What if the angara are...

I was thinking that the Jardaan may have created the angara to be organic platforms for an AI (possibly that the Jardaan are synthetics themselves).

I've been thinking of the Angara the same as the skin jobs from Battlestar Galactica. Organic machines.

I agree with all the above posts...they seem like vessels that didn't get to fulfill their original purpose (ie, the Jaardan's plan was cut short by the scourge). I think the reincarnation stuff and the bio-electric thing somehow tie into this.

I am kinda getting a Prometheus (movie) vibe from the Jaardan (especially when we explore Meridian). Anyone else?

Maybe a sequel or dlc will provide answers.

It all depends on what the Jardaan are, really.

Personally I think the Jardaan are what the Catalyst tried to prevent: an AI species that wiped all organic life the cluster. And I mean ALL life, microscopic to macroscopic. But they grew a conscious and tried to recreate life, hence the massive efforts to terraform and reseed the planets with life.

The Angara are the recreated creators of the Jardaan.

Though I'll easily admit that this is probably not so, but I'd really want it to be problem is the Kett don't fit in very nicely with this theory and to make them work you have to keep the extinction of organic life within the cluster and this seems highly unlikely considering what the Jardaan are capable of.

What if they are attempting to understand organic life?

During the first Meridian trip one of the Jardaan logs says something about their aim being "renewal" of Heleus which I a assume includes the Angara as they were the native lifeform of Heleus.

I am guessing that in developing the Angara to repopulate Heleus they may have also used it as a way to understand organic life and part of that may have been to use them as avatars. Maybe just initially and the current Angara are independent but just a wild guess.