TFHS Codex

by Octo8

This is supposed to become a codex of various biological and cultural features of the different sapient races in the ME universe as per the TFHS 'canon'. Mostly, it's an exercise in worldbuilding without much relevance to the story.

1. Introduction

TFHS Codex of the Galactic Species

Another addition to the TFHS 'family' of fics, this will be a codex of sorts for the universe, giving biological and cultural details for the various species of the galaxies. While there strictly speaking is no need for it, I have at times established an alternate canon, especially of course in the case of how the quarians look, and besides, worldbuilding is fun. Also, it is easier to work off of a consistent standard of how people look and how they work and function.

Nonetheless, most of this codex will consist of ridiculously obscure points and high-grade world building nerdery, without much actual relevance to the story. Also, like the in-game codex, it isn't strictly necessary to read it: All information actually necessary to understand the story will be revealed in the story itself.

This codex will only cover the biology and culture of species, and not events, weapons, vehicles or anything else of that sort, at least not for now. Also, it will be far more unordered than the in-game codex. The various chapters will all have a single species as topic, and will practically only be lists of bullet points, though some of those are quite long. This is necessary, because I will most likely constantly edit chapters to add in new information - though already written informations stands and will not be retconned. Or, at least, I'll try to have it be that way.

Also, some points will be slightly silly, or I may not have the necessary knowledge to present them in a 'professional' formulation, or I might simply feel like commenting some stuff. Hence, parts of the codex will be written in the form of comments by me, which will be in italic and surrounded by [ ] parentheses.

Naturally, given the story, the first chapter will be about the quarians, and it will be the by far most extensive one. To give a better orientation, comparison to how certain senses or anatomic specifics work in humans will be frequent, and will be repeated every chapter anew, so that you do not have to look up the first chapter just to get those comparison values.

And no, this doesn't really cut into my writing time for the story itself, it's just something I do on the side when ideas hit me. So, have fun!