Salarian

It's a terrible fate, Commander.

That being said, if they ever turn Salarians, if they ever turn me, I hope you would do what needs to be done because, trust me, I'm sure the Reapers leverage that too.

Our emotions over our fallen comrades.

Of course, we can't hold back.

I have movement 35.

So I'm going to go in here.

Because they say Salarians have fast speed.

So I'm going to move down and just a little bit into the facility away from the pursuers.

I was like, the war, but it's like...

And with the Salarians

and the Krogans.

You know, that being one of the reasons that you have the choice to kill Rex in the first game.

stuff, she's, she's specifically upset.

Like she likes the Salarian.

She likes the Krogans.

Like there's stuff about that universe you lose.

And since there were no Reaper threat anymore, everyone just turned on each other.

So it was council races of—sorry if you've never played a Mass Effect game— Council races of Asari, Salarian, and Turian teaming up, kicking the humans off the council.

So now the humans have to team up with the fucking Batarians to fight this civil Cold War, which is fucking stupid and beyond stupid.

If you know anything about the lore of that universe, this is Dragon Age all over again, it's like those Batarians and humans would never team up in any sort of alliance ever.

Yeah, like, and just getting to experience the different races and their little idiosyncrasies and their culture and how they bounce off of each other and all this history that's there.

The Krogans and the Salarians and the Genophage and all of that stuff.

Like, it's so fucking good, dude.

The Turia and Krogan War happened, like, way back when, but, like, you hear about it and you're like, that sounds like just a really interesting concept that I want to know more about.

I love that.

That's awesome.

And then like the every cut between like all the different locations and you see the Salarians, you see the Krogans, the Turians.

And I'm like, this looks cool.

Oh

... my first video game forum was Mass Effect, and it had a little Salarian, uh, uh, icon there, and I was beyond those, and between, uh, two and three.

Like, when two came out, and then between, uh, u- up till the running of Mass Effect 3, I actually had a...

I skipped one of my archeology classes to play Mass Effect-

Their metabolisms ran hot, their neural pathways fired at triple the speed of a human brain, and their lifespans were correspondingly short.

A salarian lived for perhaps forty years, and in that time they packed in enough experience and learning to fill three human lifetimes.

The Council tried to negotiate.

The Asari sent diplomats.

The Salarians offered compromises, more autonomy, special economic zones, representation on the Council itself.

The Krogan warlords laughed at them.

They had fought the Rachni and won.

The Council had been observing the Turians for decades, waiting to see if they would prove stable enough for first contact.

the attack, the Cerberus attack on the Citadel and what that involves.

The Salarian counselor has tipped us off that Councilor Udina-

Who's a human

... representative of humanity-

So yeah, Udina has made no illusions that he's anything but a fucking snake and weasel.

Mm.

So we, of course, find out that the Salarian counselor has proof that Udina has staged this coup-

Yeah