Found a plot segment which really caught me last night.

If you haven't been on a fleshy ship, or don't know what I mean by fleshy ship, don't read the following
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That's what happened to the Protheans!? Argh! The Enkindlers, the forebears, the mighty and advanced race of legend became the Collectors?!

So while Ilos watched the lights of their civilisation blink out one by one, and dwindled away into dust trapped in cold sleep, others were collected up and turned into mutated freaks with the sole purpose of enslaving whatever intelligent life might come next.

Vigil's story was one of my favourite parts of ME1. Cliche, yes, but touching, and I did love the execution of it. A single half broken VI was all that remained of a race considered to be gods by many in the current world.This carried that tale on in a way that was hinted at during the first game (the Keepers being remnants of a former race tamed by the Reapers). I should have seen it coming. I did not.

You know, I think this barely told, fragmentory story is one of the saddest tales I have seen told in an RPG.


More than anything else that one little segment demonstrated what's at stake.