"A pity we did not teach them to speak better" Hanar take language very seriously. Hanar leaving the homeworld have to take special classes to learn not to take offense at improper grammar. They consider speech to be a gift from the Enkindlers. Without meaning to, Javik basically said the single most insulting thing he could have possibly said to that hanar. Poor jellyfish :-(
I always loved that Bioware chose to show us one of the last of their kind. He is probably as different to the Protheans before the reaper invasion than he is to the races of the new cycle. The kind of Protheans Liara had hoped to meet were long dead by the time Javik was born. He was born into a war that had already lasted generations. There was little left of the once great empire. And hope had been lost decades ago. All that was left for them was to fight for every world, every stretch of ground with the grim fatalism of people knowing their civilisation had ended. There were no philosophers left. No adventurers. No artists. No musicians. No explorers. No historians. No architects. Only warriors. He often comes across as dogmatic, even a bit of a joke. “Out of the airlock” he says. But then again he lived in a time that had little room for subtleties. And even his survival had only one purpose: vengeance. Always thought that choice was a stroke of genius.
Ya know I’d never thought about this, I presumed they were just a highly militarised society. I think given how brief the conflict with the reapers was in Shepards cycle it can be easily forgotten the Protheons fought for generations, that they hadn’t deactivated the relay on the citidal and that Shepard hadn’t blown up an entire system
What I find beautiful is his acceptance of manners of new cycle. Because Shepard gets results with diplomacy and equal standing despite their risks Javik sees his/her success as sign of greater power than anything Prothean Empire had in it's use. Idea of peace is frightening, but it is fear he accepts. It might give Protheans a chance to leave their mark on Milky Way itself. In my view he studied Prothean culture with Dr. T'Soni and truly became scholar Liara hoped Protheans would be. He would also regularly visit hanar homeworld just because they asked with such desperate politeness. Suffice to say living god Javik did shake hanar's religious beliefs very thoroughly.
"At least I can find a blood donor..." "A problem I suspect is an issue for that skittering lizard man Thane as well, correct?" "Then allow me to clarify, I meant a *willing* blood donor" "Fair enough Commander"
Javik is easily one of the most intriguing characters in Mass Effect. I can't imagine how it must feel, to be the last of your species, and to stand amongst those who were mere primitives in your own time.
something I really liked about Javik is how they designed him. They made him, humble in a sense. And when he talks, you feel like you're listening to a very old man speaking. But the thing is, he himself is not old. It's so, amazing his character design. If Bioware done one good thing right in ME3, it was the Prothean's.
+devinrrod 2 What game were you playing? He didn't think much of the other races in the current cycle, or how they all shared power, or that we didn't prepare properly for the Reapers. The list goes on. Not saying he was a bad character, I loved him. But he looked down on nearly everyone because of that. He would only boosts morale with words like this because of Shepard's influence. He knows it's what others want to hear, rather than something he believes himself.
Tails the discorduser not humble but..humbled in a way think about it from his view species when you were alive were basically still evolving and adapting and boom now they are near your people's level...so maybe he is humbled and arrogant at the same time
@@TheVergile Shame you cannot do that cause there is only one suit 😂 I would be very curious to see what Leviathan think of Protheans. Maybe they would go along well together, since both Protheans and Leviathan used to enslave other races to do their bidding.
Imagine if Shepard lost, but somehow survived until the next cycle and helped Cats and those Tuchanka rats fight the reapers. That's sort of what Javik is going through.
Though it is super weird to me that this kind of development is supposed to have taken just 50k years. 50 million would make more sense. Shows people have no grasp of evolution and time.
@@heinzerhardt7047 Yyyeah it does take at least a few hundred thousands years to go from animal to industrialized civilization. At least it did for humans.
@Heinz Erhardt Yes, that bothers me too. It's one of my gripes with the ME setting as a whole. The writers just...don't seem to understand time-scales. For example: the human race has only been involved with Citadel Politics for 30 years by ME 1. First Contact War with the Turians happened during Shepard's childhood. That is a very **very** short amount of time for humans to have fully integrated into galactic society so thoroughly they have embassies on the Citadel, multiple colony-worlds, sprawling economic interests, a criminal enterprise complete with multiple, interspecies crine cartels and eventually a seat on the council. I know humanity rising to the top so fast is a big part of ME's lore, but 30 years to do all that seems too fast. It would've still been fast, but feasibly-so, had they made it 100 years (just look at the 20th Century for an example of how fast humans can develope in 100 years)
@@Hagashager Eh, I can buy humanity advancing so fast, as you say it's part of the tension other races have with us, and we're a very social and adaptable species, unlike some species whose rigidness holds them back. The worst thing is that apparently Reapers don't just harvest all intelligent life, but all sentient life. WHAT. It would take at least a hundred million years for sentient life to re-evolve, easily longer.
@@heinzerhardt7047 The thing is they only kill space faring races. So if a race is just bellow space flight, they will be spared. Meaning that there are races that literally just missed the extermination by a hundred years. So there are enough races to replace the dead ones every 50k years.
Javik's actually had it pretty rough: Breed and born into war, fought all his life only to watch everyone die. And now he is the last of his kind... how does he not just crawl into a ball and cry. I know I probably would...
I would guess the statues were the extinct 'Inusannon' race he mentions when you talk about meeting Vigil on Ilos, who were apparently from the cycle previous to the prothean empire. Would explain why everyone seems to get the creeps on that planet. It's an eerie place that's survived at least million years of reaper massacres.
the commander is a capable warrior as well...for a human. who once lived in caves. Ya know I kinda thought Javik would go with a sexist remark but instead he threw the whole human species in there XD I love Javik.
J: "Ah yes, these storied halls held the hope and despair of my entire civilization" S: "Anyway so here's the food court, this where me and Wrex get plastered, this entire row of shops are my *favorite* shops in the citadel, there's the cell in C-sec HQ where I go after I get plastered with Wrex, and this where Garrus and I fell in love." J: "I'm beginning to understand that phrase Dr. T'Soni mentioned, something about never meeting your heroes"
1:29 I can't help but laugh at how it seems like the Hanar pissed himself from joy, so to speak. I also like how Javik stopped himself from saying primitives and instead using the word "young" for the other species.
Javik grew up in a Galaxy where The Prothean empire was almost at its end. Prothean society at it's peak is almost as much of a mystery to him as it is to the current Mass Effect Races that study it.
the real question you should be asking is why the fuck does every alien speak damn english? I would've expected to overhear a conversation in some alien talk but instead I hear english!
Kim Karniol They all have translators in their omni-tools. There was a scene in Mass Effect 2 when Thane calls Shepard "siha", and she says "I'm sorry. My translator must have glitched"
SAME! Probably not going to get it in 4, but I'd like the title to be Mass Effect: Armageddon where it's all about the Protheans. Maybe gaming technology might be upgraded to where we can see the prothean's special ability better.
Those pictures were based on the statues on Ilos. Javik said Ilos was built upon by the remnants of the cycle before the Protheans (the Inusannon). So perhaps those are what the Inusannon looked like, and everyone thought it was a Prothean because nobodies seen what they actually looked like until then.
@TinnedWaffles That's right, none of them were sentient yet. However, Javik can sense their ancestry and genetics well enough to match species with what they were during his time, or something like that.
You know, for all the talk of the Protheans being so much more advanced than this cycle's races, it's not so true. By this point, the council races had reached the level of technology of the Protheans. Moreover, while both cycle's started the war on the back foot, the human's cycle had one advantage - they were able to stop Sovereign and the vanguard, meaning they held onto to the centre of power and communications while the Protheans were cut of from each other. The current cycle had far more hope than the Prothean's which actually just makes me sad for what the Protheans went through. Also, consider, from what we know of Javik, he was essentially the Shepard of the last cycle, one that wasn't so lucky.
+thekaboominator1 Our cycle was only able to accomplish these things because the Protheans disrupted the signal Sovereign gives to the Keepers during the last moments of their cycle.
Actually no, the Protheans designed and built their own beacons in the crucible. Even by Andromeda, the Council races had not achieved that. They are still more advanced.
thekaboominator1 The Protheans were still more advanced. They managed to build The Conduit, a one way mini-relay. They had essentially successfully reverse-engineered the most resistant to reverse-engineering Reaper tech. Their Empire had directed energy small-arms with no required logistics support and instant-transmission information points allowing for much faster learning. Not only that but they even managed to sever the link between the Keepers (of the Citadel) and the Reapers. But despite these incredible advances and having a hero figure in Javik, the Shepard of his cycle, they were unable to prevail because the right people weren’t in the right place at the right time. The current cycle only stopped the Reapers because the Prothean cycle overcompensated and the current cycle also just happened to have the right people in the right place at the right time. Have enough extinction cycles and eventually such a thing would happen.
"I remember when your kind were minnows in the ocean!" That is... not likely though, no? Evolution takes a lot longer than 50K years. At the time of the Prothean Empire, we looked exactly how we look now, just hairier and probably a little more muscled
Homo-Sapien-Sapiens (Modern Human) appeared roughly 44,000 years ago (give or take a few millenia). Javik's people likely saw Neanderthals who were the dominant human species just before we showed up.
The Mass Effect 3 ending has killed trillions of hopes fans had for the trilog-{{Paragon-Interrupt:I don't think that's going to work}} BUT YOU ARE STILL ALIVE NOW!
@AnoukTutorials The lift grenades he comes with really helps against Reaper enemies. Brutes and Banshees especially; and his plague does constant damage to barriers and armor.
Because the Collectors ARE Protheans. When the Reapers conquered the Protheans, they didn't wipe them out. They 'Repurposed' them through extreme genetic and cybernetic alteration and turned them into the Collectors. You learn all of this in ME2
@CerromeX The thing is once i finnished the first game and went for the second time, i had no need to do anything, everything was done, and the things i didnt yet buy, they now only cost 99 credits, instead of 1000/5000/10 000 credits. and i only need to do the real missions the rest are already done from the previous game.
They probably have similar atmoshperes (in terms of gases) and they proably adapt to the change in air pressure and stuff quickly I guess. And volud and quarians do wear suits, quarians for their aleergic reaction to anything and everything and volus to breathe.
Hmmm...Javik made me start thinking. Imagine the Human race is on the verge of extinction from an unstoppable force, then suddenly waking up 50,000 years later to see animals like Apes and Dolphins driving cars, flying airplanes, building nations, etc. That would make me go "WTF" for a good long time... Just food for thought.
This is probably the best part of ME3, and I think Javik should have been a main, vital part to the game, not just some DLC bullshit. His character was so awesome.
@hotmunkyz5050 I agree, the Protheans also remind me of the Rakata empire in KOTOR that existed on a slave empire 20,000 years back in the timeline, until they were all but wiped out. They even sound Jamacan too.
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