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Quarian
15 entries tagged Quarian. Every entry is sourced from the Mass Effect games, their in-game lore, or the official reference material.
- Daro'Xen vas Moreh: Quarian Admiral and Geth ResearcherAdmiral Daro'Xen vas Moreh sat on the quarian Admiralty Board and led its Special Projects group. A coldly brilliant scientist, she viewed the geth as machines to be studied and controlled rather than enemies or equals.
- Han'Gerrel vas Neema: Quarian Admiral of the Heavy FleetAdmiral Han'Gerrel vas Neema sat on the quarian Admiralty Board and commanded the Heavy Fleet. A lifelong hawk, he pressed for the reclamation of the homeworld and for war against the geth, often at reckless cost.
- Keelah Si'yahThe Keelah Si'yah was an Andromeda Initiative ark, a quarian vessel uniquely engineered to carry six different species across the 600-year void between galaxies. Bearing some twenty thousand colonists in cryosleep, it survived a catastrophic plague during its long voyage toward a new home in the Heleus Cluster.
- Migrant FleetKnown to its people as the Flotilla, the Migrant Fleet was the vast collection of starships that became home to the quarians after the geth drove them from their world. Some fifty thousand vessels carried seventeen million quarians across the galaxy in a centuries-long exile.
- Morning WarThe Morning War, known to most of the galaxy as the Geth War, was the conflict that erupted when the newly sapient geth turned on the quarians who had created them. The geth won within a year, all but exterminating the quarians and driving the survivors into a centuries-long exile aboard the Migrant Fleet.
- Qetsi'Olam vas Keelah Si'yah: captain of the quarian arkCaptain Qetsi'Olam vas Keelah Si'yah commanded the quarian ark Keelah Si'yah on its 600-year voyage to Andromeda. A charismatic radical who dreamed of a new home where quarians would lead, she secretly engineered the bioweapon that became the Fortinbras Plague, and gave her own life trying to undo it.
- QuarianThe quarians were a nomadic, technologically gifted species exiled from their homeworld Rannoch after their created servants, the geth, gained sentience and drove them out. For generations they wandered the galaxy aboard the Migrant Fleet, a vast flotilla of salvaged ships.
- Rael'Zorah: Quarian Admiral and Tali's FatherAdmiral Rael'Zorah sat on the quarian Admiralty Board and was the father of Tali'Zorah. Driven to reclaim the homeworld, he conducted forbidden geth experiments aboard the Alarei that cost him his life and nearly ruined his daughter.
- RannochRannoch was the arid homeworld of the quarians, a walled garden of rivers and deserts lost to the geth in the war that drove its people into exile. For generations it lay watched over by a vast swarm of geth space stations.
- Reegar Carbine: Quarian Electrical ShotgunThe Reegar Carbine was a quarian electrical shotgun that projected a sustained high amperage current rather than a stream of slugs. Devastating against kinetic shields and biotic barriers at very short range, it was named in honor of the Reegar family, whose marines fought with distinction against the geth.
- Senna'Nir vas Keelah Si'yah: First Officer of the Quarian ArkSenna'Nir vas Keelah Si'yah was a quarian engineer and the first officer of the Andromeda Initiative ark Keelah Si'yah. Unusually drawn to machines and artificial intelligence, he led the maintenance crew that fought to save the ark when a hidden plague struck its sleeping passengers during the long voyage between galaxies.
- Shala'Raan vas Tonbay: The Quarian AdmiralAdmiral Shala'Raan vas Tonbay was a member of the quarian Admiralty Board and a long-time friend of the Zorah family, known to Tali'Zorah as Auntie Raan. She presided over Tali's treason trial and served as a quarian envoy during the war to reclaim the homeworld of Rannoch.
- Shala'Raan vas Tonbay: Quarian Admiral and Tali's Auntie RaanAdmiral Shala'Raan vas Tonbay sat on the quarian Admiralty Board and was a longtime friend of the Zorah family. A measured voice amid the board's hawks, she moderated Tali'Zorah's trial and helped guide her people toward Rannoch.
- Tali'Zorah: Quarian Engineer of the Migrant FleetTali'Zorah was a quarian mechanical prodigy who left the Migrant Fleet on her Pilgrimage and uncovered the first hard evidence of the Reapers. She joined Commander Shepard's crew, rose to admiral, and helped decide the fate of her people on their lost homeworld of Rannoch.
- Zaal'Koris vas Qwib-Qwib: Quarian Admiral and Geth SympathizerAdmiral Zaal'Koris vas Qwib-Qwib sat on the quarian Admiralty Board and led the Civilian Fleet. Outspoken in his belief that the sentient geth had a right to exist, he opposed both reclaiming the homeworld and the war that followed.