they needed to unite all organic races under a single empire. But unlike what we have in our cycle with the council and all races keeping their sovereignty but being part of a bigger group with a council and so on, the protheans just assimilated them into their own culture and they weren't given a choice (Javik exact words).We don't know what status those races had in the empire, where they equals or subservient we don't know for sure but when Shep is shocked and exclaims to Javik : "you had slavery" Jaik's answer was to say they could have opposed them and if they had won they would have ruled so it doesn't seem they were equals. What you are talking about is what Javik was going to do if he could have rebuilt the prothean empire. He was supposed to have a million other protheans go on cryo with him and wake up after the reapers left and together they were going to rebuild the prothean empire. Then they would have united the lesser races (Asari and so on) under their empire to prepare for next harvest and those who refused would have been left to defends themselves alone against the reapers. Why not force us all into the empire like they did before ? These are all only my own suppositions based on nothing but what makes sense to me as there is nothing ingame that gives us a clue : well maybe because they would have been much weaker than they were before, maybe to avoid unnecessary wars who would have weaken them when they needed all the numbers they could to defeat th reapers or maybe it was a lie but he's smart enough not to say that to the very people he would have enslaved when he's not in a position of power ? In any case the Protheans are very far from the benevolent and diplomatic race Liara thought them to be. EDIT : Oh yes the last clue, servant races, well not equal at all.
why on earth are you not exploring everything, you are missing out on intell, equipment and yes you fucked up the first time not exploring and finding seanne
I'm totally okay with reloading if you get locked out of exploration. I'm glad you went back and saved Seanne.
completely agree.
Agreed 💯
Grissom Academy is a great mission - the atrium fight is right up there with one of the toughest in the game - especially if your team mates forget how to use doors.
Meeting Jack is the highlight and seeing David doing well is also heartwarming. The "I've been counting' line gets me everytime though.
They even used the music from "Overlord" when you first find him. :)
It's 12:20am. Am I going to watch this now? Yes, yes I am.
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Jack's character development in ME3 is why now I always have her be the biotic in the suicide mission that shields us from the swarm. I think it fits, we show her there are people who she can trust when we do her loyalty mission and we show her some people trust her enough to put their lives and the mission in her hands and that she can actually deliver when it happens.
It shows her the strength there is in working with a team of people you can rely on.
That ties perfectly with who she becomes in ME3.
It's worth noting Javik was never MEANT to be Day One DLC. EA overruled Bioware and FORCED them to make Javik Day One DLC, had the dev team got their way, he'd not only have been built-in at release, his recruitment mission would be the end of the tutorial section before you go to Palaven.
Don't forget the initial game release was delayed. This pushed back the drop date until the same day they planned to release the From Ashes DLC. It ended up being $5. I remember those days vividly. Internet was so slow, it took a day to download. 😂
Also, it's worth noting the original release had multiplayer and all DLC had multiplayer content attached. Loved running around as a Biotic God Volus. 😂
Good to see someone make the connection between the anomaly on Eletania and Javik's revelations. Not sure the returning "silver bird" is a Reaper (I tend to think it's just the protheans checking on humanity's progress), but it's possible.
And yes, it's absurd that Bioware were forced to carve Javik out and repackage him as DLC. I certainly played the game (possibly more than once) without him back in the day. I just assumed that, as a DLC character, he would be no more integral to the plot than Kasumi and Zaeed were to ME2. Couldn't believe how important he was, when I finally bought the DLC and played the game with Javik included.
Well in the vision the first bird is silver without wings but the second : "You hear it before you see it, its call a deafening roar as it descends from above, swooping down on you. A single great eye opens on the underbelly, a glowing red orb. You try to run, but a finger of red light extends from the eye and engulfs you"really really smells of reaper. If they didn't want to hint at us it was one they would have dais the silver bird was back IMO.
@@JezaGaia Could be. I certainly wouldn't rule it out.
There are a few moments that always make me cry in this trilogy, even after 12+ playthroughs. Seeing David healthy and happy is one of the biggest.
The Dr. Bryson's lab mission begins a DLC set. These missions can be done between other, unrelated, missions. The only flaw with doing the Dr. Bryson DLC "too soon" is that it will spoil enemies the main game has not revealed yet. Therefore, I recommend waiting on that until after you get an update on Samara. By then, you should have met all of the enemy types that are involved.
Did you watch Star Wars Rebels?
@@brianwhite9339 No, I have not
Mass effect 2 drinking game: take a shot every time you meet a character voiced by Steve Blum
Mass effect 3 drinking game: same but with characters voiced by Laura Bailey 😁
Don't do that! You might get alcohol poisoning!
The way the Prothean artefact story reads I almost wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the Protheans coming down and just blasting this one poor cro magnon dude rather than bothering to scoop him up and remove his chip. Easier just to obliterate the technology that would be left behind than bother with a surgery. Like the protheans would even care about a single primitive individual.
The square root of 906.01 is...
:') So glad to see David feel better, the first time i saw that, i cried my heart out.
That fight there in the open space is one of the toughest in the game
Chris, don't forget: you can test all your weapons in Citadel.
The Shrike Abyssal is a side quest for a region that's not unlocked yet. Every now and then you'll get missions for areas which aren't accessible at the time. Just be patient and they'll open up after wrapping up a priority mission or two.
*Cavemen*
It's confusing at the time, but you're actually able to make sense of it because you've talked to Javik. For many of us back then, we only had theories what this meant and it was never explained - unless you'd bought the Eden Prime DLC. Such a nice throwback, no? I've bought all three games, but without the DLCs, so I've never even had this info until I'd bought the Legendary Edition.
As for why it's a day-one DLC, I recall from an interview that they couldn't finish this part before it had to be shipped, so they had to make it a seperate part. It was never meant to be a DLC, but time constraints forced them to. Since EA was the one doing the distribution, they are the ones to set the date. Bioware didn't really have an option to extend the release date, because EA had already put out all kinds of advertisements with that date. And of course EA saw the opportunity to capitalize on that and ask money for the DLC, rather than provide it as a free-to-download update/patch.
*Dr. Bryson*
I know you're not throwing it out there, but I'd recommend to wait with Dr. Bryson until late in the game. It's going to provide you with knowledge that you really want to save until late-game, because it'll make more sense to gain that knowledge at that point in time.
*Quick Slots*
Why do you have your ammo types in your quick slots? Once you trigger it for a weapon, it _stays_ on for the rest of the mission. So you're pretty much using it once, unless you use a work bench, which resets it. That should save you a lot of room for other powers you want to use regularly during combat.
But to be fair, I've never seen someone switching between them during battle. Most people (including me) would just use other powers to incapacitate or damage the enemies while sticking with a single ammo type. I personally like the Cryo ammo on my assault rifle/pistol/submachine gun, freezing them, then let someone hit them with a Concussive Shot to shatter them. For my sniper rifle I'd like to use Incinerate Ammo, which sets them on fire and make them panic if they're not dead after one shot. That usually allows you enough time to reload and finish them off, since they cannot do anything while panicking.
As the datapad showed you, it's a good thing to find combinations; Singularity and detonating it with Warp is a good one, but there are various other combos you usually only notice when you accidentally execute them in a specific order. You just have to experiment a bit to find them.
*Dead Student*
That's not your fault. Right before you entered, a Cerberus guy said: "Watch it with the headshots. We need them alive." so it makes sense that someone shot that student rather than catch them alive.
*Doors*
At 1:45:30 that's something many of us experience at some point, where you go through the door and it locks behind you before your squad mates can follow you. That happens in a few places, but this door is notorious for that because your squad mates take cover behind the door. It's a sound tactic; nobody shoots at you behind a closed door, but it's a pain for the person who goes through the door.
*Jack*
If people show up in the 'War Assets', they're not going to be on the ship.
*Indra*
This is sort of an assault rifle for classes that can't use assault rifles, but can use sniper rifles.
If you are worried about going the way the game expects you to go, remember that there is a key/button to show the current objective marker. Also, the bug where the doors in Grissom Academy gardens close too early and leave your teammates separated seems to be a very common problem, although I don't remember getting it when I played on console. Either I got lucky or the bug is more prominent on PC.
We've waited! Best walkthrough, keep up the good work!
You need to advance past the doors so that your squadmates follow you into the room. If you pause by the doors to long, the doors will automatically seal, trapping them.
1:06:00 "I'm sorry I know getting to the missions takes so much time because I do so much shit" yes that's why we watch :)
Kahlee Sanders is the heroine from the 3 tie in novels of ME, written by Drew Karpyshyn, the main writer of ME1. She was also a romantic intrest for David Anderson.
What’s worse is Javik, and From Ashes dlc *WAS ON THE DISC YOU OWNED, LOCKED BEHIND A PAYWALL.*
I've been waiting for this! 🎉
No, the beam abducting the prehistoric human could not have been the Reapers. Otherwise that episode could not have been recorded, preserved, and ended up in a Prothean record on a planet half a galaxy away. If the Reapers were at Earth already at the time, Prothean base would have been toast, the mass relay network mostly closed to them, and recording and transmitting the data about primitives would have been the absolutely last thing on anyone's mind. Not to mention that all such research was curtailed and the bases abandoned at once when the Reapers appeared, as Javik explained.
This was simply an episode of Prothean research before the invasion.
Taking EDI to meet Jack again would have led to a hilarious comment. :)
Dr. Bryson is a DLC that is better done closer to the end of the game. It's not a necessity, but it flows much better thematically this way.
It could have been the reapers, the data could have been transmitted in real time not just to Mars but also to another location ? They were studying more than just us, we know they worked on the Hanar, they knew about Turians, Salarians and Asari so they might have been watching them too. They might have had a research headquarters with a backup of all the data that was being recovered.
So think about this, the caveman was implanted before the reapers invaded obviously and the chip automatically transmits the data not just on Mars but also to the headquarters for backup and/or analysis.
When the reapers get to our solar system to harvest the Protheans who are there studying us they also take the time to clean up any traces of them on earth. We are told from ME1 when we get Liara and then when meet Vigil that the Reapers clean most traces of the previous civilization, they wouldn't leave an alien chip to be discovered by the civilizations of the futur cycle in some dig site.
Now why that small bit of data is found on a solitary prothean relic in the middle of nowhere and needs a key to be accessed?
Well I don't know if they ever had a reason for it or it's just something we have to suspend our disbelief on but I would bet the second option.
@@JezaGaia Most Prothean relics are in the middle of nowhere *now* . That wasn't the case in their time. The Eden Prime beacon was first found in the middle of nowhere. Now we know the planet was a major settlement that was destroyed so thoroughly that we needed a lot of time to find any traces.
The transmission in real time idea doesn't work for two reasons as I noted. First, Earth is nowhere near the Reapers ingress into the galaxy (Citadel), nor was it even a Prothean world at all, it was simply a location of a small research base. Thus it would have been quite some time before the Reapers got to it and by that time the research would have been completely curtailed, as Javik noted. Second, the invasion started with the Reapers taking control of the Citadel and the *mass relay network* . They essentially crippled the network, locking the Protheans out of the major connections because they were in control of the network hub - the Citadel. Both Vigil and Javik told us that. Even elementary war coordination was almost impossible throughout the empire at that point, not to mention routine transmissions of inconsequential anthropological data from some primitive planet on the outskirts.
@@hedinsee6830 So if the chip is transmitting in real time there doesn't need to be any direct action from the research team for it to be sent. They could have left the solar system years ago and the data would still have been transmitted.
As for the fact that the data couldn't travel without the relays being open well you're pointing out either a huge mystery we never got to solve or a huge plot hole in the whole series.
Remember Ilos, Vigil knew basically all that was happening in the entire galaxy to the point of being able to tell when the reapers left after the harvest. How could it have gathered all this data while stuck in the secret archives on Ilos ? How could it then have sent the message to all the remaining beacons about Ilos and the conduit when all the relays were still closed and there was no comm network available ?
Even in ME1 there was an obvious incoherence.
Then Javik tells us they couldn't communicate and coordinate and each system was on it's own but he also tells us he knew about the crucible being built somewhere, and that the strategy they adopted was to fight planet by planet, system by system and what is this if not a coordinated strategy between different solar systems ? How did they communicate ?
Also if the relays are closed and there is no comm system how did the plans for the crucible end up on Mars ?
As you pointed out it wasn't even a colony it was just a tiny research station, they wouldn't have been the ones trying to build the crucible.
And without spoiling anything think about where else in the game we find information about the crucible ... a completely different solar sysem far away from ours .... So information can travel when the plot needs it to it seems ...
As for the thing I said about the relic, think about it, what we call relics are data storage systems it seems, at least the one on Elathania was. It's very convenient that the relic we happen to find by pure chance on a desolate world contains just one single information and it relates to us and not say the Hanar being worked on or studied?
Also how convenient and improbable that the relic is just there in the middle of nowhere in the open and not inside ruins of a bigger structure. Had we found the relic say on Therum when rescuing Liara or on Feros with all the prothean structures it would have made more sense.
That's why I say we have to suspend disbelief.
And if you think about it most of the relics we find in ME1 have been dug out by someone else and we just happen to come by and get the data that was extracted. But not hat one.
When it comes to the books the only one I would actually *recommend* is the first one. By the second or third book the writers change hands and it’s just not as good.
what difficulty are you playing on
Hardcore 🤌😮💨
Chris don't forget about going to Diana Aller's room on the engineering floor. You've been skipping past her room on the right side when you come out of the elevator.
Shepard: Those troops had you on the ropes Jack I just saved your @ss.
I Know not as great as others but like I said earlier Shepards best dialog in ME3 is the out of dialog, dialog when he's walking around and starts talking to the team.
1:31:01 The unhinged sounding teacher makes a lot more sense now, doesn't it.
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About the Protheans and the other races, They started assimilating "lesser" races to their empire well before the reapers invaded so well before they knew anything about the reapers.
If I remember correctly some other race made machines who destroyed them in the end so the protheans decided they needed to unite all organic races under a single empire.
But unlike what we have in our cycle with the council and all races keeping their sovereignty but being part of a bigger group with a council and so on, the protheans just assimilated them into their own culture and they weren't given a choice (Javik exact words).We don't know what status those races had in the empire, where they equals or subservient we don't know for sure but when Shep is shocked and exclaims to Javik : "you had slavery" Jaik's answer was to say they could have opposed them and if they had won they would have ruled so it doesn't seem they were equals.
What you are talking about is what Javik was going to do if he could have rebuilt the prothean empire. He was supposed to have a million other protheans go on cryo with him and wake up after the reapers left and together they were going to rebuild the prothean empire. Then they would have united the lesser races (Asari and so on) under their empire to prepare for next harvest and those who refused would have been left to defends themselves alone against the reapers.
Why not force us all into the empire like they did before ? These are all only my own suppositions based on nothing but what makes sense to me as there is nothing ingame that gives us a clue : well maybe because they would have been much weaker than they were before, maybe to avoid unnecessary wars who would have weaken them when they needed all the numbers they could to defeat th reapers or maybe it was a lie but he's smart enough not to say that to the very people he would have enslaved when he's not in a position of power ?
In any case the Protheans are very far from the benevolent and diplomatic race Liara thought them to be.
EDIT : Oh yes the last clue, servant races, well not equal at all.
why on earth are you not exploring everything, you are missing out on intell, equipment and yes you fucked up the first time not exploring and finding seanne
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Damn even Turians hate The Fine Bros