Dean_the_Young wrote...
The nature of wars of extermination is that the war is won long before the last person on the other side is dead. By the time the Council forces could wipe out the Rachni in their lairs, they had to have space superiority. With space superiority, they could keep the Rachni locked onthe ground, unable to hurt the rest of the galaxy.
The Council, and yes backing the Krogan and fighting with them makes them complicit, continued a war of extermination long after the Rachni were not a threat to the galaxy.
It isn't quite that simple though. The majority of the Galaxy is unexplored and the Rachni can completely rebuild quickly and efficiently. They only need a single surviving queen to do so. Also they are resourceful and cunning. Eventually something would slip up and there would be another war. Keeping an entire race in jail permenantly (effectively keeping them under siege) is not neccessarily more humane even than genocide.
No communications were possible so no negotiations were possible. Even if communications were possible, they were indoctrinated, so negotiations would still not have been possible.
How air tight a seal can be kept on a planet when all it takes is a single queen to jump out of system sometime in the future to start another war?
Alternatively, you can take away all their raw materials, but then you are effectively torturing them for all eternity, since those materials are used in normal life too.
Sobecause the Krogan devestated some ecologies, genocide is suddenly justified? Disgusting.
The genophage in itself could not win the war: to apply it demanded absolute access to all the Krogan populations, and the effects (stopping the growth of the hoard) only would begin to be felt after the war, in the next population cycle. To apply the genophage, the Council (and no, the Salarians and Turians are not distinct from it given that one was already half the Council and the other was immediately invited to join) already had the ability to get to every Krogan population.
THERE WAS NO KROGAN GENOCIDE! The Krogan are surviving quite well. It has taken them time to adapt, but their population levels have stabilized. They were even temporarily evolving beyond the Genophage before the Salarians re-stabilized their population.
Not only was there no genocide, but there was no intent on the part of the Salarians to commit genocide. All they did was stabilize the birth rate to pre-Rachni war levels.
The Council is the Paragon position. It is the basis of the title itself: the Paragon values are the Council's professed values. A Paragon is paragon by the standards of the Council: a Renegade reflects the un-cooperative species-first policies that humans are derided for. That a Paragon insists of leading everyone else to follow the biased values of a group that has never followed them, that is what makes him a greater tool.
Cerberus isn't North Korea, and the Council isn't America. But between the two, the Council isn't the closer to thebetter.
See this is where two party politics fall completely apart. The Council are only more 'Paragon' in that they represent more lives (especially since they now include the Alliance). Cerberus is more 'Renogade' because it is Humanity first, and even then it does not represent all of humanity (or given the attempts to make humans into something else, possibly none of humanity).
To the extent the Council represents its own interests, the Council is renogade (eg. ignoring the Reapers or taking Saren's word out of political expediency). To the extent Cerberus really is trying to save all civilization (even though saving the other races may be incidental), supporting them is paragon.
Doing the right thing does not equate to choosing the same side all the time, or being a yes man for any given political faction. That is true whether your definition of 'the right thing' is paragon or renogade.
Keep in mind that even the renogades should acknowledge that Cerberus does not neccessarily represent what is best for humanity, but rather what they deem best for humanity. There is a major difference there.
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