Lore & History
14 entries in the Mass Effect compendium.
Citadel CouncilThree species, one mandate: Governance from the center of the galaxy's greatest trap.Rachni WarsThe insectoid war that led to the krogan uplift.Turian HierarchyOrder through discipline, strength through service, the galaxy's iron shield.ReapersSentient starships that harvest the galaxy every fifty thousand years.Krogan RebellionsFrom galactic saviors to an endangered species, the war ended not by sword, but by a plague.SovereignSaren's flagship, revealed as a Reaper.CitadelMore than a mere space station, the Citadel is the glittering, beating heart of galactic civilization—a…Shadow BrokerThe information dealer Liara T'Soni hunts in Mass Effect 2.BeneziaLiara's mother, an asari matriarch turned Saren's second in command.Rachni QueenMatriarch of the hive-minded rachniCrucibleThe Prothean-built superweapon the galaxy assembles to end the Reaper war.LeviathanThe ancient apex race in whose likeness the Reapers were made.CerberusThe Illusive Man's human-supremacist paramilitary group.GenophageThe salarian-made bioweapon the turians unleashed on the krogan.
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