Are the rachni a hive mind?

The rachni, a species of spacefaring insects guided by a hive-mind intelligence, evolved on Suen, a planet tidally-locked to its red dwarf star. Life developed in a habitable terminator zone between hemispheres that were constantly scorched or perpetually frozen.
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What is the rachni Homeworld?

Suen, the rachni homeworld, is tidally locked to the system's red dwarf. With one side constantly bombarded by the sun and the other completely frozen, life evolved in the terminator, the perpetual twilight zone between Suen's two extremes.
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Is the Rachni Queen indoctrinated?

She is located on Utukku, deep within a perversion of a rachni hive filled with Reaper technology. Her young are indoctrinated and converted into Ravagers for the Reapers' forces.
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What happens if you let rachni live?

The Rachni Queen in Mass Effect 2

If she lives, she'll speak to Shepard on Illium through an asari (similarly to how they speak in Mass Effect 1) and relay her gratitude as well as promise to help Shepard against the incoming “darkness;” the Reapers.
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Are rachni the keepers?

In addition to this, the keepers who maintain the Citadel were either engineered from the same original species that the rachni were created from, or in the case that the rachni are the original, the keepers are altered rachni like the Collectors are for the Protheans.
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What Happens if You Bring TALI and JAVIK To the RACHNI Hive in Mass Effect 3? (Unique Dialogue)



Did the Reapers cause the rachni war?

It is postulated that another party, possibly the Reapers, manipulated the rachni into starting the Rachni Wars. When confronting the Rachni Queen on Noveria, she will explain to Commander Shepard that she was unaware of why the rachni went to war against the galaxy.
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Should I spare the Rachni Queen?

Overall, the best decision is to save the Rachni Queen. She offers more benefits to having saved her in Mass Effect 1 than killing her. When she appears again in Mass Effect 3, and you choose to save her from the nest, she becomes a superb asset.
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Does Grunt survive the rachni?

If Shepard chose to spare either queen, Grunt dies if his loyalty wasn't secured prior to the suicide mission. If Shepard chose to abandon either queen, Grunt survives regardless of his prior loyalty, limping out of the rachni nest all bloody and asking for something to eat.
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Should I save Aralakh company or rachni?

Rachni Queen

If you leave the rachni to die, you will gain Aralakh Company as a war asset worth 25 points, but no rachni assets. If you choose to rescue the original queen from Noveria, Aralakh Company will suffer grievous losses in the holding action, reducing their strength by 25 points.
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Can you save matriarch Benezia?

Fortunately, Benezia is on her own for the final phase, so avoid her biotic attacks and lay your own at her to bring her down. Even though she can briefly be her former self, she knows she can't escape Saren's mind control as long as she's still alive.
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Does the Rachni Queen betray you?

If you enlist the help of the Clone Rachni Queen: the clone isn't the same Rachni Queen, and ultimately will betray you. You initially get 100 points of Rachni support for the war; but ultimately they turn on you later in the game, and an email will reveal that they have fleed.
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What happens if you save the Rachni Queen in me3?

In Mass Effect 3, if you saved the Rachni Queen, she will be captured by the Reapers. However, unlike most other sentient beings, she is resistant to the Reaper indoctrination, and thus proves useless to them. She is kept in shackles, and you must lead an assault on the base where she is kept in order to free her.
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Can Grunt be saved me3?

Completing the ritual allows Grunt to become a member of Clan Urdnot. This Loyalty mission cannot be failed, so as long as players completed it, Grunt should remain Loyal to Shepard. This ensures that, no matter the player's decision during Attican Traverse: Krogan Team, Grunt will survive.
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Are rachni sentient?

Should their territory be invaded on purpose or even by accident, they respond with swift and brutal force. However, many make the mistake of underestimating the rachni as mindless animals when in fact the rachni are an extremely intelligent sentient species.
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What race is the Shadow Broker?

The Shadow Broker is revealed to be a member of a pre-spaceflight race called the yahg. Liara surmises that because the yahg were not discovered until 2125 CE and the Broker's ship is considerably older than that, this yahg usurped the original Shadow Broker years ago and has been running the organization ever since.
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What did the Protheans look like?

Baseline Prothean physical appearance Protheans are an anthropoidal race. They have two pairs of eyes with each eye possessing dual pupils, and three pairs of nostrils. Much like turians, Protheans have a similar flanging effect in their voices. Their eyes have some ability to see through cloaked objects or entities.
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Can you save mordin and cure the Genophage?

During Mass Effect 3's main story mission “Priority: Tuchanka,” Mordin will need to stay behind in the exploding Shroud tower in order to successfully disperse a cure for the Genophage. Under the majority of playthrough scenarios, there is no way for Mordin to survive the blast and he will die as a result.
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Who replaces Grunt in me3?

[Grunt] will survive the heroic sacrifice and return as a war asset (25). Show activity on this post. Grunt is replaced by Urdnot Dagg.
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Is Grunt immune to Genophage?

Grunt is a genetically engineered tank-bred Krogan super soldier. He is the pinnacle of Krogan evolution, possessing the traits of the greatest of Krogan Warlords. Grunt is excessively violent, loving nothing more than a good fight. Unlike most Krogan, Grunt is immune to the effects of the genophage.
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How do you Grunt in Mass Effect 3?

Grunt appears in the Attican Traverse: Krogan Team Side Mission if he survived Mass Effect 2 and you imported a save.
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Where is Noveria in Mass Effect?

Noveria in Mass Effect 1

She is located at one of the labs known as Peak 15. When the crew land, they dock at Port Hanshan, where there is elevated security.
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How do you get to the hot labs in Mass Effect?

The entrance to the Hot Labs is in the Tram Station of Rift Station, next to the elevator up to Captain Ventralis. You must speak with him in order to gain access to this area.
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Did sovereign start the rachni wars?

We know the Protheans altered the Keepers to prevent the Citadel being used as a relay to dark space, but do we know when Sovereign originally tried to pull the trigger? Because, if the Rachni wars were caused by indoctrination, that likely means that Sovereign tried to start the invasion before then, in the BCEs.
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How did the rachni build ships?

Using the information and star maps of the mass relays, they built their own ships and began their Reaper inspired war of conquest.
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Why did the rachni wars start?

Result. The Rachni Wars were a series of conflicts beginning in approximately 1 CE, when an expedition from the Citadel Council activated a dormant mass relay. This relay opened a route to territory controlled by the rachni, a species of highly intelligent space-faring hive-minded insects.
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