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[Pasquale1234]

The Rachni weren't going to invade Citadel space before the relay was activated. The Salarians activated the relay and made contact with the Rachni, but were captured by them. The Rachni reverse engineered their starships' FTL drives and built FTL vessels of their own to go through the relay and expand into the galaxy.

I think you're missing the point. The invasion as described are the actions of a hostile, aggressive, territorial, and imperialistic species.

If the leviathans/reapers were urging them to commence that aggression, they could have activated that relay on their own, and invaded Citadel space without the salarians ever having been involved.

The timing is awfully convenient.

[GalacticWolf5]

I think you're missing the point. The invasion as described are the actions of a hostile, aggressive, territorial, and imperialistic species.

If the leviathans/reapers were urging them to commence that aggression, they could have activated that relay on their own, and invaded Citadel space without the salarians ever having been involved.

 

You're assuming they did this to invade Citadel space. We don't know that. Perhaps they wanted to see how well the Rachni fought a war, or even how the other species reacted to an alien invasion and if they were able to fight it off. We can only speculate as to why the Leviathans/Reapers made the Rachni do this.

 

The timing is awfully convenient.

 

Perhaps, but it happened.

[Remix-General Aetius]

Well there's potential for many species to return and who's to say they're exclusive to the Milky Way? After all, the Yagh were let to be.

[laudable11]

Rachni and Krogan would end up fighting a bloody war in about 2 generations. Still, it would be a cool side mission.

[Lucca_de_Neon]

Rachni and Krogan would end up fighting a bloody war in about 2 generations. Still, it would be a cool side mission.

Hopefuly, they'll take pictures. I don't want to be around

[Pasquale1234]

You're assuming they did this to invade Citadel space. We don't know that. Perhaps they wanted to see how well the Rachni fought a war, or even how the other species reacted to an alien invasion and if they were able to fight it off. We can only speculate as to why the Leviathans/Reapers made the Rachni do this.

You're still missing the point.

I make no assumptions about why the rachni would invade Citadel space. The reason has no bearing on my argument. They did, however, invade Citadel space and started conquering worlds inhabited by other species.

Oh, the possibilities. To name just a few:

#1) The rachni are a naturally hostile, aggressive, territorial, imperialistic species. Their response to the salarians opening the relay make perfect sense.

#2) The rachni are a peaceful, friendly species who thought their salarian visitors looked yummy and ate them. Curious about the new (Citadel) space on the other end of that freshly opened relay, they sent a small scout team to check it out. The scouts found entire worlds full of yummy salarians - and other species. With such abundant food supplies on offer, those peace-loving rachni started settling those worlds.

#3) The rachni are - whatever they are, and currently under the control of the leviathans/reapers, who have them doing... whatever they're doing. If the leviathans/reapers want them to invade Citadel space - for whatever reason - they aren't doing it. They aren't opening the relay. They aren't looking for other ways to get there, even though they're pretty good at finding things like the Mu Relay. Of course, if the leviathans/reapers want them to go to Citadel space, they could probably tell them exactly how to get there. But now - oh, the salarians opened a relay. So now, the leviathans/reapers suddenly decide to have them enter Citadel space and start conquering their worlds.

Basically, we're asked to believe that whoever was singing the sour yellow note had the rachni go all hostile and aggressive on the other Citadel races just as the salarians opened the relay.

[Vortex13]

My guess is that the Rachni were naturally aggressive; Javik does talk about them being breed for war using only the most cunning and aggressive queens; and that the Leviathans stumbled across them after the Salarians opened the Relay.

It fits that the Leviathans manipulated the Rachni to proceed with the invasion since they offered a highly disciplined army that wouldn't attract the attention of the Reapers as much as a synthetic force, and that they drove the Rachni to continue their war in hopes of capturing the Citadel without raising too many Reaper eyebrows. Once the galaxy started to push them back it seems that the Leviathans kept the Rachni from communicating, most likely to avoid knowledge of their existence spreading to the Council races.

It fits the Leviathans' MO, I mean they were willing to have their thralls strap bombs on themselves to deter detection. I'm sure they wanted the Council species to wipe out the Rachni once their invasion failed.


Now the Queen we meet in ME 1 is free from the control created by the Leviathans, and one of the first things she does when encountering someone open to listening to her, she communicates. The Rachni may be aggressive, but they are intelligent enough to change tactics. The current queen; having the knowledge of her species' previous generations; likely sees that being hostile and aggressive is what got the Rachni nearly exterminated in the first place and opts to work with the other races of the galaxy. There might be the possibility of aggression in the future, but if spared the Queen will share the mercy granted them to her offspring, so outright attacking the allied forces would be unlikely, given that she remains true to her promise of support; off screen writer's fiat notwithstanding.

 

I mean if we are counting the various species' worthiness based on their actions to assist the galaxy, then the Rachni, as a whole, would be about even with the Krogan. Technically they would be worth a bit more 'points' than them since the Queen actually carried forth with her promise of aid with no strings attached. Wrex backpedaled on his promise of complete and total support from ME 2 until the galaxy met his demands in ME 3.   

[Master Warder Z_]

Just leave them dead, new species can invent new problems

[Vortex13]

Just leave them dead, new species can invent new problems

You know, I would actually be okay with that if BioWare could add in a new 'alien' alien species to fill the gap, but they tend to have a horrible track record when it comes to adding in new elements like that.

I mean look at ME 1 or DA:O/A compared to ME 3 or DA:I, out of those which had the most 'alien' elements to them? Out of those two franchises which title (the first or the latest) had non-human elements as a significant portion of the universe, and which one had a game world populated seemingly by humans and humans with rubber foreheads/pointy ears?

[VanguardSpectre]

I think we should get the Krogan and Rachni to work together just so we can see Wrex riding into battle on the Rachni Queen.