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[Antmarch456]

Has any of you guys had any misunderstandings in the whole trilogy, aside from you having thought Asari needed other species to reproduce?

While I was trying to learn the different races in ME1, I read about the Turians in the codex, and I thought they were an artifical race created by the Asari or Salarians fit for military. Don't know why.

[Excella Gionne]

Human Proto-Reaper. It's one of those things that make zero sense no matter how you put it.

[DuskWanderer]

I thought the characters would be presented in a way as to react to how I treated them. 

 

Silly me: I told Liara in the first game she should shut up or I'd throw her in a volcano, and the second game, I'm giving her hugs like no tomorrow.

[Farangbaa]

'I won't let fear compromise who I am'

 

You said what, Shepard???

[themikefest]

I thought the characters would be presented in a way as to react to how I treated them. 

 

Silly me: I told Liara in the first game she should shut up or I'd throw her in a volcano, and the second game, I'm giving her hugs like no tomorrow.

Or being offended when a character says something about the Asari

[DuskWanderer]

Or being offended when a character says something about the Asari

Something "bad" about the asari. Everyone falls over to agree when you say the asari are a "superior species"

[Farangbaa]

You can tell Garrus you don't want a Turian shooting you in the back, distrust him all game long.

 

And then you're super happy to see him in ME2.

[Vazgen]

Salarians ending up on your ship despite going for the bomb on Virmire. I imagine it like this:

"Come on, get in"

*Salarians climb onto the Normandy. Ashley/Kaidan comes last

"Sorry, the cargo hold is full, you're staying"

[ImaginaryMatter]

I thought the Genophage was a sterility plaque.

 

Boy was I wrong.

[cap and gown]

I spent the entire trilogy thinking the Reapers were a bad thing. It turned out I was a bad person for wanting to destroy them.

[SporkFu]

Why didn't Vigil use that giant forcefield on Ilos to keep Saren from reaching the conduit?

[ImaginaryMatter]

Why didn't Vigil use that giant forcefield on Ilos to keep Saren from reaching the conduit?

 

I think Vigil said the power was almost completely out and that it was using the last reserves to talk to Shepard.

[Han Shot First]

That compared to other species humans aren't genetically diverse at all.

 

Good thing Mass Effect 2 set me straight.

 

Oh wait....

[ImaginaryMatter]

That compared to other species humans aren't genetically diverse at all.

 

Good thing Mass Effect 2 set me straight.

 

Oh wait....

 

I just get around that by assuming Mordin was implying sentient species only.

[Han Shot First]

I just get around that by assuming Mordin was implying sentient species only.

 

Even that strains suspension of disbelief a bit. It requires every sapient species in the galaxy to have gone through a similar near-extinction as humanity in its past, resulting in a population bottleneck. We aren't that genetically diverse because the toba supervolcano eruption nearly wiped us out, and may have reduced humanity to as few as 10,000 to 15,000 people.

[Farangbaa]

Even that strains suspension of disbelief a bit. It requires every sapient species in the galaxy to have gone through a similar near-extinction as humanity in its past, resulting in a population bottleneck. We aren't that genetically diverse because the toba supervolcano eruption nearly wiped us out, and may have reduced humanity to as few as 10,000 to 15,000 people.

 

Not necessarily. Time is also a factor here. The more time a species exists the more genetically diverse it should get, unless they have a thing for incest. This is why the genetic diversity of African people is bigger than the other 'races'.

 

(see a new 'race' coming into being as a new bottleneck, because only a small group ventures into new lands, most stay in the old land)

[SporkFu]

I think Vigil said the power was almost completely out and that it was using the last reserves to talk to Shepard.

But after Saren and his small army of geth passed by, Vigil put up the barrier to make sure shep and crew stopped to talk to it. 

 

Why didn't it put up the barrier beforehand and slow Saren down enough so that shep could kill him, then say to shep, "You must take this data."  

 

Then, contact the council, and to make sure they listened to her, shep could say, "We killed Saren, but the 'geth' are going to attack the citadel. Close the arms quick. When the big-ass geth ship is destroyed, we'll have a lot to talk about." 

[Excella Gionne]

But after Saren and his small army of geth passed by, Vigil put up the barrier to make sure shep and crew stopped to talk to it. 

 

Why didn't it put up the barrier beforehand and slow Saren down enough so that shep could kill him, then say to shep, "You must take this data."  

 

Then, contact the council, and to make sure they listened to her, shep could say, "We killed Saren, but the 'geth' are going to attack the citadel. Close the arms quick. When the big-ass geth ship is destroyed, we'll have a lot to talk about." 

Vigil was clearly indoctrinated...

[Farangbaa]

Vigil was clearly indoctrinated...

 

Wouldn't that completely screw up his Indoctrination sensors?

 

Btw... Bad, bad Spork. ME1 is flawless, all problems, plotholes and nonsense starts in ME3. Don't you know? How long have you been here?

 

/sarcasm.

[Excella Gionne]

Wouldn't that completely screw up his Indoctrination sensors?

 

Btw... Bad, bad Spork. ME1 is flawless, all problems, plotholes and nonsense starts in ME3. Don't you know? How long have you been here?

 

/sarcasm.

He's a VI, he don't know any better.

[ImaginaryMatter]

But after Saren and his small army of geth passed by, Vigil put up the barrier to make sure shep and crew stopped to talk to it. 

 

Why didn't it put up the barrier beforehand and slow Saren down enough so that shep could kill him, then say to shep, "You must take this data."  

 

Then, contact the council, and to make sure they listened to her, shep could say, "We killed Saren, but the 'geth' are going to attack the citadel. Close the arms quick. When the big-ass geth ship is destroyed, we'll have a lot to talk about." 

 

Again, the barrier might not have lasted long enough, like maybe it only had enough energy to last 10 minutes or any time that wouldn't be long enough. It's hard to judge how time flows during missions, so it doesn't seem like a stretch to assume Saren was in the ruins for hours before Shepard managed to find a way in.

[TheOneTrueBioticGod]

Not necessarily. Time is also a factor here. The more time a species exists the more genetically diverse it should get, unless they have a thing for incest. This is why the genetic diversity of African people is bigger than the other 'races'.

 

(see a new 'race' coming into being as a new bottleneck, because only a small group ventures into new lands, most stay in the old land)

Salarians reproduce quickly, and in large numbers. Only live forty years. Small generational gap. Spacefaring for two thousand years. No indication of extinction event. Easily more diverse than humans. 

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

Salarians reproduce quickly, and in large numbers. Only live forty years. Small generational gap. Spacefaring for two thousand years. No indication of extinction event. Easily more diverse than humans. 

 

And so they make the Krogan who live for over 1000 years and reproduce quickly and in large numbers. Blew up Tuchanka. Uplifted by Salarians to fight the Rachni. Then had their population growth rate stabilized by the genophage. So now they're a dying race. The Krogan do not make sense.

[dantares83]

i always wonder why all the population of the galatic species are so small in numbers. I mean human already have 7 billion in 2014 and i supposed at least 70 billion in 2183.

 

but u have an entire species of only 17 million (Quarians) and losing 300,000 means an near extinction of a species (Bartarians) and only a few Justicars (and Asari live for hundreds of years!!), you can't help but wonder where did all these people go. i mean i would imagine the galaxy been overpopulated with Asaris seeing how they can mate with anything and are overly sexulized in the first place (maybe a trillion asari in population).

 

then again, the Citadel only have a population of 13 million.

 

maybe as technology advance, reproduction is not longer valued (as it is happening now).

[Vazgen]

300000 is just one colony of the Batarians