Literature
Mass Effect 3: Reaper
Cycle 12895: approximately 407 million years ago.
This was a unusually weak cycle. There were only two notable species, the philos and the scotians. The latter were a lizardlike people, fond of industry and with little regard for environment concerns. The former were a hybrid of plant and animal, with great care for the balance of nature. The opposing viewpoints of these races led them to come to blows. They were spread a short distance across the galaxy, but there were very few other races in this cycle for them to encounter. This was normal. Cycles with more than a dozen major species were rare, and more difficult to subdue.
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