I missed a few pages... and most importantly, page 666. D:
Anyway, I'm not quite sure how the turian militray works because the only turian whose service history I know about is Saren, and he seems to be a special case - joined up at 15 (the standard age), was promoted to active service one year later, and I think he became a Spectre at 19-20, but he was the youngest turian Spectre. Nihlus' page on the Wiki had some information about his service history, but I'd have to check again to see if it gave years.
As for Dragon Age, it's one of my favorite games, but I like the Mass Effect characters much better.

It seems like a lot of Garrus fans like Alistair too, but that wasn't the case for me. He was pretty nice most of the time, just not my favorite type of character. (I think Saren fits my favorite character "type" really well. Maybe Garrus is the midway point between Saren and Alistair - it would explain a lot.)
kglaser wrote...
I'm replaying ME1 on Veteran. Once I remember how the freaking controls work--I should make it off Eden Prime eventually! Huzzah!
...Now I know why I got to the Citadel before you when we both started replaying ME1 at about the same time. xD I'm playing on Casual for the third time. It was the first time I managed to find all of those explosives Saren set up without needing to reload because time ran out.