The problem with Krogan's in Andromeda

The Genophage by itself doesn't doom the krogan to dwindling numbers. That is caused by them living on Tuchanka which is a very hostile world as well as the krogan continuing to fight others and each other. A krogan female can lay a clutch of up to 1000 eggs a year, and the Genophage was designed to have a 1 in 1000 fertility rate, meaning that krogan females should have up to 1 child a year. That puts their numbers no more in danger than humans, even safer since krogan can live to 2000 years at least. So if they find a world that is less hostile than Tuchanka, their numbers will be among the steadiest of all the races.

The better question is, why are the Krogan in Andromeda in the first place?

Either they have the genophage and there is no viable way for small numbers to establish a colony somewhere else (hell, their numbers are dwindling even in the Milky Way and they send fertile females to Andromeda?). If it's tough for the other species to establish colonies with a whole Ark ship full of people, how tough would it be for even less (have no Ark of their own) genophaged Krogan, especially given their usual life style?

If the ones that they send don't have the genophage (are fertile and can reproduce fertile offspring as they are now completely isolated from the non-viable population) and this is their effort to re-establish a healthy offshoot of their civilization somewhere else, why would the council races bring them along in the arcs? Especially the Turians and Salarians see healthy Krogan as a massive threat. They would never just bring them along.

The Krogan themselves have no way of funding a massive project like this. We know for a fact that they have no Ark ship of their own, so they must be attached to the Nexus somehow. But if they didn't help with the funding, what incentive do the other races have to bring any of them along? Given the aggressive nature of the Krogan, they have every reason not to take them.

Also, Krogan have an issue with prolonged space travel, due to their territorial instincts. Even when just transported from one planet to another in the Milky Way, they have to be sedated. Is it really wise to bring those guys along if colonizing planets might be a really long term issue (the whole pathfinder program seems to already imply that the colonists expect to have to do quite a bit of reconnaissance before they can start actually settling a planet. Of course, with everyone being in cryo sleep, they could just wake the Krogan up after a planet was found but again, why take all those risks?

It might (and I stress might) make sense to take a few infertile Krogan as soldiers, bodyguards and to do some grunt work but we've already heard about a Krogan colony ship, so clearly there is more going on.

Don't get me wrong, I love the Krogan and I wouldn't want to miss them in Andromeda but in terms of the lore, the writers will have to bend it into quite a few knots to make the Krogan work with the AI.

I noted the warlike mentality of them to be a reason of their dwindling numbers.

Wrex is much older than that. He was around during the Krogan Rebellions, leading a small clan by the time of the immediate aftermath. We learn this when he talks about his reasons for leaving Tuchanka. So if he was just an adult at that time he would be 1400 years old. Patriarch on Omega is even older, telling stories of not only the Krogan Rebellions but even the Rachni War making him around 2000 years old. I put at least since it is never stated how long they can live, but we have a member of the race who is that old and still alive. 

Okeer is around 1400 years old a well, probably far more if he was already a warlord.

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Even without a cure, the Krogan in Andromeda can eventually adapt to counter-act it's effects.

Due to the Krogan have an extremely resilient and adaptive physiology, they were already starting to overcome the effects of the Genophage shortly before the events of the original trilogy. Mordin's STG team had to be sent to deploy a modified strain to bring the Krogan's birthrates back down to "acceptable levels", so they wouldn't pose a threat.

Without interference and left to their own devices, in about another millennia and a half, Krogan physiology will probably end up adapting to counteract the new strain as well.

On the other hand, since the Salarians have demonstrated the ability to tweak the Genophage, there's no reason they couldn't attempt to create another strain that increases their birthrates slightly, so the Krogan don't have to worry about going extinct due to a dwindling population.

I think the Genophage being uncured makes it more plausible that they'd be taken along. Cured Krogan would be seen as more of a threat than an asset.

Though I'm not sure I totally buy that they'd be taken along anyway. The council races generally seem to have treated the Krogan like crap. I guess they can offer some good survival skills, and the AI probably wasn't overwhelmed with volunteers for such a quixotic mission.

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The proper plural of Krogan is.....Krogan

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Now on to the poll question....

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Or it got the types of volunteers that would require a small army of krogan to keep "sequre".

Well if a single Salarian scientist such as Maleon had created a cure, who's to say one of the brilliant minds behind the AI wouldn't have one? It'll be interesting none-the-less to see how they deal with the Genophage/Krogans.

Still trying to figure out what an "Innicitive" is though.

I could perfectly see the Krogan arriving in Andromeda and seeing it as a fresh chance for their species with some turning hostile and I guess escaping off into some parts of the Heleus Cluster to make their own colonies. They would eventually overcome the Genophage, assuming those taken on the trip with the ARK's were not cured already. Thing is though would the Andromedan Krogans, assuming they actually build an empire of sorts, go back to the Milky Way to help or 'liberate' the other Krogan?

It's pretty curious to think as well that a Krogan could perfectly make the trip to Andromeda and return to the Milky Way in a single life time. I'm sure that kind of longevity would be extremely valuable to the Initiative, aside from Krogans being the perfect shock troops who can adapt to nearly any environment.

Perhaps some Salarian faction with less to no scrupules brought along captured Krogans for further study and experimentation. Trying to control them somehow. Random thought there but as stated by others I cannot see them funding their own ship let alone find enough volunteers to fill it. Also weren't fertile female Krogans rare ? 

Biggest reason for joining is getting paid for merc labour and the chance for breaking heads in a new galaxy. This all makes me wonder if BW is going to retcon stuff. " Surprise ! We had a cure for the Genophage all along. you' ll get it if you join us to Andromeda ! "