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[ArcadiaGrey]

They got used as a narrative punching bag in ME3's genophage arc in relation to the innocent, victimized krogan. More than 90% of players cured the genophage rather than listening to the Dalatrass because of the hilariously one sided feelz. A similar thing happened with the quarians in relation to the geth due to the similarly propagandized portrayal of the narrative.

And yet if I was Shep I would never cure it. I guess they didn't pay attention to the history of why they made a Genophage in the first place. Have fun getting invaded by angry Krogan...

[Vespervin]

I want to see the following:

 

- quarians

- geth

 

This might sound odd, but it wouldn't be Mass Effect to me without them.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if species like the drell, hanar, volus, jellyfish, vorcha, batarians, etc. might not make it. In fact, I suppose anything that's not human, turian, asari, or krogan is at risk.

[Vortex13]

And yet if I was Shep I would never cure it. I guess they didn't pay attention to the history of why they made a Genophage in the first place. Have fun getting invaded by angry Krogan...

 

Yeah it would have been nice if anyone in ME 3 would have brought up the reasons for why the Genophage was deployed in the first place.

 

But no, they're all evil racists and the Krogan are blameless victims. 

[Vox Draco]

And yet if I was Shep I would never cure it. I guess they didn't pay attention to the history of why they made a Genophage in the first place. Have fun getting invaded by angry Krogan...

 

I guess that'S the perfect reason why I would bring those Krogan's with me to Andromeda. Just needed a Deus ex machian device to control them of course, but then Andromeda is ours! Mankind prevails again, on the heaps of dead enemies and piles of Krogan bodies doing the best they can:kill and get killed! For the greater GLORY OF THE IMPERIUM OF MAN!

[Lucca_de_Neon]

The krogans were a "primitive" race that got used and then discarded..i'm glad they got their revenge. Call it karma! now, they are even. Let's see who ****s up first  

[Vortex13]

I guess that'S the perfect reason why I would bring those Krogan's with me to Andromeda. Just needed a Deus ex machian device to control them of course, but then Andromeda is ours! Mankind prevails again, on the heaps of dead enemies and piles of Krogan bodies doing the best they can:kill and get killed! For the greater GLORY OF THE IMPERIUM OF MAN!

 

 

Rachni would be waaaay more effective at that than the Krogan, well if you actually wanted to be able to inhabit the planets that they take over at any rate. 

[EpicNewb]

Races like the elcor or Hanar were hardly "used" in the original trilogy anyway, so I actually see them go down the drain, and personally won't miss 'em much, they never had more than a "background"-role anyway. Geth are, with their hive-mind and all, well, I just see them as very milky-way-ish centric, and if my predictions for Andromeda's starting-point are true, the Geth are still kinda the enemy when we leave the galaxy...

 

Quarians? Tali alone has secured them a fanbase I think, and I can see how a portion of their people wanted to start anew far away from their ship-live. And that experience with long-term space-life is really giving them good reason to join such an expedition. Quarians could be the most important factor to make the long voyage a success?

 

Drell - well, yeah, we again hardly know them, I still kinda see them mostly as thrown-in for good measure in ME2 without much reason, and they are a symbol for me that ME2 was all ober the place and too keen on adding new things instead of fleshing out what was already there! Also don't like green frog aliens ^^

 

Turians, Krogan, Asari? OF course they are in, as well as the Salarians. but from the above I only see the Quarians to be of any importance, and the others will barely be around to qualify as cameos, if at all...

 

And I am fine with this - I am more interested in the races we will meet in Andromeda and focus should lie on those and their cultures etc.

I wasn't thrilled about seeing Quarians again but reading this changed my mind.

 

Their knowledge about life on a ship would be of huge value during a voyage.

 

Quarians would make excellent CREW members.  I'd like to see one fulfilling the role of navigator or pilot.

[EpicNewb]

I see Vorchas being left alone.

 

Despite their unique biology that allows them to quickly adapt to any environment, which would be great for exploring the unknown, they're nuts.

[Vespervin]

If you ask me, the expertise and knowledge the quarians posses would be vital for the trip to Andromeda.

 

Edit: Should we be spelling it "quarians" or "Quarians"? I want to say it's the former, as we don't capitalize for humans, cats, dogs, etc. but then I see others posting with the capitalization. :s

[KaiserShep]

The idea of the salarians not being included is ridiculous to me. They are far too well established to be disposed of. There's no sensible reason BioWare could come up with to exclude them. 

[Barquiel]

Salarians were confirmed on twitter by a developer. The rumored fan panel at Pax, assuming it's legit, also mentioned seeing character models for Asari, Krogan and Salarians. They obviously appear in Andromeda.

[EpicNewb]

I liked the Salarians as well, but seeing as how that private poll saw fans voting them and the Quarians as species they could do without, coupled with the complete lack of any new Salarian kits for MEMP, as well as general fan dislike of the Salarians overall in ME 3.

 

I think its likely that they won't be appearing in any huge capacity in ME:A, if at all.

I'm fine if they don't make an appearance.

 

But I'd like to see the result of their work.

 

New & improved Drells without Kepral's Syndrome armed with Salarian tech, a badass cloak and phase disruptor

[ArcadiaGrey]

I wasn't thrilled about seeing Quarians again but reading this changed my mind.

 

Their knowledge about life on a ship would be of huge value during a voyage.

 

Quarians would make excellent CREW members.  I'd like to see one fulfilling the role of navigator or pilot.

 

I'm not a huge fan of the quarians, but yes there'd be no better species to fix the ship and make parts out of spare bits of scrap metal.  It would be an oversight NOT to take them if Tali's role on the Normandy SR1 is anything to go by.

[Furisco]

They were? Aw...they're one of my favourites. How can you not love Kirrahe and Padok Wiks?

His speech was great

[EpicNewb]

His speech was great

ME:A is an opportunity to explore other sides to the races.  We're very familiar with the Salarian scientist genius.  How about a STG assassin this time around

[StarcloudSWG]

If they went by 'minimal complexity of life support systems on the Ark ship,' then Volus, Hanar and Elcor are straight out. They require too much in the way of resources. Vorcha are out because they reproduce too quickly and have serious difficulties not ripping out the throats of others. Drell are out because there are too few of them.

 

Kepral's Syndrome is not something that can be easily fixed; it's the degeneration of the desert-evolved Drell's lungs due to too much humidity in the air.

 

Rachni are a 'no' because they're all busy and there's only one queen at this point in time anyway. She's not going to send her children out of communication range.

 

Raloi are also completely out. Their race design sucked anyway, being yet another example of comic book artists thinking 'this is cool' without really thinking it through.

 

Yahg are out. Too aggressive, too focused on 'the strongest leads.' And their planet is interdicted. No one's going to smuggle a few thousand Yahg out and put them on a ship that's going to be isolated for at least a hundred years. Added to that, they're physically quite large and possibly obligate carnivores, meaning they need more life support resources in the form of food animals.

 

Batarians are a maybe. Despite the problems with the Batarian Hegemony and its caste system, most Batarians are people just trying to live their lives and not active slavers.

 

Quarians and Geth are a 'maybe'. Geth do not need as much in the way of life support, and Quarians at least can eat Turian foodstuffs.

[EpicNewb]

^

Liara's drell buddy Feron had no problems being in an obscure location despite the small population of his race

[Lucca_de_Neon]

^

Liara's drell buddy Feron had no problems being in an obscure location despite the small population of his race

The things we do for a pretty face...

[Vox Draco]

So jsut lets have a look at Andromeda - a new galaxy to be colonized by a multi-species endeavour. An unknwon, uncharted galaxy, with countless possibilities for trouble. What do we need to fill roles to make it a multi-species success-story?

 

Krogan - muscles. We meet a hostile species, the ARK gets attacked, we need to rid a planet from evil critters? Send in the Krogans, the dead cost nothing

 

Turians - the brain to the muscles. The scalpel to the hammer of the Krogans. Perfect planners, no other species calibrates as they do. No nonsense.

 

Asari - long lifespan, psi-powers, can easily multiply with many species, probably rather good diplomats whcih is essential to the new lands we visit

 

Salarians - Great scientists, very creative, problem-solvers.

 

Quarians - expert technicians, especially in terms of space-flight and all of this. Also great at improvising and accomplishing stuff with minimal ressources

 

Humans - coolest race of the galaxy, destined to rule them all, future masters of the universe. Also probably more adaptable than most races it seems (beyond physical)

 

All the other minor races? Either hostile (Batarians, pre-ME3-Geth/parts of 'em at least, Vorcha are barbarians) or simply underdeveloped in terms of skills and background (Elcor, Hanar, Drell), except for the Volus, actually. I could see a place for them in such a new planned society - they are kinda good merchants, or not? Trade and negotioans will be an extremely important factor for such a longterm-venture. As long as you keep Bionics out of their hands - we do not need godlike

[EpicNewb]

So jsut lets have a look at Andromeda - a new galaxy to be colonized by a multi-species endeavour. An unknwon, uncharted galaxy, with countless possibilities for trouble. What do we need to fill roles to make it a multi-species success-story?

 

Krogan - muscles. We meet a hostile species, the ARK gets attacked, we need to rid a planet from evil critters? Send in the Krogans, the dead cost nothing

 

Turians - the brain to the muscles. The scalpel to the hammer of the Krogans. Perfect planners, no other species calibrates as they do. No nonsense.

 

Asari - long lifespan, psi-powers, can easily multiply with many species, probably rather good diplomats whcih is essential to the new lands we visit

 

Salarians - Great scientists, very creative, problem-solvers.

 

Quarians - expert technicians, especially in terms of space-flight and all of this. Also great at improvising and accomplishing stuff with minimal ressources

 

Humans - coolest race of the galaxy, destined to rule them all, future masters of the universe. Also probably more adaptable than most races it seems (beyond physical)

 

All the other minor races? Either hostile (Batarians, pre-ME3-Geth/parts of 'em at least, Vorcha are barbarians) or simply underdeveloped in terms of skills and background (Elcor, Hanar, Drell), except for the Volus, actually. I could see a place for them in such a new planned society - they are kinda good merchants, or not? Trade and negotioans will be an extremely important factor for such a longterm-venture. As long as you keep Bionics out of their hands - we do not need godlike

Since this is a planned (unlike the trilogy where the reaper threat appeared suddenly and we created a crew in the spur of the moment) expedition our SQUADMATES should primarily come from races (or have backgrounds that specialize in warfare so STGs, Asari Commandos, Asari Justicar, etc) that are highly skilled at war.

 

Given the Mass Effect Universe's history we know that violence is often encountered when exploring.  With all the danger out there you'd take the best Asari Commando with you over the Asari scholar.

 

Garrus ultimately turned out to be pretty badass but given the choice it's unlikely you'd take a mediocre cop to war with you over an elite of the elite Turian Cabal.

[wright1978]

Think Vorcha are for the chop. Don't see them fitting the ethos of the mission or being of particular interest.

Geth likely will be on the block too. Hostile for most of the 3 games. Can't see a way they could be included sensibly. AI similar to EDI are more likely.

Batarians maybe gone too since they are hostile and mostly wiped out at start of ME3.

I  expect Quarians will make the cut due to their popularity.

Hope some of the interesting minor races like the Hanar, Elcor make it.

[Helios969]

Except for races like the Rachni and Raloi I expect most of the races to be in Andromeda in one fashion or another.  That's not to say they'll all be shown, but there's no real need for the writers to remove potential unless they have a clear outline of what the story is going to be and where they intend to take it.  That's assuming they intend to write more than one game in the galaxy next door.  I think human, krogan, asari, turian, and salarian are definite; volus are likely (given they control the money.)  I personally think the Vorcha would be there because you always need "cheap" labor to handle the dirty and dangerous work.  The remainder are trickier but can be creatively written in...though not necessarily as an entire contingent of colonists.

[Scofield]

When ME:A was first announced i was hoping it was a human only endeavour an that being new to the andromeda galaxy wee met new species to fight and to allie up with. but well not to be i guess or maybe not, i really still hope other "old" species are kept to a very minimal an wee meet an allie with newer species

[Hanako Ikezawa]

I'm hoping all of the species we know in the Milky Way make it to Andromeda. They all have skill sets that could make them useful for such a venture. 

[Bowlcuts]

Couldn't really see it as a Mass Effect game if the council species don't appear or the almighty Krogan.

Since it isn't the Milky Way galaxy, hopefully they'll all be viewed in a different light.