History Characters / MassEffectRaceTropesNativeAndromedaRaces

* LawOfAlienNames: Datapads found in the Exaltation Facility show individual kett do have names. When translated into English, they're largely absent of consonants.

* HasTwoMommies: Due to the way angaran familial structures work, an angara will have multiple mothers, though only one "true" mother. [[https://68.media.tumblr.com/4a2261c4929a87877882042045218dee/tumblr_onjvgm6tdu1s24hhto1_1280.png Text logs on Aya]] also show that same-sex marriage is as much a cultural norm and way of building and joining families as opposite-sex marriage.

* ChildlessDystopia: A bit of dialogue between Drack and Jaal suggests that, rather than simply being a case of HideYourChildren, there really are no biological kett kids. Worse, it's pointed out kett genetic and biotechnology is so advanced they could fix whatever stopped them from reporting normally, but are ''choosing'' to be this way.

* {{Irony}}: The kett consider the Milky Way races a hostile AlienInvasion to the Andromeda Galaxy, doubly ironic given who the Milky Way races are fleeing.

* EvilSoundsDeep: While it's unlikely that the kett are AlwaysChaoticEvil, the kett play an antagonistic role in the story. Every male has a BadassBaritone and every female has a ContraltoOfDanger.

* ProudScholarRaceGuy: The few remaining eealen are nomads who document knowledge and share it with others as they travel the stars.

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: The kett are very militaristic and are trying to subjugate the planet via force. [[spoiler:Those who they feel are fellow Proud Warrior Races are made into more of them.]]

* TheVirus: [[spoiler:Kett exaltation is a genetic process by which their transform those they feel worthy into kett. The exalted retain their personality, but filtered through a ProudWarriorRaceGuy mentality loyal to the rest of the species.]]

* ScaryDogmaticAliens: The kett are a combination of all four types, though they mostly represent "aliens as Nazis". This is due to their charismatic psychopath leader (though [[spoiler: the Archon is not the leader of the entire kett race, just the kett encountered by the Andromeda Initiative]]), practicing [[TheyWouldCutYouUp gruesomely invasive]] [[PlayingWithSyringes scientific procedures]], their deadly ''literal'' work camps and their fixation on genetic purity and superiority. They also represent "aliens as religious fundamentalists" as the exaltation process is considered holy and some of their imagery and titles are directly taken from real-life religions ([[UnfortunateImplications and all that the latter implies]]). They also represent "aliens as conquistadors" as they have come to a new land to convert the native population and often times has had skirmishes with another foreign civilization. They represent "aliens as communists" to a lesser degree only with [[spoiler: the [[CloneByConversion exaltation process]] making all non-kett into kett an example of literal assimilation]].

* ScaryDogmaticAliens: UpToEleven. The kett are a combination of all four types, though they mostly represent "aliens as Nazis". This is due to their charismatic psychopath leader (though [[spoiler: the Archon is not the leader of the entire kett race, just the kett encountered by the Andromeda Initiative]]), practicing [[TheyWouldCutYouUp gruesomely invasive]] [[PlayingWithSyringes scientific procedures]], their deadly ''literal'' work camps and their fixation on genetic purity and superiority. They also represent "aliens as religious fundamentalists" as the exaltation process is considered holy and some of their imagery and titles are directly taken from real-life religions ([[UnfortunateImplications and all that the latter implies]]). They also represent "aliens as conquistadors" as they have come to a new land to convert the native population and often times has had skirmishes with another foreign civilization. They represent "aliens as communists" to a lesser degree only with [[spoiler: the [[CloneByConversion exaltation process]] making all non-kett into kett an example of literal assimilation]].

* KnifeNut: They known to have created the Firaan, a type of wieldable dagger with the highest attack speed of any melee weapon.

* ChildlessDystopia: A bit of dialogue between Drack and Jaal suggests that, rather than simply being a case of HideYourChildren, there really are no biological kett kids. Which raises horrific questions about what they do to angaran children...

* AbsoluteXenophobe: The kett master plan is to kill all non-kett life they can [[spoiler: or turn them into kett]], even including animals. Most, if not all, kett even use the ItIsDehumanizing trope and only use names or titles for the purpose of identification when speaking with or about non-kett.

* NotSoDifferent: FirstContact between the Nexus races and the angara is compared in-universe to first contact between the Citadel races and humans. Like humans, the angara were attacked by the first alien race they ever encountered and thus became hostile towards aliens in general. They've even formed their own Cerberus equivalent.

* NotSoDifferent: The kett's actions and methods for reproduction are directly compared by Lexi and Peebee to be similar to asari. Any child an asari produces with another species will become another asari, meaning it's possible (though greatly improbable) that the asari could assimilate an entire species. While the asari mate via consensual and mutually-loving relationships rather than forced transformation, it's implied in previous games that they have minor {{Glamour}} powers which take over other species' sex drives--again, similar to how transformed kett become fully loyal to the species. And lastly, ''Mass Effect 3'' revealed that the asari used soft manipulation and hegemonic power to force other Citadel species into conforming to their culture and laws, while the kett achieve the same thing with military might.

* SleeperShip: As discovered on Liam's loyalty mission, the kett use these to get about the vast distances of Andromeda. Ryder and Liam are disturbed to realize they're NotSoDifferent from their enemies.

* InTheBlood: The kett are only interested in traits and talents which can be distilled into a genome and then assimilated into the rest of their species. For instance, they show interest in asari reproduction, but dismiss the metaphysical and psychological aspects of it, declaring that [[OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions such things are nonsense]] and that reproduction cannot "be left to chance". It's also evident in the Archon's antagonism towards Ryder. [[spoiler:He at first finds their ability to control Remnant technology, as well as human determination in general, to be worthy of interest and one data console states that he's looking for Ryder to figure out why they exhibit these traits better than the rest of their species. After meeting Ryder, not only does he find out that Ryder's "specialness" is due to an AI implanted in their brain, but that determination is (contrary to belief) ''not'' a genetic trait.]] After this, he loses all interest in Ryder, and later humanity, declaring them unworthy for Exaltation.

* NewerThanTheyThink: In-universe. [[spoiler:After Ryder finds out about the Jardaan, Avela can reveal to Scott that as far as she can determine, angaran history only goes back about a thousand years (for comparison, that's younger than Drack is).]]

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: The angaran habit of acting on their emotions and then dealing with the consequences usually works for them, but sometimes leads to situations like this. [[spoiler:Like Jaal's sister trying to kill her brother out of Roekaar zeal and ''then'' realizing how horrible of an act it was.]]

* FictionalGenevaConventions: The angara have very strict rules of war, which they refuse to break for any reason. There is very little angaran culture left, and so they wish to preserve as much of it as possible. Further, they refuse to stoop the level of the kett, including using inhumane methods of warfare against them. Of course, not every angara agrees with this and it often runs at odds with their emotional impulsiveness -- the kett are so monstrous in their tactics and how they treat captives that many victims completely snap and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge and want nothing more than payback]]..

* HasTwoMommies: Due to the way angaran familial structures work, an angara will have multiple mothers, though only one "true" mother.
** [[https://68.media.tumblr.com/4a2261c4929a87877882042045218dee/tumblr_onjvgm6tdu1s24hhto1_1280.png Text logs on Aya]] also show that same-sex marriage is as much a cultural norm and way of building and joining families as opposite-sex marriage.

* NewerThanTheyThink: In-universe. [[spoiler:After Ryder finds out about the Jardaan, Avela can reveal to Scott that as far as she can determine, angaran history only goes back about a thousand years.]]

** [[https://68.media.tumblr.com/4a2261c4929a87877882042045218dee/tumblr_onjvgm6tdu1s24hhto1_1280.png Text logs on Aya]] also show that same-sex marriage is as much a cultural norm and way of building families as opposite-sex marriage.

** [[https://68.media.tumblr.com/4a2261c4929a87877882042045218dee/tumblr_onjvgm6tdu1s24hhto1_1280.png Text logs on Aya]] also show the angara practice same-sex marriage as a cultural norm and way of building families.

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Most if not all kett can survive in a vacuum, if at least temporarily.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: First contact between the kett and the angara had the kett make peaceful ovetures, before abducting their leaders, leaving the angara confused before they were attacked.

* PlanetLooters: How they act. They show up in an area, take whoever and whatever strikes their interest, then go on to the next place.

* FrickingLaserBeams: Their weapons are almost completely energy based.

* NighInvulnerable: Remnant Architects are completely immune to small arms fire. And possibly heavy arms fire as well. Only their sensory nodes are breakable, and even then their self-repair systems will fix them with time.