A Guide To Understanding The Mass Effect Timeline
Stare at the Normandy's Galaxy Map for long enough, and it will almost seem to stare straight back at you. It's the depth of Mass Effect's lore in action; every planet has a history, every abandoned ship a story of its own.
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Parsing the meaning of everything, everywhere, is hardly necessary in order to understand Commander Shepard's core war against the nefarious Reapers. But BioWare worked hard to give this series a sense of scale that can only be appreciated in full by those who dive into the Mass Effect mythology.
The timeline of the games and the many important events preceding them can be written large like a novel or shorthanded for far lighter reading. Mass Effect is nothing if not a series of choices, after all. We'll choose the latter route so you can familiarize yourself with the franchise's well-developed timeline in a few minutes flat.
Be advised that this article contains major spoilers for the Mass Effect trilogy.
Over a billion years ago right here in our splendid Milky Way, a race of beings who would later be referred to as as the Leviathans were the galaxy's single apex race. They ruled every other sentient race as best they could, but noted over time that so many of their subject species would inevitably create synthetic life. That synthetic life would invariably rebel against its creators.
The Leviathans create something called the Intelligence with the express purpose of finding a way to preserve sentient life from its own machinations. The Intelligence determines that the only surefire method is to wipe civilizations out entirely when they reach a certain degree of technological prowess. Perceiving the Leviathans as having already surpassed this marker,
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