Post by LoonySpectre on Dec 22, 2020 6:55:12 GMT
Came up with a few yesterday and had to share.
Icterus turiana (turian jaundice): mild liver damage due to long-term exposure to thulium in turians' skin. Exists in humans only theoretically as a part of the model introduced by Mordin Solus in his relationship recommendations for Shepard.
Pyjak spotted plague: zoonotic illness occasionally jumping to krogan on Tuchanka. In the first 10 years after the genophage deployment, Krogan medics wrote off the stillbirths as a side effect of the latent form of the disease, which led to several pyjak extermination campaigns.
Salarian paratyphoid: human disease caused by Salmonella-like bacteria parasitizing on salarian eggs. The only known outbreak happened at one of Donovan Hock parties at Bekenstein; Hock bought a clutch of salarian eggs from smugglers, who got them as a part of debt settlement of a salarian family, and ordered a delicacy made of raw egg yolks. They managed to keep things quiet, and the Citadel Council learned nothing, but the salarian government forbade salarians from ever using their eggs as a collateral.
Deinococcus rannochensis is an extremophile bacterium, one of the few that lived on Rannoch. It was in a symbiotic relationship with quarians, but then became a parasite on metallic bodies of geth, causing corrosion. Heretic geth, in trying to prove the necessity of turning to the Old Machines for help in the Consensus, cited D. rannochensis, which they dubbed as "Vengeance of the Creators", as one of the reasons to do so.
Lactobacillus immaculatum is the smallest living creature asari can get offspring from. They are a part of vaginal microbiota of roughly 3 percent of all asari, and they can spontaneously initiate melding during particularly intense stimulation of pleasure centers. Such "immaculate conceptions" were a major social stigma in the early days of asari civilization, and families usually tried to find a fake "father" in case of such pregnancy. Self-pleasure was also strongly discouraged for that reason until scientists found the bacterial nature of this phenomenon. Now, all asari are recommended to undergo screening for L. immaculatum if they want to indulge in self-pleasure, and if the test is positive, to undergo a short course of antibiotic treatment.
Icterus turiana (turian jaundice): mild liver damage due to long-term exposure to thulium in turians' skin. Exists in humans only theoretically as a part of the model introduced by Mordin Solus in his relationship recommendations for Shepard.
Pyjak spotted plague: zoonotic illness occasionally jumping to krogan on Tuchanka. In the first 10 years after the genophage deployment, Krogan medics wrote off the stillbirths as a side effect of the latent form of the disease, which led to several pyjak extermination campaigns.
Salarian paratyphoid: human disease caused by Salmonella-like bacteria parasitizing on salarian eggs. The only known outbreak happened at one of Donovan Hock parties at Bekenstein; Hock bought a clutch of salarian eggs from smugglers, who got them as a part of debt settlement of a salarian family, and ordered a delicacy made of raw egg yolks. They managed to keep things quiet, and the Citadel Council learned nothing, but the salarian government forbade salarians from ever using their eggs as a collateral.
Deinococcus rannochensis is an extremophile bacterium, one of the few that lived on Rannoch. It was in a symbiotic relationship with quarians, but then became a parasite on metallic bodies of geth, causing corrosion. Heretic geth, in trying to prove the necessity of turning to the Old Machines for help in the Consensus, cited D. rannochensis, which they dubbed as "Vengeance of the Creators", as one of the reasons to do so.
Lactobacillus immaculatum is the smallest living creature asari can get offspring from. They are a part of vaginal microbiota of roughly 3 percent of all asari, and they can spontaneously initiate melding during particularly intense stimulation of pleasure centers. Such "immaculate conceptions" were a major social stigma in the early days of asari civilization, and families usually tried to find a fake "father" in case of such pregnancy. Self-pleasure was also strongly discouraged for that reason until scientists found the bacterial nature of this phenomenon. Now, all asari are recommended to undergo screening for L. immaculatum if they want to indulge in self-pleasure, and if the test is positive, to undergo a short course of antibiotic treatment.