Possible Genophage problem

I had forgotten about the 1 in 1,000 birthrate. Well, I feel embarrassed now. Regardless, thank you for clearing that up, Hanako Ikezawa.

It's also possible that many of the krogan coming aren't along with "colonization" on their minds. There are four arks, none of which are krogan. The krogan contingent of Ai could be made up of many mercenary-minded krogan. It will be interesting learning what the "typical" mindset is, if there is one predominant enough to be deemed such.

As to the "four arks" part of my comment, it is true that if any species could make a go at colonization with suboptimal numbers, it would likely be the krogan. Without their ridiculous, pre-Genophage birthrate, though, it would be tough. Each ark carries around 20K colonists. That's enough to colonize 2 extremely viable worlds, or one viable world, according to the (likely crackpot) real world planetary colonization stuff I've recently read. I'm betting that BioWare read some of the same mumbo jumbo when writing MEA.

So, how many krogan came to Andromeda? We have no idea. Likely not more than 10K. They could, theoretically, establish a colony with those numbers, as Hanako Ikezawa said. If they were determined colonists, though, they couldn't be our primary weapons and meat shields against indigenous threats; and those are the only real reasons any sane people would bring krogan along on an excursion like this.

I hope and suspect that the krogan of Andromeda will be given a chance of their own to climb out from under their dark legacy. I don't know if that will mean a cure, or not. I think it would be a mistake, narratively, to throw away all the juicy conflicts and animosities that we've just recovered. If we're going to again heal all of those old wounds, I think it should be via gradual processes, and feature unique, Andromeda stories.

I don't know, just because you heal all the old wounds does not mean you heal the...feelings.  Had the next game took place in the MW in a post Reaper World it would have been very interesting to see what new conflicts would have resulted in the Krogan having the genophage cured.  Hell I fan ficked about it. 

I agree the potential for a repeat is high in terms of actual... what the heck am I doing? But since Priority Tuchanka was my favorite mission from the OT (heh we can use that term now I suppose) I am looking forward to any potential 'cure the genophage arc' that will be in the game.  

The lore is a bit fuzzy on exactly how the genophage works. Apparently it was not designed to reduce fertility but to reduce the number of viable pregnancies:
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Genophage

However, there are regular references in the Trilogy to 'fertile females', which suggests that the genophage worked by making most females infertile. The female warlord Shaigur is described as being one of the 'few remaining fertile females':
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Shiagur

If that is in fact how ithe genophage works then the Krogan who go to Andromeda are probably destined to die out if the genophage isn't somehow cured. They would be lucky to even have one or two fertile females among their number.

Lol ok, bad example, but the point still stands.

Curing the krogan of genophage in a 'virgin' galaxy is an absolutely atrocious idea for all the other milky way races, probably the natives too.

I was wondering whether the "Future of Our People" quest might not be fertilized eggs or something.

That's right. My Shepard never cured it nor has any reason to cure it

nope because ME3 does not exist in this game.  Hell some might say (in fact the majority) that's a very good thing.

Yep lets take Krogan to Andromeda because........Reasons.

THere's only so much space magic one can handle.

What if there's a way to cure genophage in Andromeda?

The game informer article says that the state of the Genophage will be addressed in Mass Effect Andromeda