D.Kain wrote...
Oh please. If asari wanted to dominate the galaxy they would. They are just diplomats, they want everyone to live in peace. If asari really wanted too, all they would need to do is get more soldiers. As of now there are VERY little military asari, and they are all strong commandos, because most asari like to live a life of peace. If atleast 40% of all asari were in the military they would wipe out Turians+Humans+Krogans+Salarians+Geth+whatever lesser races are there in a fullscale war.
Meh.
For one thing, the asari republics are not centralized states. They cannot convert economic power into military power with as much ease as the Systems Alliance - let alone the Hierarchy - can. Setting aside your 40% number as outrageously unrealistic and representing a level of mobilized manpower incommensurate with any society at war in history, the asari republics would be lucky to get one-half of one percent of their population into the armed services, with the majority of those soldiers
not being front line troops. (For example, the total number of Soviet citizens that served in the Red Army during the Second World War was less than twenty percent of the USSR's population in 1939, and that society was one of the most heavily militarized in human history; the current - 2012 - American armed forces, including reserve formations, represent less than one percent of the USA's population. Both of those states are centralized; the asari republics are not.)
Furthermore, the asari have what appears to be a fairly serious drain on available manpower in that significant numbers of younger asari enlist in mercenary organizations, not just in their local commando unit. Many of these are dubiously lawful, and plenty focus their activities on Terminus space; they do not represent a ready source of fighting troops, and indeed may represent a double drain on the asari in that they require the asari to expand their law enforcement personnel to limit their activities.
The lack of political centralization also raises serious questions about the capability of the asari to effectively lead those forces. Assuming the asari began large-scale military recruitment and created proportionately large standing militaries, who would lead them? Extant asari commando units are expressly decentralized, rarely if ever band together, and are organized loosely democratically, something that has very little precedent in human history of working well (even Makhno's Black Army in the Russian Civil War, made up of purported
anarchists, did not, for instance, elect its own officers). And that is only on the tactical level; how would asari create higher military infrastructure? Their political system is a vague sort of extranet democracy; who gives the orders to the admirals and generals? What provisions exist for managing the government - and through it, the military - during the middle of a full-scale war, with extranet use limited at best and citizens' legislatures certain to not even meet a quorum of asari society?
(Confusingly, the asari appear to have a unified space navy, per the Treaty of Farixen restrictions. They possess some twenty dreadnoughts, in addition to innumerable smaller craft. It is unclear how this even freaking works. To whom does/did Matriarch Lidanya, the CO of the
Destiny Ascension, answer? How is the asari fleet staffed? Aaargh.)
Finally, we have zero information on asari birthrate and numbers. While they do enjoy long periods of fertility, human history indicates that a rise in economic prosperity coincides with a decline in real birthrate, and the asari are the most prosperous people in the galaxy (alluded to in various game materials and the Codex, and made embarrassingly explicit in the leaked beta). It suffices to say that any speculation on the asari population, much less the total mobilizable manpower disposable to the republics, is premature in the extreme.
tl;dr: the asari
might have the numbers but they definitely lack the capacity to use them militarily.
CptData wrote...
Ask Samara.
She gave birth to FOUR Ardat Yakshi ... so much for "more intelligent". They do mistakes. Heck with it, despite the fact everyone sees the Asari as a wise race, they act rather stupid in their "youth". Asari mercs? Pirates? Criminals?
Four? Three, surely.
Anyway, sample size is wayyyyy too low to even think about labeling Samara's family as anything from which to extrapolate.
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