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What about Eden Prime? Or Ekuna? Or Tuchanka? Or Watson? What about Noveria and Illium where (as Dean so perfectly put it) "the Council does all those things they like to pretend are illegal?" What about the volus, hanar, and elcor? How long does an entire species have to defer to its "betters" before they can have a say in how they're governed?
The terminus system is not under the jurisdiction of the council, also, Noveria is a privat world, so free from the council authority, they let the specter in because they don't want to be put against the council at a certein point.
Illium as stated when you go out of the ship, is at the border of the terminus system, so they have to losen up a little in order to stay competitive with the terminus market, i'm not sayng it is a good arguement, that's what be got from the game.
All the human collony attacked and not defended by citadel forces are in terminus system, that's why the council can't be involved.
The elcor was discovered by the asari if i remember right, and they helped them to dicover and use the mass relay of their system to allow them farther travel or whatever they want to do with it.
Like stated in ME1 being a member of the council ask for the species represented to invest an amount their ressources (men, ship, money) to be used for the protection of citadel space and his devloppement, which is NOT possible for many species, they just can't afford it.
I find it not fair to let a species having as much influenece as the asari / salarian etc when they have actualy no financial investment and no ressources (men, ship) on the line to loose.
As much as it is unfair to not listen to them because they can't afford it, but that why the embassy are here.
Also, it would be inaccurate to percive or describe the council as a loby-budy, both asari, salarian, turian have their own culture, history and way to live, they are not mixed in one entity, and more importantly, while i don't deny they want to expend their influnence, it is not to force or destroy other species / culture, but to be part of this alliance where they all try to live in peace.
The council prefer for all the species to be "partners" and enforce this "partnership" and live as quietly as possible together rather than fighting eacher other and let dominant spices crush all other to extend themself over the dead bodys of the less fortunate / advanced species.
From what we see, the hannar and elcor seem pretty happy in the council space, the volus seems to complain, but they are greedy by nature, as descibed by the volus ambassador in ME1, they are always willing to increase their influence (even trading their own trib member if it help), and the governement is always shifting. Even if they will never be council member (they don't care about the greater good, only about their influence for their intrest it seems) the council favore them greatly, granting them enough new terrotiry to expend their colony ten times over since they are in citadel space, so we can't say that the council is dissmissing or ungratfull toward them.
The council don't govern them (wtf?), their laws are made in their homeworld. It's just that citadel space is a regulated space where all species agreeing to be part of it have to do some effort, to make the cooperation and exchanges as friendly as possible, the advantage is, being part of it allow a multi species protection if needed.
For exemple, the Batarian wasn't defended by the counsil after the human kicked their ass pretty badly because it was them who attacked first, and the world they tried to take from the human, even if near the battarian world, had no afficial belonging, futher more, the batarian never claimed they intended to take this world before they new it was full or ressources.
The citadel councilor are not a super president of anykind ... they express and defend the voices of their own political homeworld and colony, but each council race have to carry the responcability that their decision must be for the greater good of the citadel space and not their own only.
The counsil seems to be intrested in human species because this is one of the few that can fit a counsil race profile (travel into space on his own, etbablish stable colony, advanced technology, powerfull fleet and military forces, political union as a whole), what's keeping them at first is "are they willing to act for the citadel space intrest or their own intrest ?"
Thats why they welcome the human if you save them in ME1, because you prove that human are willing to protect the galaxy by sacrifying themself on the front line among turian, asari etc if needed be.
Also by making this decision, it appeas the relation between human and turian, in citadel you have a news reporting that the turian governement is thinking about making further reparation for the first contact wars. Those extended reparation wasn't asked by the humans.
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