Alright, That's It

How is it all? The Doctor made a joke (which, honestly, am I the only one who can have a two-second chuckle and then get on with my day without obsessing over a throwaway jest?), and so far as I can tell Mandatory's the only one who actually picked it up and ran with it. Really, you're blowing this way out of proportion.

How is it 'a non-asari name'? I don't know the writings in question, but I had a distant aunt named Sun. And a nephew (great-great-etc. as usual) on my father's side. And a salarian ancestor, I've got a vague notion. I'd honestly be surprised to find any culture that's developed language hadn't used Sun as a given name sooner or later... unless they're nocturnal, but even then Moon's not that rare a name either for us day-dwellers, so it probably stands. Every planet's got a parent star, and regarding it positively - source of light, warmth, life etc. - is a pretty natural step; translate 'em all together, obviously there's going to be a lot of aliens sharing a name.

(On that thought, if any of our geth members are reading, are there any geth named 'Sun', or variations thereof? Just curious.)

Fun fact though - picked this up at the British Museum - there's a Terran deity named Asari (or spelling variants thereof), with blue/green skin, dubbed the 'Lord of Love' and He Who Is Permanently Benign And Youthful. It's a big galaxy, funny things happen.

...Iiiiif we're done having pissing matches over people dead some five asari generations ago, I just know that someone’s going to ask it soon.

THose handles? The ones on Sur'kesh armor? Roots in both fashion and practicality.

Take a look at the average salarian chest.



Now, look at…well, any other spacefaring species in existence.






See something a little lacking there? Yeah. We don’t look like someone twisted our spines inside-out as a norm, so a lot of our interspecies fashion goes into that so that other species don’t go all “OH SHRELL WHAT IS WITH YOUR CHEST” all the time – and after a while, it just bled into what we wear on a normal basis.

Check out some of the outfits we used to wear a good couple thousand years ago to see what I mean.

…of course, in combat, those things have a much more useful function.

...Yeah, and most females of other species have bumpy chests, that doesn't mean I wear a fake thing. Are you seriously telling me the entire species has a complex?

yup

frogs got chest envy!?

hahaha!

And this whole time I thought you fuckers had those things for ease of grip.


frogs got more complexes than an inbred varren, lizard

I always thought them handles were for draggin em off the field after they was done getting beat.

It's called "thousands of years of cultural osmosis," you twits.



What do you think that last picture is? Mojito night at Ground Z--

wait, never mind

krogan

Oh fuck right off.

I don't know whether to crack up or be disappointed. I mean, at the risk of stereotyping, salarians; I thought they would be something like neural interface collars for drone and armor control or quaternary defensive devices or be hiding spare pockets at the very least.

It's not a joke if you're literally saying more or less what he actually said but in a vaguely obnoxious tone. Next time you feel obligated to open that unfortunate chasm into that monstrosity you call a face

kindly take a minute or two to reflect upon you life and whether what you're about to say is actually funny.

Dead frog being touched by not dead frog. Probably thinking, "my friend is dead now, why didn't i think of gripping the grips on his shirt!?"

Probably saying, "Shrell shit fuck!!"

Why is this such a sad thing? We're lighter, wirier, and a lot more compact. We're not big fans of Dying for the Cause, we do our best work when not on the front lines, and shrell, that armor's lightweight. Are you telling me that if you were half your own weight, you wouldn't try it?

There are more reasons for krogan leaving their wounded on the field than you'd think. Sometimes they're just too damn heavy.

I've never met a Geth "Tikkun", but I've met or spoken to...six seven complexes using some variation on Dawn/Daybreak/Sunrise and another handful who were Evening or Dusk Somethings? Including my former suitrider, Morning Chorus.

The reasoning behind the names is different though.

Protip: You can carry up to four salarians to an evac. You can also use a weapon rack as a triage.

Only one good reason.

Dumb bitch shouldn't have got shot until he couldn't move in the first place. Fuck em.

AKA, too fat to care.

HEY

Fixed that for you. I'm not fucking fat you uh svelte little shit

So weird.

I know they/you don't have a sex drive but...shouldn't Salarians like the way they look shirtless?

Isn't that a basic aspect of long term survival, that you like how your species looks shirtless? Even in an unsexy appraising the genetic material kind way?

'Cause I dress to draw a attention to the parts of me that don't look like other species. For other drell.

Were not all fatass fucking lard sacks like dwick

Sandy, I wasn't trying to make a joke, I was being seriuos

Awfully touchy on that, aren't we? Sure you couldn't stand to lose a bit of that hump?


Fair point, fair point. Until you remember that pedigrees, intelligence and ridiculous amounts of subterfuge are an everyday part of salarian life.

And I'm guessing there's probably some old-fashioned stuff like that out on the market. I'm not really much into fashion, I'm just reciting stuff from my old college Anso classes when it comes to that. That and you don't really see a whole lot of what where we're mixing with the rest of you folks.

Uh, actually, I really underweight for a krogan, so no, I don't need to lose any weight at all.