Thoughts on the Jardaan and Kett?

I actually forgot to mention the Forerunners. Considering Chris Schlerf (Lead Writer on MEA) was the guy who wrote the story for Halo 4, there were A LOT of similarities between the story of Halo 4 and MEA. There's definitely some similarities with the Forerunners (the Archon is like a copy/paste of the Didact), although they were creating Halos to contain the Flood, not create new life or worlds.

I didn't even consider the Yuuzhan Vong, partially because I absolutely hated that species in Star Wars. Thankfully, they are no longer canon. The kett, in some ways, remind me a bit of the Covenant from Halo, actually. There seem to be quite a bit of religious undertones in both groups. I suppose it's not all too surprising Schlerf would use what he knows and incorporate it into the Mass Effect universe.

Regardless, I'm hoping that MEA will move away from the Halo universe and really do something different. Schlerf is no longer at BioWare, so I'd imagine things could change quite a bit with the jardaan and the kett going forward.

Every time I saw a kett, it just reminded me of a less imposing and less intimidating Doomsday. If they are meant to be the careful perfection of over a thousand species (according to the Archon), you would think they would look the part more. I found them to be rather uninspiring visually.

I've been thinking a bit about the origin of the kett, how they came to be? They can't reproduce, so who, why, where, what and when?
Are kett a species that turned to enhancing themselves with traits from other species, and eventually forced it on others. Or is it a group of people who started it and then became known as Kett? Was it necessary? Or curiosity? An accident? Where did it start? Does that place still exist? Are there species that have survived them?

I do hope their lore gets filled out, and we get to see some of their worlds, and other worlds impacted by their trickery.

Hm...maybe the Kett used that Scourge against the Jardaan? It would make sense, especially that they CAN'T USE REMNANT TECH (!) - If I fight an enemy, I'd make damned sure they can't use my stuff and if they are another race than a kind of GENETIC LOCK would be a very neat idea (especially if it isn't fooled by exaltation stuff, maybe it detects especially that and locks Remnant tech down if that is present?)...I mean the damned Archon needs to use a Ryder-Twin as a fucking INTERFACE (he can't control the tech without!)

Also: The Kett don't seem that bothered by the Scourge (they have damned maps to it etc.)

greetings LAX

The Jardaan seem intriguing since it seems they could be people trying to restore broken worlds and create people to inhabit them without it necessarily being for some self-serving agenda but more because they can and want to. That's interesting to me.

The Kett are also intriguing to me. It's a bit hard to formulate why at the moment but it's because of their culture and how they view things like how the Primus refers to the kett as a family when she talks about Ryder will be a part of it after exaltation. There's also how they're not doing this because they need to: they could resort to cloning as the Moshae notes. It may be that exaltation was once necessary but since then it developed into a part of their culture that they now want to do. I find myself very curious about the origin of the kett and how their culture developed. To me, they are a yet unsolved mystery and I'm eager for more clues to solve it.

I kind of think/am worried the Kett will be revealed to be another Jardaan creation. It is hinted at during the game that the Jardaan/Remnant presence came to the Heleus Cluster for reasons having to do with some sort of conflict with the forces behind the Scourge (the Scourge actively targets Remnant/Jardaan technology and damages it by being attracted to Remnant signatures like a magnet to iron).

There is also the implication that the Jardaan created the Angara for a reason or with specific qualities, and the Kett are interested in the Angara because of their solar powered/electrically charged biology which is said to be unique to the Angara as the Kett who have incorporated "thousands" of species into their biology have never encountered anything like it. There is also the weird implication that the Kett lack the capacity to use Remnant Tech and are surprisingly uninterested in developing their own AI technology for being remarkably technologically advanced. The Jardaan/Remnant/Angara all have a predilection to AI.

We know at the end of the game that the Remnant tech started 'reprograming' Ryder's thoughts so as to be able to use Remnant tech, likewise the Angara pre-fall passed down knowledge on how to use Remnant tech through Remnant inspired tech (Havarl Vault). So it seems likely the Angara were created with the capacity to learn from Remnant tech even after the Jardaan were long gone and the forces behind the Scourge defeated them.

Prior to the kett arrival in Heleus the Angara, a non-tech based Jardaan creation started using technology dependent on Remnant appropriation and their society started to crumble. Not only that but the scourge actively makes Planets uninhabitable which pushed the Angara to the brink. Enter the Kett who seem mildly resistant to the Scourge forces. They can breathe/live on a variety of worlds, their technology is advanced and more Scourge resistant than the pre-Kett apex Angara civilization which relied too heavily on Remnant tech.

So I think it is pointing to the Kett and the Angara being two different solutions by the Jardaan to the Scourge problem. The Angara would be inheritors of Jardaan technology to continue the legacy of the Jardaan in hopes of one day ending the Scourge, while the Kett if successful would become independent of the technologies that made the Jardaan susceptible to the Scourge and possibly able to overcome it through sheer might/adaptability.

Just my theory. But i think it is too suspicious that the Kett can possibly use Remnant tech to make everyone Kett, while the Angara can basically use Remnant tech to make themselves Jardaan. Either they are reincarnations of the forces at war during the Jardaan era or they are both solutions revolving around the use of Jardaan technologies to overcoming/defeating whatever bad force the Scourge represents.

Another too close for comfort similarity is the Angara believe they are reincarnated when they die, and the symbolism with them and the Jardaan then is that they are avatars of the Jardaan and transcend the limitations of death. The Kett believe they are inheritors of some superior filial force that makes sentient organisms "exalted" or transcendent into a higher state of power/being. They both are societies built around the continuation of their species beyond traditional limits that make a sentient species susceptible to extinction (the Angara inherit the memories of an extinct civilization, the Kett can alter their being to survive presumably in alien conditions).

Who says they haven't lost control of it? I mean that could easily happen with say a bioweapon in today's world, so why not with something more advanced - hell, they might have made a simply error in calculations and it has spread out of control?

greetings LAX

EDIT: Having instead of haven't...what have I been doing while writing this?

I don't think Jardaan really "created" Angara, they could've just speed up the proccess of evolution I mean if a race is powerful enough to create life how could they become extinct. Maybe the creatures we heard of in Voeld are non evolved version of the Angara(the ones live underwater)

I think Casey Hudson was much better at all this than the halo guy. It seems like all the similarities this game has to halo as the things that I don't like about it.

How can you create something exactly? In me universe everything no matter how bullshit had a scientific explanation and in science you cannot simply create something.
Kett didn't know everything about Jardaan either they could be wrong too

To me it made more sense that the Angara were essentially recreated by the Jardaan. That the Jardaan came across a dead (but once living) world, found the remains of Angara civilization, and tried to recreate the species as they terraformed the planet.

I'm still not sure how to take one of the post game e-mails found on the meridian terminal. Not sure i'd want to see the Jardaan return.