No idea where the volus, elcor, rachni and quarians info came from. Not sure adout batarians too. Also, the drell are problematic, as I've written before. Races lifespans? By Constipator - Sun Dec 30, pm. User mini profile. Constipator Status: Offline. By gisle - Sun Dec 30, pm.
Most of them have their lives cut short violently before they can reach the end of their natural life spans. Vorcha possess clusters of non-differentiated cells, giving them a unique ability to morph their developing body to suit the conditions of the vorcha's upbringing, as well as the ability to regrow lost body parts.
Vorcha are reputed to have low intelligence and aggressive, violent behavior, the latter of which being so deeply ingrained that vorcha use violence as their primary form of non-verbal communication. On their homeworld Heshtok, vorcha live in clans which constantly war with one another for scraps of land and resources; over the centuries, their homeworld has been stripped bare.
Vorcha populations away from home are largely descended from stowaways aboard spacecraft unfortunate enough to land on Heshtok; they tend to live one of two lives: either in vorcha-dominated slums living as scavengers on the edge of society where they are regarded as unusually sentient pests , or as mercenaries in organizations such as the krogan -dominated Blood Pack. Despite all this, the vorcha are not inherently violent. In an experiment on the mining world Parasc, asari mining corporations adopted and raised vorcha orphans as a labor source, and vorcha adaptability proved to outweigh any propensity toward violence.
The Collectors are an enigmatic species with a mix of humanoid and insectoid features. Prior to the events of the Mass Effect games, they were known for paying exorbitant sums for live test subjects, often trading their advanced technologies for slaves counted in the low dozens.
During the course of ME2, it is revealed that the Collectors are servants of the Reapers , and that they are what's left of the Prothean species after 50, years of genetic modification and cybernetic augmentation by their Reaper masters. The keepers are an eight-limbed insectoid species that exist aboard the Citadel , where they silently carry out maintenance, repair, and custodial tasks.
It is not known if they are sentient or sapient. It is speculated that they were created by the Reapers , the result of extensive genetic engineering that converted a previously free-living species into biological robots.
The Protheans were a species with a mix of humanoid and insectoid features. They died out 50, years ago; the reason was originally mysterious, but they turned out to be the most recent victims of the Reapers and their cycles of Harvest. Much like the ancient Romans on Earth, the Protheans were conquerors who assimilated defeated cultures as citizens into their ever-growing empire. By way of cryonic stasis, one Prothean has survived to modern times: a soldier named Javik , the Avatar of Vengeance.
The rachni are an insectoid species. Over the years, many have mistaken the rachni for mindless creatures of instinct, when the truth is that the rachni are as intelligent as any humanoid species, having built cities on the surface of their homeworld and developed FTL spaceflight. Adults can survive being separated from their nest with no ill effect, but juveniles are driven mad by the silence. Rachni are territorial and isolationist, showing quick aggression to trespassers but with no natural desire to expand their territory through war.
They tend to prefer worlds that other species find too toxic to settle, worlds that no one else would want. The galaxy at large is mostly unaware of this, however, as the brutal Rachni Wars have shaped galactic perceptions of rachni behavior.
The Rachni Wars ended when the krogan supposedly drove the rachni to extinction. However, during the events of ME1 on Noveria, this genocide was revealed to be incomplete: Commander Shepard encounters a rachni queen, imprisoned by the villain of the game with the hope of breeding an army of soldier drones. If Shepard chooses to release her, she promises to remember and repay the kindness shown to her, and later games show that she makes good on her word.
This implies that there are still some free-living rachni somewhere in the galaxy, separate from the queen met on Noveria, and that the Reapers found and corrupted these rachni. The Leviathans are an ancient spacefaring aquatic species, each individual resembling an enormous squid or cuttlefish hundreds of meters long.
They were largely unknown to the modern galaxy, except as rumors and myths, until An unfathomably long time ago — a billion years into the past, or perhaps more — the Leviathans ruled the galaxy. They possess a natural talent for mind control , a talent which they put to work in enslaving all other complex life in the galaxy. Reaper indoctrination was probably inspired by this Leviathan ability. However, their thralls had enough autonomy that they still developed their own technology.
On multiple occasions, the thrall races developed AI technology, only to be destroyed by it. The Leviathans frowned on this, as a dead race brings no tribute. This AI came to be known as the Catalyst , as it was meant to be the catalyst for peace between organic and synthetic life. The Leviathans themselves were the first species to be Harvested, and the first Reaper Harbinger was constructed in their image. However, at least one pocket of Leviathans escaped, and their descendants survive in the oceans of Despoina to this day.
The Catalyst is an AI constructed by the Leviathans long ago. The Catalyst created the Reapers, and in some sense controls them. It lived for tens of thousands years at least! The Thorian had a unique form of mind control : the process was initiated via inhalation of spores over a period of weeks, then the Thorian began to telepathically monitor the subjects' thoughts and reward or punish them appropriately.
It would use its enthralled animals, especially intelligent life, to tend to its sprawling growth. This ability is one of the few forces capable of overriding Reaper indoctrination : Shiala, an indoctrinated asari, lives out the rest of her life on Feros free of Reaper control, living with the other colonists' thoughts always brushing up against the edge of her mind the lingering side effect of the Thorian's mind control. Adaptable pack hunters and scavengers, they breed rapidly and usually outcompete native wildlife when introduced to new planets.
Trained varren are frequently used by krogan and batarians as beasts of war. On the other hand, some people keep varren as pets. A thresher maw is an enormous worm-like burrowing carnivore native to Tuchanka , the krogan homeworld.
They have spread to many worlds beyond their original home because they reproduce by spores, and said spores are hardy enough to survive deep space and re-entry. The large ones can stand more than 30 meters tall when they choose to burst from the ground. Fans actually did not really meet a female Krogan until the third game.
Eva was a very fascinating and powerful character to chat with, but she is only one example of the women in her culture. Female Krogan have their own camps where they live and raise others. Shepard gets to go to a male-only camp, but never female.
It would have been interesting to see the differences between the two with our own eyes. All fans really know about Krogan clans is that there are a lot of them. It is never mentioned exactly how many but there are over 20 clans named in the series.
Every clan has its own traditions and rules. So it does make one wonder what sort of quirks and differences the clans have from each other. Another matter entirely is the size, how many members does each clan have anyway? Aliens in Mass Effect do not really speak English. Within the lore, everyone has a universal translator in their Omni-tools.
So, most to all of the words aliens say to humans are just immediately translated. General 7 Answers. Ask A Question. Browse More Questions.
Keep me logged in on this device. Forgot your username or password? Just curious. I know a few. Humans years Asari or could be more Krogan Centuries, but exact numbers? Vorcha 20 Drell 85 Salarians 40 Anybody have an idea about the rest? User Info: dragonx dragonx 11 years ago 2 I'm pretty sure Quarians live to around the same age as humans.
User Info: landwing landwing 11 years ago 3 Samara is about but she says she still has centuries left. User Info: Gamer4life Gamer4life 11 years ago 4 i probably missed something from the codex or something in either of the ME games but User Info: Gamer4life Gamer4life 11 years ago 6 "Advancements in medical science.
User Info: sth sth 11 years ago 7 Humans, Turians, and Quarians all live to roughly years old. User Info: PsyrenCall PsyrenCall 11 years ago 8 Unless specified otherwise, all races share the same life expectancy of humans.
User Info: landwing landwing 11 years ago 9 When romancing Liara, Shepard says we're short lived, we be lucky to make it to
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