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[Quarian Master Race]

In fact the only race to actually do something off their own back and act to safeguard their future are the Quarians, and they still need Shep to come in and save the day (as well as being slapped on the wrist by the writers for doing so).

The rachni do as well if you don't kill them, but the queen's army and fleet gets blown up by the Reapers and huskified offscreeen pretty much as an afterthought (much like the whole rachni species became in the narrative).

They were prepared to fight machine gods, and yet the Quarians managed to bring them to a point were they considered taking help from that same enemy their only choice?...

Yeah, they spent more time focusing on completing the useless Dyson Sphere than actually doing something worthwhile. The plot has them literally building their own idiot ball. Even if the quarians hadn't had a huge incentive to take it out and destroy like half of the consensus in order to get their planet back and contribute to the fight, it was utterly stupid to waste time building and putting so many programs in it regardless when the geth knew the Reapers were on the way. The Reapers could have done exactly the same thing as the quarians did to the idiot ball when they showed up if they'd been a little faster in getting to Tikkun. I wonder how many more warships the geth could have built with that labour and resources instead? How much more processing power could have been devoted to not making themselves so laughably vulnerable to cyberwarfare (which the Reapers are supposedly very good at)?

The geth's line of reasoning is almost as bad as the Council's, but at least they do acknowledge the threat before doing next to nothing about it. However, then they go and ally with the Reapers despite knowing perhaps better than anyone what their designs on the galaxy are for both the geth and organics, when nothing was stopping them from simply retreating and giving the quarians their planets back.

[Sifr]

Yeah, they spent more time focusing on completing the useless Dyson Sphere than actually doing something worthwhile. The plot has them literally building their own idiot ball. Even if the quarians hadn't had a huge incentive to take it out and destroy like half of the consensus in order to get their planet back and contribute to the fight, it was utterly stupid to waste time building and putting so many programs in it regardless when the geth knew the Reapers were on the way. The Reapers could have done exactly the same thing as the quarians did to the idiot ball when they showed up if they'd been a little faster in getting to Tikkun. I wonder how many more warships the geth could have built with that labour and resources instead? How much more processing power could have been devoted to not making themselves so laughably vulnerable to cyberwarfare (which the Reapers are supposedly very good at)?

 

Legion tells us that the Geth's reason for planning to build the Dyson Sphere was in part meant to further isolate themselves from the rest of the galaxy because they really don't want to get involved in organic affairs.

 

The Geth concluding that they might be spared because they aren't worth harvesting, have no technology the Reapers would be interested in and their self-imposed isolation makes them very unlikely to pose a threat to the continuation of the Cycle, does make a certain kind of sense to a bunch of extremely logical machines.

 

The Geth failed to realise of course, that like with the Heretics, the Reapers would wipe them out because  they weren't a threat.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

Legion tells us that the Geth's reason for planning to build the Dyson Sphere was in part meant to further isolate themselves from the rest of the galaxy because they really don't want to get involved in organic affairs.

 

The Geth concluding that they might be spared because they aren't worth harvesting, have no technology the Reapers would be interested in and their self-imposed isolation makes them very unlikely to pose a threat to the continuation of the Cycle, does make a certain kind of sense to a bunch of extremely logical machines.

 

The Geth failed to realise of course, that like with the Heretics, the Reapers would wipe them out because  they weren't a threat.

And yet Legion/Geth VI straight up tell us they started preparing for war after the events of ME2. You're thinking of the Raloi, who tried to make themselves appear as a pre-spaceflight species thus seen as too primitive to be harvested. 

 

I don't think the Reapers were going to wipe the Heretics out. I agree with Vigil that them being the replacements of the Keepers was to be their fate.

[Killdren88]

I kind of made a reaction comic to something like this. http://the-itchy-bir...-Ahoy-562257387

So funny yet so accurate...We are really an ungrateful lot....

[Homey C-Dawg]

No asari = no sale.

 

I'll never forgive Bioware if they remove one of my favorite alien species.

[SNascimento]

We are really an ungrateful lot....

I'm extremely greatful for Mass Effect and only wish Bioware does the game they want to make, not the game they think people want them to make. 

[Dantriges]

It's also true that ME is full of nonsense. It's just that (1) none that other nonsense is as visible as this, and (2)

 
I see your asari sex and raise with quarians and all the nonsense the writers pulled to preserve the mystery behind the mask.
 

Yeah, they spent more time focusing on completing the useless Dyson Sphere than actually doing something worthwhile.

 
Seems the basic idea behind it was enhancing processing capabilities like some kind of Matrioshka brain, which would help in cyberwarfare. The purpose wasn´t warfare only but it would have been useful when completed, considering what cyberwarfare is possibly capable of. Seems everyone is running open comm channels.

[Killdren88]

I'm extremely greatful for Mass Effect and only wish Bioware does the game they want to make, not the game they think people want them to make. 

 

If that is the case, how do you know that Bioware wants to limit the Asari in the next game? Is there some insider stuff you are privy to? Or is that the game you want them to make?

[SNascimento]

If that is the case, how do you know that Bioware wants to limit the Asari in the next game? Is there some insider stuff you are privy to? Or is that the game you want them to make?

Where did I say that? All I said is that if it's up to me, the Asari wouldn't be in Andromeda but I also wouldn't care much if they are. The important thing is that Bioware does what they believe best. 

[BaaBaaBlacksheep]

I want to see some blue t**ties goddamn it!

[Prince Enigmatic]

I want to see some blue t**ties goddamn it!

 

To quote Liara from the Citadel DLC: "Is there more to your argument?" 

[jlb524]

I want our entire crew to be asari.

[Fiery Phoenix]

I want our entire crew to be asari.

Preferably a team of ardat-yakshi asari.

[BaaBaaBlacksheep]

To quote Liara from the Citadel DLC: "Is there more to your argument?"

You know what I mean!

[Laughing_Man]

I want our entire crew to be asari.

 

The ship is going to be named the SSV "Love Boat", and regulations will state that crew members have to "embrace eternity" with the captain at least once per month.

[themikefest]

Since the goddess is Prothean, it won't be embrace eternity anymore. It will be embrace Javik. There will also be no more by the goddess. It will be by the Prothean

[Laughing_Man]

Since the goddess is Prothean, it won't be embrace eternity anymore. It will be embrace Javik. There will also be no more by the goddess. It will be by the Prothean

 

...

 

I don't think embrace eternity has anything to do with the protheans, or any kind of religion.

 

But if you would rather embrace Javik I have no problem with that, after all there's no accounting for taste...

[themikefest]

But if you would rather embrace Javik I have no problem with that, after all there's no accounting for taste...

I don't need to embrace anything, but the asari, for some reason, need to embrace eternity.

[Laughing_Man]

I don't need to embrace anything, but the asari, for some reason, need to embrace eternity.

 

I would guess that the source of this saying is some foolish romantic notion about the inter-connectedness of everything,

due to their ability to feel the feelings of others in a tangible way.

 

It sounds like the sort of leftover superstition that remained from ancient times, the same kind of superstition and overly romantic outlook that

makes them refer to a dangerous parasitic strain of Asari as a "Demon of the night winds"...

[Barquiel]

I think "Embrace Eternity" is a Siari expression, the mainstream asari religion. Basically they think that the entire universe is one consciousness and Shiala's "embrace eternity" speech for example obviously comes from that philosophy.

"Reach out to grasp the threads that bind us, one to another. Every action sends ripples across the galaxy. Every idea must touch another mind to live. Each emotion must mark another's spirit. We are all connected. Every living being united in a single glorious existence. Open yourself to the universe. Embrace eternity!"

[Xen]

Always hated that metaphysical garbage. Should be replaced with this everytime an asari wants to mate with you.

[ColorTheSky]

More Tela Vasirs and Aria T'loaks please 

[Medhia_Nox]

No asari = no sale.

 

I'll never forgive Bioware if they remove one of my favorite alien species.

I'll buy an extra copy to make up for you just to thank them for removing the Asari.

[DebatableBubble]

Why would I mind? I'd be ecstatic.

[BaaBaaBlacksheep]

It's actually a good question considering all the examples of parthenogenesis on Earth evolved from ancestors that had males and used standard sexual reproduction, to my knowledge. Would explain them having pronounced female secondary sexual characteristics in a manner that makes more scientific sense than "cuz hawt alein babes", if they were vestiges of needing to attract mates of a dimorphic species at some point in the past. Genetic abnormalities still being present would have a basis then. They could even make the Protheans responsible for the particular turn to parthenogenesis in their attempts to mold them into the next cycle's best chance against the Reapers, to explain how it unnaturally evolved in only the past 50,000 years.

Makes sense.