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[Fixers0]

Honestly, It's rather contrived that a Human corporation would play such a prominent role on the interstellar playground within a time spawn of just above twenty years. The other races have all been around for centuries if not more, back in ME1 humanity was peanuts, Even races like the Elcor and Hanar had bigger and more advanced economies than humanity. 

[Dunmer of Redoran]

Honestly, It's rather contrived that a Human corporation would play such a prominent role on the interstellar playground within a time spawn of just above twenty years. The other races have all been around for centuries if not more, back in ME1 humanity was peanuts, Even races like the Elcor and Hanar had bigger and more advanced economies than humanity. 

 

Human technological and economic development was pretty heavily skewed. Most of Earth in the Mass Effect series isn't really any better off than Earth is now. It makes sense for a handful of the wealthiest individuals (Jonah Ashland, Jack Harper, etc.) to be disproportionately influential.

[SwobyJ]

Human Capitalism Go!

[KrrKs]

[...] It makes sense for a handful of the wealthiest individuals (Jonah Ashland, Jack Harper, etc.) to be disproportionately influential.

Influential within the Alliance, yes.

But that a large portion of the galactic/citadel fuel infrastructure belongs to a human corporation, when the other races have been using the exact same tech for thousands of years is more than a stretch.

[Dunmer of Redoran]

Influential within the Alliance, yes.
But that a large portion of the galactic/citadel fuel infrastructure belongs to a human corporation, when the other races have been using the exact same tech for thousands of years is more than a stretch.

I find that aspect a little hard to believe, too. It probably would've been better if humanity belonged to the galactic community for another 20 or 30 years before the story took place.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

The entire rise of humanity from a backwater race to a major galactic power of its scale in less than 50 years without the military might of the Mongols in the 12th Century in comparison to the other galactic powers is quite ridiculous. Look at the galaxy map and see the Earth Alliance territory compared to the Asari, Turians, and Salarians. And of course humans save the council in the battle of the Citadel because the more advanced Turians, Salarians and Asari couldn't do it. Humans are Special!!! We're superior!!! And Shepard thought Asari needed other species to reproduce!

 

Ashland just happened to end up controlling most of the refuling depots in the galaxy, among other things. Who was his competitors? Bioware never bothered to write them because the story was human-centric. The Illusive Man was also printing TIM Credits during ME2 so he'd have enough to build his fleet. Didn't have to worry about paying his minions in ME3 either because they were modified and couldn't go home. "That could have been you, Shepard!"

 

Humanity could rise to become a galactic power using economics, but not in a 50 year time span. Even with the Battle of the Citadel. Even with Udina as Councilor.

[78stonewobble]

Looking at the galaxy map, I personally think they overdid humanity's "geographical expansion", by quite a bit, but it doesn't seem implausible that a race new to the galactic community would go through a big development in the beginning, with the influx of new technology, culture, ideas and availability of ressources.

 

Whereafter development would plateau at more or less the galactics best, which evolves at a slower pace.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think we have a comprehensive list of all the races planets. Possibly it doesn't take that much to catch up. The other races could be @ around this level: A couple of heavily populated planets with populations in the billions at most, lesser colony and ressource worlds with up to... at the very most... a couple of hundred million inhabitants.

 

If that's the case... There isn't THAT much catching up to do, if the new race is expansionist enough and as I said... that might be plausible right when a species enter the galactic scene.

 

Alternatively... The other races just simply are more slow to expand. Less cockroachy

[Han Shot First]

I think for the most part most of the other species planets haven't been mentioned. 

[Mister J]

Well I remember Liara saying that within the galactic community humans were the ambitious and determined species that ran over everyone to reach their goals.

[ImaginaryMatter]

I think the only way to justify the human expansion we see in ME is to explain that discovering the Mar's archives was a solely unique opportunity to reverse engineer Prothean technology and jumpstart humanities space efforts -- while everyone else had to do it the old fashion way.

 

Well I remember Liara saying that within the galactic community humans were the ambitious and determined species that ran over everyone to reach their goals.

 

The problem I have with this explanation for humans is that the individual characters we meet never seem particularly more or less aggressive/ambitious than other characters from other races.

[Mister J]

I think mr. Man and Henry Lawson are prime examples of that and perhaps dr. Archer and Donovan Hock as well. Maybe no more than Saren but then I guess it's more about the overall picture than just the happenings of the game and the people Shepard runs into...

[Reorte]

I think mr. Man and Henry Lawson are prime examples of that and perhaps dr. Archer and Donovan Hock as well. Maybe no more than Saren but then I guess it's more about the overall picture than just the happenings of the game and the people Shepard runs into...

Other races have had their equivalents in terms of do anything drives, the Dantius sisters being one example.

 

It's reasonable enough to think that humanity would undergo a pretty significant development spurt under the circumstances but not to come close to matching the clout of the turians, asari and so on in that timeframe, no matter the differences (which we don't really see any sign of).