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[DeinonSlayer]

Everyone has heard that old saw about the first human who ever tried to drink cow's milk...

Back when they initially got started with space travel and discovered they weren't alone in the universe, who was the first Asari to look at an alien after first contact and say "Hey, I think I'll make a baby with that!"

How did said alien take the news that (s)he was going to have a blue kid? Did the mother know what was going to pop out?

Seriously. How did the Asari know they were physiologically capable of reproducing with other species (aliens, no less)? Did they start with... non-Asari organisms native to Thessia? Were they capable of doing it because of Prothean genetic tampering? Were Ardats more common beforehand?

Yeah, I never saw myself making an Asari-centric thread either, and I shudder to think where this topic will go, but still...

Modifié par DeinonSlayer, 15 décembre 2013 - 03:08 .

[General TSAR]

You just opened Pandora's box.
..............
Prothean intervention I guess. 

Modifié par General TSAR, 15 décembre 2013 - 03:02 .

[Br3admax]

Don't think about it. Just watch them dance and lose yourself.

[DeinonSlayer]

Seriously. I'd think a Garrusmancing FemShep or a Shepardmancing Tali would be justifiably alarmed if they somehow got pregnant. Yet for the Asari, this is routine! What was it like at the start?

Modifié par DeinonSlayer, 15 décembre 2013 - 03:14 .

[Br3admax]

Only if you are in a mindset of someone who believes that the asari are anything more than ****** material.

Modifié par Br3ad, 15 décembre 2013 - 03:17 .

[teh DRUMPf!!]

 It would just take one individual with a bestiality fetish to discover that the asari can mate/reproduce with anything.

There are humans that do this, despite having no means of reproducing with other species.

I guess every species has its deviants.

[wolfhowwl]

Ask the Shepards who romanced aliens.

Modifié par wolfhowwl, 15 décembre 2013 - 03:30 .

[Hanako Ikezawa]

An asari and salarian fell in love, got married or the species equivalent of it, then the asari gave birth to the first non-pureblood asari. Maybe it was unintentional.

Modifié par LDS Darth Revan, 15 décembre 2013 - 03:32 .

[DeinonSlayer]

Accidental seems likely, it's just hard to wrap your head around going from a single unexpected alien birth to a society where "purebloods" are openly disdained.

(incidentally, I don't have anything against drinking milk.)

Modifié par DeinonSlayer, 15 décembre 2013 - 03:35 .

[KaiserShep]

I was expecting a much different question to come up after reading the subject of this thread and a reference to the first person to drink cow's milk.

I think this is best left to the Kirks of our kind that will one day traverse the stars, find an alien, and f*ck it.

Modifié par KaiserShep, 15 décembre 2013 - 04:08 .

[DeinonSlayer]

KaiserShep wrote...

I was expecting a much different question to come up after reading the subject of this thread and a reference to the first person to drink cow's milk.

I think this is best left to the Kirks of our kind that will one day traverse the stars, find an alien, and f*ck it.

What did you think I was going to ask?

Also, lol.

[Br3admax]

HYR 2.0 wrote...

 It would just take one individual with a bestiality fetish to discover that the asari can mate/reproduce with anything.

There are humans that do this, despite having no means of reproducing with other species.

I guess every species has its deviants.

Except asari decide when they reproduce or when it's just for pleasure. 

[KaiserShep]

You never know man. Even holding hands could become something more, so remember:

[Han Shot First]

I can't remember now whether it was in a codex entry or was mentioned by an NPC, but apparently the Asari don't even need a partner to reproduce. On that note, throwing an alien into the mix wouldn't have been a big leap.

[JMTolan]

This is actually talked about in the games briefly. I wanna say in ME3, when they're talking about the early Asari. I imagine it was an accidental occurrence between an Asari and a Salarian, since they were the first two to meet on the Citadel. Asari probably had an inkling it might work, assuming they had any kind of understanding of how their reproductive system worked in the first place, which is likely. Given their race's general openness and the Salarian's scientific interests, it's entirely possible it was an experiment with a willing couple--after all, Asari reproduction doesn't have to involve physical intimacy, and the Salarians are generally disinterested in it.

I imagine for humans, they were brought up to speed on the Asari along with all of the other things they were brought up to speed on when they got past the First Contact War.

-Tolan

[Artifex_Imperius]

the question "whether its disgusting to elope with another species" is directed towards the first asari to copulate with a salarian. not directed towards the first salarian.

since asari have the their undiscovered "ability to look attractive to other species". and not the other way around.

because of said "ability".  in the eyes of the salarian he would simply be having sex with another salarian.
but for the asari thats a different thing.

in that asari could pleasure different flavors of aliens is mind-boggling.

Modifié par Artifex_Imperius, 15 décembre 2013 - 06:32 .

[Ajensis]

JMTolan wrote...
I imagine it was an accidental occurrence between an Asari and a Salarian, since they were the first two to meet on the Citadel. Asari probably had an inkling it might work, assuming they had any kind of understanding of how their reproductive system worked in the first place, which is likely. (...)

Yeah, I think that's safe to assume as well. I would even go as far as to say that they had a great deal of knowledge about it beforehand and that the first non-pureblood asari wasn't an accident at all.
Think about how much exact knowledge we have regarding our own reproductive system, or simply our body in general (discounting the brain). Sexual education is even briefly taught in school, at least in the Western world. The asari are a much older civilisation, so the idea that they wouldn't have much knowledge about their reproductive system, even with a hypothetical alien race they hadn't yet met, seems unlikely to me. I bet they had a lot of theories about mating with aliens by the time extra-solar travel became an option.

Meeting an alien species for the first time adds volumes to so many subjects. Reproduction is just one of these. I'm sure it didn't take long before an asari and salarian bonded, if nothing else then simply in the name of science.

Modifié par Ajensis, 15 décembre 2013 - 08:48 .

[trenq]

Br3ad wrote...

Only if you are in a mindset of someone who believes that the asari are anything more than ****** material.

I'm guessing it started with salarian-asari thing, or they were just raped by krogan.

Modifié par trenq, 15 décembre 2013 - 12:37 .

[Han Shot First]

trenq wrote...

 or they were just raped by krogan.

Its implied that the Asari have control over when they reproduce, so sexual violence would be unlikely to produce children.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

Shepard: "You mean asari can reproduce with their own race?"

Liara: "It wasn't always like that, Shepard. Back in ancient times, the Goddess Athame would visit worthy Asari Matrons and give them wondrous gifts of precious Asari babies. Then when we discovered interstellar travel and met other species we were introduced to the miracle of reproduction."

[o Ventus]

Han Shot First wrote...

trenq wrote...

 or they were just raped by krogan.

Its implied that the Asari have control over when they reproduce, so sexual violence would be unlikely to produce children.

It's not even implied -- it's outright stated in the codex that asari reproduce through parthenogenesis (and are thus asexual). Any sex between an asari and somebody else would serve little purpose beyond simple gratification and pleasure.

With this in mind, what is the biological function of sex for the asari (strictly in- universe)?

Modifié par o Ventus, 16 décembre 2013 - 02:18 .

[DeinonSlayer]

sH0tgUn jUliA wrote...

Shepard: "You mean asari can reproduce with their own race?"

Liara: "It wasn't always like that, Shepard. Back in ancient times, the Goddess Athame would visit worthy Asari Matrons and give them wondrous gifts of precious Asari babies. Then when we discovered interstellar travel and met other species we were introduced to the miracle of reproduction."

"...I should go."

[Steelcan]

I don't even want to know...


Perhaps they started with Thessia wildlife, in fact that seems most likely to me. I doubt sapience magically makes organisms unable to be reproduced with.

[Secretlyapotato]

Yup. They mindraped random animals on Thessia to see how the baby would turn out since they have tons of them over the course of a thousand years anyway.

And that's how Ardat-yakshi came to be, ironically enough.