Unpopular opinions

I like Miranda. Half the time I want to hug her.

I think that Kasumi and Tali would be adorable together.

100% see it.  It's why while I don't think Jacob is necessarily bad the bad stereotypes are all in place with his father.  The guy abandoned the family and wasn't such a stand-up guy.  His true colors came through.  Moreover, the rest of the crew of the Hugo Gernsback also didn't think he was leadership material.  What was it they were seeing in the guy that made them not trust him right off the bat?  When you combine that with a potential "abandonment" of FemShep, it just adds to it, suggesting that a black man can't stay faithful.  At least they didn't make Dr. Cole white, because that would have just added to the insult.

People can pretend all that want that racism wasn't alive and kicking in the creation of the Taylor Family, but they're just lying to themselves.

You do realize that there were more people then just Ronald taking advantage of women right? Ronald was just second in command then after death of the Captain became the first in command. So unless the officers were entirely black it wasn't just the black guy being the only one. On top of that the entire story of ship wrecked group gets lead by someone who starts off well meaning then twists with the power they get isn't new. Off the top of my head Deep Space 9 had an episode devoted to that.  One of those how can we torture Miles O'Brian episodes.

I tried a bit of a search but were does it say that Ronald abandoned Jacob when he was 13. All I could find is that the ship crashed and Ronald waited a decade to activate the distress signal. Only doing so because he was threatened by the hunters and his little power trip was in danger of being destroyed and him killed.

They set it up for him to be the bad guy and stereotyping him as a deadbeat dad, and a rapist which it's very obvious but I don't expect you to understand.

So black people are never ever rapists or dead beat dads and that is just a racist caricature that holds absolutely 0 basis in reality? That skin color is pretty irrelevant when it comes to who is a dead beat dad and/or rapist because being an ass hole isn't restricted by race, age, religion or sexual orientation.

By your logic KFC is the single most racist company ever because they are nearly global spanning and they force black people who willingly apply to work there to make fried chicken and force other black people who willingly choose to eat there to eat friend chicken. Clearly these millions of black people who eat at this clearly racist for selling friend chicken company are truly the Uncle Ruckus of the black community.

Neither of those problems are relevant to the problem at hand though, namely the Reaper invasion, and imminent extinction.

Even with the Genophage cured, and given new worlds to settle, newborn Krogan aren't going to be anything but a burden on resources during the time it takes them to reach maturity; which if we assume anything close to human development, that would be around twenty years, give or take. Indeed, if we are looking at the Krogan and Rachni solely as cannon fodder, to throw expendable troops into the meat grinder, than the Rachni are still superior seeing as how they are combat ready the moment they hatch, and they have natural weapons and armor on par with modern day equivalents, all of which are not reliant on supply lines.

Aside from that though, as an outside observer like Shepard, or one of the allied leaders who are you going to look more favorably on when it came down to dealing with the Reapers? Are they going to praise the people who dragged their feet, and caused the whole war effort to be placed on hold before they sent any aid? Or are they going to appreciate the ones who immediately joined the fight and fully devoted themselves to the cause, no questions asked? 

Aside from their leader's previous promises of help?

How about in the realization of the fact that being cured of the Genophage is going to make no difference whether it happens now or after hostilities had ended. No children conceived in the days following the cure are going to contribute anything to the current war effort, so the number of living Krogan is a moot point in that regard. Indeed, thinking of the future is all well and good, but only if the galaxy actually succeeds in defeating the Reaper invasion. All these delays and grandstanding gestures for the cure is only letting the those same Reapers better establish footholds in allied space, only gives them more time to wipe out much needed fleets and supply lines etc.  

If you want a better future for your people maybe get involved in the fighting when Shepard and the Turians asked for it, rather than demanding concessions and letting the metal Cuthulu's chip away more and more at the only contested space in the galaxy, and potentially lead to Palaven falling thereby dooming the entire galaxy, including the Krogan, to a slow death of extinction. 



Speaking of thinking ahead, how is the rest of the galaxy going to react when they find out the Krogan could have sent aid, could have helped save millions, perhaps even billions of lives in the time it took us to finish playing doctor with the Genophage cure, but they chose not to? Wrex keeps going on and on about how much the Krogan deserve a second chance, that they are more than what the rest of the galaxy stereotypes them as, but he is actually doing very little to dispel such perceptions. Wrex and his actions come across as more of the same: "Rargh! I am Krogan! Give me what I want or people will die!"

Contrast that with the Rachni Queen, who by all rights shouldn't be involved in the fight; seeing as how she is the last of her entire species, and has a very real possibility of dying in the coming months; who jumps right into the war asking for no restitutions, and expecting none in return. For supposedly just being mindlessly evil space bugs with no redeeming qualities, they are demonstrating a willingness to co-operate and work with other races across the galaxy in spite of their own situation. 

And if the delay caused by the Genophage cure led to the fall of Palaven, the lack of Turian ships to protect and deliver the Crucible to the Citadel, and resulted in the lose of the war to the Reapers than all those Krogan babies would die anyway. So it's okay for Wrex to to jeopardize the very future of the entire galaxy on the off chance that the other species won't keep their word against an invasion force that will kill every advanced sapient in the galaxy should they win? Seems rather petulant behavior for a race that supposedly wants to remove the stereotypes surrounding them.

And BioWare never stated the Rachni were mindlessly evil, but the races in-uinverse did, the Krogan especially. Wrex is all for killing the Queen in ME 1 and openly mocks Shepard for sparing her saying how they have no redemptive qualities. Its rather funny that those boogeymen of the Rachni Wars are more helpful and openly willing to co-operate with the galaxy than the Korgan were.

Yes if a delay did happen that might be bad how ever that kind of what if scenario kind of ignores in game events. Eve and the other fertile females were already cured because of the less then ethical methods of Malon in ME 2. The problem was not the cure but how to apply it without causing the lethal side effects that Eve and the other females were suffering and how to mass spread it to the Krogan population. Wrex knew about the females and knew they had been cured and that STG had been hiding them. That is why he pulled that card when he did.

Also you seem to miss a bit of irony in your complaint. The Rachni Queen is willing to help Shepard only after Shepard secures the Rachni a future. By not killing Queen on Noveria and rescuing her again later. But when the Krogan request the same deal to help only after their future is secured then they will help out you complain. 

The Rachni made no attempt to communicate and killed everyone. The Krogan were uplifted for the specific purpose of killing them and you wonder why a Krogan wouldn't have a very high opinion of them?

Oh I see the distinct parallels between the Krogan and Rachni quite well. Wrex, for being a supposedly 'smart' Krogan, should have easily seen the connection when he encounters the Queen in the Peak 15 facility. A race being used by the others for the sole purpose of warfare, a species clearly intelligent when the Queen begins to communicate, seems quite similar to the Krogan. But no, its immeditly "Kill these monsters!" and "You're a fool for trusting them Shepard!" The same kind of things that can easily be said about his species. He really doesn't do his side any favors when he opens a heated debate by pulling a gun on Shepard on Virmire either, while the Queen only opted to talk. 


And in looking at the "requirements" to get the Rachni to send aid to the galaxy vs. what the Krogan demand is completely lopsided. All the Queen asks is for you to free her, as she is physically incapable of providing help otherwise. Then, once free, she immeditly joins the war effort. Hell, she will even allow herself to die if Shepard feels the Rachni are too dangerous to survive in ME 3, if the player freed her in ME 1, because the Rachni have the foresight to look at the bigger picture. 

Wrex and the Krogan on the other hand aren't being pinned down by Reaper fire, their homeworld isn't crawling with Reaper forces to the extent that Earth and Plaven are. They are completely within their power to help, but they choose not to. And this is all after Wrex's implicit promise of support in ME 2. 

But you seem to miss the very important part about the entire set up between the Krogan and Rachni on Noveria. True their aim with the Queen at that time and that place was to turn her children into weapons of war. How ever during first contact and the resulting Rachni War no one forced the Rachni to have the sole purpose of war.  Wrex's comments are not based on the specific situation there on Noveria but based on the experiences of the Rachni acting of their own free will during the Rachni War.

And I'm sure you will pull up the but the Reaper defense for them. That entire argument is on some fairly sketchy ground because the Queen was able to form a bond with the Huntress who was indoctrinated and knew about Sovereign and the Reapers.  It wouldn't be very hard for anyone to make up an excuse that the Rachni of the past didn't act like that because they choose to but because the Reapers made them.


If your only comparing ME3 events you are only looking at half the picture. If you release the Queen in ME1 then for 2.5 years give or take she is allowed to rebuild the Rachni race.  In essence you cure their genophage. The result of that during the events of ME 3 all you have to do is rescue the queen again for her to pledge support.  The Krogan's Genophage how ever has yet to be cured. And at that point in time Wrex was holding all the cards.  The Turians want Krogan support and the Alliance needs the Turian support which requires the Krogan. 

Wrex is literally only asking for the very thing the Rachni already got. But to you one is perfectly ok and the other is clearly asking to much.