Description
Game mass effect 3
Galaxy Milky way
Commissioned by me art by mattis
RL011
Race Designation: Lugoth
Universal Range: Milky Way Galaxy
Original Habitat: Tohuum
Lifespan: Unknown
Sex: Male/Female
Size: 251 feet to 578 feet
Diet: Carnivorous
Communication: Telepathic
Notes: In the early days of the Milky Way Galaxy, before the first forms of life had first appeared on Earth, a race of being that would come to be known as gods emerged on the planet Tohuum. Evolving in the depths of the planet’s vast ocean, the lugoth came to be known as gods by a sapient race that lived on the planet’s single continent, not only because of their vast size but also their immeasurable intellect and their ability to control and dominate their minds. The lugoth made the most out of this situation over the millennia, using said race as “tools” to develop the technology that their minds had come up with. This eventually resulted in the lugoth taking to the stars and expanding all across the Milky Way Galaxy. During their expansion, they encountered many primitive species, which, like the race on their own world, began to worship them as gods. Though viewing themselves as superior to these other races, they took an interest in them, and, In exchange for worship and tribute (which normally including a portion of the planet’s resources, as well as a percentage of their population to serve as their “tools”), offered them protection. With no other race capable of standing up to them, they soon took control of the entire galaxy, though they largely kept to themselves, choosing to let certain thralls, whom they controlled telepathically, to serve as their mouthpieces on the various worlds they controlled. For millions of years, they ruled as deities, watching innumerable races rise and fall in what seemed, to them, as the blink of an eye. However, little did they know, that these gods would soon become the architects of their own Ragnarok.
Character Notes: It had all happened so fast. It was supposed to save their thrall species from their own destruction. And yet, the Intelligence that they’d constructed now viewed them, more specifically, their technological prowess, as the greatest threat to the continuity of life. The attack on Tohuum had been quick and decisive, a never before seen act of deicide. Those that managed to survive the onslaught retreated across the galaxy, though few were able to escape the Harbinger. As far as Soklos knew, the few that had escaped with him to a distant world were all that remained. Great effort had been taken to hide their existence – using their thralls to remove all traces of their existence – but fear of their creation still filled the young lugoth. And yet, they survived, keeping an eye on the galaxy through organic “artifacts” to ensure that none would discover them. As the ever expanding reapers wiped the galaxy clean of space-faring thralls over millions of years, the lugoth remained secluded on their world, content to let this bloody cycle continue on for eternity. That is, until the latest invasion of the reapers, when members of the Task Force Aurora, a group wihtin the Systems Alliance, desperate to find anything that could give them and edge against the invaders, began uncovering clues of their existence. Wanting to maintain his race’s secrecy, Soklos, now one of the few surviving lugoth from the time before the reapers, took control of the head of the task force’s assistant, killing the doctor before he could reveal what he had discovered. However, a rather persistent human, Commander Shepard, eventually uncovered their location, despite their many attempts to dissuade him, through tracing the signal of one of their artifacts. Upon arriving at their lair, deep within the oceans of the planet, Shepard was confronted by Soklos, who isolated both of them within Shepard’s mind. Projecting himself as multiple people that had been enthralled by him and his fellow lugoth during Shepard’s investigation into them, he explained their race’s history to him. Shepard asked for help from the lugoth, but Soklos and the others weren’t impressed, believing that none could defeat the reapers, and instead planned to keep the commander as their servant and let the reapers continue their harvest. However, Shepard pointed out the reapers now knew of their existence and that they could no longer afford to remain in isolation. Realizing that the reapers feared Shepard for defeated Sovereign and the Collectors, the other lugoth revealed themselves, agreeing to aid the galaxy in the war.
Universal Range: le resulted in many casualties, and the galaxy was left in ruin, but, from that ruin, life continued on, at long last free from the reapers. As for the lugoth, no one really knows what became of them; they vanished not long after, without so much as a trace. Some say they left for other worlds, while others suspect they might be enthralling the galaxy once more, even influencing the second trip to the Andromeda Galaxy, with none the wiser. Only time will tell, and they certainly have a lot of time on their hands.