"New" infos: Grey morality and crafting...

The krogan are free to move as they please but what's obligating the other races to provide the transportation? And if they won't provide the transportation, you have yet to account for how this migration happens.

That's been one angle I've been arguing, sometimes for, sometimes against the cure, that's it's not the bleeding heart mercy some think it is. It's the ultimate Darwinist "sink or swim" option- either the krogan get their shit together or they die. No more meddling, no more taking responsibility for or playing God with another species. Just pure dangerous freedom, with all that entails.

"A few planets" is precisely the kind of the request the Council should be wary of and the kind only an idiot would just go along with, without heavy checks or assurances in place.

As to the rest, if krogan had it in them to build stuff or amusingly, turn to tourism for their sustenance, they would've done it already. But more importantly, we again have to specify where these resources for "building stuff" are all coming from? In a post-Reaper war galaxy where resources to rebuild will already be at a premium for everyone else due to the devastation, who's going to just give the krogan handouts? And if charity's out, what will they barter with? How will they take what isn't given? I'm not saying the krogan are irreversibly screwed. I'm saying they're entirely at the mercy of the other races who a) will prioritize their own interests first and will make damn sure they don't give the krogan a grain more than is absolutely necessary to prevent extinction. Hell I can see the salarians and maybe turians pulling an Empire-Noghri situation where they arrange matters so as to keep the krogan perpetually down/indebted to them. There's already in-universe precedent for that with the hanar and drell and that's not even particularly malicious from what we know. And actually those parallels tell you everything you need to know about your other points too, with krogan usefulness in combat and whatnot. The hanar teach the drell their assassination doctrines. But I highly doubt they enable the drell to overthrow them.

Curing the genophage is potentially (and likely) disasterous for the krogan only. The supporting details that made them a threat the last time simply aren't in place this time. And their birth rate isn't the true danger. The true danger is the imbalance made worse by their uplifting. Krogan evolution supported their freakish birthrate because they needed that on their planet where everything evolved to kill them. Then they advanced their civilization, tamed their planet and nuked themselves. And that should've really been that, as that was the original imbalance. I'm no anthropologist/evolutionary biologist but the parallels to humans are fairly obvious. Birthrates in highly developed "first world" countries are markedly less than those in struggling "third world" countries or in previous pre-industrial times. That should've happened with the krogan as well (obviously going from thousands of births to 1 or 2 is way extreme but still, some sort of dip should've been evident). It didn't so they should've died out. Then the salarians uplifted them and unbalanced it even more.

Huh? 10 females are enough to overpopulate any other AI species in two years. Ten years to overpopulate entire initiative.
Krogan birth rates Are. Ridiculous.

While individual krogan or clans may have resources in terms of money or may control some ships/weapons, it's a negligible amount when considering the krogan as a whole, especially given their individualist streak and lack of faith in their species. As for mining, isn't Tuchanka completely depleted? Somehow I don't see them MacGyvering a fleet from old truck axles, ryncol bottles and varren tails. Quarians might do it but there's literally one example of a tech oriented krogan and that's Fortack in ME2.

In any case, my main point is not that the krogan are permanently stuck on Tuchanka, but that there is zero chance they'll be able to expand in such a way as to be a threat again. Resources/conditions simply aren't there, even if they take it slow and how slow can they really take it, given you admit their population should explode? Nor would they be allowed to do so, even if somehow the plot dicated they'd start pulling it off.

I can agree with your amended resolution though. There's something attractive about my sink or swim reasoning but if you're going for maximizing good across the board, it makes sense. It also removes the muddying of the original genophage which was in large part punitive, replacing it with something designed solely to stabilize the krogan population.

Ugh, more confirmation of DAI in space. Fan-frickin-tastic.

Isn't it though?  

Do you recall where?
I do hope that he meant more about dealing with being not cured and finding a mean to build their society around that. Doing the same, exact plot and conclusion will be a bit boring.

Does ANYONE still believe it is not going to be Dragon Age Inquisition in space? proofs are laid bare

It was in one of the interviews he did shortly after the gameplay trailer release.  It's floating around here somewhere.  And I definitely got the impression it won't be a major plot point (which is a good thing imo)...but you're right he was vague.

Crafting and scanning in themselves aren't necessarily bad, or as bad as in DAI. It depends on how the features are implemented. An example is that the mineral you found in the VGA footage gave us, if I recall, more resource in terms of number them in DAI. This, among having the mining system implement in the nomad of in some automatic way, might make the resource gathering less tedious.

I believe Mac said in an interview that the Genophage would be "addressed" in Andromeda. Now, whether that is just a mention of it as a nod to the previous titles, or yet another retread of an old plot line is anyone's guess. 

I really hope we aren't due for a Genophage choice 2.0 in Andromeda.





EDIT: Doh, major ninja-ed on that one, I definitively need more coffee. 

Unless you're really committed to a survival of the fittest idea. As much as I think the krogan have no chance to do much more than get by, if they are able to be cunning, slowly build up in secret and strike back when least expected and win... well then they deserve to rule the galaxy. Though I suppose you could also make the case that curing themselves of the genophage with everyone thinking it's still on and then doing that other stuff is even more impressive.