Eden Prime

Location from Mass Effect by BioWare

Humanity's showcase colony — beautiful, Earth-like, and the first place the Reapers struck in ME1, because it was also where a Prothean Beacon was buried.

Eden Prime was humanity's proof of concept: that humans could establish a functioning, beautiful, thriving colony in alien space. Three million colonists, mostly in agriculture. A planet so good at being a paradise that it became a symbol. Sovereign chose it as the target for the Prothean Beacon because the Beacon was there. The geth attack that opened ME1 was not random — it was the beginning of the play to acquire the Beacon and open the Conduit. The colony was acceptable collateral. This is the first lesson ME1 teaches about the Reapers: they don't consider most of what happens in their wake.

Appearance

A garden world with genuine Earth-like beauty — rolling green fields, blue sky, Earth-analogous flora. The colony buildings are clean and modern. After the geth attack at the opening of ME1, the landscape has burn marks and corpses and geth husks on pikes in the fields, which remains one of the more effective opening images in RPG history.

Also known as: Eden Prime

What They Know

• Humanity's largest and most successful colony; established close to Inner Council Space borders as a deliberate showcase of human capability
• Population approximately 3.7 million in 2183, mostly in agriculture; the planet is a genuine Earth-equivalent garden world
• A Prothean Beacon was buried here 50,000 years ago; its discovery triggered the events of ME1
• The geth attack at the opening of ME1 devastated the colony; only the farms were rebuilt in the two years between ME1 and ME2
• A Prothean stasis bunker beneath the surface was meant to hold millions of survivors; it held hundreds by the time the Reapers reached it, and only one survived to 2186

Connections

• contains — prothean_beacon

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