Was the problem that both sides thought the other would try to get the Rachni eggs to develop bioweapons, zerg rush foot soldiers? It seems a little implausible that just that one thing would halt peace negotiations, as it was a 3rd and 4th party, the Quarians and the Geth dealing with each other. But I suppose that if both sides are on a hair trigger, anything, even a branch snapping in the woods would be seen as proof of ill intent. BTW, 2 questions. What is the condition of the Salarians at this point in time? Their use of bioweapons would be met with buckets of concentrated sunshine, I bet. What's their status? And what is the general opinions of the Associate Species to the last few decades? Do the Hanar think the Council species paid for their long years of arrogance? Do the Elcor think this whole mess was a waste? What does the alien on the street say to living under the shadow of doomsday? Thoughts, SotF?
either that, or the Geth that have the Rachni eggs are the HERETIC Geth, and from the data gathered for the Quarians, they seem to be breeding the damn things and somehow controlling them. . .
I think it might actually be the true geth though, the rachni in ME1 struck me as something saren cooked up while Nazara was still going gently with the mind rape (sovereign is presumably still annoyed at the rachni for their failure), and saren wouldn't need them or the geth to pierce the citadel fleet if there's enough bitter vengeful veterans left to take the place of the geth and benezia's commandos. Queen and the consensus however, might be arming up for an inevitable empire/citadel/reaper/quarian attack And... [spoiler] oh dear god, the leviathan of dis is in empire hands, isn't it?[/spoiler] Also, the juggernaut wouldn't by any chance be what's left of Khar'shan would it
No. The Juggernaught seemed to have had a peaceful, civilian purpose in mind before the war, but after war broke out, it was retooled as the military saw the value in having a nigh-indestructible battlestation on hand to be the decider in space battles. But I could be wrong. SotF has the final word.
Actually both the batarians and humans fought over the leviathan of dis and when reinforcements came the leviathan of dis was destroyed. Both Citadel and the Human Empire have pieces of the reaper in the same manner the Citadel got pieces of the wreckage of Sovereign.
Huh. SotF never actually said exactly how long the First Contact War which led into the destruction of the Hegemony and the formation of the Human/Krogan Empire and all the ugliness afterward. How long was the first war, from the first Turian attack to the human victory over Palaven, SotF?
I am pretty sure it was aleast 2 decades considering thats how long it took to build the Juggernat. Afterall it was used at polaven.
The war took nearly fifty years to come to end. The Quarians didn't really do anything different than they normally did. They were essentially scouting it out similarly to what Tali was doing when she found the data about Saren in ME. They just stumbled onto Geth working with the Rachni. Unfortunately, since the Quarians essentially decided to stay the hell away from the areas of conflict during the war, neither side exactly trusts the info and believes that the other may have had something to do with it.
Suspicion was rampant, factions from both the Empire and the Citadel all but directly accusing the other of having something to do with the rebirth of an ancient enemy. Early suspicions also turned on the Quarians, a popular rumor was of the Rachni threat being a ruse for them to gain military support in retaking Rannoch. But there were also those who took advantage of the rising tensions in other ways. Omega, long a haven for pirates, thieves, and other rogues shifted in nature as the new pirate queen moved to expel much of the criminal element during the Contact Wars rather than risk the station being either co-opted or attacked by either side. During the relative peace, Aria capitalized upon the unaligned nature of the station shifting it from a criminal kingdom to a neutral location between the Citadel and the Empire. A neutrality enforced by some of the less upstanding members of several races. Tensions in the Terminus
The Juggernaught is essentially Omega station.....with engines, huge amounts of guns and a supporting fleet that chucks AM around like candy. I can see why she would like to stay neutral.
Rumors and mysteries spread as they advanced along the road to a new war. Reports of an unknown craft matching that of the destroyed one from Jartar among the Geth and Rachni craft being spotted by reconnaissance drones beyond the veil. Outlying colonies of several races being found abandoned, leaving no sign of what attacked them. Sightings of the semi-mythical Collectors rising in number. A supposed zombie attack on Feros. Even as the scramble for new and more powerful weapons and technology spreads amidst the return to wartime recruitment and training levels, there are still attempts at communication between the Empire and the Citadel. Moments of Peace
To much of humanity, the Krogan were an unusual addition to the Empire. Not just in being the second species to join, but in how they changed. In a way, some of the krogan found religion, or rather, religion found them. One of the battlemasters working with special forces units made a friend who happened to introduce him to Norse mythology. It seemed that the viking sagas managed to mix well with the few religious tendencies of the krogan. It was an unexpected shift, but after a second look, relatively unsurprising after the fact. Of course, the shift must have startled the hell out of the Citadel at the time, and it took a lot of effort to shift them back to sane armor rather than adding the horns to their helmets that they saw in art and fantasy stories. The helmet cam from the STG team trying to gain access to our datanet is still rather far up there in the ratings. Ten salarians trying to deal with an enraged krogan in the buff singing some of the old norse sagas while using a decorative warhammer. Most still aren't sure if the krogan was just that good, or if it was the shock of stumbling upon a drunken, naked krogan that gave him the advantage there. Krogan And Religion
You wonder how they didn't had their own Norse-like gods. Also it is a good way to force feed some semblance of culture on them, since the norse are also big on things other than battle.
Why take away the horns again? If it is purely aesthetic without performance problems, I don't see the point in the removal.
