Mass Effect 3: From Ashes DLC Review (Empty Lifebar)
"Fifty-thousand years ago the Reapers, a race of sentient machines bent on destroying all advanced civilizations, brought down the Prothean Empire. The Prothean Empire spanned the known galaxy, but were ultimately no match for the Reapers. To the knowledge of Commander Shepard and everyone else in the modern galaxy, the Protheans went extinct."
