It took a long time, but quarians did what Reapers couldn’t do: co-exist with the creatures they stewarded. In Mass Effect 3, it’s possible to broker a deal between the geth and the quarians where they rebuild their shared homeworld together. This hive mind of artificial intelligence were never supposed to be more than servants to the quarians, but as they began to think deeper, the two species couldn’t share a homeworld. But the suits show quarian scientists’ determination and resourcefulness. Some germs can kill a quarian, but they’d have to go through a shield of technology first.Īnother proof of their not so hidden badassery? The quarians created the geth. They’re not a point of pride, but rather something that quarians long to escape. Sure, quarians’ suits were created out of a need to defend against disease, not for war like Shepard’s armor. Tali and her father are inventors and researchers, because of both individual smarts and a species-wide close experience with machines.Īnother thing that sets quarians apart are their sealed suits. Tali, the series’ most famous quarian, even remarks that she has trouble sleeping if she can’t hear the sound of an engine. Quarians lived for hundreds of years on spaceships, becoming used to self-sustaining synthetic ecosystems. The diaspora continued, and shaped the quarian race which Shepard would come to know.įor example, their technical ability increased out of necessity. The distrust expressed by other species in the galaxy towards the quarians sometimes mirrors the real world treatment of Romani (more often known by the derogatory name Gypsies) The council demanded that they leave the planet, and the quarians moved on again. The quarians made some active attempts to find a new world on which to live. They ran into trouble with the Citadel Council when they attempted to colonize a planet called Ekuna, but sent several thousand of their members to the planet’s surface before the council agreed. The quarians were forced to flee the planet under threat of extinction. Then they got greedy and created AI slaves known as “geth.” The geth, becoming a powerful hive mind beyond their masters’ control, turned on the quarians and took Rannoch for themselves. They had a standing army and average weapons technology, and liaised with the Citadel Council.

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