I love the strange and weird little mysteries you can find when exploring the galaxy in Mass Effect. This isn’t really a guide, but a collection of some of the interesting bits of lore you come across in the planetary descriptions.
 
 

A Few Thoughts

A good science fiction universe should have plenty of interesting mysteries and lore in it, and Mass Effect certainly delivers. As I travel the galaxy and explore different star clusters, I enjoy reading the descriptions of the planets while searching for another Blue Suns base to storm, or maybe just looking to plant a probe on some of that sweet, sweet eezo.
 
 
Most of the time the descriptions are about the physical properties of the planet, along with whatever is going on there with the space-faring races. Huge technolgical cities, backwater farming colonies, slavers and pirates and miners.
 
 
But every once in a while, you find one with a more intriguing description that hints at deeper mysteries. Very ancient ruins. Strange artifacts. Sailing coffins and Bermuda Triangles.
 
And of course, evidence that the Reaping has been going on for a very long time. Some of it may be remnants of more “normal” wars between space-faring races, or possibly self-eradication…but I think it’s the Reapers.
 
 
They’ve been doing their thing since at least as far back as the Middle Eocene, just when mammals were starting to get a foothold on earth after the eradication of the dinosaurs.
 
 
And how were the dinosaurs eradicated, by the way? A very large impact caused an extinction event, which seems to be a favored method of the Reapers in their post-reaping clean-up operations.
 
 
It does make you wonder.
 
 
Anyway. Below are ten of my favorite Mass Effect 2 “Mysterious Planets”.
 
 
 

Preying Mouth – The Bermuda Triangle of the Terminus Systems

 
 
 

Anjea – Giant Flying Coffins

 
 
 

Vecchio – The Ancient Castaways

 
 
 

Helyme – Homeworld of the Extinct Arthenn

 
 
 

Gaelon – Remnants of Arthenni Tech

 
 
 

Aphras – Deliberate Eradication of a Low Tech Civ

 
 
 

Patsayev – There’s Nothing Here

 
 
 

Gamayun – Ancient Starship of the Flat People

 
 
 

Etamis – A 40 Million Year Old Reaping

 
 
 

Klendagon – The “Glancing Blow” Valley

 
 

 
 
I hope you enjoy the Guide we share about Mass Effect 2 (2010) – Planet Information Guide; if you think we forget to add or we should add more information, please let us know via commenting below! See you soon!