Mass Effect Lore: The First Contact War
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- Опубликовано: 17 апр 2021
- This week in our Mass Effect lore series, Jordan delves into The First Contact War between humans and Turians. It may happen before the events of the Mass Effect trilogy, but it's a key event that sets the stage for humanity's place in the galaxy in Mass Effect 1.
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I think if they ever made a film in the Mass effect universe it should be on the first contact war. A really strong but isolated story that's could be epic in scope, pleasing to fans but also friendly to newcomers to the franchise.
The First Contact War is more of a show material. They could nail a 1 season, 10 episodes show if they really wanted to.
So true!
One of Shepard's backstories might be more appropriate
@@sowhat249 ya I was first thinking of a movie but you have a point it likely would do great as tv series. Just hope Netflix will not take it because though it will be great, they likely will cancel it on a huge cliff hanger (and not the reapers cliff hanger)
@@OGR-4394 the skyllian Blitz may be a good movie candidate
Just a testament how Garrus is the best bro. Your races were former enemies yet you two becomes one of the best Bros in the whole galaxy.
Garrus is a badass
Hell yeah Garris is my boy
Normandy build by turians and humans for the deadliest turian and human sniperteam, the galaxy has to offer. My shep is always an infiltrator, both only use sniperrifle, even for close combat. The other random companion always tries hard to keep up to get at least one single kill in a whole mission, while garrus and shep nailing one headshot after the other.
@@BlackAge2k I love being inflitrator
_Best bro? I wooed and dated him lol_
Narrator: Humans faced extreme prejudice for years
Tali and Wrex: OH HOW BAD FOR YOU
For an "Alliance", there's an amazing amount of racism from everyone towards everybody.
@@Leon_der_Luftige lol... it seems like it was always doomed to fail, so make as many allies as possible.
@@spiderz5145 I just find it weird that all those species not represented in the councel accepted that fact just like that. I mean they could have united and strike or something. The Alliance has a bitter flair of USSR if you ask me.
@@Leon_der_Luftige because they all dependent or has their own problem to dealt with. citadel races like volus is client state for turians, drell face extinction until hanar save 300k remaining drell and let them live in their homeworld, hanar and elcor military is small.
non citadel races like krogan fight among them selves and face genophage, quarians busy to fight for their homeland againts geth, vorcha is too violent with no central goverment, batarian? no body likes them.
not to mention turians, asari, and salarians basically a superpower with massive fleet. no way they can win a war againts them.
@@knmaherijayatp8181 Yeah but still.
Might as well leave the alliance when you got 99 problems and an oppressive system that does not help you in any way as your 100th problem on top.
Mass Effect could go so deep into games with all this lore
Yeah especially when Jack Harper (Illusive Man) still moving around and kicking some turian's ass 😂
Instead we got a reboot in a new galaxy that had dialogue that sounded like it was written by Joss Whedon with TBI
@@Lunchbox224 MeH FuCe Iz TiErD hhRrhr DeErRrR end credits.
@@Lunchbox224 Andromeda is what happens when you hire a bunch of Tumblr douche bags to write a AAA title
@@Lunchbox224 It's the fan's fault there. The devs pitched a prequel game around the first contact war but then scrapped it because of a fan voted poll they did on twitter.
I like the Elkor (I think that's the name...) The guys who bluntly state their emotions before speaking because they have no other way of expressing them that humans and others can pick up.
Thanks, one person that liked. You have good taste :)
(Sincere approval) I have given you a like, human.
(codescending tone of voice) noob.
*genuine affection* it is good to be noticed :)
With honest politeness: It is "elcor", actually.
Ironic musing: Though I suppose that only matters if you use English. In elcor native script it is something very different.
Mass Effect worldbuilding is second to none in video game history. Dragon Age is right up there, too. Amazing what Bioware was able to create in their prime. Two incredible worlds.
And then Mass Effect Andromeda happen.
cough cough... Halo.
@@kamilpotato3764 yea not even close. Good try
@@Lee86THUNDER Far better lore in Halo than Mass Effect.
Bioware got with EA for ME2...then shit got weird IMO....ME3 is OK but it feels off a bit
Man I can't wait to re-immerse myself into all this plethora of lore on May 15th.
whats on may 15th?
@@visceraeyes525 release of Mass Effect Trilogy remaster
Um mass effect remastered collection come out may 14th on Friday not may 15th Saturday at all
The Drell have to be one of the most interesting species to me. They have such a unique set of capabilities due to their culture and the symbiotic relationship they have with the Hanar further adds to their allure.
Man I hope Bioware has a really great story in place for ME4, cause Shepard fight against the Reapers was Super Tier!
The fourth Mass Effect was actually released four years ago.
@@Patte-chan Haha you funny!
@@NRV0 but it was? Andromeda is Mass Effect 4
@@danieltravelstead Sure, and Assassins Creed 3 is really 4. Bioware has already explained why Andromeda isn't ME4.
@@danieltravelstead It wasn't. They've already said the next mass effect will be called Mass Effect 4.
Calling Andromeda Mass Effect 4 is like calling Star Wars: A Solo Story, Star Wars Episode 4.
I cant wait to play the remaster
0:22 the fact that Humans called it a war while the Turians called it an incident has to do, I think, more with the scale of the conflict than the underlaying philosophy differences between both species.
While it was an all out war for the relatively tiny and newcomer Human forces, for the Turians it was more of a skirmish - they could probably have wiped out the whole Human fleet if they treated it as a war (as it was escalating to be before the council intervened).
Definitely wanted to learn more about the Quarians. When I first played ME1 and was introduced to Tali. My mind raced with many questions. Why is she the only one of her species in the game? Why the heck did the Geth turn on their creators? Why did they create the Geth? What the heck is a Pilgrimage? Why can't I flirt with her!?
Because all the answers to your questions would be ME2 xD
"Why cant i flirt with her" this man is asking the real questions
I really feel sorry for the geth they are really the victims even now they want peace with their creator.
@@vitor022 During development of ME1, the developers didn't think that anyone would be interested in Tali so they didn't bother making her romancable. Then the fans strongly requested it and she became romancable in ME2. Garrus has the exact same story in that regard as well.
Ok you really should play the other ME games but *spoilers* :
- She's not, there are other Quarians thereabouts
- Quarians tried to destroy them all when they became sentient
- Initially for labour work and as soldiers
- A coming of age ritual, Quarians have to leave the Fleet and return with a gift
- Just because
The Quarrians are the most fascinating species for me, since the first encounter with Tali
I did too, with geth and everything was just awesome lore
They're pretty much my favorite alien race in the game
Second are the Elcor, they're usually just so nice
Quarrians were my least favorite of the main races. They just seemed absolutely incompetent after you learn about the Morning War.
I hate quarians but I hate the geths even more.
not gonna lie, when it comes to lore stuff, Templin Institute can and is doing an exemplary job at it.
Bruh Teplin is so on point. You want lore on anything from Halo to Star Wars to Trek to Mass Effect and even Ace Combat. And that girl sounds sexy af too.
The Templin Institute, Spacedock, Eckhardsladder, Wolf Lord Rho, Roanoke Gaming, Oculus Imperia, Wh40k Theories, Leutin, My Name is Byf. When I need lore, I go to these places.
@@marleyjr00 on the contrary, I want to kill myself because of how monotone their new narrator is
@@marleyjr00 Yep but sadly she got replaced.
damn straight, baby
Krogan, because of Urdnot's introduction in C-Sec. Best character intro ever!
My favorite introduction to a Krogan was Nakmor Drak's over in Andromeda
It’s crazy how much lore there is in mass effect if you take your time as you need to read most it
biggest impression for me were the Geth. A whole Race just being branded as Murder machines, when all they wanted was to live in Peace and realise their destiny resides in their own hand.
Edit: i also find it interesting that the Drell are so in need of other Race´s ships. Also the Elcor are fascinating as heck.
These videos make the wait for the legendary edition easier, thanks guys! :)
Tali's unique genius had me from the moment she offered up the geth memory as evidence against Saren. And I never get tired of visiting the flotilla in ME2!
If you guys are planning on doing these, I'd love to see one on the Skyllian Blitz.
Thank you for the video- I really missed all of this in the game lore, and it provided much needed background for me.
I loved the concept of the quarians and the collectors, personally hope they add in the multiplayer again for ME3, I loved playing all those different characters
This is a really good video to show first timers to get them familiar with the world, though I can also see it being a little overwhelming at first lol. I have a friend whose first time playing Mass Effect will be the remastered version, so thank you for somehow being able to condense the insanity of the ME back story in a matter of 10 minutes! Major kudos to that! She will love this!
What a well researched video, loved how y'all included other material other than the games as well. Gamespot is making a come back I swear.
I’ve heard of the first contact war and pretty much figured out what happened by the name. This was far more interesting than I though and I really hope for more of these videos.
thanks for building the hype for the remastered!! im so pumpd
This was really well explained, great job, and Thank You!
These lore videos are 🔥
So glad gamespot put these together ✨
This game will always have a special place in my heart. I grew up playing this saga and it really made me fascinated and thought-provoking about the milky way galaxy beyond our earth. It really made me wonder if our galaxy has other alien life forms besides us humans and whether they are intelligent or not. The existence of Reapers as an extraterrestrial machine really made me fear them as angry gods on annihilation path against all the intelligent species, which really shows how perfect the storytelling and lore the game delivered. Although the ending of the game was controversial, still I enjoyed every moment of this sci-fi masterpiece.
fun fact, that was not mentioned in the video. In ME 1 you can actually do some training missions and if you finished all of them, the leader of the acadamy offers you a special simulation, that actually takes part during the first contact war.
This dlc won't be in the remaster. RIP Pinnacle station.
I'm so incredibly excited about Mass Effects impending release tomorrow that I can barely contain myself. I just paid off both (my fiancee and I) our copies after the stellar reviews put out by independent reviewers today.
I love these gamer friendly videos!! Keep them coming!!!
I like how the conflict was deescelated instead of fought out till the end. In a lot of modern science fiction that is darker something good like that would not happen. In Mass Effect you have people who both as individuals and groups are worth fighting for.
I recently saw a RUclips video about the history of the series. They said something about being intentionally less dark than other sci-fi. I think they hit the sweet spot in this. A decent galaxy with bright and dark spots, diverse, and not totally moral or immoral.
if you want Mass Effect lore, MrHulthen is the place to go. Templin Institute is pretty alright too.
I like Mr Hulthen but man, he goes a bit head canon sometimes: even for a seasoned speculator like myself.
Mr hulthen? I can’t find any videos from him
Could you put a link to that channel? I looked it up & it didn't show up.
@@ivorysamoan he likes theorizing xD
yeehah, 2nd place
The council is like "Oh shit! There's gonna be an interstellar war! We gotta step in!"
Great lore video!
When I first played Mass Effect I was immediately drawn to Turians when I saw Nihlus and I was so sad he had to die. But then Garrus showed up and he become my biggest alien crush till today. xd
Wow, I didn't realize how "new" humanity was at the beginning of the trilogy.
It's like when you look up actual human history, and be it from WW2 , or ancient Egypt, it in the grand scheme of things, it basically has happened yesterday.
Thank you for this!
Need more of these!
Gotta love the Quarian lore, but my favorite has to be the Turian. Fell in love with Garrus' character when I first played ME1 way back when and could never shake my affinity for them since.
The HANAR Left me with the biggest first impression. I want to learn more about them cus they are not included enough imho.
My alien race I wanted to know more about was the Turians because of their military background and the fact of the first contact war which is why they are one of my favorite alien races of all time
Well explained. Got me a riled up for LE.
Ah yes, Ash. Thanks for reminding me who's getting bomb duty on Vermire.
She is trying hard to not be likeable.
I wish there was a mod where the bomb has her name written on it.
@@BlackAge2k
The pandemic is THE time to develop your modding skills 😜
I really don’t get why people hate her so much. Everything she said is virtually true and the most glaring example is the Reaper invasion. Most Turians openly show their disdain for Humans, Asaris talk shit about Humans and Salarians look down on Humans. She’s not racist, my Shepard is though.
@@basedkaiser5352 the main reason that i hate her is because she ninja romances you
Tali might not be the best wifu for everyone but every soul on earth agrees with the fact that Garrus is the best bro!
They should make prequel games that cover The Rachni War, the Krogan Rebellion, and the First Contact War.
Tali ❤️❤️❤️ she my fav. By far the best personality in the series. Deep, smart, funny, bold and her drone is kick ass.
Krogans always fascinated me
Yaaas beyond ready to hope back in this game world 😭
im glad to see mass effect still gets Attention
Mass Effect: First Contact. Would buy in an instant.
Such fascinating lore ! I love this Universe.
I’m so glad they released ME: Legendary Edition. I played the trilogy many times through and I wasn’t THAT young when I did. But I was young and it was many years ago that I last did a playthrough. My perception of the games has changed so much for the better as I’ve grown as a person. These games have aged like fine wine in my perspective.
For one thing I didn’t appreciate or pay enough attention to the lore of the world I guess when I was younger. Now I’m so into this world! I’m so into this lore! I didn’t realize the First Contact war was so recent. It wasn’t till ME:LE that I payed attention and realized I had spoken to many survivors of the war. I always just dismissed Ash Williams and Presley and others as egregiously racist xenophobes without considering how recent the context was for their feelings. I still don’t agree with them, but it does bring a level of understanding to how they got there.
But don’t you dare talk shit about my alien friends!!!!
So thats why Ashley was so edgy. Now I feel a bit bad letting her die on Virmire.
dude spoilers??
@@visceraeyes525 for a decade old game? Fuck outta here
@@polux5136 he may have not played it he was probably planning on playing the Legendary edition so stfu
@@xreznr163 And so he's going around Mass Effect lore videos? Yeah, real fucking smart.
The krogan for me. Wrex just immediately got my attention and I wanted to know everything about them.
I feel like the Turians violated rules of engagement by opening fire on the human survey fleet. Activating dormant mass relays is dangerous because no one knows what's on the other side and the last time someone activated a dormant relay, it led to a massive war; if the Turians had gone on an open channel and explained that, any and all bloodshed probably would've been avoided. Then again, it's debatable if the military-entertainment complex has EVER paid attention to rules of engagement.
I thought the Turians did not initially believe humans were a brand no galactic species? The Turians just thought they were terrorists or pirates. It wasn’t until the war actually began that they discovered the humans were a brand new galactic species
Never played ME1. Thanks for this!
The lore is quite complex, but didn't really pay attention last time was too busy pew pewing and enjoying the combat lol
Always wanted a first contact war game.
God I can't wait for the legacy collection to come out. I'm not having fun with any new games. I want my Mass Effect!!!
Cheers to a very important comment! Well said 🍺
The First Contact War, a war where the Humans weren't decimated out of the gate, launched a large counter-attack, which was like punching the Turians in the mouth and knocking out a tooth, and receiving the respect of the Turians, even though they wouldn't admit this for decades. All in all a good outcome for Humanity. And this all leads to one of the most beautiful ships in the universe being created through their joint efforts.
I really hope the next game series being worked on covers the first contact war.
Javik is someone I was excited to see since he was the last Prothian. He was hid behind Online DLC the first time. I can’t wait to play him and hear his dialogue on everything in M3LE.
Throw him out the airlock
Great history lesson.
I cant wait to return to this world once more.
Krogans. A prey species that turned into the dominant force on its home world, learned to co exist with massive sand worms, built massive architecture, and damn near killed themselves in nuclear holocaust. Only to be uplifted and used as tools of war. Then got too big for their britches when they demanded a bigger slice of the pie.
I liked Asari and Liara the most. What fascinated me about them was their diplomatic attitude, beauty, openness, wisdom and the fact they are so advanced, while being peaceful.
I don’t know why but turians immediately called my attention.I personally love their designs and voices. Garrus is my favorite but I like the csec officer in ME1 and nylus very cute xD
The krogans and drells are my favorites, I wish we could see more drells in the games.
Mass effect 4 should be set in the first contact war. That would be epic.
Personally I think that should be a spin off or somthing but both options sound like a good idea
The concepts and lore in the Mass Effect universe is unparalleled! So damn fantastic!
Halo comes pretty close tbf
They really need to make a new Mass Effect game in episodic fashion to where base game have you play 3 different points in mass effect history like you play as a hero in the first contact war and you see how the events of that played out. Next story is maybe you play as a Krogen and fight in the Rachni wars and then see what happens with with the genophage. maybe last story be how you play as a quarian and go through the geth creation and rebellion. Then new stories come out later about different history points in the lore you can explore
It's crazy this war only happens 30 years before the game. I thought it was 100 or so years
If it wasn’t for Ashley in ME1 I would think that too.
I started and only played mass effect andromeda, and the first race I saw that I said wow, was the krogan, I immediately wanted one to be in my crew, but when I met the angarians, I was amazed by their technology and all, I think they are the coolest for now
I've been fighting the urge to play Mass Effect until the remaster releases. Can't wait...
I was most curious about Turians specifically because of the First Contact War and the creation of the Normandy. I found it odd that Garrus didn't have a lot to say about it and didn't seem at all hesitant about joining and supporting Shepard. They were both young when it happened, but the game on multiple occasions gives you opportunities to be prejudiced specifically towards Turians. Maybe that prejudice was learned from their parents, but then couldn't that be true for Garrus? Were his parents not bigoted towards humans? It seems unlikely given what we know about Garrus' dad, a by-the-books guy who probably sees humans like his son, reckless and impatient. Maybe that's why Garrus forms such a close friendship and/or love with Shepard, he relates more to them than even other Turians. Then again, in the first game if he gets really ticked off he'll call Shepard "human". Maybe he has some hidden prejudice too? I love the dynamic, especially because humans and Turians are so similar. Even more similar to each other than humans are to other species.
Quarians and that lizard dude that talks fast while spacing out👍🏾
Love me some Mass Effect lore
If Bioware makes another Mass Effect game it should take place during the First Contact War and the months that follow, just my own personal opinion. It won't be the high stakes of the original trilogy of galactic annihilation, but the stakes of aliens who want to destroy humanity (from a human perspective) would be very interesting. Then after the war trying to figure out humanity's place in galactic policies.
There's nothing I wanted more from the franchise than a game set during the First Contact War
so you mean to tell me, the war could have been prevented if Turians would know how to put a sign that says do not open....or just put guards on the relay?
“Don’t dead, open inside”
Thank god those conflicts were in the past, Normandy with out garrus calibrating it’s weapons has no chance against threats
I was gonna say how can they mistake a massive mass relay for a moon but then remembered that we can't even seem to make our minds up if Pluto is a planet or not 😄😄
Probably the Elkor and Hanar, which are aliens that actually feel like aliens, not humans in makeup.
And the krogan, volus, geth, salarians and to a lesser extend turians. Asari and drell are very humanoid. Others fall in an in between catagory.
I played Mass Effect 2 first so the first Aliens I saw was a Quarian and the Collectors. I got the game for free with my XBOX360 and i'd never heard of Mass Effect before that.
I kinda wish that they would make a prequel covering the first contact war.
What i like in the ME lore is that humanity isn't the underdog, they actually have one of the strogest militaries in the galaxy, probably second only to the turians. Compare that to Halo where the UNSC is totally outclassed by the covenant and somehow still manages to survive for 30 years.
I advise everyone to read the books (atleast the first three) as they tie into the games and fill some nice back story
Agreed and skip 4 because it actively breaks the lore many times.
Only read the first 1 but have all 3, waiting for the legendary edition to drop so I can tie them all in together after all this time, can't wait!
“Thinking nothing of it, humanity starts reactivating every relay they can find.” Lmfao, sounds exactly like us.
Is there an in-universe explanation for how all these species speak English though?
They use translators. It was explained in Mass Effect Andromeda.
The Asari and Quarians fascinated me
My first ones I fell in love with lore wise was the geth.
I would LOVE to see the next mass effect take place in the aftermath of the reaper war but with more relays being activated ushering new races into the galaxy. That way humanity ca get to experience what the council experienced when dealing with humanity for the first time: new races that are potentially deadly, potentially peaceful and potentially useful. Each new race rich in their own unique history, culture, customs and technology.
Only more impatient now for the trilogy
What is this bgm at the end of the vid called? I need to know.
Deep huh? That word is a reference to Nevada in all topics on Earth.
If you think about it the humans have some reasons to be resentful of the council, they want humans to expand in the terminus systems because it would enlarge the citadel economic zone, bringing in more resources and goids to trade, not to mention that in order to establish colonies the Alliance would need to pacificate and patrol an entire system or even cluster, in that area only a handful of planets can be suitable for human colonization, but there would be other planets next to them that are uninhabitable for humans but perfect for other species, so the Volus or Elcor could just move to these planets and enjoy free protection from the Alliance. Humans think that they shouldn't be left alone in this effort, that they deserve help, especially military help, from the council, the council however doesn't want to be involved directly to avoid full war with the Terminus systems, wich is understandable. What i would like to know is if the Terminus systems are really dangerous enough to justify such hesitancy, or if they are just stingy and don't want to bear the costs of such military operations.
On mass effect 2 is getting legron a timer mission or not can I do other mission better getting legron
It wasn't so much human military might that impressed the council more their tactics because to be honest, humans might as well have brought pistols to a minigun fight. Enough to warrant conflict but not enough to survive said conflict
Humans basically won though. More Turians were killed than humans and they were the ones who got pushed back. At that time turians were basically police of the galaxy, so seeing them get their butts kicked by this new species would definitely be impressive.