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Post by Dar'Nara on Dec 24, 2017 17:28:12 GMT
Greetings all! Ok, so i have a question and what im after is your *OWN* viewpoint/answer on it. I dont wanna know what the Mass Effect games, books or comics say (because i already know), but they can be used as a base for your own answer. So, Quarians, just how do they eat? Please be as detailed as you can be in your answer, describing the whole proccess of how you believe a Quarian eats from start to finish. Answers like "Through a feeding tube..." are no good, theres lacking detail in answers like that. If you do indeed believe a feeding tube is involved, how does it work? (Remember, from start to finish, so how would it connect to the suit and get food from that tube into Quarian? What goes on in the suit? Does food move through more tubes? Etc...). Simply asking out of curiosity to see what others think  (Also totally not dissatisfied with what little canon info there is) |
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Post by kenshen19 on Dec 24, 2017 18:04:28 GMT
Pretty much that is how Tali explains it (feeding tube/port) during the party after she might have ate the wrong kind cheese. There is also the opposite of eating as what enters the body will have to leave it at some point. I just assumed some kind of "tube" was used for both functions.
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Post by Dar'Nara on Dec 25, 2017 9:50:43 GMT
Pretty much that is how Tali explains it (feeding tube/port) during the party after she might have ate the wrong kind cheese. There is also the opposite of eating as what enters the body will have to leave it at some point. I just assumed some kind of "tube" was used for both functions. I would agree that a tube is involved, but it annoyed me how it was never elaborated on! I guess i just prefer detailed stuff. A feeding tube is fine and all, but what goes on inside the suit...is just never discussed, and it bugs me haha. If we use the feeding tube as an example, lets say such a tube connects to a port on the underside of the helmet (aka how the ascension novel explains it), then what? What happens after that? What goes on inside the helmet to get the food from that tube and then into the Quarian? Forgive my quite possibly 'overthinking the situation' here, but my curiosity likes to wander haha, thanks for your input though! |
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Post by kenshen19 on Dec 25, 2017 19:11:24 GMT
Yeah there are many areas I would have loved to have more lore to better explain some things. It seems this very subject would have come up in ME1 once Tali joined the team. The Normandy wasn't built to support Quarian needs and I always wondered what was done to help her with the basics. But as we see she never leaves her spot in engineering so total non issue I guess.
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Post by Dar'Nara on Dec 25, 2017 19:59:27 GMT
Yeah there are many areas I would have loved to have more lore to better explain some things. It seems this very subject would have come up in ME1 once Tali joined the team. The Normandy wasn't built to support Quarian needs and I always wondered what was done to help her with the basics. But as we see she never leaves her spot in engineering so total non issue I guess. Agreed, would have been nice to have this explained earlier on! I did some searching and according to the Mass Effect Wikia, Derek Watts is designer for Tali soooo i assume he also had a hand in creating the lore the Quarian species. I tried finding some contact info for that guy but its like he is a ghost (Couldnt find a twitter of his, or a website or...anything really) so that was a no-go unless i decide to send some snail-mail (a letter) to BioWare directly. I did find an email for Drew Karpyshyn on his site though so i decided to email him on this for now as he authored the Ascension novel, see if he has any input on the matter! WE WILL GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS! Hahaha Failing that i'll continue searching for others input regardless! |
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Post by Gwyvian on Mar 4, 2018 2:43:04 GMT
Yeah there are many areas I would have loved to have more lore to better explain some things. It seems this very subject would have come up in ME1 once Tali joined the team. The Normandy wasn't built to support Quarian needs and I always wondered what was done to help her with the basics. But as we see she never leaves her spot in engineering so total non issue I guess. Agreed, would have been nice to have this explained earlier on! I did some searching and according to the Mass Effect Wikia, Derek Watts is designer for Tali soooo i assume he also had a hand in creating the lore the Quarian species. I tried finding some contact info for that guy but its like he is a ghost (Couldnt find a twitter of his, or a website or...anything really) so that was a no-go unless i decide to send some snail-mail (a letter) to BioWare directly. I did find an email for Drew Karpyshyn on his site though so i decided to email him on this for now as he authored the Ascension novel, see if he has any input on the matter! WE WILL GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS! Hahaha Failing that i'll continue searching for others input regardless!  Did you ever find out about this?? I want to know, too.  |
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Post by Dar'Nara on Mar 4, 2018 9:05:43 GMT
Agreed, would have been nice to have this explained earlier on! I did some searching and according to the Mass Effect Wikia, Derek Watts is designer for Tali soooo i assume he also had a hand in creating the lore the Quarian species. I tried finding some contact info for that guy but its like he is a ghost (Couldnt find a twitter of his, or a website or...anything really) so that was a no-go unless i decide to send some snail-mail (a letter) to BioWare directly. I did find an email for Drew Karpyshyn on his site though so i decided to email him on this for now as he authored the Ascension novel, see if he has any input on the matter! WE WILL GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS! Hahaha Failing that i'll continue searching for others input regardless! Did you ever find out about this?? I want to know, too.  I did eventually get a response yes, unfortunately it was rather useless. Drew simply said he cant comment on it as he wasnt authorised to do so. Bit of a bummer, and i still cant find any contact info for Derek. Still contemplating sending them a actual letter though... |
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Post by Gwyvian on Mar 4, 2018 10:58:53 GMT
Did you ever find out about this?? I want to know, too. I did eventually get a response yes, unfortunately it was rather useless. Drew simply said he cant comment on it as he wasnt authorised to do so. Bit of a bummer, and i still cant find any contact info for Derek. Still contemplating sending them a actual letter though... Argh, that's frustrating.  I'm trying to write an MEA fic with a quarian protagonist, I'd like to have as many details about them as I can muster (apart from everything we learn in-game). Well, if you ever do find out, let me know! |
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Post by KrrKs on Mar 4, 2018 16:06:40 GMT
Huh, I thought I already posted in this thread.
Anyway, My headcanon states that Quarian quarters onboard lifeships are (usually) only inhabited by a single person, so while these are not necessarily sterile, the only bacteria and 'contaminations' are from that single quarian. As a result it is safe to take of the suit or at least the mask. for a short time when eating or performing certain other activities.
(In public areas they seem to use have their suits closed and sealed, though as per ME1 Tali's talk about her Father i got the impression that family members not necessarily wear suits around each other (in private), which is contradicted by ME2's 'children are put into bubbles' anecdote).
When not in their own quarters, Quarians likely rely on sterile cleanrooms (onboard the Normandy(s) this was probably a sealed of part in the Medbay) to take of their masks for eating.
In both of these circumstances utilization of cleaning tissues is likely a must, to prevent crumbs or other food remains from sticking to the skin.
In the absence of cleanrooms, the already mentioned emergency straw induction port still allows ingestion of fluid and semi fluid paste. (Aka 'cheese smoothy' w.r.t. the Citadel DLC reference)
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Post by dmc1001 on Mar 5, 2018 2:53:17 GMT
I happen to be all for headcanon when it comes to fanfic, particularly when BioWare doesn't offer any answers.
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Post by yvettee on Mar 15, 2022 17:45:13 GMT
was thinking about this today. about how quarians eat and took things one step further by wondering how they... to put delicately... digest? im of course assuming that they have a similar digestive system (which i could very well be wrong on with the whole levo protein blahblah), but given that any small activity in a wash-closet could trigger a station wide alert, with the germs and all, and how they're basically walking around in super sealed suits, how the heck does that work? are there shipwide bathrooms? are they expected to... minimise the threat, if you get my drift? just some late night philosophy on quarians that i thought to share... ![=]](//storage.proboards.com/6576594/images/yNrAXjkTcPPBLrsOOiCC.png)  |
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Post by damdil on Mar 15, 2022 18:41:10 GMT
True necromancer aren't you?  I don't want to offend any of you but wondering about Quarian digestion and even messaging some content creators for information is a little... you could say it takes some getting used to. Reminds me about the evening I bought the LE on sale and looked up on Google what's new. Reading about "Tali having a new face" I searched under something like just "Tali" or "Tali face" on Google images. Which was a mistake since the implications of some the stuff were.. unpleasant (to quote Mordin). Let's say prior to this research I didn't know a digestion fetish was a thing so your question promptly reminded me. Seems like the Quarians surely attract a curious bunch out there. Regarding your question: Since they lived with out suits before the morning war in 1895 there is no need to speculate about drastic changes to their physiology. The game takes place in 2183 which is way to close in terms of time frame for any great evolutionary changes. In ME it is strongly hinted that Quarians just take a dump in their suits which is a common trope in terms of battle suits, power armor etc. They seem to be able to flush the remains externally, since Tali will ask the Casino guards in the Citadel DLC for a sterile room for cleaning up a "suit accident" if she's ordered to distract them. |
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Post by yvettee on Mar 16, 2022 7:14:10 GMT
i never knew that about the citadel dlc! never took her on the distraction mission. also yeah i cant really go into depth about how this question arose in the first place (it was 10000% an engineered process to perform some necromancy here) but let's say a lot of memes and discussion about another game derailed into some intellectual discussions about quarians...  couldn't really reach a reasoned answer so i thought to ask the (learned) bsn-ers quarians are just so strange. and powersuits. and by that extension, voluses. sterile rooms make sense. i want to assume that theres a giant failsafe switch to just disconnect the sterile room (which is all the more funnier to me) thanks for your deep insight and reply! |
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Post by damdil on Mar 16, 2022 13:53:15 GMT
I wonder how that intellectual discussion looked like The Quarians surely have an interesting position among the alien races in ME. On the one side, Shep gets a deep cultural insight during Tali's loyalty mission in ME 2. Something similar holds true only to Tuchanka and the Krogans; apart from that, you'll mostly be only on interspecific hubs where the specific alien cultures mix together or human-only colonies/hubs. Or you're there for a combat mission so no big opportunities for anyhing else than fighting. On the other side, the Quarian storyline itself wasn't that satisfactory. You probably know what I'm talking bout. |
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I'm trying to write an MEA fic with a quarian protagonist, I'd like to have as many details about them as I can muster (apart from everything we learn in-game). Well, if you ever do find out, let me know!
![=]](http://storage.proboards.com/6576594/images/yNrAXjkTcPPBLrsOOiCC.png)
I don't want to offend any of you but wondering about Quarian digestion and even messaging some content creators for information is a little... you could say it takes some getting used to. 
couldn't really reach a reasoned answer so i thought to ask the (learned) bsn-ers