Reminds me of Jorge from Halo: Reach. Gave his life to set off a bomb that would destroy a ship threatening his homeworld. Less then a minute later, a new fleet of Covenant ships drop out of FTL.
Why is Liara so surprised at Javik's info? The Prothean empire spanned the whole galaxy, it would be strange if they hadn't interfered in some way in asari history.
Not to mention the Athame murals at the temple and her Prothean body. Did no one figure it out before Mass Effect 2 that that's what Protheans looked like?
***** But the scientists can only give out a rough estimate of the info we know, and same should go for the asari. Most of the asari that lived in those prothean years are dead, not to mention that they lacked enough intelligence to figure out about the goddess actually being protheans.
they possibly learned about the protheans from info in the citadel.Their records were in there and i think reapers did not deleted it so they might have thought this was created by them
There was also a line when youre heading to outpost Tyris or Tykis or something Liara - "this is a nightmare" Shepard - "we get to that artifact and we can all wake up!" Javik - "50 000 years later"
+Captain Gray ...Nope. People dont reproduce at the end of their life. Thats like saying "if something happened 750 years ago, its only 10 human generations, because humans today live 75 years average". Since asari enter in the "want-to-be-mother" stage at the age of 350, it probably happened 150 generations ago, at least
***** What i meant was that one generation Asari lives for around 1000 years, when they die a new generation lives for 1000 years, and so on. You see, the way i count this should be pretty obvious. I do not count the "generations" that lived between the year 1 and 1000 in a single Asari's lifetime, if we did then we would have to take EVERY Asari into count, because there are new Asari born every day, every month, every year. So counting a generation the way you do is pretty hard and very inaccurate at best.
Captain Gray ...But is the human definition of "generation", the time betwen 0 and the average time people reproduce (chaging to the "next generation". So the "hard and inaccurate" at the end is actually... inaccurate. I cant say "people are bad", and when someone answers saying "there are multiple types of people", I say "oh, but my definition is different that yours, people only means *this* group of people in particular, because your definition is inaccurate". I didnt wanted to correct anybody, I was just saying that, if you are going to measure time using "generations", you are doing it wrong. If you want to measure it in "lifespan", just use that word. PD: And how its "hard" to measure time in that way? The game gives you all the stages in asari`s life. In fact, i just did it in the first comment.
Asari have psychological development stages, including the Matron stage where they fully mature and have a desire to reproduce. A lot of the Wild child stuff you see with younger Asari's are a biological thing in the Maiden stage based on Curiousity and restlessness. Matron stage usually begins around 350 years but can be triggered earlier if the individual melds frequently. We also have to assume before ftl that they had to reproduce at a consistent rate to maintain resources. Thats also not taking into account longevity before proper technology, though longevity might have to be inferred by such a late mating stage. TL;DR It could be anywhere from 50 generations to 142 generations.
Javik is so savage sometimes. “This describes how we were taught the seasons so and grow crops” Javik: “we didn’t want you to starve” “you could only count up to your toes once. We took pity.”
This was an interesting part that gave data in the Mass Effect universe, kind of ironic similar to this planet where god and god(s) in religion are actually extraterrestrials. It must be annoying playing this on the x-box with the contacts going online interrupting your gameplay.
No, Javik absorbed the knowledge of human history and language when he first met Shepard. He even says it himself. The reason Shepard could comprehend him in the flashbacks before that was because of the Prothean cipher.
+I bims This has nothing to do with the in-game lore. sarastian is saying from the game developers point of view, they are referencing Athena as the Asari's goddess.
Actually, the Prothean VI was talking about Kai Leng, not Shepard. If Shepard WAS indoctrinated, the VI would have said that right off the bat. But he didn't. INDOCTRINATION THEORY DISPROVED.
Agent Washington Hence the term Fission Mailed. It's not a typo, but an actual trope. The failure is necessary to advance the plot. Here's a more technical explanation: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FissionMailed
And just like that the indoctrination theory is dead: since the artifical intelligence detected the presence of an indoctrination and immediately shut off, if shepard was indoctrinated, the AI would have turned off already
J4kTh3RIpp3r I know this is 4 years later but in the video explaining the indoctrination theory, the guy says that Shepard became fully indoctrinated when he chose either the Control or Synthesis ending. By having the option to destroy the Reapers meant that Shepard was not fully indoctrinated. Kai Leng, however, was.
things that are fucking ugly: -armax arsenal shoulder guards -any armor from kassa fabrication -sniper rilfe's level 5 scope -each and every customized shepard face.
+spagetti001 at least it proves that they are after performance and not aesthetic; same applies to armors with pre built helmets. Not saying I don't agree with you it's just that after ME1 I can't see beauty in stuff anyway
yeah i had just played this part earlier today. something told me to bring Javik on this mission with Liara and my instincts were right on. I played ME3 the first time last year without an import or DLC. now this year im playing it again with ME2 import and DLC and its like playing a whole new game! SO MANY differences! so glad i got into the series
City is literally burning around they need to find the artifact and exfil as fast as possible, so what does Shepard do, touches every single artifact and stop and listens to a conversation between a prothean and an asari
Thanks for this! I played with Garrus like always, Javik couldn't enter because of Liara, and just realised it would have nice to play with Javik. Indeed, it was!
ya know what would make a great screenshot or background? pause at 0:02, right where Javik is about to check out the war zone and replace his current gun with a Prothean beam rifle and equip it with an Omni tool Blade, I've tried it and it looked badass :)
I'm surprised that Bioware didn't necessarily pursue those ideas but it makes sense since the Prothean cycle ended way before the establishment of Catholicism, Judaism, etc. It would have been interesting but it would likely piss off a bunch of people who are deeply routed to their religion.
Thanks for uploading this. When I saw the Prothean cave drawings I was like, "Damn, I knew I should've brought along Javik." I didn't have to restart just to see what he would say. So thanks again for this upload.
Mass effect 3 is such a great game.. i remember playing it and feeling anxiety a the reaper pushing trough the galaxy.. It would have been so great to build the crucible and use it to wipe the invaders somehow in a great battle.. Damn Mass effect.. i miss ya :
I regretted not bringing him on thessia but Garrus had interesting feedback as well. Still, can't help but love Javik knocking Liara down a peg. She's a good character but still very naive and idealistic to see the truth. She may be knowledgeable about the Protheans but it seems she isn't as smart as her reputation may suggest. Being the daughter of a Matriarch has it's perks ;)
I don't think it's that Liara isn't smart as she seems. I think it's more that admitting to yourself that your people basically had everything handed to them on a silver platter is kind of a hard pill to swallow.
So glad you made this. I didn't use the Prothean for this mission and seriously regretted it knowing I missed a lot of good dialogue AND forget to same right before to redo it...
Shepard's goal was to destroy the Reapers. When she's atop the Crucible, make a right. Mission accomplished. The others are there to present options for Shepards that may not want to destroy the Reapers. The Illusive Man was rather convincing and the Catalyst assured Shepard that she could control the Reapers. In addition, the Catalyst explains that synthesis is the clear winner and should be picked in all circumstances. It made perfect sense to me then and it still does now.
Very little is different. On my first playthrough I had Garrus along with Liara. Liara steps in at the beginning to get Kurin to let you through. Garrus makes the connection of Athame resembling a prothean. The only real change is all the background info of how the Protheans helped the Asari.
I found it strange how without Javik no one remarked about how much the godesss's looked like Protheans, Liara and Sheperd knew that Collectors were Protheans.
I wasn’t looking for the whole Easter egg or wikied it something. I brought Garrus with me as always, but as soon as we said something about Pothean artifact to the lieutenant, I restarted the whole mission just to see what Javik will react to that. Best restart ever did.
I would assume the Asari knew how to activate the AI somewhere around that 50,000 years, and the VI would likely actively work with the Asari like the protheans. So that means the Asari knew about about the reapers were coming, and they did nothing.
The Cipher is the understanding of the prothean language, the green asari on Feros gives it to Shepard in ME1, and the asari got it from the Thorean, the plant being that devoured and absorbed the dead bodies of the protheans.
It's the Reapers who created and gave the species Mass Relays and the Citadel. It's only fit that as they are destroyed/rid off/gone, their creations and technology go as well
9:42 the best answer for Javik. I feel like doing this mission over again just to being Javik, I totally forgot what the missions was about (which is a good thing). It's only right, I mean I waited till I had Kaiden to go to Eden prime.
they are not the Human or the Vulcan from Star trek whom enforce the Prime Directive of non interfering with Civilisations who have no yet developed interstellar travel
Even though having Javik for Thessia feels borderline mandatory, it ALSO makes absolutely zero sense how he knows these things. Javik was exclusively a soldier; and he left all the thinking to the scientists, most of which were already dead or in hiding by his time. When Javik was born, the Reaper war was already coming to its conclusion, having irreparably shattered the Prothean Empire and now just weeding out the last Protheans planet by planet. By Javik's own admission, early on in the war, all studies on primitive species was halted and abandoned to avoid drawing the Reaper attention to the next cycle's species, in hopes they could potentially fight back one day. Which also means by the time Javik was born, ANYTHING that had to do with the Protheans helping the Asari would have taken place centuries, if not thousands of years ago, and had since been abandoned, with all scientists working on it likely dead or missing. And as an Avatar fighting on the front lines, specifically the Avatar of Vengeance, there's not a chance he was educated on life before the Reapers with an intergalactic genocide taking place.
"Let's make sure the galaxy knows the war was won on Thessia!"
About an hour later, Thessia is completely destroyed.
Not to mention a few seconds after that she just shuts the door behind you and let’s you deal with the enemies that way
Reminds me of Jorge from Halo: Reach. Gave his life to set off a bomb that would destroy a ship threatening his homeworld. Less then a minute later, a new fleet of Covenant ships drop out of FTL.
Destroyed? THEY GOT FUCKED.
So all of the Asari "goddesses" were Prothean. What's next, Jesus Christ was a Salarian?
No he was krogan
@@presleybeckley6009 rofl
Well, He was (mostly) a pacifist, so definitely not Turian
@@presleybeckley6009 no wonder he’s be so eager to turn the other cheek, would be a super troll move for a Krogan.
I feel like Javik was designed to be a main part of the game, but was later locked behind a $15 price tag.
I'm still mad Javik was only DLC.
What do you expect, EA are greedy bastards.
YES
i mean, of course i got all the dlc for the 3 games, but Javik dlc, Leviathan... so much vital info and lore that is not part of the core game...
What's worst is that the from ash dlc was already in the game just locked behind dlc code.
Well maybe the remaster will allow a new generation to experience the full lore of the game without the DLC hurdles.
@@falcore91 yes. It has been confirmed.
I only brought Javik to Thessia because his reeve ability for the damn Banshees. And he turned out to be the best choice for this mission, plot-wise.
Why is Liara so surprised at Javik's info? The Prothean empire spanned the whole galaxy, it would be strange if they hadn't interfered in some way in asari history.
Not to mention the Athame murals at the temple and her Prothean body. Did no one figure it out before Mass Effect 2 that that's what Protheans looked like?
Denial. Also, I'm not sure about this but how would the asari even remember the Prothean species after 50 000 years?
Jass Jake They live around a thousand years so it wouldnt be any different than how we know B.C.2000s
***** But the scientists can only give out a rough estimate of the info we know, and same should go for the asari. Most of the asari that lived in those prothean years are dead, not to mention that they lacked enough intelligence to figure out about the goddess actually being protheans.
they possibly learned about the protheans from info in the citadel.Their records were in there and i think reapers did not deleted it so they might have thought this was created by them
There was also a line when youre heading to outpost Tyris or Tykis or something
Liara - "this is a nightmare"
Shepard - "we get to that artifact and we can all wake up!"
Javik - "50 000 years later"
when you think about it; it was 50 000 years ago that the Prothean died out.
thats "only" 50 asari generations...
+Captain Gray ...Nope. People dont reproduce at the end of their life. Thats like saying "if something happened 750 years ago, its only 10 human generations, because humans today live 75 years average". Since asari enter in the "want-to-be-mother" stage at the age of 350, it probably happened 150 generations ago, at least
*****
What i meant was that one generation Asari lives for around 1000 years, when they die a new generation lives for 1000 years, and so on.
You see, the way i count this should be pretty obvious. I do not count the "generations" that lived between the year 1 and 1000 in a single Asari's lifetime, if we did then we would have to take EVERY Asari into count, because there are new Asari born every day, every month, every year. So counting a generation the way you do is pretty hard and very inaccurate at best.
Captain Gray ...But is the human definition of "generation", the time betwen 0 and the average time people reproduce (chaging to the "next generation". So the "hard and inaccurate" at the end is actually... inaccurate.
I cant say "people are bad", and when someone answers saying "there are multiple types of people", I say "oh, but my definition is different that yours, people only means *this* group of people in particular, because your definition is inaccurate".
I didnt wanted to correct anybody, I was just saying that, if you are going to measure time using "generations", you are doing it wrong. If you want to measure it in "lifespan", just use that word.
PD: And how its "hard" to measure time in that way? The game gives you all the stages in asari`s life. In fact, i just did it in the first comment.
+Captain Gray you clearly don't understand how generations work, they aren't measured in lifetimes
Asari have psychological development stages, including the Matron stage where they fully mature and have a desire to reproduce. A lot of the Wild child stuff you see with younger Asari's are a biological thing in the Maiden stage based on Curiousity and restlessness. Matron stage usually begins around 350 years but can be triggered earlier if the individual melds frequently. We also have to assume before ftl that they had to reproduce at a consistent rate to maintain resources. Thats also not taking into account longevity before proper technology, though longevity might have to be inferred by such a late mating stage.
TL;DR It could be anywhere from 50 generations to 142 generations.
Javik the Trollthean,
the only living Prothean,
from a race long extinct,
to be a troll is his instinct
Javik is the ultimate troll
Javik is so savage sometimes. “This describes how we were taught the seasons so and grow crops”
Javik: “we didn’t want you to starve” “you could only count up to your toes once. We took pity.”
And yet somehow Javik, a mainly military role, is intimately familiar with the peaceful cultural history of one specific species
"Let's get inside!"
*runs in place*
"It appears the temple has been barricaded."
"Oh. :("
Well, Javik's presence seems just a bit important. Too important to leave him out as a DLC
" Your species was deemed to have potential...pity you didn't live up to it"
Shepherd: I guess these are our scientists.
Javik: Actually, these are...
Did Liara just use the word "literally" CORRECTLY? Mind = blown.
Is your Shepard the lead singer of Smashmouth?
SpazzyMcGee1337 "Commander, how did you find out about the Reaper threat?"
"SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME"
@@RepKyle95 roflmaooooooooooooooo
"Which answer would you prefer?"
Harsh, dude...
Shepard: What's this?
Liara: Oh, that is the...
Javik: WRONG!!!!
This was an interesting part that gave data in the Mass Effect universe, kind of ironic similar to this planet where god and god(s) in religion are actually extraterrestrials. It must be annoying playing this on the x-box with the contacts going online interrupting your gameplay.
Wow, seems like Javik is a pretty crucial character to have here... well, makes perfect sense to make him a DLC...
Asari voiced by Laura Bailey: "PLUG THAT HOLE!!!"
... need I say it?
I cant help it; I like Javik. He's so unapologetically himself and unabashed with the truth. He's cool as hell.
"or it could be the prothean standing next to you.."
No, Javik absorbed the knowledge of human history and language when he first met Shepard. He even says it himself. The reason Shepard could comprehend him in the flashbacks before that was because of the Prothean cipher.
9:36-9:39
"By the goddess...literally"
One of Liara's best lines ever
I assume the Asari goddess Atheen is based off of Athena, the Greek goddess.
+sarcastian Well the Asari homeworld is in the Athena Nebula so that's a fairly logical deduction.
FallenEpic Ah! how interesting! Thanks for pointing that out
+I bims
This has nothing to do with the in-game lore. sarastian is saying from the game developers point of view, they are referencing Athena as the Asari's goddess.
"or it could be the prothean standing next to you." lol! XD
"OH MY GOD !"
"Please, primitive one, call me Javik."
Actually, the Prothean VI was talking about Kai Leng, not Shepard. If Shepard WAS indoctrinated, the VI would have said that right off the bat. But he didn't. INDOCTRINATION THEORY DISPROVED.
This mission is so depressing..
Probably one of the best cases of Fission Mailed in the series.
jgkitarel Mission failed...and technically, you don't fail any given objective, but you undoubtably fail to save Thessia.
I think that's the Rannoch Reaper a depressing boss fight -_-(my opinnion,no offense)
Agent Washington Hence the term Fission Mailed. It's not a typo, but an actual trope. The failure is necessary to advance the plot. Here's a more technical explanation: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FissionMailed
That doesn't meant I wish I could've saved the place..
And just like that the indoctrination theory is dead: since the artifical intelligence detected the presence of an indoctrination and immediately shut off, if shepard was indoctrinated, the AI would have turned off already
J4kTh3RIpp3r I know this is 4 years later but in the video explaining the indoctrination theory, the guy says that Shepard became fully indoctrinated when he chose either the Control or Synthesis ending. By having the option to destroy the Reapers meant that Shepard was not fully indoctrinated. Kai Leng, however, was.
things that are fucking ugly:
-armax arsenal shoulder guards
-any armor from kassa fabrication
-sniper rilfe's level 5 scope
-each and every customized shepard face.
So true about the kassa fabrication armor, my custom shepard takes ugly to a whole new level
+spagetti001 at least it proves that they are after performance and not aesthetic; same applies to armors with pre built helmets.
Not saying I don't agree with you it's just that after ME1 I can't see beauty in stuff anyway
+spagetti001 It's very hard to make a decent looking custom face in mass effect 3. The character creation in ME3 is terrible, more so than ME1.
+spagetti001 it may be ugly, but i annihilate reapers
+spagetti001 you'd think so from the youtube videos. My Sheperd looks cool.
yeah i had just played this part earlier today. something told me to bring Javik on this mission with Liara and my instincts were right on.
I played ME3 the first time last year without an import or DLC. now this year im playing it again with ME2 import and DLC and its like playing a whole new game! SO MANY differences! so glad i got into the series
City is literally burning around they need to find the artifact and exfil as fast as possible, so what does Shepard do, touches every single artifact and stop and listens to a conversation between a prothean and an asari
Man, I'm glad I brought him along and looked at every artifact.
"They have earned their right to try"
When he said that it felt like we really did
I love how Javik is so pessimistic XD
8:00 - That sound as Shepard reached his hand towards the statue...chills, every time.
"we did not want you starve" lol
Thanks for this! I played with Garrus like always, Javik couldn't enter because of Liara, and just realised it would have nice to play with Javik. Indeed, it was!
ya know what would make a great screenshot or background?
pause at 0:02, right where Javik is about to check out the war zone and replace his current gun with a Prothean beam rifle and equip it with an Omni tool Blade, I've tried it and it looked badass :)
but i need HD 4K resolution
Shepard: Slow down, Captain Planet. If you want me to put my ass on the line, I-need-you-bring-me-females-with-hairy-jungles-down-south.
Ho-ho-yeah ;)
Kurin: ...But we're all hairless.
I'm surprised that Bioware didn't necessarily pursue those ideas but it makes sense since the Prothean cycle ended way before the establishment of Catholicism, Judaism, etc. It would have been interesting but it would likely piss off a bunch of people who are deeply routed to their religion.
I was so glad when I brought Javik along with me. Liara got several levels of TOLD right there.
Thanks for uploading this. When I saw the Prothean cave drawings I was like, "Damn, I knew I should've brought along Javik." I didn't have to restart just to see what he would say. So thanks again for this upload.
Mass effect 3 is such a great game.. i remember playing it and feeling anxiety a the reaper pushing trough the galaxy.. It would have been so great to build the crucible and use it to wipe the invaders somehow in a great battle.. Damn Mass effect.. i miss ya :
I replayed this part just because of Javik. Best choice
"We're building a Prothean superweapon, it will win this war." EA: "Nope."
Javik is awesome...he explains the bitter truth like it or not.
Good to know Moldy Joe's online :D
“Find your resolve; this war can end if you do.”
That line goes so hard
I actually really recommend the DLC. Javik adds so much to the Mass Effect mythos. He's a very fascinating character to have around, too.
"Or it could be the Prothean standing next to you."
I regretted not bringing him on thessia but Garrus had interesting feedback as well.
Still, can't help but love Javik knocking Liara down a peg. She's a good character but still very naive and idealistic to see the truth. She may be knowledgeable about the Protheans but it seems she isn't as smart as her reputation may suggest.
Being the daughter of a Matriarch has it's perks ;)
I don't think it's that Liara isn't smart as she seems. I think it's more that admitting to yourself that your people basically had everything handed to them on a silver platter is kind of a hard pill to swallow.
And the Asari wondered why I was amused by the fact that they had learnt to write
Mass effect the only game I got into so deeply XD Can't wait for the new one.
so, did you enjoy andromeda? :p
So glad you made this. I didn't use the Prothean for this mission and seriously regretted it knowing I missed a lot of good dialogue AND forget to same right before to redo it...
The Protheans are Ancient Africans.
Thanks for uploading this
That Shepard looks like a marijuana user lol
Stoppp🤣😂
The cipher is the thing that asari gives you on Feros
Shepard's goal was to destroy the Reapers. When she's atop the Crucible, make a right. Mission accomplished. The others are there to present options for Shepards that may not want to destroy the Reapers. The Illusive Man was rather convincing and the Catalyst assured Shepard that she could control the Reapers. In addition, the Catalyst explains that synthesis is the clear winner and should be picked in all circumstances. It made perfect sense to me then and it still does now.
Very little is different. On my first playthrough I had Garrus along with Liara. Liara steps in at the beginning to get Kurin to let you through. Garrus makes the connection of Athame resembling a prothean. The only real change is all the background info of how the Protheans helped the Asari.
I found it strange how without Javik no one remarked about how much the godesss's looked like Protheans, Liara and Sheperd knew that Collectors were Protheans.
Shepard: So the asari based their technology on the Protheans?
Javik: Throw them out the airlock commander.
your shepard looks so lame
I wasn’t looking for the whole Easter egg or wikied it something. I brought Garrus with me as always, but as soon as we said something about Pothean artifact to the lieutenant, I restarted the whole mission just to see what Javik will react to that. Best restart ever did.
only the sentinel has tech armour
Considering how much of a troll Javik is, I have to wonder whether any of this is actually true...
In the end... jesus was also prothean.
Shepard wasn't completely indoctrinated, he had been going through the process of it. But resisted.
Videos like this just remind me that Javik really should have been included in the main game.
i loved this, i brought javik and did every single one of the scenes and it had me laughing because of the things he said.
Mass effect 3 is the best mass effect, despite the lackluster final stage.
Javik is the best troll I've ever seen lol
Javik should work for History Channel
So basically the asari screwed over the rest of the galaxy just so they could maintain their “superiority”.
My mistake.
I loved the fact that I took both Liara and Javik on this mission. It seemed so right, I can't imagine it with any other characters.
Imagine Javik watching Ancient Aliens.
Any different between using Javik or kaiden in this mission? we still lost?
Thanks for making such a crucial character a DLC, rEApers and bioware.
I would assume the Asari knew how to activate the AI somewhere around that 50,000 years, and the VI would likely actively work with the Asari like the protheans. So that means the Asari knew about about the reapers were coming, and they did nothing.
by the way i love your attitude in this video while playing, "okay, the church is open... better reload my gun" haha
The Cipher is the understanding of the prothean language, the green asari on Feros gives it to Shepard in ME1, and the asari got it from the Thorean, the plant being that devoured and absorbed the dead bodies of the protheans.
Meanwhile Garrus continues his unending cycle of Calibrations
And just like that, single Prothean destroys whole religion of over dozen billion Asari in few minutes.
It's the Reapers who created and gave the species Mass Relays and the Citadel. It's only fit that as they are destroyed/rid off/gone, their creations and technology go as well
The Asari was the Prothean's favorite baby sister ❤️
9:42 the best answer for Javik. I feel like doing this mission over again just to being Javik, I totally forgot what the missions was about (which is a good thing). It's only right, I mean I waited till I had Kaiden to go to Eden prime.
Javik, King of the Trolls
lucien- goddes damn you javik, you've blown my cover, and i enjoyed the special treatment...
Ancient Alien theory baby. In Halo, Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, and Star Wars. And many, many more.
Damn, those Protheans did not care about the Primary Directive at all...
they are not the Human or the Vulcan from Star trek whom enforce the Prime Directive of non interfering with Civilisations who have no yet developed interstellar travel
a higher power doesn't mean god. it has nothing to do with religion. a higher power could be dark matter. religion is a belief in magic.
Read Liaras dialogue here 8:02
It's better to have Javik on the mission because he reveals so much to Liara and it opens up new things
Javik... The last remaining Trollthian...
Even though having Javik for Thessia feels borderline mandatory, it ALSO makes absolutely zero sense how he knows these things. Javik was exclusively a soldier; and he left all the thinking to the scientists, most of which were already dead or in hiding by his time. When Javik was born, the Reaper war was already coming to its conclusion, having irreparably shattered the Prothean Empire and now just weeding out the last Protheans planet by planet. By Javik's own admission, early on in the war, all studies on primitive species was halted and abandoned to avoid drawing the Reaper attention to the next cycle's species, in hopes they could potentially fight back one day. Which also means by the time Javik was born, ANYTHING that had to do with the Protheans helping the Asari would have taken place centuries, if not thousands of years ago, and had since been abandoned, with all scientists working on it likely dead or missing. And as an Avatar fighting on the front lines, specifically the Avatar of Vengeance, there's not a chance he was educated on life before the Reapers with an intergalactic genocide taking place.
Unless he used that memory shard of his (a bit) beforehand.
And the three dominant races that came before them.
dude, these dialogue lines are pretty insane.