Andrew_Waltfeld wrote...
well to be honest, we don't even know exactly how long quarians live for, they could be just as much as humans, but an few dozen years longer for example. They are roughly the same relative life-growth as humans, which your correct but without knowing the end roughly, they could reach "elder" age by the time they are like 110 for all we know.
The upper age limit for quarians is irrelevant when determining maximum generations. Only the age of maturity is relevant, which is what I was going for. Quarians appear to reach adulthood at around 20 years old, because otherwise Talimancing Sheps would be pedophiles.
yes and no, you forget the fact that they gained ships as years have gone by, allowing for population growth. For each ship they salvaged, they could poteintally gain between an dozen to couple thousands newborns. From my knowledge of the quarians that i have heard about, I would thnk zero-population would be in effect unless they get an new ship in the fleet, which means you can now expand the population an bit.
Ah so true, but even if every quarian had ten children, it would take 11 generations for one couple of them to be close to the population of the flotilla, and this is assuming no early deaths. This is a ridiculous birth rate, and if we assume that the quarians are a "modern" society they would have a much lower birthrate. So even if ten percent of that 17 million survived you're still talking about nearly 2 million quarians, that is still quite enough that you wouldn't have an appreciable founder effect.
Assumption that all the quarians came from one population source. This is literally everyone in the quarian colonies and homeworld, akin it to battle star gallactica in terms of genetics.
If that's the case then they should have even more genetic diversity, not less.
This is the 22nd century, and we don' know what technology they use. Also, the quarians still get sick, just by being with each other, the suit is to protect one from another as it is protect from outside threats.
If they are so advanced they can have a sterile environment, then they are advanced enough to know that having a 100% sterile environment all the time is a very bad thing. Also there was a period of time quarians did not wear suits, how did they not get sick then?
They never had inherited immunities, or if they did, they had it very few to begin with considering their homeworld had everything be beneficial with limited hostile bacteria/viruses. This reason alone is worth noting as to why. There is an reason why in humans some diseases we can keep on walking while others will knock us off our feets. They had suits since the begining just so they interact with other
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We are never told quarians have no inherited immunities. Also even limited hostile bacteria/viruses require a decent immune system or the entire population collapses. Smallpox eradicated over 90% of the indigineous population of the Americas, if their immune system is weak against even one harmful disease it is catastrophic to the viability of the species.
Also throughout the game it is implied that quarians were suitless. Bartender Aethyta remembers what quarians looked like without their suits, the quarians on Haestrom walked with "uncovered heads", Tali longs for a time when her people will once again be able to walk on the homeworlds without suits.
yes and no, you are trying to base human viruses on another type of amino acid entirely. A =/= B.
I am doing no such thing, I'm using real life diseases as an analogy for the types of fictional diseases quarians would be exposed to in their evolutionary history.
You are assuming the enviormental setting for an completely different ecosystem that is not even remotely based off of our own. I am up for guesses, but assuming the enviorment supports lesser large creatures etc is an big assumption.
I am assuming this based on the laws of physics not genetics. Larger bodies require more energy to function. Energy in the food chain is a finite resource due to limitations of the occupying space of vegetation. Quarians are listed as being mammalian so I assume that Rannoch is living in an age of high metabolising creatures. Thus they would require quite a bit of energy to function.
Rare on earth. Rare for our types of Acids building blocks. Comparing humans to quarians like comparing apples to oranges. you are better off comparing Turians to Quarians. You are assuming that these 99 % of illnesses effect the quarians the same (which they don't), and actually exist for turians and quarians.
Turians and quarians have the exact same "acid building blocks" they both use the same DNA as we have, except their DNA attaches on the opposite side as ours. Therefore their most basic life processes operate under the same principles.
My guess is that it has to do with the fact there is very few things on the qurian homeworld that is micro-scopic and can kill you.
That does not make sense in a real world application, considering the vast majority of life is microscopic and according to most astrobiologists the vast majority of independently evolving life would be microscopic. Also, very few things that are microscopic on earth can kill you, but that doesn't stop the killers from being very hazardous in our world.
They make perfect sense when you don't assume that they have the same acid as everyone else and really only one creature's disease can effect them. I Am sure if we got an quarian or turian disease we would simply get the sniffles becuase our white blood cells have to clear them out of our system, not combat them.
I think you need to do more research on chirality. They would probably be immune to most of our viral infections but our bacterial infections would probably still be able to harm them.
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Isn't that a drastic 
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