I would not. The genophage allows for a sustainable Krogan population. Cure the genophage and the Krogan population would grow to epidemic numbers. To explain my reasoning I will give the analogy of an alien species introduced into a habitat with the example of the canetoad which was introduced into queensland in Australia. Like the Krogan were uplifted by the salarians to fight the rachni, the canetoad was introduced to australia to kill off crop eating
pests. The canetoads had no natural predators to balance out thier high birthrate and so their population exploded to epidemic proportions. With no canetoad equivalent of the genophage, the canetoads continue to
spread across Australia. The Krogan also had no natual predators etc, so the genophage was introduced, an artificial environmental factor, to prevent such an epidemic as seen with the canetoads.
For those of you who argue that with Wrex and Eve, they would cure the genophage, I give you Dean the Young
In the words of Dean the Young:
Wrex's political structure in ME2, while admirable, was dependent on the genophage. Krogan didn't obey Wrex because they liked him or his ideas: Krogan followed Wrex because he gave best access to the scarce resource of breeding. Wrex controlled access to females, females were incredibly important, and Wrex was able to leverage that importance into policy. Not everyone liked it, but they didn't need to: the genophage held their future hostage to Wrex's influence. Over time, perhapse they would internalize a few years of reform.
Curing the genophage destroys that entire system.
First,a setting where all female are fertile destroys the importance of any female in particular. When there are only a few fertile females, their breeding can be controlled and managed by a single force, but that no longer applies. While Eve might carry a great deal of influence and respect, even if Eve convinced nearly all female Krogan to limit themselves to small numbers of children, it would only take one female to disagree with her to begin to undo the entire system because that one uninhibited female could breed that many.
Second, breeding can't be controlled. While Eve makes the suggestion in a Wreave-galaxy that she and the female would refuse to breed, that isn't viable: one, it would only take one dissenter to strike a deal. Two, there's a thing called 'rape.' The best that can be hoped for, and indeed this is what Eve's suggestion amounts to in the Wreave context, is starting a civil war... but that's hardly been an absolute barrier for others.
Third, breeding restrictions would be unenforcable. It's a big galaxy, and the Krogan have nowhere near the infrastructure or institututions for that level of social control. Even if population booms were controlled on Tuchanka, all it would take is a single pregnant Krogan on a single ship running off to another world to escape any Wrex-government oversight. Given how much of the galaxy has never been explored, and how much of what has been surveyed isn't under constant surveilance, and it would be relatively trivial for a dissenter faction to escape and begin hyper-breeding elsewhere.
Fourth, everyone has an incentive to cheat and maximize their breeding. For influence, for power, for relative strength, every leader has an incentive to maximize the increase of their own power base. Small clans can stop being
small: large clans want to keep being large. Even if they formally agree not to, cheating they system is viable: 'miscounting' their broods, hiding them, or fudging the rules as much as possible. Systems in which everyone gains by cheating tend not to remain strong, if they were ever strong in the first place.
Fifth and finally, no one needs to listen to Wrex or Eve anymore. Wrex's system grew because Wrex was needed for access to breeding. Wrex can't control that access any more. Eve has influence out of respect, but it only takes a few disenters to undermine her influence and recreate the problem. Wrex and Eve can not stop all the the malefactors from escaping or spreading even if they were aware of all of them. Wrex and Eve might offer good, far-sighted
advice, but short-sighted parties can now operate freely.
The Krogan need a culture change before a Genophage change if they're to be viable neighbors. Curing the genophage now would destroy that.
In answering this question, please do not use metagaming as an arguement. Eg "in the extended cut curing the genophage worked so yeah i would cure it."
Modifié par elegolas1, 23 juillet 2012 - 12:48 .
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the lack of standards of living curb population survival.
