jbblue05 wrote...
The Asari, turian, and salarian have been building their naval power for 1,000+ years. Just like the Alliance, turian, salarian, and asari have to patrol their own space. The Council races have more dreadnoughts then the Alliance it won't take them long to build support ships. The Alliance has 8 dreadnoughts, Turian- 38 Asari-20 Salarian-16. The Council races have a much larger economy then the Alliance most businesses on the Citadel are owned by the Council races. The Council races could easily levy sanctions against the Alliance. The only advantage the Alliance has is a larger presence on the Citadel.
The Council
could levy sanctions against the Alliance but it won't because the humans own it. In regards to fleet numbers, humanity is about on par with the salarians. We have those eight dreadnoughts, plus several under construction, plus several fighter carriers which are not limited by the treaty, with more under construction, naturally. Humanity also has their stealth frigates which completely change the nature of warfare. If anyone attacked humanity the Systems Alliance could counter-attack deep in the aggressors territory without fear of retaliation. The mere threat of that alone should be enough to make any potential enemies think twice.
This is all just within the two-years since Mass Effect. In another two years the Alliance will be even stronger. The Alliance economy is already competitive even if it is not the largest and it has much room to grow. The Citadel itself is, as I said, an asset. It is a fortress and humanity having control of it greatly enhances their leverage. The former Council races can not kick humanity off without fighting a major war and none of them wants that becaus if they win it will be destructive. The Citadel is owned by whomever runs it and if this scenario humanity, and thus the Systems Alliance, are its owners.
jbblue05 wrote...
The Council races could easily overwhelm the Alliance they could even promise Batarians human colonies if they join the war.
Then why haven't they? I think you overestimate the former Council race's willingness to go to war. Keep in mind these people have not fought a
real war in
over a thousand years. They don't have much of a warrior culture anymore except for the turians and the turians cannot defeat humanity alone, at least not efficiently (if at all). The fact that the Systems Alliance is able to attack batarian worlds freely without retaliation should tell you just how insignificant they are. At most they are a nuisance, but they lost their teeth with the fall of Torfan. The reason they resorted to piracy was because they were weak and now that they're even weaker all they have to rely on are small groups of terrorists.
Once again, no what charges would the former Council races attack humanity? Humanity has not attacked them, humanity is not oppressing them. Humanity came to their aid at the Battle of the Citadel and when the Citadel Fleets were decimated by the geth humanity assumed responsibility for their duties. Humanity can rightly claim that they had no choice but to take power in the immediate wake of the geth attack and that now the hostility of the former Council races has deterred humanity from inviting them back in. If they play their cards right the Systems Alliance/Human Council can pit the former Council races against one another. The asari have already withdrawn leaving only the turians and salarians.
jbblue05 wrote...
The turians beefing up their military and the Asari siding with them means they have to be plotting against the Alliance.
The asari have withdrawn, lending only political support to the turians. Is this hostile? Yes, but it's not an act of war. The turians are trying to intimidate the Systems Alliance but they're still at a disadvantage. The sleeping giant has awoken and the old guard are desperately trying to convince it not to rise. Humanity suffered fewer losses them, which put them ahead, and humanity can keep expanding. The turians are at this point playing catch-up.
Another thing to keep in mind is Alliance military doctrine. Our fleet is far more flexible than the turians' fleet. The turians have such a large military because theirs is designed to be mostly immoble. It hunkers down on every colony and acts as a tough garrison. If the asari have seceded their defense responsibilities to the turians then it is quite possible that the turians now need to defend asari space as well as their own. The turian fleet will need to be truly massive to defend their own colonies and asari colonies at the same time
and have any serious capability to threaten the Alliance. That's something people forget: the turian military needs to be twice again as big as humanity's in order to attack it. Our military is mobile and fluid... it can defend and attack all at once.
Its been two years the Council races are still rebuilding it isn't enough time to openly campaign against the Alliance.
Yet another advantage for the Alliance is Cerberus, naturally. Through Shepard and his contacts they've gained access to state of the art turian weaponry and asari armoring for their ships. If Cerberus passes this along to humanity our fleet will be even stronger. That's not even getting into what advantages the Collector base can offer, or Cerberus' other projects like Overlord or Trapdoor.
Finally, when the Alliance 5th fleet passed by Patavig, a volus colony (and thus part of the turian hierarchy) volus separatists began protesting. It would seem that the volus are starting to think that they'd be better off parting ways with the turians and instead going out on their own, most definitely with the intention of forming a close union with the Systems Alliance. If this happens the turian economy will go to ****.
Once the Alliance has won over one ally they will have an easier time winning over others like the elcor or hanar. As the balance tips the salarians will be more tempted to take humanity's side. The codex states the salarians are our natural allies in comparison to the conservative asari. It is hinted in ME1 that the salarians were the ones largely pushing for a human seat on the Council. They're ready to ditch their own partners in favor of a superior alliance.
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