(Spoilers ahead!)






Okay, so when you go to Virmire, you learn that Saren has a cure to the Genophage (the disease that is killing off the Krogan by way of infertility) and is using it to breed his own army of Krogan. Everybody (except Wrex) figures you should blow the whole facility to hell to destroy it.

What I don't get is why they feel the need to destroy the cure as well. They could've taken it and used it to save Wrex's whole species. I can understand blowing up the facility to destroy the Krogan army, but was it really necessary to doom a entire race to extinction (practically)?

When I played through it, I was really expecting there to be a choice to take the cure and save the Krogan, but nope. I think that this probably would've been a good area for a Paragon/Renegade choice (I mean, you can choose to let another species live or die later that is even worse than the Krogan....).

(Random Note: A Council species used biological warfare? Not very diplomatic.....)

Yeah, I was really surprised as well that I didn't have the option to find the cure.

It's been 8-12months since my last ME play through but I seem to remember the Krogan having a few more problems than just the Genophage. As a race they seem unwilling to work together, Wrex often laments that they leave their home planet and never return, there is no Krogan society to save.

 While this is pure speculation on my part, it would seem after the war and the genophage that the Krogan may very be beyond saving, you need a certain amount of genetic diversity for a species to maintain itself, given how wise spread the Genophage is supposed to be, and how few Krogans there are, it seems unlikely that even w/ a cure they could be saved.

"It's been 8-12months since my last ME play through but I seem to remember the Krogan having a few more problems than just the Genophage. As a race they seem unwilling to work together, Wrex often laments that they leave their home planet and never return, there is no Krogan society to save. While this is pure speculation on my part, it would seem after the war and the genophage that the Krogan may very be beyond saving, you need a certain amount of genetic diversity for a species to maintain itself, given how wise spread the Genophage is supposed to be, and how few Krogans there are, it seems unlikely that even w/ a cure they could be saved."

I just got to this part yesterday, I also thought you would have a choice like the Rachni Queen situation. However, it does make sense because the Krogans are bad news, they are still mad at the Turians for the genophage so if it was cured what would stop them from mass reproduction and conquering the galaxy.

Because the Krogan are an incredibly aggressive warrior species by nature, and would conquer the galaxy if they had the numbers- the whole reason for deploying the Genophage in the first place.

It's also possible that Saren had the "cure" conditioned such that any krogan produced using it would be for the purpose of creating a clone army. So the cure wouldn't be worth using because it would just create a bunch of krogan that are unable to think anyway.