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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

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95 notes - Posted November 13, 2022

#4

mass effect conspiracy theory time

Rakhana was not a barren world, the drell were not "saved" by the hanar, and the war on Rakhana was caused by hanar intervention.

DISCLAIMER: This is just headcanon. I am not intending to piss on anyone else's headcanons or ocs. These are my thoughts after revisiting the codex and comparing it to what Thane tells us.

"Our homeworld had few resources."

Rakhana is also said to have been "bursting at a population of 11 billion." For context, Earth has a population of 8 billion. If we assume Rakhana was a relatively earth-sized planet, their planet must have been fertile and resource-rich enough to support an earth-sized population.

That doesn't mean the drell weren't heading toward resource catastrophe. With their eidetic memory it's entirely likely they experienced a massive industrial boom that led to the acidification of their oceans and failed agriculture before they realized the consequences of their expansion. But to start with, they were likely living on a garden world with a hot, arid climate. I imagine Rakhana's typical geography was deserts and jungles.

They were headed toward a resource crisis, why wouldn't they need saving?

If aliens showed up to earth tomorrow and said they were going to save us from climate change, would you go with them? I imagine you'd have to be a special kind of desperate to trust them. The drell apparently though the same.

The codex says the hanar evacuated a little under 400,000 drell.

At a population of 11 billion, that means only 0.0036% of drell actually emigrated to Kahje.

Whether Rakhana was truly doomed to ruin or not, very few drell were keen to live on Kahje.

As a side note - It's also possible that the hanar simply didn't possess a fleet of ships large enough to evacuate more drell. That's why this is a headcanon post lol

How did the hanar cause the war on Rakhana?

I'm entering the realm of pure speculation here. I don't think the hanar even visited Rakhana for the benefit of the drell in the first place. I think they landed there because they detected artifacts of the "Enkindlers" (the protheans). The presence of prothean artifacts on Rakhana is not mentioned anywhere that I could find - I'm just making shit up at this point.

On surface level, first contact would have been an enormous and terrifying event for the drell. Literal aliens landed on their planet and even if the hanar opened with "we come in peace," they undoubtedly had greater technology capable of forcibly enacting their will on the drell.

To put it simply, I believe that hanar intervention was the straw that broke the camel's back. Nations that were already strained by Rakhana's overpopulation fought over how to respond to hanar visitors for years - the hanar evacuation of the drell is said to have lasted a decade. In the end, I believe the hanar accelerated the proverbial drell "doomsday clock" rather than delaying it.

Why does Thane insist the compact is not slavery?

Because he was taken from his parents at the age of six and fed revisionist history in an assassin training camp.

I would also like to point out that the codex says the drell were evacuated 200 ago, but Thane tells us it was "a century ago." This is such a glaring inconsistency that I'm inclined to believe it's a developer oversight. But it does make me wonder - how much of what we know of Rakhana is true?

TLDR the hanar are punks and I'm mad.

95 notes - Posted September 5, 2022

#3

What if calibrations is actually the name of a really popular mmo rpg in the mass effect universe and garrus is a level 190 sharpshooter selling carries under the username AriaTloaksFeetPix whenever we think he's calibrating the main gun

104 notes - Posted August 30, 2022

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116 notes - Posted November 18, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Today on great things we talk about on discord:

What if every Mass Effect villain had a hoverboard like Saren?

The reapers enticing humanity to join their side by offering free hoverboards

Kai Leng car chase with hoverboard

Shepard's clone on a hoverboard: "lmao I'm you but cooler"

The Illusive Man's chair lifting off like a hoverboard

Husks on hoverboards

Geth platforms as hoverboards

A collector rides by on a hoverboard: "I know you feel this"

Marauder Shields intercepting Shepard at the beam with a hoverbaord

Donnel Udina on a hoverboard

116 notes - Posted December 1, 2022

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