Mass Effect’s Creepy Keepers Are Hiding A Citadel Secret

Chorbin is male.

Please do not disturb the keepers.

Hmm, idk, I don't buy the bit about construction material being made of biological remains. I say that bc bio remains are mainly water, with the remainder being carbon + various trace elements.. yet, things like floor panels, walls and so forth would need to be made of more durable materials including metals in some cases.. and there'd need to be a lot of that. Sure, if they want to keep the fountain and lakes topped up, sure, bodies could help for that, but otherwise, I don't think so.

For the algorithm

Keepers aren't insects, they're arachnids

If true... Does that make every toilet on the citadel a "Prothean toilet" because I'm pretty sure they need maintenance

I believe that the "monument" was built by Protheans. It connects only with Ilos. The circular parts of the Citadel I believe, are the Mass Relay part to dark space.

The Keepers would have been using more than Prothean bodies to create materials. Bailey mentions how many of the "duct rats" in the wards often go missing, sometimes found after falls or vacuum exposure....others just disappear.

The keepers are not making structural repairs with prothean corpses. The Citadel probably have 50,000 years of maintenance supplies on board. It's a big space station and they've been doing this for dozens of cycles.

I think they know how to store 50,000 years of doors and flooring.

Kinda reminds me of the Horizon series where the Faro Robots use biomass as fuel

That would not have happened if the humans would have been the first one to discover the keepers. Human would have wipped them out for no reason - specially since they look so harmless.

im buying mass effect lol

Sad to say, many children might have ended up there. This reminded me of how extremely lucky Mouse was.

I kind of like the scan the keepers mission

man 4 minutes of this video and it makes me want to play ME1 again. It was so cool to play first time and discover all the lore of the first game back then and it's so cleverly done. You first like don't pay much attentiont to the keepers but then realize at the end that even keepers have purpose in story.. and the music man.. you just don't get that same feeling of Exodus game even though it looks intresting

But that star child.. sorry but I can't just take things seriously what star child says :P

edit: and yeah I find it cool that maybe keepers were also just indoctrinated race from before like protheans

More like Prawns…badum dum tsss

Wonderful!!! But creepy lol

Kreepy. Did I make a play on the spelling because of the Keepers? Mabe. You decide.

Even if the destruction ending is cannon, all reapers and synthetics died, chances are the AI might exists still inside the citadel. It did say it needs to find a new solution.

If I rember correctly, leviatthons created the rippers a d where also the first race to be havested

I remember seeing something about the timeline and how the rachnii were influenced by the reapers. And that timeline lines up after the asari discovered the citadel.

I assumed the Keepers repurposed biomass after the C-Sec commander said (during Thane's loyalty mission) that kids go missing in the ducts.

Keepers aren’t shifty, just a little sifty

Edit: I take it back

I'm so glad people are still making mass effect content

The Citadel itself being a giant Reaper would have been metal af.

hm so wouldn't Javik be able to 'feel' that somehow, since he can touch something and get, information, about it?

They probably got material from “Duct Rats” who died the citadels ducts as captain Bailey said some go missing or fall into the protein vats

....this is pretty effed up here. This is seriously twisted. In all honesty, I knew most of this but didn't fully connect the dots. This was one time that someone used the cliché 'you'll never look at (blank) again the same' was 💯% correct!! Loved it.👍🏿👍🏿

Well i knew why i always called em "Creepers" instead of Keepers.^^

"The citadel is made from people..." Soylent green anyone?

Which dlc do you awaken a protheon?

Has anyone ever told you that if you talked slower, you'd sound like Maude Flanders?

Even if Chorban's info was outdated, he still made an effort to save the Milky Way's races!

Given how drudging players find it to scan the Keepers, the Catalyst likely made that intentionally difficult to discourage races learning about them.

Geez dude what’s up with the creepy slander? Lol

keepers? more like, kreepers…

Not really. MASSIVE spoilers ahead..

The citadel is a relay. In fact, it is the only (known) relay that is accessible to dark space.

This vid is based on the presupposition that the presidium’s MER is the beacon(/conduit 👀👀) for the reapers to return from dark space, this is false

The MER on the presidium was the last(ish) achievement of the prothean empire-a way to access the citadel that didn’t rely on reaper tech (unlike all other MER’s we see), for the explicit reason of curbing the next (our) cycle’s harvest.

@Paragonseven I’m not sure if I’m missing something, but I thought this was covered pretty expensively in the first game..

Imagine being in the sonic shower in your unit in one of the Citadel Ward's when suddenly a Keeper waltzes in and starts working on the toilet!

You heard of fossil fuels, but have you heard of fossil concrete?

Curious if the Rachni Queen could sing and communicate with the Keepers

If you like the ME storyline, you'll love the book A Fire Upon the Deep...which is basically where ME ripped the storyline from (but the book is way deeper)

As a molecular biologist, it's hard to velieve for me that no-one was ever able to study keeper biology. Wherever they go, they would leave organic material like cells behind. So why not study that? That's probably a point the developers didn't consider.

Misunderstanding of the conduit aside, the Citadel itself structurally being the same as a reaper makes a ton of sense.

So, then, they are the Reapers' Keepers.

Jeepers.

This could explain Shepard's dreams, though. With the ability to process all those bodies, the catalyst can use prothean genetic telepathic communication compatible with a human mind. Is there any event in the series where keepers might have gained access to Shepard's DNA? Or was anything from the keepers or protheans used in project Lazarus? Medigel? It could also explain so many actions of those on the citadel: the council's refusal to believe, failed corrupt diplomats, etc: they are a form of indoctrination, but a different flavor than the reapers, just as the citadel just might be a different flavor of reaper, itself.

I thought the Reapers were made by the Leviathans?

Thanks for putting basically a spoiler in the video thumbnail...even if it's a old game. 👎

Long time mass effect fan, never heard this! wow!

Correction to the how the Reapers arrive from dark space: they use the Citadel as a mass relay instead of the Relay monument. The Keepers still signal them when to arrive, which the Protheans halted using the Conduit, which the Prothean scientists created.