SaltyWaffles-PD wrote...
JKuz wrote...
Shock n Awe wrote...
I don't really have anything against them, but as has been said they don't really seem invested into the war effort until bad things begin happening to the Asari. A lot of the other species see their own kind being killed/transformed into husks and don't say much of it, but when it begins happening to the Asari all of a sudden it's an absolute atrocity and they can't believe that it's happening to them, because they're grand and should be immune to it.
This is a Human thing too, think about how 9/11 affected the American psyche. And that was a minor love tap compaired to what goes on around the world, the last time Americans fought on home soil was 1865, and that was the civil war. Now amplify that to over a millenia and a half of peace. I can guarentee you that Asari think that they are super special pincesses. That is because historically, and in living memory (And guddamn long memory at that) it has been true. The inclusive social order that they built with the Citadel Council has been a hundred times more effective than any military hegemony, they've abandoned the archaic Social Darwinist thinking and built something that is as close as you can get to a utopia in life. Thats why the Reapers are such an unthinkable Out of Context Problem. There is no barganing, no talking, no sharing just murder. And the Asari cannot deal with something so outside their experiance. This is the entire Asari mindset being overturned in an instant, the first reaction to that is Denial, which is where the Asari are at because its only been a matter of weeks (!). I can easily see anyone acting as such in those circumstances
Erm, no, that wasn't the impact or context of 9/11 at all. America had been attacked on its own soil many times before, and it HAS fought wars on its own soil. Apparently, a lot of people forget the War of 1812 (at the very least) ever happened.
It was shocking because it was terrorism on a completley unprecedented scale and level, and of a completely unforeseen nature--hijacking passenger jets and flying them straight into skyscrapers as living missiles, to kill as many people (thousands) as possible? It shocked the WORLD. And the US is far from the only place to suffer major terrorist attacks since then; the UK, for one, Israel (though that's not new; been going on for decades), and more.
The Asari, story-wise, are all about complacency. Even in the face of the Reapers, they were too complacent, and it was only when reality rained hell on them at their home, en masse, that things became completely apparent--their entire culture and mentality towards war, deplomacy, tactics, contingencies, etc. were completely incompatable with the situation they found themselves in, and they couldn't effectively cope.
Yes but all those times were past. The last existential threat to the United States ended when the Soviet Union collapsed in '91. They were calling it the "End of History". A decade later a single attack led the American populace to untertake two wars (One entirely unrelated to the Attacks) and curtail civil rights to the entire population to a degree and length unprecedented in the republic's history. The events that happened/ are happening around the world are entirely unreal to most First World citizens,
genocides happen on a semi-regular basis, and the response is generally "That's terrible, sucks to be you". Three thousand dead in a single day (Which as these things go is a quite serious event) is bad yes. But American responce is not "Hunt down the terrorists, and end this threat", it ends up being "End everything that even worships in a similar fasion". I saw calls for reprisals that essentially
walked nukes down the guddamn Nile for no apparent reason other than "Moslem". THAT. THAT is Nations in conflict and always will be.
I'm getting off topic here. The poin that I was trying to make is that the closest that any society in living memory to the Asari's situation is the United States populace at the moment on september 11th when they realized, that bad things don't just happen
out there, they
can happen here too. Try to recapture that feeling from the 90s when the United States was the sole pre-eminent superpower, China is still decades away the European Union isn't really a thing, and the American military apparatus will perserve peace across the globe in a grand Pax Americana.
Now take that feeling and expand it for thousands of years of Pax Asari, interrupted (However harshly) by the Rachni wars, and Krogan rebbellions. Of Course the Asari are complacent, they've won civilization, they'd established a grand stable coalition that left the Asari people safe. And even the emergence of new races didn't disrupt that equilibruim, see how deftly they handled Humanity.
Pax Asari is founded not on military or even economic hegemony (Even if they posses those) but on a smile and a kind word. I find it hard to belive that such deply held belifes could be changes in mere weeks of negative reports from the front lines. It would take either years of personnel returning from the front lines or (What Did happen) a single overwhelming blow to the group consiousness to let the full situation sink in.
Retour en haut
[But the Normandy was made with the Turians and it just seems more likely it came from them. Especially considering the Alliance brass you meet in ME1 seems highly unimpressed with the waste of money put into stealth]
