Idea on Kett, jardaan and the Scourge

I'm pretty sure that the Kett arrived after the Scourge. However, I can't remember where I read that.

The Kett don't seem all that technologically advanced outside of their prowess with biological engineering. Their ships even seem slightly inferior to those from the Milky Way galaxy, they just have a lot more of them.

The Jardaan however seem like a type 3 civilization, similar to the Leviathans' ancestors before the Reapers destroyed them.

The Jardaan self-destructing seems a lot more likely than falling to the Kett. If they were destroyed by an external threat, it would have to be aliens who are many times more powerful than the Kett.

Aside from the fact that I spoiled to their name beforehand, I bought the game day one and just encountered the Jardaan reference only yesterday; should such a thing be out in the open and outside of spoiler tags?

1. By all accounts I've seen in the game the Scourge has only been around Approx 200 years.

2. Kett have been around approx 85 years.

3. Initiative long range scans showed no evidence of remnant technology. (Delay despite advanced scanning with Geth tech.)

4. The planets in Heleus are habitable due to remnant tech, Initiative scans showed habitable worlds

5. Sam's initial scans of Remnant architecture estimated it'd been around only approx [3?]00 years, placed AFTER the Initiative embarked on their journey.

6. Jaal states that Havarl is the birth place of the Angara, but that Voeld "a millenia ago" was their thiving capital.

7. Meridian disengaged with the coming of the scourge, but some Angara remember pre-scourge (Moshae). Meaning the Jardaan and the Angara coexisted in the same time period while the Angara had space flight, yet the remnant technology has always been seen as "Remnants" of another race.

9. The AI found is said to be of "Angaran design" though she disavows this, and the Angara shun such technology.

10. Early on its stated that Remnant tech is less advanced than Prothean (Reaper) technology. I'd say by endgame that is downright false if not highly debateable.

11. Meridian fled to safety, the last known presence of the Jardaan, yet no Jardaan are there. No trace of them.

Given the information at hand, and accounting for the Angara's loss of knowledge and separation after the scourge; My theory is this:

The Jardaan were nearly extinct (war, infighting, i suspect that combined with genetic disease)

The Meridian and Remnant Vaults were ALWAYS self automated, self sustaining, that the Jardaan were all but-if not completely- extinct by the time they began creating life.

The Jardaan and the Angara are one in the same with a centuries long absence as they rebirthed themselves, repairing their planets.



War ravaged their cluster and nearly killed them off, decimating their planets. They are not creating life for the sake of simply doing so, nor for the sake of science.

Its self preservation.


Thoughts?

Could it be the Jardaan were destroyed by the Scourge?

Or perhaps they did something and the Scourge is the aftermath of it?

Hmm...

I bet that threat is a long-scale villain down the road...one that will probably force us to work with the Kett...

I could be wrong about the scourge/meridian/the reason for the vaults. But it just seems so odd. I mean, if Havarl and Voeld are where the angara lived, then shouldn't they know more about the vaults and remnant? They would have evolved with the remnant present, right? I don't know, like I said, we have a serious dearth of info.

I never taught that before, but I really like it and it can make sense, but when did the scourge happened ? I don't remember when I heard it but I believe the scourge happened something like 150 years before the Initiative arrives in the Heleus cluster. If so, it feels a bit stupid for a race that seems to have a lifespan way longer than humans(at least 150years) to not remember something that happened in their lifetime.

No rem tech approx 400 years old.

Scourge approx 200 years old

When resucuing the moshae,a captured Angara is noted as "95" but having strong vitals. That could be age.

By remnant tech, I tend to think of the vaults and monoliths. They seem like they have enough energy and such to be detectable by the magic telescope.

The smaller remnant spots could have been there much longer.

But I'm kinda flying blind, so who knows?

The description when it is discussed in game is that Prothean tech was Plug'n'play whereas remnant tech is harder to figure out.

This makes sense as the reapers were influencing tech in the MW.

Looking at the codex now.

Remnant Creators are described as a Type 1 civilization on the Kardeshev scale.
The Scourge hit on 2400 CE. It sent angaran civilization into a dark age of ~100 years.
The kett arrived 75 years ago

I'm only partway through this playthrough and didn't feel like loading my completed playthrough to see what the codex says at the end.