Mass Effect category

Technology

55 entries tagged Technology, 54 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at The Crucible and Mass relay.

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Acolyte: Asari Heavy PistolThe Acolyte was an asari heavy pistol designed for the asari resistance, firing charged projectiles akin to impact triggered resonant warp bombs. It collapsed kinetic shields and biotic barriers with a single detonation, trusting the shooter's own biotics to finish whatever armor it could not pierce.
Architect: Colossal Remnant Sentinel of HeleusArchitects were colossal Remnant machines that haunted the golden worlds of the Heleus Cluster, bursting from the ground to hover on element zero cores and raining destruction on anything beneath them. Pathfinder Ryder of the Andromeda Initiative first encountered them in 2819 and learned that, while they could not be destroyed, they could be grounded and reprogrammed.
AtlasThe Atlas was a large piloted combat mech fielded by Cerberus during the Reaper War. Heavily armed and armored, it was developed as a larger and more powerful successor to the YMIR mech and carried a living operator inside an armored canopy.

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Crew Info Board: the Tempest's message wallMounted in the crew quarters of the Tempest, the Crew Info Board carried the daily traffic of the Pathfinder team. Its threads ran from fire drill reports and dinner rotations to lost property notices, angaran vocabulary lessons, and one carefully chilled toast to the victory at Meridian.

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Element zeroElement zero, nicknamed eezo, was a rare material that released dark energy when subjected to an electrical current, letting it raise or lower the mass of everything in the resulting field. It underpinned faster-than-light travel, artificial gravity, and the biotic abilities of living beings.

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FTL travelFTL travel was faster-than-light movement achieved without a mass relay, using a drive core to lower a starship's mass so it could exceed lightspeed. It let vessels cross local space at high speed but accumulated a dangerous static charge that had to be regularly discharged.

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Human-Reaper: The Proto-Reaper of the Collector BaseThe Human-Reaper was an incomplete Reaper under construction by the Collectors at their base beyond the Omega 4 Relay. Built from the liquefied remains of abducted human colonists, the larval being was meant to become a new Reaper in the image of humanity before Commander Shepard destroyed it.

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Javelin: Geth Ferrofluid Sniper RifleThe Javelin was the name Alliance marines gave to a geth sniper rifle that fired a jet of superheated ferrofluid capable of cutting through nearly anything it struck. The same name belonged to the Alliance Navy's own disruptor torpedo ordnance, from the ship mounted launchers carried by frigates to the Mk.II missiles that batarian radicals turned against the colony on Watson.

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LOKI MechThe LOKI Mech was a cheap bipedal security robot built by Hahne-Kedar, deployed in large numbers by colonies, corporations, and criminal outfits alike as expendable guards. Simple and easily hacked, it relied on numbers rather than skill on the battlefield.

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Omni-toolThe omni-tool was a forearm-mounted multipurpose device combining a computer, diagnostic scanner, and miniature fabricator. Projected as an orange hologram, it handled hacking, repair, medicine, and manufacturing, and could be reshaped into improvised weapons in the field.

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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.

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Weapons: Mass accelerator firearms of the galaxyMost personal weapons in the galaxy were micro-scaled mass accelerators that shaved tiny slugs from a metal block and flung them at lethal speed using mass effect fields. For decades waste heat was the only true limit on their fire, until the geth introduced detachable thermal clips that reshaped how every army fought.

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YMIR Mech: Hahne-Kedar Heavy Combat MechThe YMIR Mech was a massive armored combat walker manufactured by Hahne-Kedar for anti-infantry warfare. Heavily shielded and armed with twin mass accelerator cannons and a rocket launcher, it served as fire support for mercenary bands and as heavy security on the frontier.