synergys2k wrote...
What I cannot understand about the Quarians is why in the hell they are wearing their suits on their ships. Tali said that they wear their envirosuits because they have very weak immune systems due to the lack of being around disease/infection/parasites, etc. (Or something along those lines).
Since the ships are so clean and environmentally friendly (apparently cleaner than modern human hospitals), why are they all wearing suits? It makes absolutely no sense to me at all..
Tali also says that babies are put in bubbles after they are born. ....Seriously? You put your babies in bubbles? How the hell are you even having sex in the first place? You can't get out of your suit, but apparently the area surrounding your reproductive organs is very accessible.
Sorry for the rant, but after playing Tali's loyalty mission, this hit me like a semitrailer. I'm a biology major, so I understand how the immune system functions for the most part.
What I'm getting at is their immune systems should have never weakened to the point that they are forced to wear envirosuits. All people carry bacteria, viruses, etc., and immunities to certain diseases, disorders, etc., so for them to have lost all of these just from being on the Flotilla for 300 years makes no sense.
Oh well, do with it what you must.
As much as Quarians interest me, I dont really get the enviroment suit thing on flotilla either, but I do understand why their immunity system is weak. Originally it was weaker than other races anyway, as the bacterial lifeforms work differently on their homeworld than on other planets. Instead of growing stronger to keep them away when facing resistance their immunity system is more likely to adapt and coexist with those bugs. But life on sterile flotilla weakened this ability.
Tali also explained how reproduction works. They synch up their suit enviroments now and then with their loved ones so their immunity system adapts (they get bit sick at first) with each other so they can be together without suits when necessary. This obviously includes intimate relationships. But what caused them to be like this? Being 300 years on flotilla AMONGST YOUR OWN FRIGGING PEOPLE should not screw your immunity system so that you cant touch nor breathe same air that your mate does, at first anyway. I can understand complications on FOREIGN bacteria, hell it has happened on earth too. People that are quite resistant to some disease bring that bacteria/virus along to some other village that has been on isolation from it and it causes helluva havoc there, lots of death. But how can your immunity system be so weak that you cant tolerate your own people without getting sick for few days at first? I dont get it...