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I agree, and I said as much in one of my earlier posts. 

The three biggest dick moves pulled during the Reaper war, by people who should be allies and working together to stop the Reapers would have to be, in order from greatest to least

1. The Asari hiding the beacon

2. The Salarians for with holding ships because of Shepard's choice to work with the Krogan; though that was more the cartoonishly racist Dalatress, and the rest of the Salarian government eventually blows her off.

3. Wrex backing out on his promise of support until the Genophage is cured.


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And while the Krogan issue is ranked lower on the overall list, I would still argue that at the time that the Tuchunka arch was going down, it was vitally more important. Sure the Prothean beacon was crucial to finishing the Crucible and actually defeating the Reapers, and that Salarian ships would have come in handy, but the fact of the matter was that the Turians need Krogan boots on the ground in order to free up their navy to help in other areas of the war.

Without the support of the Krogan, Palaven would have fallen, and all the Prothean beacons in the world and all the Salarian navies wouldn't have helped much since the Reapers would have broken the only fighting force able to ensure that the bigger problems got dealt with; namely the protection and escorting of the Crucible to the Citadel.

 In the USA when two guys who are very close but not related we often start to call each other brother.  Bro is also used by frat house members to be reference to each other because everyone is a bro.

She says that a sour yellow note was the cause of discord among the Rachni, but she doesn't use that point as a crutch when dealing with Shepard. Indeed, she even says that "I will sing to my children of your forgiveness" should she be freed in ME 1 pointing to the notion that she knows what the earlier Rachni did was wrong, mind control or not, and that she will take the opportunity at a fresh start in order to not let history repeat itself; i.e. she acknowledges the sins her species committed in the past and absolves to correct them moving forward. Now there is some debate on whether Shepard should have been the one to make that choice, but he/she does. And once freed, the Rachni are never wavering in their promise of support, even after all her children are zombified and she has been held captive for at least six months.



Wrex and your average Krogan, on the other hand, don't bother to look at what they did leading up to the Genophage deployment. Instead it's all biased in their favor how the evil galaxy wanted to be a dick and sterilized the poor, blameless Krogan for no reason. You don't see any Krogan going back and looking at the action their species committed during the Rebellions and think to themselves that maybe, just maybe the Krogan were being colossal dicks in their own right?

From the hunting of other sapient aliens for sport, to the eating alive of captured Salarian soldiers, to redirecting asteroids against multiple (as in more than one) Turian garden worlds; an alien race not even part of the government the Krogan were rebelling against mind you; which to this day are still uninhabitable, to the widespread ecological disasters they turned any planet they held into, etc. The Krogan were far from blameless, and it's not like those actions are so far removed from their collective memories as to be a moot point either. Wrex was either a child when the Rebellions happened or born shortly afterwards, hell the Patriarch on Omega is a veteran of the Rachni Wars fought over 2,000 years ago, they don't have the weight of numerous generations to insulate them from what happened, many still living actually partook in the hostiles and, in a sense, are just living out their own prison sentence.  

Does Wrex take any of those facts into consideration when he blunders ahead for the cure? No, of course not. It's all, the Krogan were unjustly attacked and now the rest of the galaxy needs to pay them back for the wrongdoing, and anyone who feels otherwise is just a racist bigot. 

As for the galaxy not caring about the Krogan, that's another biased falsehood. What about the foodstuffs the Turians regularly send to Tuchunka? What about the Shroud that keeps their self-inflicted radioactive dustball even remotely livable; those little patches of green we see in ME 3? The Krogan can thank the Salarians for that. If the galaxy truly didn't care about the Krogan why would they waste time and resources keeping them alive? It's this refusal to acknowledge the parts they played in the past that helped lead to their current predicament that points to their species not learning anything, not maturing, not being willing to step into and become a part of greater galactic society; Wrex's sudden demand for the Genophage cure during the middle of a Reaper invasion and damn the consequences is just the tip of the iceberg. 


The whole situation surrounding the Tuchuka arc in ME 3 is like an apartment complex that is on fire. Its to the point that everyone is in danger of losing all that they own, some maybe even losing family members still trapped inside, and you are asking everyone to help. One tenant says yes, in fact he has a specialized water pump that should help make things easier for the firefighters working to put out the blaze and promises to be there. Yet when he shows up, he demands that you and the other tenants pay him for the use of his water pump otherwise he wont help. Sure he says that the money is for his family, as they are without, but that doesn't change the fact that he broke his promise and is being obstinate at the worst possible time. Do you think anyone will look highly on him, or his family for that matter, once everything is settled after a stunt like that?

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100% agreement.  I never understood why Shepard didn't just tell Anderson he was leaving Cerberus the instant he stepped foot on the Citadel.  This could fit firmly in the "things that don't make sense" thread.

I never really got Cerberus' whole mission statement about securing the advancement and superiority of humanity, especially when compared to how humanity as a whole was depicted in the setting. They and organizations like Terra Firma seemed rather redundant actually.

In no area of galactic society is humanity ever seen as lacking, let alone being an underdog. We are economically outpacing the Volus (creators of the galactic economy) flying circles around the Turians in military acumen and development (the military arm of the galaxy) the Slarians are green with envy at our technological advances (the resident mad scientists of the galaxy) even the Asari are impressed with our ability to enact diplomatic change, as well as our biotic potential (the great orators and space wizards of the galaxy). Etc. We have a Citadel embassy in less than thirty years, while races like the Elcor and Volus had to wait over a century; and we get our very own office to boot! Less than thirty years as part of galactic society and the Council is already considering humanity as a Sepctre candidate, and we end the first game with a human Council member, potentially even an entire human led Council. How does any of that paint our species as being at the bottom of the totem pole in galactic society?

If anything the Elcor, Hanar and Volus are the underdogs we should be rooting for.


It just seems rather underwhelming when you have this pro-human terrorist organization going on and on about how we need to ensure humanity is dominate in the galaxy when we already are.

I'm completely opposed to any of the Mass Effect games being "remastered". You might as well colorize Citizen Kane.

Grunt, if he is indeed supposed to be a shining example of the genetically perfect Krogan his 'Father' Okeer claims, doesn't speak overly well for the rest of his species in the combat department.

Case in point, he is nearly killed fighting a handful of Ravengers. Ravengers. Rachni zombies that have had their arms, claws and teeth-filled faces ripped off by the Reapers in favor of long range weaponry; weapons totally ineffective at anything even resembling close range. This 'tank born' is sent to the hospital in critical condition after fighting these monsters after screaming "I AM KROGAN!" and we're supposed to cheer him on, or feel impressed? Yeah, so much for Krogan prowess.

Had he been up against actual Rachni Brood Warriors he would have been ripped to little bloody shreds before he could even get halfway through his species' collective tagline.

Last time I checked you could fire a cannon off at point blank range. Particularly when the cannon is sentient and has no sense of self preservation.

The aid that clan Urdnot and other clans can provide is not worthless, but it's inadequately exaggerated by story and especially war assets system.
Both Wrex and Wreav prematurely brag after fighting some husks at the Hollows:
They'll sing battle-songs about this someday. Reaper blood has finally soaked our soil.
And so it begins! History will show that Clan Urdnot drew first Reaper blood.
With such bluster and sense of entitlement there is gonna be repeat of post-Rachni wars' situation, no doubt. But that's another topic.