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<blockquote data-quote="VelvetViolet" data-source="post: 7602855" data-attributes="member: 6686357"><p>The krogan population dilemma doesn't make much sense.</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">According to the timeline, it took many centuries for their population to reach the point where they started invading other inhabited planets. This actually makes their reproduction look far more comparable to humans. We can probably chalk this up less to "inherently breeding like rabbits" and more to "incompetent morons who don't know how to use condoms or pull their population out of poverty."</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">According to in-game statements about their reproduction, a krogan woman can birth ~1000 babies per year (different sources contradict whether they lay eggs or give live birth). The problem here is that it isn't physically possible for krogan couples to have a thousand kids per year every year, nor logistically feasible for them to raise a thousand kids every year especially if it takes more than one year for krogans to mature (for comparison, the fastest growing mammal on Earth is the blue whale, which doubles in size in its first six months; however, blue whales reproduce very sparsely like humans). This is directly contradicted by a krogan woman talked to in one of the games, who only had a handful of children in her entire life--all of which were stillborn.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">According to one of the ending slides in ME3, a krogan child is proportional to a human child compared to its parents and krogan couples only appear to have one kid and not the thousands you'd expect. This further reinforces that they reproduce more like humans than ants or rabbits.</li> </ul><p></p><p>We don't even know how long it takes krogans to reach maturity, aside from being fast enough that the salarians (hive-based reptiles who reproduce quickly and have extremely short lifespans) were able to farm krogan children as soldiers against the rachni (space ants). Given the statements about their population growth you'd think they'd be an entire race of child prodigies (like the salarians) in order to advance as quickly as they did, but there's no evidence that this is the case.</p><p></p><p>The whole krogan population dilemma represents a fundamental misunderstanding of population dynamics and life-history paradigms in nature. There's no possible way that the krogan could function as described, contradictions aside. Unless we're expected to believe that either 1) krogans are baby-eating psychos that raise their children in horrific factory farm conditions, or 2) that the Citadel will use a genophage against every one of its member species eventually because every race has non-zero population growth and will inevitably go to war over limited resources.</p><p></p><p>I can't imagine a population control dilemma that makes any sense without relying on everyone acting like idiots, because rampant idiocy is the only way that things could ever get so bad that you have to choose whether or not to perform what is legally genocide.</p><p></p><p>Of course, that is hardly the worst of the scientific inaccuracies present in <em>Mass Effect</em>. I see lots of people praising it for being one of the "hardest" mainstream scifi settings, but objectively it is barely harder than <em>Star Trek</em> and <em>Star Wars</em>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="VelvetViolet, post: 7602855, member: 6686357"] The krogan population dilemma doesn't make much sense. [LIST] [*]According to the timeline, it took many centuries for their population to reach the point where they started invading other inhabited planets. This actually makes their reproduction look far more comparable to humans. We can probably chalk this up less to "inherently breeding like rabbits" and more to "incompetent morons who don't know how to use condoms or pull their population out of poverty." [*]According to in-game statements about their reproduction, a krogan woman can birth ~1000 babies per year (different sources contradict whether they lay eggs or give live birth). The problem here is that it isn't physically possible for krogan couples to have a thousand kids per year every year, nor logistically feasible for them to raise a thousand kids every year especially if it takes more than one year for krogans to mature (for comparison, the fastest growing mammal on Earth is the blue whale, which doubles in size in its first six months; however, blue whales reproduce very sparsely like humans). This is directly contradicted by a krogan woman talked to in one of the games, who only had a handful of children in her entire life--all of which were stillborn. [*]According to one of the ending slides in ME3, a krogan child is proportional to a human child compared to its parents and krogan couples only appear to have one kid and not the thousands you'd expect. This further reinforces that they reproduce more like humans than ants or rabbits. [/LIST] We don't even know how long it takes krogans to reach maturity, aside from being fast enough that the salarians (hive-based reptiles who reproduce quickly and have extremely short lifespans) were able to farm krogan children as soldiers against the rachni (space ants). Given the statements about their population growth you'd think they'd be an entire race of child prodigies (like the salarians) in order to advance as quickly as they did, but there's no evidence that this is the case. The whole krogan population dilemma represents a fundamental misunderstanding of population dynamics and life-history paradigms in nature. There's no possible way that the krogan could function as described, contradictions aside. Unless we're expected to believe that either 1) krogans are baby-eating psychos that raise their children in horrific factory farm conditions, or 2) that the Citadel will use a genophage against every one of its member species eventually because every race has non-zero population growth and will inevitably go to war over limited resources. I can't imagine a population control dilemma that makes any sense without relying on everyone acting like idiots, because rampant idiocy is the only way that things could ever get so bad that you have to choose whether or not to perform what is legally genocide. Of course, that is hardly the worst of the scientific inaccuracies present in [I]Mass Effect[/I]. I see lots of people praising it for being one of the "hardest" mainstream scifi settings, but objectively it is barely harder than [I]Star Trek[/I] and [I]Star Wars[/I]. [/QUOTE]
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