MASS EFFECT TWO: GIVE GARRUS A HUG

[Sithdarth]

According to the Codex all Biotics are Biotics because there is eezo in their nervous systems. Like specifically all Biotic powers are firing specific nerves to manipulate eezo in your nervous system to make mass effect fields. I assume that after being around all this super advanced eezo tech it, the eezo, just tends to permeate a species and given time a species will just adapt genetically to it. Asari seem to be super good with natural DNA reconfiguration what with mindginas and being able to mate with basically anything organic.

As for Grunt I remember something about Krogan fearing biotics basically on principle. Which is why Krogan biotics always ended up as officers. That's great and all but its basically a prejudice and Okeer might very well have seen it as an imperfection. Not to mention I got the feeling Grunt was supposed to be a template for the perfect Krogan soldier not the perfect Krogan officer and you can't have your officers afraid of their soldiers. By the way how long do Krogan's live naturally? With all that redundant biology and cellular regeneration they could potentially live damn near forever if they weren't so violent.

[BitVyper]

Er.... what was up with the Sinmara Solveig Magnetic Shielding sidequest? You just land, hit a couple switches that are within five seconds of your shuttle, and leave. There's no enemies, no plot, no hooks into other sidequests.... They don't even send you a thankyou email.

I appreciate the free credits and XP, but it seemed a bit pointless. Couldn't the colony have just sent up a maintenance man or something? This doesn't seem like a very dire threat.

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Marc v1.0

The very fact that you are allowed to go with Grunt to represent him as his krant means that Wrex didn't have to be alone during it. It was his thing, so he gets credit for it with help or not.

Thing is Wrex had help from two no name krogan who probably weren't anything special.

Grunt had help from a pair of characters consisting of at least one who could have done the whole thing solo.

It's the difference between doing a camp relay race with two other campers, and doing a camp relay race with a pair of olympic track stars.

[DFM]

To be fair, Shepard gets some of the credit for it from a very special Krogan.

[BitVyper]

Originally Posted by DFM

To be fair, Shepard gets some of the credit for it from a very special Krogan.

Tempting as that offer was, I'm shipping Shepard and the Rachni Queen.

[Aerozord]

we have no evidence Wrex did it with two no names, for all we know those that helped him are now powerful warlords themselves. In fact did they even say you could only bring two people? If not Wrex might have had a small army helping

Note that doesn't degrade his achievement. Commanding a bunch of kill crazy krogans is no easy task. I am just saying the circumstances are completely unknown. Maybe he had a small army, or was armed with a mini-nuke, or beat it to death with his bare hands. They give no information beyond "when wrex did it, it died"

[DFM]

I'm assuming he's basing that on one of the books or something, "two unnamed krogan" is kinda specific to be guessing. On the other hand, I doubt the book would leave them unnamed.

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Aerozord

we have no evidence Wrex did it with two no names, for all we know those that helped him are now powerful warlords themselves.

Highly unlikely. A krantt is a krogan's most trusted friends. People willing to kill and die in HIS honor.

Given that fact a krantt, logically, would never consist of a powerful warlord or battlemaster unless it was the krantt of an equally powerful krogan. A powerful warlord wouldn't kill for the honor of someone else. They kill for their own honor.

Technically possible, however.

But, unless the warlords in question had also killed Thresher Maws, not in the same league as Shepard.

In fact did they even say you could only bring two people? If not Wrex might have had a small army helping

Entirely impossible. A krantt is, again, only the krogan's most trusted. Do you have 100 people you would call your best friend? 200 people? 300? How about even over 10?

And as for him having a mini-nuke? Also nearly impossible. Krogan are not allowed to own property until after their proving. It's highly unlikely that a krogan going into his proving would have more than the most basic equipment. Even battlemasters and warlords rarely have anything any nicer than a particularly good shotgun, armor, or assault rifle.

Further, we know that Wrex was alive not long after the Krogan rebellions. In fact he was probably born near the tail end of them, given that he was already leading a tribe immediately afterward when the various clans were talking about going back to war but hadn't gotten to it yet.

The chances of a 'powerful warlord' having time to be some young whelp's Krantt or for any large force to be dedicated to it during this time is effectively zero.

FURTHER, the chances that ANYONE he could have potentially found on that planet to take with could have held half a candle to cyborg-death-god Shepard is, well, it's less than zero.

I might remind you of how many 'krogan battlemasters' and 'krogan warlords' you're forced to tear through like paper throughout Mass Effect 1, and that's before you even have your cybernetic upgrades. And they were higher quality troops than there would have been during Wrex's krantt. It wasn't until after the genophage that krogan turned in to true killing machines, instead of just using zerg tactics.

I might also remind you of the scene in which Grunt is awakened and Shepard was more than capable of murdering him at any moment despite having awakened the 'perfect' krogan, getting jumped, and being completely outside of his/her armor.

S'rsly.

Grunt cheated.

He even says so himself. "Shepard is my battlemaster. S/He has no equal."

[DFM]

Originally Posted by Krylo

He even says so himself. "Shepard is my battlemaster. S/He has no equal."

Probably one of my favorite Grunt lines.

[Osterbaum]

Grunt is supposed to be the GENETICALLY perfect Krogan. That isn't an absolute guarantee he will actually be the best. Plus, as mentioned previosly, he's young. The imprints don't mean that much, because Grunt himself says something along like "...like holding a book infront of a child and sayin 'Remember this'". That isn't real experience.

Based on the email you get from the clan Shaman, I wouldn't be surprised that given that Grunt survives, he'll play an important role in clan Urdnot in ME3.