By contrast Mordin can whip things up by himself and within days or weeks, provided he has a well-equipped lab. Professor Solus works at what seems to be superhuman speed — on the double even by Salarian standards — and as a Salarian he practically never sleeps.
He can get a staggering amount of scientific and engineering work done just by himself. Our game stats assume that the Professor is a capable hacker and intrusion specialist. Generally his skills base has been assumed to be very broad, even where not clearly demonstrated within the game. He has to rely on ending the fight quickly. Salarians are usually terrible at fighting. Though his tactics are about compensating for his weaknesses, Mordin is deadly.
Most enemies will be dead before they know what hit them. He will not fare well against well-protected forces. Shepard would never assign him to an ops team expecting to encounter, say, YMIR-class mechs or a Collectors reaction team. Mordin fights one-handed as he needs to operate his heavily modified omni-tool.
His usual weapon is a M-6 Carnifex hand cannon, but Shepard had him refresh his training with Thane Krios so the Professor can operate a M-9 Tempest submachinegun to support her assault specialists. On the Normandy Mordin was also trained to operate a Phalanx special purpose pistol. He further went through a refresher combat simulation course with the basic M8 Avenger assault rifle. From how he scans Shepard and her operators on Omega, and his casual detection and elimination of surveillance bugs in his Normandy lab, we have also assumed bug-sweeping functionalities in his omni-tool.
Professor Mordin Solus is a Salarian. Salarians are a short-lived, sped-up species with an hyperactive metabolism. They are fast and flexible, both physically and mentally, but have little brawn to offer. As a result Salarians are seen by other species as excelling at indirect and creative endeavours.
Salarians prefer to reach mutually agreeable deals to have more militaristic species fight in their stead. This is what they did with the Krogans against the Rachni and with the Turians against the Krogans.
Mainstream Salarian cultures greatly value knowledge and information. Excellence and finesse are also highly desirable qualities.
Salarians prefer one brilliantly-designed thing to many things of lower quality and conceptual elegance. Like the vast majority of Salarians, Mordin is male. They do almost all the work to run society and politics, and organise the complex Salarian reproductive negotiations.
Salarians, including Mordin, thus tend to consider females of all species as more important than males and not to be harmed — even if they know that the species in question has a more balanced gender ratio than theirs.
Like Earth amphibians, Salarians have a multi-functions orifice called a cloaca. Since a cloaca serves both reproductive functions and waste elimination functions it is the equivalent of simultaneously calling someone an asshole and a dickhead, though the quoted dialogue gives the impression that how offensive the term is entirely depends upon tone.
Furthermore the word has multiple meaning depending upon context. Since the Mass Effect games focus on special warfare, a Salarian institution that plays an important role in the story is the Special Tasks Group. The STG is a low-oversight special operations elite that lies somewhere in the middle of military intelligence, black bag ops, long-range reconnaissance, engineering skunkworks and scientific research.
The goal of STG men is to win battles before they occur, and nip crises in the bud before they can develop. They value stealth, intelligence, multidisciplinary expert knowledge, pragmatism and courage.
The Special Tasks Group is considered to be the cream of galactic intelligence. It offers Salarian cunning and intellectual flexibility sharpened by thousands of years of black ops experience. The STG itself is not that large. He and his men took on a near-suicidal mission of diversion to give Shepard a shot at saving the galaxy. It is presumably Kirrahe who requested that Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams posthumously receive the Silver Dagger, a major Salarian military distinction, after she fought and died along with an STG squad.
Salarians have about a year life span, making them mayflies in galactic society. Modern Humans routinely reach , and Asari can have ages in the four digits. Salarians consequently mature very quickly by Human standards.
Despite his extraordinary knowledge Mordin is about 30, and mentioned that it was normal for a bright Salarian to complete their PhD by age Solus also enjoyed having extremely intelligent colleagues and tackling particularly difficult and unusual problems from multiple perspectives, making him a good STG man.
However, one mission on Tuchanka came to haunt him. This is unusual for Salarians, who usually go through a rapid and efficient process of emotional coping. This is also where he acquired most of his scars and lost a horn. A key part of modern Salarian history was contacting and recruiting Krogan warriors to fight against the Rachni , a powerful insect-like species threatening to eradicate Council species.
Striking deals with Krogan tribals turned the tide and saved everyone, but later led to more problems. Krogans were reproducing at a staggering pace once outside of an environment capable of culling their population. These demographics and their natural aggression led to war. Krogans could quickly replace their losses, and the Krogan Rebellions turned out to be as much of a threat as Rachni hordes had been. Salarian scientists developed the Genophage, a highly infectious virus.
It rewrote Krogan DNA to induce a However, Salarians vigorously disagreed among themselves as to the ethical status of the Genophage and never actually deployed it. The virus only came into play after the Salarians approached and recruited a new species of aliens, the Turian Hierarchy, to serve as soldiers against the Krogans. Being firm believers in total war and overwhelming victory, the Turians unhesitatingly employed the Genophage when they discovered its existence.
Though the Genophage is often thought of as an extinction-level bioweapon, it is actually designed to allow Krogan population to renew itself on a basis. The intent was presumably to force them into a strategy where they never waged wars so their population could be preserved. These shortcomings turned the Genophage into their doom as Krogans kept fighting and dying instead of living and reproducing to maintain the equilibrium.
Monitoring the Genophage was a key STG job from then on, since Krogan physiologies are incredibly good at overcoming hostile agents. Krogans were adapting and the live birth rates were improving.
He and his colleagues — geneticists, biologists, sociologists, statisticians… — went over the data over and over until they were certain of their conclusions, then virulently disagreed about strategies and ethics.
He was taught that a grouping of krogan should automatically be considered a threat regardless of who they are, where they're from, or their intentions. Luckily, he overcomes this and learns that the krogan are more than their worst mistakes. Fans didn't become endeared to Mordin because he was intelligent or even musical. That was part of it, but it was because he was much more empathetic than he immediately appeared. Oftentimes, characters of his skill level and intellectual understanding struggle to empathize with others.
Think of Sherlock Holmes, for instance. Mordin didn't have this weakness and showed an ability to take in information and make judgment calls that sometimes went against what data might suggest. His ultimately tragic quote "Had to be me. Someone else might've gotten it wrong" shows this off. He has confidence and subtle arrogance in his genius-level abilities. But this quote takes on a new context in ME3 where every fan cries when Mordin repeats it.
Throughout the series, the topic of the Genophage is something Commander Shepard and Mordin discuss at length. Part of the salarian believes that the plague was in the best interest of every alien race not named krogan. Another part of him feels remorseful, responsible, and doesn't believe the ends justified the means. Mordin calmly uttering "Genophage cured.
Krogan free. New beginning. While Mordin might be a half-decent party member, one has to admit that his usefulness during the Suicide Mission is almost nonexistent. He is bound to die if chosen for any specific action, regardless of his loyalty. Telling him to hold the line in the mission also reduces the group's chance of survival as well! Pretty much the only thing he would be useful for in this situation is to escort the captured crew back to the Normandy.
If Mordin survives and makes his way to Mass Effect 3 , then another string of actions results in one of the most heartbreaking sacrifices in the series. In a bid to secure the cure to the genophage and undo everything he did wrong, Mordin secures this valuable cure However, things don't necessarily have to end this way — players who really love this character and want him to survive regardless of the consequences need to kill Wrex on Virmire in Mass Effect , destroy Maelon's data during Mordin's loyalty mission in Mass Effect 2 , and tell no one about the STG Sabotage on Shroud tower in Mass Effect 3.
Finally, when the player stops Mordin from going up this tower, they need to choose the Renegade option to secure Mordin's life once and for all. Halo: Which Game Is Better? User Info: Poppadop. BW's site also says Grunt is 22 when really he's only a few days old. The devs said that some of those are human age equivalents based on their personalities. Mordin acts like he's During his loyalty mission, Mordin says he's in his 30s.
I figured Grunt was in his tube for that long. No, she only says she's nearly 1, Which is probably a rough estimation.
If I was , and knew I was going to live for longer, I'd probably say I was "nearly a thousands" too. Besides if she was , she's be a Matriach Man, Bioware got me on the Asari thing this game. User Info: Rage Meh I figure Mordin was TGS, whatever the Salarian Special Forces were, so he's probably trained and since he knows how to fight, keeps his body in top shape. More topics from this board Legendary edition reveals ME2 is the worst of the triology. How exactly do I keep both Jacks and Mirandas loyalty?
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