So, Mass Effect Galaxy reveals something interesting...

Good question but none of them seem to have embassies so they're some serious client races with very little to offer.

I think I can link a couple of them up to more detailed concept art from the art books. What I find interesting is that there are quite a few new races there on top of the 4 that we know of but don't know the appearance of (Lystheni, Kirik, Raloi, Virtual Aliens). There are also hints in other places, such as the turian Hierarchy having auxiliary units formed from their client races, one of which is the Volus, and the races from the Terminus Systems that Dr. Vanity mentioned above. The modder in me wonders what can be done about them, could a model of one or two of them be snuck into the background somewhere on the Citadel, just as a hint towards how vast the number of races are.

When it comes to embassies.. do we really know that they don't have any? I mean, we've only ever seen a small part of the Citadel, it could be that they have their embassies elsewhere on the Presidium.

I really wish Bioware would create a lore tome like the Chronicle volumes, so we can get vastly detailed lore on the Milky Way galaxy.

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This guy could be the one begging on the floor, they've got a similar leg and arm structure.

To be fair, the quarians lost their embassy. I get the feeling that client species don't often get embassies or at least, they don't get embassies that directly deal with the Council but may have smaller embassies that instead deal primarily with the races that they are clients to. So some of these species could be clients of the Turians, so they may end up dealing with the turian embassy, before their issues go further up the chain to the Citadel. Sadly we didn't get to see more of the embassies, I'd have liked to have seen the Hanar one.

And the Raloi, I really wanted to see them, and the Virtual Aliens. Such a missed opportunity.

That was the War on Taetrus, really interesting Cerberus Daily News storyline. I've done a lot of research on those news stories for my mod, heh.

I think you're right about consulate, and I'm pretty sure there are more client races than just the volus. I remember reading that part of why the Relay 314 incident was kept so quiet by the turians was that they were attempting to turn humans into another client race by annihilating the military. Really need to find more info on it, maybe the novels have some?

The vorcha have no embassy but there is a sub-group that look to the Asari who guided them into more gentle ways than the main group on the home planet Heshtok. This group's interest is represented by the Asari. 

The Raloi withdrew from any interaction with the rest of the galaxy after learning of the Reaper threat, destroying their own technologies to prevent their own demise / invasion of their homeworld. I think they should not be counted as part of the advanced races since they chose to isolate themselves, kicking themselves back into the stone age.

Or the yahg.  It was specifically pointed out that their homeworld was untouched by the Reapers.

The yahg didn't really interact with the Citadel. They were confined to their homeworld for killing the Council first contact team. Sure, there were those ones the salarian were trying to uplift, but I think it's clear the planet itself remained pre-spaceflight. And, like I said, we know for a fact that the Reapers were ignoring the yahg homeworld. Also, we know the protheans had contact with the asari during their cycle, even genetically altering them. Also had contact with humans, hanar, turians and salarians. Yet, they were all left alone.

I thought it was always clear that there are way more races in the ME universe then we are shown. The ones we deal with are just the moost powerful ones around.

But even in the first Mass Effect it's mentioned a couple of times that e.g. "dozens of races" live on the Citadel (I think it's Barla Von who mentions it).

Also, remember that only 1% of the galaxy is explored and there are many unopened relays out there. Hell, for all we know, there might be an entire second interstellar community out there (although, I will admit, the apparent focus of the reapers on us during ME3 and the fact that we can at least chart systems with very powerful telescopes makes this highly unlikely).

There would still be so much to discover in the Milky Way. Gian Garson was crazy spending all those resources on going to Andromeda.

True!



Okay, I've been making a mod for awhile and after some careful consideration, I've decided to add two war assets to the game using the picture in the opening post; one will represent the unknown races that have a place (however small) on the Citadel, and the other will represent the those alien factions we haven't seen that exist in the Terminus Systems. In this way, I'll eventually have represented every single race in Mass Effect 3 by the time I'm finished. But I have a problem, although I will find it easy to write their war asset description, I have the serious issue of what to name the two war assets. Naming things has always been my greatest weakness with creative writing, so I was hoping that someone out there could help throw some suggestions my way.

My thought is that the assets will represent the militaries of these unknown lesser races, all lumped together into a single war asset.

Cheers for the suggestions! My only issue is that they feel like they're just describing that there are races out there, rather than an actual asset they're bringing to the war. Even so, more ideas I get then the better the chosen name will be.

But that was the naming convention. Like, after the Ex-Cerberus Scientists mission you get a war asset titled "Jacob Taylor". We also have "Shadow Broker Support Team", "Quarian Heavy Fleet", "Krogan Clans", etc. The names aren't flashy. It's more the description of the asset that would requirement the work.

Just keeping it in line with other things..."Kasumi Goto" also doesn't say what the asset is.  It's exactly the same as "Minor Citadel Races".  In both cases, a description provides more information.