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omegastation:

The salarians in ME3 seem really focused on the world post-Reaper War. They’re really thinking long term, while everyone else is more or less saying “who cares if it goes downhill in a few centuries? let’s solve our bigger problem now!”
I suppose the salarians are so scared of what the krogan could do, it makes sense that they wouldn’t have this “yolo” attitude. It’s just interesting because they have such a short lifespan. You would think krogan and asari would think more like this.

I think the salarians being aware of krogan repercussions later on, makes sense, but I also wonder if their attitude is because their lifespans are so naturally short? Species like the asari and krogan are used to having time, & the threat of the reapers completely rattles that up for them. Salarians on the other hand are probably already pretty used to planning things out across generations & are probably pretty meticulous about it, they’d have to be to ensure things are actually carried out properly. I want to say it was Cora? Who said something along the lines of an asari planting the seeds for something and not seeing results until she was a matriarch a few centuries later, and then all of the sudden it’s a very real possibility that they may not have those centuries to wait.  

Yeah, agreed. I think the salarians are actually more likely to plan out for generations than krogan or asari–culturally they had to do that to play ball with the asari, who hold the real galactic power. To have any hope of not being steamrollered, salarians would have to plan out for *twenty five* lifetimes to an asari’s single life. The asari have the luxury of direct experience and learning, and an individual can draw on that to respond to whatever circumstances they find themselves in. Salarians have to raise a whole new generation every couple decades and teach them how to be people before they can join in. They have to pass everything down in a game of telephone and trust that future generations will follow through, see the pattern, and agree and continue the plan they have to the end game. None of that is guaranteed.