Interspecies Interactions

If you have returned to the ... Citadel and would like to become ... better acquainted with a member of the Vol-clan ... I've found myself rather short on familiar ... faces this past year and would not mind some extra ... company now and then.

Personally I have had little interaction with other ... species so I cannot testify about many of them based on ... experience.
The Thessia-cla...Asari I have met at ... Huerta have generally proven to be quite patient and ... caring. The Salarians there can be a bit ... brusque but I suppose having only a 40 year ... lifespan may make it difficult to make ... time for other people.

I do try to stay away from Krogan, Humans, and ... Batarians. I found all three of these species to be rather ... unsafe during my time on field duty.

Ah ... It appears I accidentally posted twice ... I am still ... adjusting to this forum.

To borrow Dippy’s list:

• Asari: irritating
• Batarian: irritable
• Drell: either humorless or deliberately misunderstanding
• Elcor: plodding
• Geth: impartial
• Hanar: WOULD YOU JUST TELL ME WHAT THE SHRELL YOU WANT TO DRINK IT IS NOT THAT HARD YOU DON’T NEED TO PREFACE EVERYTHING WITH AN APOLOGY TO THE BARTENDER AUGHHHHH
• Krogan: deliberately obtuse
• Quarian: fairly good conversationalists when they aren’t whining
• Reaper: no comment
• Raloi: where?
• Salarian: A wide variety of personalities that run the gamut from saintllike to reincarnations of Shrell, that often have very nuanced worldviews and who may express them with a rhetoric that ranges from intelligent to idiotic.
• Turian: very patient
• Human: pompous and/or entitled
• Volus: bookish
• Vorcha: TEETH
• Yahg: what

Religion is not really my field of study, so it would be wise to take any musings of mine with a grain of salt. As far as the reason you have trouble finding text on volus religion is because, to be frank, the modern volus is not the religious type. Now, the implied why of that statement is quite interesting.

Many historical religions of the different clans lacked an idea of an afterlife. I guess even in antiquity, volus preferred a more, hm, practical approach. Most teachings were about how to live a righteous life in the present (managing one's affairs with humility and skill, being charitable and wise with possessions and wealth, taking care of the less fortunate, ect. Those kind of ideals) rather than a distant future after death.

In addition, the idea of any being, even divine beings, owning a person is... A rather uncomfortable concept for most volus. As such, most concepts on any divine beings were distant and rarely, if ever, involved in the day to day minutia of life.

I think with no clear end returns for our beliefs, due to the lack of an afterlife, and no strong association with a divine being, most volus drifted away from religion once we discovered we weren't alone in the galaxy. However, there are religious volus out there, and it might be better to ask them about such matters. I know at least that the Sect of the Watcher would disagree with my assessment, for whatever that's worth.

I wolud suggest, however, you read Pit Balko's A Long Journey Home. It is an autobiographical text about one volus' journey to spiritual enlightenment and touches on some of the major philosophies and relgious sects of our late pre-space flight culutre. Despite being quite dated, much of what Balko discusses is still relevant to volus today (I believe it's still commonly used as a reference book for beginner philosophy courses at most secondary education facilities on Irune.) Also, he was a fantastic writer.

I hope that helps, and feel free to ask any other questions.

It is extremely helpful, and this one thanks the other for the recommendation. It will add Pit Balko to the list of authors on which further reading is encouraged. This one would not want to neglect the volus people as it works on integrating alien perspectives into its comprehension of these one's place in the cosmos.

This one hopes the other finds its stay on the boards pleasant, and again extends its appreciation for the other's eagerness to share.

I've actually lived among humans for about eleven years now, so about a third of my life. I still don't fully understand them, but they're a good people. They don't stick their tongues in all the time, so that's good. They seem to have these, I don't know, these surges of patriotic spirit, though, which are painful and give me turian-vibes - they've definitely been like that since the war - but that's periodic. It comes and goes. They're usually more laid-back than that.

I guess that's the thing, though, they're unpredictable. And salarians, by contrast, are really quite predictable when you get to know them. People think they aren't because they're sticking their tongues into everything and coming up with new ideas all the time, but there's a real depressing consistency beneath it all, like you know they're not going to change even if it hurts them. It's like they're not happy unless they know everything. They want to control. It's because our mothers are used to that, you know? It's subtle, but it's hard for any of us to go against them, and you know how many eggs we have. So having that automatic desire to play chiss with people's lives on a grand scale...Chiss? Chess. Chess, sorry. I get confused. Anyway, basically, manipulating whole groups of people and just naturally assuming you're doing right is like the natural salarian way. Things are complex but you're on top of it, you're sorting through it. Picking out the best males to make daughters, like picking out the important clues among all the information the Union's bringing in all the time? And the humans, well, they liked the salarians because we were on their side, you know? The turians were holding them back and the asari, they forget that two hundred years' time is whole clans out the airlock, not a staggered delayed entry like they think it is. But salarians were more at human pace, so they liked us. Problem is, the humans believe that everything is what it appears to be on the surface, and salarians...well, they're so used to the secrets and the politics and such that they overlook the surface details, because they're always working three moves ahead. And now the humans are just starting to see how things really work with salarians, and they get exasperated because they don't like the revelations.

And that gets me stressed. I've spent the last eleven years away from the Basin and from other salarian holdings because I couldn't take it anymore, and I haven't been home at all for the last three years. Eleven years among aliens...that's like thirty years to them, or three hundred if you're an asari. I hope this human/salarian thing settles down soon; really, it gets me nervous and I don't deal with that well. I want a quiet retirement!

There are like, a handful of uncompacted drell on this board and you are particularly articulate and "memorable"?

well, first time I met an alien it was a human and he was friendly enough but he had all that fluff on his head so that was strange.

then I met this hanar, like a big jelly-fish they talk a lot

and a few days ago I met drell, they are pretentious self-important [censored] or it could just be that one I guess

edit: forgotten, asari are like blue humans but without the fluff, they are nice

Sorry to jump back in, I meant to include it in my earlier post, but it slipped my mind...

You know, this is the first time I've actually seen 'ears' in that context? Usually when people make that kind of human/asari contrast, it's just hair they mention. The more visually immediate trait, I suppose. I wonder if it's a more relevant factor than people are aware of, maybe on a subconscious level?

I'm not trying to make any kind of point with that, I just thought that was interesting. :)

(I understand what you're saying, though, don't think I'm disagreeing by any means. Not that I'm not fond of how our aurals look, but ears... more the quarian version, in my case, but just to pick a random human example, Skylar's look terrific. It's kind of ear/hair combo, when the hair is tucked back rather than outside the ear. Depends on the style, obviously. Charisma's are adorable too.)

Using Dippy’s list:

• Asari: shut up
• Batarian: shut up
• Drell: shut up
• Elcor: sincerely: shut up
• Geth: talk more
• Hanar: please shut up
• Krogan: shut up
• Quarian: shut up
• Reaper: no comment
• Raloi: is there literally anyone who cares
• Salarian: shut up
• Turian: wise up
• Human: shut up
• Volus: shut up
• Vorcha: shut up
• Yahg: shut up

This defines so much of our interactions, you and I.
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Please stop.

Asari: Young: One shot, Old: Five shots plus a head stomp to make sure.
Batarian: Merc: 1 shot, CIS: Four shots with incendiary at a distance cause maybe they're cortex wired
Drell: Civilian, Waste of Ammo, use your fist, Pro: Use Warped ammo on a high impact weapon for sure, also stomp to make sure. twice.
Elcor: 11 shots
Geth: 1-500 shots, depends on chassis
Hanar: 1 shot
Krogan: Merc: 8 shots, Battlemaster: Bring a very large gun and aim from very far away
Quarian: Rock
Reaper: Gravity, lots and lots and lots of gravity
Raloi: Rock
Salarian: One shot
Turian: Two shots
Human: Rock
Volus: Fist
Vorcha: 4 shots, 4 shots again
Yahg: Incendiary ammo preferably out of arm's reach. *Bosstip: Their arms are twice as long as yours, at least

You're SPECIES doesn't MATTER if you end up being killed by the REAPERS. Wear blue and you will be safe. Not red. Red might be a risk. The Krogan's avatar has red in it. Worrying.

Also I HATE QUARIANS because they laugh at me behind those sinful visors.

The HANAR come from the walls and space. They tell me the things I need to know. The things I need to use to save everyone. They are lovely and kind.

The Asari are a mix, like purple is a mix of BLUE and RED. The females are pleasant, usually. They become less so when I speak to them. I am uncertain why. The MALES are HORRIBLE! Beating me whenever they see me. ALL I TRY TO DO IS HELP AND THEY BEAT ME WHY WOULD A SPECIES BE SO NEEDLESSLY SENSELESSLY CRUEL!

The ELCOR are personable and I like them because I can alway understand exactly what they mean. They do not try to hide their words with filthy lies like the Quarians, they speak only their minds.

I sat on a VOLUS once, he was very angry but he calmed down and went away after I explained the mistake and told him The Truth. Then some Male Asari came and beat me, I think he may have told them where I was. Now I am suspicious of Volus.

Turians are strange with their hard skin and beady little eyes. I ignore them whenever possible. If they are polite I will speak to them. But they are rarely polite.

There are other species but I don't feel the need to talk about them. I have more important things to attend to.

Are you... Are you joking? Are you playing some kind of trick?

I do not tell jokes human student. I am not a terribly funny person. And tricks are a thing QUARIANS do and I would never sink to they're level.

Uh, okay. That seems pretty harsh.

The Truth is rarely anything but.

This one thanks the other for its expressed regard for the hanar people. This one is always eager to expand these one's philosophical discourse to incorporate the perspectives of other races. It respectfully and humbly observes, however, that the structure of the other's speech is as yet inadequate to the intriguing nature of its content. It hopes the other will clarify its position so this one may successfully comprehend the other's argument!