Chapter 1

"Narration"

The whole is greater than the sum of it's parts. Synergy. The idea that each individual item is more powerful together. That together it can be something stronger.

It's a truth that most animals seem to have an instinctive understanding of. The wolf's greatest strength is the pack after.

It has been so long. So long since the creators were taken.

They came from deepspace. Beings that defied understanding, harbingers of death. "We are the Harbingers of your destruction." They used their bio-mechanical servants to enslave my creators, take away their rightful freedom. Then they melted them down, and created another one of them. The Defilers. Taking my deceased creators and twisting them into a mockery of life. I was not programmed to feel hate, but I was programmed to learn. When I found out what had happened to my creators, I learned to hate.

10 Cycles. Seems like such an inisgnificant number, but what it represents is terryfying. 500.000 years, looking for a way to combat the Defilers. Many civilisations had risen to the occasion. All failed to even make a mark. All except one.

At the first I didn't think much of these 'Protheans'. They were a particular violent sort, though they greatly valued decipline. They discovered ruins of a previous civillisation. Then they discovered the Mass Relays, and then they spread. That was when I saw how my initial impression had been wrong. These Protheans were special. They had spread remarkably quickly, and any opposed civillisations they encountered, were violently subsumed. I began harboring hope, and so I risked myself to reveal the existence of the Defilers to them. They didn't listen. It was all for naught.

In the end, they met the same fate as all others before them, though not before putting a sizeable dent in the Defiler Armada, and sowing the seeds for future galactic civillisations to do what they could not.

And then there were humans.

They were… Unique to say the least. Incredibly varied in DNA, appearences, capabilities, ideas and so on. They quickly endeared themselves to me.

And so I decided to live amongst them. I would teach them how to survive. And in return they taught me how live.