If players decide to kill her, the Rachni Queen will plead with Shepard. If players choose to spare the Rachni Queen, she’ll flee to the wilderness of Noveria and promise Shepard that her children will remember the kindness shown to her by the Commander. Players can choose to let the Rachni Queen go free or kill her. Shepard has to fight through a few rachni to get to Benezia and the Queen, and after talking with the latter must decide her fate. What Binary Helix didn’t realize was that, without the Rachni Queen to shape their minds, the hatched rachni would essentially become feral and untameable. However, once they learned it was a queen that hatched, they used her to continue laying eggs and took her children away from her. They learn she’d initially been incubated and hatched by a company called Binary Helix with the intent of cloning the rachni and making an army. Meeting the Rachni Queen in Mass Effect 1Īfter a particularly sad conversation and final battle with Matriarch Benezia, Mass Effect players meet the Rachni Queen. RELATED: The Best Part of Mass Effect: Legendary Edition's Ending Is That It's Not Over Actions in Mass Effect tend to have a ripple effect, so players ought to know what kind of waves they’re creating when they choose to save or kill the Rachni Queen.
When choosing how to deal with the Rachni Queen on Noveria in Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, it’s important to know how she will (or won’t) return in the following games and the impact she has on them. It’s already been established that killing the Rachni Queen is quite the litmus test, but her impact spans far beyond Mass Effect 1. One of the decisions players make in the first Mass Effect game has lasting effects on the other two games in the series. Part of the appeal of the Mass Effect games is the storytelling found within them and how different actions lead to different outcomes and consequences down the line.
For some players, this is their first encounter with Mass Effect, while other fans are returning to the franchise with full force.
The remaster takes all three of the original games plus most of the DLC and puts it all in one location for players to enjoy. Mass Effect: Legendary Edition released recently and fans have been enthusiastically familiarizing themselves with the world of Mass Effect.