Awakened Collectors

[Eternal]

Let's talk about the Elephant in the room. It seems like in mass effect 3, amongs the race altering plots like the rachni, the krogan genophage or the geth-quarian conflict, we seem to have another race altering event we tend to forget since it's only possible to access it via the Leviathan DLC and it's on the codex.

It seems like not all collectors were wiped out on ME2, but some came back with the reapers, and the leviathans were able to sever the connections of some from the reapers, giving them back their sentience.

This opens a whole can of worms for ME4/5 since this could mean the collectors, as a race, should be present in-lore at least, and I would personally like to see them in the game, since it would potentially lead to great stories. The remnants of the protheans who were enslaved to the Reapers. How would the galaxy react to them? If the prothean species could be revived via Javik (as I have seen lots of people theorize over the years since clonning and Grunt exist) what would be the relation between the collectors and the other protheans? Would they be able to reproduce (which it seem likely as they seem to be organic) or are they immortal? What the hell man?!

Please Bioware, don't forget about this side plot opened on ME3!

[Eternal]

By the way, when I say if they are able to reproduce, I don't mean sexually, since Mordin already told us that they cant sexually reproduce. But that doesn't mean they can't reproduce at all. They could be clones, or the general(s) could lay eggs, or something like that. It's just that I find very unlikely that an organical life form can last 50.000 years without decaying much earlier...

[Eternal]

Also... I know this may be overlooked if the player choose destroy. But I think that if the player choose any other ending, at least they should be mentioned...

[Raz'Hikel]

The awakened collectors only really existed in the ME3 multiplayer.

The whole “awakened and free of the reapers” thing was just an excuse to make collectors playable, although it was a cool explanation.

It would have been badass if awakened collectors were in mass effect 3’s story, as a recruitable faction like the geth.

[Eternal]

They seem to be canon even if only appearing on multiplayer. I hope to see some development on this. As I said, it seems to have so much potential for stories. Can you imagine a prothean race based off Javik's genome interacting with the now free collectors? Would there be pity? disgust? hate? acceptance to them? What would be the cultural, ethical and other kinds of ramifications to this?

[Zsrai]

Originally posted by Eternal:

They seem to be canon even if only appearing on multiplayer. I hope to see some development on this. As I said, it seems to have so much potential for stories. Can you imagine a prothean race based off Javik's genome interacting with the now free collectors? Would there be pity? disgust? hate? acceptance to them? What would be the cultural, ethical and other kinds of ramifications to this?

How many Awakened Collectors do you think are actually still floating around?

[barzai]

Originally posted by Zsrai:

Originally posted by Eternal:

They seem to be canon even if only appearing on multiplayer. I hope to see some development on this. As I said, it seems to have so much potential for stories. Can you imagine a prothean race based off Javik's genome interacting with the now free collectors? Would there be pity? disgust? hate? acceptance to them? What would be the cultural, ethical and other kinds of ramifications to this?

How many Awakened Collectors do you think are actually still floating around?

Literally? All of them. They're "floating around" in the vacuum of space, deader than doornails ;-)

...Of course under those circumstances it's not clear whether the adjective "Awakened" still applies...

[Eternal]

Originally posted by Zsrai:

Originally posted by Eternal:

They seem to be canon even if only appearing on multiplayer. I hope to see some development on this. As I said, it seems to have so much potential for stories. Can you imagine a prothean race based off Javik's genome interacting with the now free collectors? Would there be pity? disgust? hate? acceptance to them? What would be the cultural, ethical and other kinds of ramifications to this?

How many Awakened Collectors do you think are actually still floating around?

I dunno. But if they still exist by the next Mass Effect game it would be so cool. Also, we have seen that in ME3 the fake rachni queen seems to be capable of reproducing even if being a creation of the reapers, so their continued existence in latter games, given that they are not destroyed by the end, maybe a sinthesis (trying to not puke) or control ending, could be possible.

[Xautos]

A group of collectors that were on the collector cruiser that blew up ended up crashing on a planet shortly after the reapers were destroyed, these collectors had no sense, purpose, no reason, no understanding, nothing.

This group of 12 collector soldiers are entirely docile and were rescued by a clueless Elcor trader, he dropped them off at the Citadel which has since been repaired and moved back to where it was. These collectors were studied, probed and analysed. It turns out they are devoid of any knowledge at all, even a basic functioning language, however their bio-mechanical parts show a great deal with ability to, process, retain, learn and understand but they are completely individual. These collectors have no link to the outside as it seem this was since removed by the nanite technology within the collectors themselves which have since reverted to a basic repair state only.

These collectors have to learn how to do everything but it seems age is not a factor because of the technology within the former protheans.

It turns out after 20 years Javik's body was discovered, brought back and a certain enzyme extracted and reproduced, then it was put into these collectors which "awakened" them. They suddenly become active and very intelligent while exhibiting biotic potential.. they also remember their former lives as protheans and what they did under reaper control for many centuries. the only problem is that they can't talk any more, they communicate telepathically by biotics.

One of these awakened collectors is a high ranking civilian leader very near the top of the Prothean hierarchy, so he is automatically made leader of these collectors by all the others. They leave known space to get away from all those primitives and recover a small collector scout ship parked near Alchera that was used to find and identify the Normandy and left abandoned since then.

Several decades later and these collectors have some how acquired the means to reproduce as Protheans again and the awakened collectors themselves have reverted to Protheans, but kept everything else they have learned along the way.

Turns out they found some buried medical technology and recovered thousands of DNA samples from Prothean pods on Ilos to make viable clones, these clones reproduced and started a new race. The collectors themselves were put into pods and underwent a reversion the nanites aren't programmed for originally, but they survived long enough to reproduce the original body of the hosts they imprinted on before the spike did its thing and converted them.

These former collectors reproduced to bring biotics into the species, which worked. Now they have a colony of thousands of protheans in a peaceful farming and medical commune on a planet once under their control not colonised by any one else.

A shrine of Javik is in the center of town, Vengeance of a dead race embodied as a symbol of hope to this new colony.