<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/kOfnT10.png)</div><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">NAME:</span></strong>Jorgal Drack (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=329085.msg15732038#msg15732038)<br/><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">RACE:</span></strong>Krogan<br/><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">OCCUPATION:</span></strong>Scout/Assassin<br/><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">DATE:</span></strong>21th December 2174 CE, Evening<br/><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">WEARING:</span></strong>Krogan Combat Armour<br/><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">LOCATION:</span></strong>Galley<br/><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">CONTENT:</span></strong>Chatting<br/><strong><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: arial black;">TAG:</span></strong>Florinthia<br/><br/><br/><div align="center"> ___________________________________________________________</div><div align="center"> ___________________________________________________________</div><br/>“The war is going to happen eventually,” Drack grunted.  “Just a matter of how many people get hurt along the way before it finally kicks off.  Believe me, I know how messy a race war can get.”<br/>He was too young to have served in the rachni war or the krogan rebellion, even though sometimes he wished he had, but he had looked into the cause and effects of the two wars and had the fortitude to confront the truth head-on rather than buy into either side’s narrative.<br/>“All that’s happening right now is that everyone’s hoping that the batarians will get the message and that this time they’ll stop.  And if not now, then the next time they do something and get smacked for it, they’ll learn.  Everyone just wants to pass the responsibility on to the next generation, lying to themselves that it’ll be different this time around.  Well, it won’t be.  The batarians will just find new ways to get away with it, until finally someone has the guts to go and make them stop.  And that’ll get really messy, because the batarians had more time to get clever.”<br/>The batarians wouldn’t stop, just like the krogans hadn’t.  He often wondered what would have happened if the krogans had been less outright aggressive with their expansion and tried to be more subtle about it.  Found all the places that no one cared about or could be excused as ‘reclaiming pirate territory’.  Galaxy would probably be theirs by now.  Try as he might, he couldn’t find any joy in that thought.<br/><br/>The old krogan chuckled when Flo brought up angry biotics, “Kid, I met the mother of my daughters on the battlefield.  She was on the opposite side, and you better believe she was doing her damned best to kill me.  On top of that, I’ve got an asari for an older sister and she used to be a Justicar.  I have a pretty good understanding of biotics and what they can do.  You want to know how to disarm a mind without killing someone?  Stun grenades, sleep gas, a list of drugs that get nastier and nastier as you go down.  I’m not going to deny that biotics have some strong advantages and they work really well in certain situations.  But perfect?”<br/>Drack shook his head and snorted.<br/>“There’s nothing that’s perfect.  Perfect would mean no chance of failure.  But just because you can’t see the chance doesn’t mean it isn’t there, waiting to bite you in the quads when you’re least ready for it.”<br/>He paused, “Or whatever turians have, I’ve never looked at that part of your biology.  Mostly just studied where your major organs were located and any spots I should try to hit in a brawl.”<br/><br/>“And what do political ramifications have to deal with you?” the old krogan asked plainly.  “What do the competing egos of some old farts have to do with you?  If a big deal is made about it, it’s them making a big deal out of it, you’d just be the convenient talking point caught up in the mess that they’re creating.”<br/>Drack hated politicians and politics.  They were worse than bean counters, since they treated lives like numbers.  He wouldn’t argue the necessity for leadership and directing large groups of people to do the things that needed to get done, but half the time all politicians ever did was try to justify their own existence and paycheques to everyone else.<br/>“Now, not wanting to dishonour and upset your comrades, I get that.  Not wanting to burn useful bridges, that’s good sense.  I don’t exactly understand the Spirits you turians like to talk about, but I get that it’s important.  So, what does your cabal and Kabalim think of your situation then?”