Not curing the Genophage: The reason you're a heartless monster.

Well, this kid is kind creepy, but thats because Liara is creepy =p

I always imagine Liara using his broker's resources to "take care" of Shepard......with this face in frount of the monitors



Back to Krogans, I guess the eggs information about their reproduction is the right one. Otherwise, the genophase is equal to kill a fly with a atomic bomb.

ME2 had a unique take on the genophage. When we spoke to Wrex, he was establishing a government that was considered unheard of amongst Krogan. He was rallying clans, getting females to coordinate with them. Everyone liked his policies because they stopped bloodshed that'd normally happen. Wrex was making serious progress. And it was happening because they had no choice but to listen to him. They had to cooperate because they couldn't ignore Wrex by breeding enough members to drown enemies under.
It was tragic for sure, a father was heartbroken that he couldn't spend enough time with his son. But it wasn't because of the genophage itself. It was because the krogan made things too dangerous for females to trust males. The Krogan could have had families had their culture valued cooperation more than conflict. The genophage didn't change much in their beliefs. They needed to change those beliefs themselves.
It got really uncomfortable thinking about how fast Krogan can overpopulate. There's a planet with a codex on how it had a fragile ecosystem that went downhill when Krogan settled it as a colony world but had no idea how to keep it stable. They overfished it, used up viable land and by the end, only they and vorcha could manage any kind of existence on it.
Wrex's own comments on needing up to three planets as a starter package was alarming. They'll be awhile, but they need a different approach to settling their civilization. Bakara gives me hope they'll keep that in mind. I'm more surprised that the Salarians simply didn't drop a sterilization bomb on them should Shep let Mordin cure the genophage.

They are not babies. They are massive clutches of babies, who grow into bipedal mini dinosaurs with nukes and shotguns. Who kill each other as much as the genophage. In addition to that, they're so stupid that even Wrex admits they don't even have the ability to colonize and behave properly. There seems to be little to no scientific or agricultural aspect to their civilization. And the last time they went rampant, they literally ate Salarian civilians for fun. Not to mention dropped asteroids on turian planets, making them uninhabitable, with death tolls in the millions.

You're the only one not considering the options. It seems like everything is black and white to you. I'm the one that has cured it --- but I still know how silly it is.

You've probably brushed up more than me.

But it would be odd if they developed this way without any challenge whatsoever. Doesn't make sense.

Not babies. Clutches of babies, thats worse.

As for the rest of it i'll go to what i said earlier. Nobody has ever explained why this is a bad thing. A galaxy minus the Salarians might be a good thing considering what theyre doing with the Yagh and the Varren.

(And the fact theyre trying to blackmail the alliance in the middle of a reaper war.)

And letting the Turians wander around giving people the Genophage isn't a great idea either.

Humanity is probably lucky it's tailored to Krogan or the first contact war might not have ended so well. It might not have even happened if the Genophage hadn't been deployed. Shepard could have had a trillion Krogan to fight the Geth coz why not? Fighting Reapers and Geth and Krogan clones sounds fun if you're a Krogan.

The Reapers clearly want the Genophage any guarantee it wasnt engineered with reaper tech?

Wrex was completely happy to melt the last surviving Rachni queen with acid based on the actions of her ancestors. I see no reason why the current Krogan deserve a cure, especially based on the actions of their ancestors.

When Wrex says "our planet is rubble. We need a better place to live , I wanted Shepard to tell him to clean up and rebuild Tuchanka first.

Im thoroughly disappointed in you all for not believing in the Krogan.

Sometimes i feel like im the only one who wants them to achieve their goals and live their dreams.

*Sips Ryncol*

I think killing the rachni is a bit more heartless. The krogan don't even have a good excuse. And Wreav in particular doesn't even have enough composure to at least conceal his ambitions. He outright says what he's going to do. I can't blame people for not making a Giant Leap of Faith there. He's stupid. Like literally stupid.

If it's any consolation, the genophage was cured in 90% of all playthroughs, according to Bioware's telemetry.

Just shows that the majority is head-in-the-clouds naive of course, or lets sentimentality drive their decisions.

Wut??  I have to disagree here....

1) So what about when you're on Tuchanka and the clans all want to put Mordin on a kebab skewer?  Wrex and Eve are the only reasonable ones you ever meet!  Wreav is NOT sane by any means.
2)The galaxy couldn't handle them last time when they attacked and started forcibly taking worlds from other races.  That's why they had to invent the Genophage.  What makes you think they can suddenly deal with them now?
3)Fair enough, but would they even care?
4)They won't be, but there will be a few belligerent Krogan as opposed to a trillion of them.

Seriously, for realsies here, curing the Genophage is stupid and only something done by bleeding heart paragons, or those who either don't care, or don't know the history and the codexes.  It's a choice made out of ignorance for the horrendous repercussions.
I've cured it twice with 2 Sheps, but my canon would never even consider it.  Especially when someone who is supposed to be her friend is holding a gun to her head whilst Earth burns.  Wrex laughs in Shep's face and doesn't give a damn, demanding something that at any other time would have taken months to achieve.  It's a dick move on Wrex's part, and he can go fuck himself quite frankly.
Cure the genophage, and a few years after the Reapers are gone and everyone is trying to rebuild, you'll have a trillion Krogan invading other species's worlds.  It's ridiculous.

Modifying the genophage to double the amount of live Krogan births to help the species?  Yep, I'd do that willingly.  But curing it with a gun to head?  HELL NO.