Angara Primitives Compared to Sentient Milky Way Species

The 'Angarans' may, in a sense, very well be more advanced than anything Milky Way except maybe Reapers.

The theory that they're the actual 'ghosts' of the Jaardan is something I find compelling enough to presume it is true.

So they lost to the Scourge (source may be outside of the cluster), worlds wrecked, and Kett more recently decimating them.

And they're still portrayed to have a more technological aptitude than anyone else. To the point of being outright 'technopaths'. They're quite possibly kept back in development of the most amazing things (that the Milky Way was safer to at least have pop up; aka AI development), just from having challenge upon challenge hit them and forcing them to adapt in another way.

(The Quarians may still be better 'creators' of technology than the Angara though. The Angara seem to have a slower paced harmony focus that probably keeps them from particularly high ambitions; and indeed, a little freaked out by some Milky Way species.)

If the destiny of the Angara is both existing Remnant tech and utilization of it for eventual galaxy-wide use, they are no 'primitives', but arguably on the path to becoming a civilization (at some point) that would be powerful enough that if they were in the MW, they'd, alone, be capable challenging the Reapers.


The Kett on the other hand, while a probably rather large spanning empire, I think are set to be illuminated as rather actually 'primitive'. I mean we kinda get that vibe already, but they're still pumped up as enough of a problem to the weak Angarans and enfeebled Initiative. But in the larger scale, I can see things going very badly for them.

Where they may provide a threat is in absorbing *us*, and they do have an adaptability. One they may unwittingly, as a group, be keeping down (whereas the Angarans may more quickly leap for their opportunities), but we already have precedent for individual ambitions within their society. But I have the feeling that the Kett are meant to provide more of a 'texture' to the kinds of things we'll be seeing in Andromeda, while the Angarans are made they way they are for a very important longer-term plot.



But are all of these weaker than Milky Way peoples? At least sorta, yeah. The Angarans are obviously both weakened but also without the particular strengths to fix their problems (but this ties into the idea of them being a 'ghost' people to their true past). The Kett might indeed have been a big problem if they were in the Milky Way, but nothing so far strikes us as *more* threatening than conflicts before (Krogan, Rachni).


But the commonality is that these civilizations *did not have the guidance of the mass relays and the Citadel*. If they, in some form, had biotics, in some form, they did not go down the technological line to encourage it. They didn't develop their transportation to both consider and model off of any knowledge of the mass relays and eezo technologies.
They basically didn't have that 'easier' line to becoming advanced civilizations. This is bad in that it means anything coming out of the MW was going to be more unified and 'established' (as long as it was able to escape/leave the MW; the Reapers try to avoid this from happening I think), but good in that it means they figure things out *on their own*.

The Kett? Maybe they'll make AI eventually (and as we see, at least once can be fascinated by its potential), but they're presently obsessed with something else, even to the point of being biologically driven to continue to obsess over it.
The Angarans? Maybe, if they are Jaardan 'ghosts', the Jaardan did make AI, and did get 'wiped out' but it, but in some more willing way than expected. (Again, the technopath, potentially 'post human' concept.)

Again, they figure it out on their own. No control system of Reapers tracking a guided process.


Basically, they don't have walkthroughs to evolution. Give them a break, especially since their own, probably more unique takes to evolution, may have their own potentials to one day surpass anything MW, including Reapers. (As long as they survive; and I'd wager that deaths of civilizations in Andromeda are actually on average more *frequent* than MW's 'safety' between harvests. Except for the 'winner' civs.)


And of course, we have to consider how we could be 'tainting' their processes. We bring: AI that 'works' (so far), mass effect technology, relatively cooperative civilizations. We should consider how this could add a little bit to other civilizations to the point of surprising us with how much they run with it and start running us over with it.

Archon himself was close..

Angarans literally used Remnant ships and were more bent on using Rem-tech in general. They didn't copy some remnant tech, they knew it.