Prothean
The Prothean are an advanced species that mysteriously vanished in the Mass Effect universe.
History
This humanoid race developed on their homeworld where they were a society of hunters that developed numerous biological advantages such as learning through scent alone. Following their achievement of spaceflight, they discovered the ruins of a much older previous civilization known as the inusannon. From these ruins, the Protheans developed a mastery over mass effect and FTL technology which they used to forge an empire in the stars. In time, they quickly managed to spread throughout the galaxy through the use of the Mass Relay network and eventually turned the Citadel into their capital. Historical and archaeological records of this time indicated that the Protheans were the only star farring race in this time though this was actually inaccurate as there were numerous other such species that inhabited this epoch. These included the oravores, zha, densorin, ditakur, synril, enduromi, vandomar, tulomorian and the vanksher. During this era, the Protheans witnessed the zha modify themselves with an artificial intelligence that eventually became hostile that eventually took control of their creators. This new machine race became known as the Zha'til who threatened to overwhelm the Prothean Empire. Thus, the Protheans united all the galaxy's sentient organic life under the rule of their empire in order to defeat this threat. This was the reason why later historical records led scientists to believe that the Protheans were the only race in their time as all their inducted subject species became known as Protheans. Those organic races that resisted the Protheans were crushed whilst the servant races were assimilated into the Prothean culture. Through this means, their empire managed to resist the Zha'til in the Metacon War.
Following this time, the Protheans learnt of the existence of an ancient race of machines known as the Reapers that were responsible for numerous cycles of extinction of organic races. This was achieved by the studying of the ruins of other such extinquished civilizations. Their studies also revealed the existence of an ancient weapon known as the Crucible that was developed by these extinct older races and improved upon by their successors. With it, the Protheans began to attempt to develop a countermeasure by using these designs. At the same time, the Protheans were known to had formed alternative measures in case their primary plan failed. This involved an extensive observation program on the primitive younger primitive races whichincluded the asari, hanar, humans, salarians and the turians. Among their achievements included the deflection of an asteroid sent towards Thessia by the oravores that was remembered in asari mythology as the act of their goddess Athame. The aim of this initiative was for select Protheans to survive the Reaper purge and emerge in the new cycle in order to unite these younger races to form a new empire to finally defeat the Reapers.
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