#turian headcanon

[amadholes-lostre]

Citadel redesign/some lore improvement or change

I have an idea of some time now (6 years lol) of changing the Citadel structure and that the CC/race themselves. Mainly that while I like the Citadel design itself (one of my favorite space stations), it's not that impressive, especially the size and shape itself. Citadel is meant to imitate an O'Neil cylinder, which is not good as those space habitats meant to be built by today technology. What happened if an alien race, who built hundreds of cylinders already, come across the Citadel? They will laugh themselves silly. So, I came up with my own version.

The Citadel itself

I based the idea of mixing the Original Citadel and Omega stations itself, with the arms fully open and spread.

With the arms attracted around Omega uppermost section. The version itself looks like this:

The Citadel total height is 1,000 km, from the upper-section (the round head) to the cylinder bottom (referred to as the lower-section). The antenna-like structure in the mid-section is the main space port, where all the goods are imported and exported. The lower-section is a regular cylinder (I think 500 km in height), using configuration for gravity.

The upper-section uses eezo for artificial gravity and uses "levels" for separating. Each levels has 2.5km of space height, connecting by pillars. So, in a way, the upper-section is similar to Aincrid from SAO.

The arms- which has 5- 500 km in length, and around like 20 km in height. Like the upper-section, each level has 2.5km space height, with a total level of 6. Some levels have strict biome and meant for national parks (with some towns and whatnot). Some are only meant for certain species like volus so they could live without suits. There're likely 2 levels that are heavily urbanized, with some population density of 100k km².

The arms (and majority of the upper-section, let's be honest), are fully enclosed, meaning the uppermost does not have glass/transparent metal. How they receive light is through hundreds of light overheads with radiators. So they do have some kind of sky, being bluish hue, but it's possible seeing the next level floor. It's like the sky in Requiem from Halo 4.

(Notice the mechanic sky hued by the atmospheric gas.)

There're parts where glass/transparent metal is placed so people can gaze at the Serpent Nebula or the stars, usually parks and lounges. However, there're likely private space that rich people could own (like owning an apartment/housing adjacent to the glass/transparent metal).

The very uppermost in the upper-section is where the Council and species-nations/states embassies are located. I called this part The Crest. The Crest has it own space port meant for diplomats, nations/states military (like the Normandy), certain organizations, or very wealthy people kr business.

The arms could close (like the original), sealing upwards to the Crest. That, and with the kinetic barriers, it's nearly impossible to break through (unless you have 1 peta-ton weapon). The Citadel Fleet itself is far bigger, having 30k of warships guarding, with the Turians having 20k, including 1.8k dreadnoughts and battlecruisers. Asari also has 25 Ascension-class, with the lead ship, Destiny Ascension, being the flagship (their main reactor generates 2.5 peta-joules per second; fuck you Halo fans 🖕🖕, suck at these blue clit lol). There're also hundreds of space defense platform, ranging from arsenal missile platform-using metallic hydrogen as payloads and rocket propellant- to fucking mass accelerator (each ranging from 250 tera-joules [60 kiloton] to fucking 100 peta-joules [24 megatons]). They are going make you work for it lol.

I don't really know the total population. Either 15 billion or, at maximum, 100 billion. There are likely people who not only never leave the Citadel, but never even venture out of their arm or level.

I can't really think anything else to add that isn't about the station itself.

Turians

Nothing much to add, except fleet and ship size. There is an ME book that said there're tens of trillions of beings, and I took that fact seriously. However, of that true, than their fleet numbers has to be fucking huge. I saying they have likely 10 million ships, with 900k dreadnoughts (400k) and battlecruisers (500k). An average dreadnoughts size is 2.5 km in length, with a reactor core of 450 terawatts. Battlecruisers is 2km in length with a reactor of 340 terawatts. Their ships size are similar compared to other species nations/states military, though they have a numerical size advantage to back it up. (It's not the ship size or crew that makes a ship expensive, but the mass effect/eezo core is what limit it.)

Like what many codex and books say, Turians have multiple alien clients, with a more concrete number of 5. Two submit willingly for protection, however really fuck-up their chance having a seat in the Council. The other 3, however, were forced into submission, doing a "fuck around and find out" situation. Turians did so, so they will never be a threat to them again. Because of this, some of their client race form extreme Sangenists rebel/terrorists (Sangenism from Latin, Sanguis [blood] + Gen [race/people], mainly species nationalist). Humans almost suffer the same fate if the Asari didn't interfere.

Asari

Nothing much change for the Asari either, only adding or making it definite. Asari has around 25k planets and satellites (Turians has maybe 30k planets and satellites), the majority of which are in the Athena Nebula. They don't really have a large population. Actually, humans (300 billions, will explain) will nearly reach theirs at (1.95 trillion) by the end of the millennium. This is thanks of never needing to expand their lifespan.

I think this is already canon, but Asari mostly romance their own kind (I saying 80%), with only being a taboo of having a pureblood. Also, they are not actually omnisexual, with around 70% preferring females, other mono-sex, or hermaphrodite (i think the hanars are hermaphrodite, not sure).

They have 100 Ascension-class dreadnoughts, though it's a fucking financial nightmare due how large the Eezo Core has to be. I think increasing it twice or thrice it size. Something like this:

Humans

Instead of the canon events taking place in the late-22nd century, this took place in the late-23rd century. Humanity did discover the Prothean artifacts at Mars in 2148, however they didn't contact the Turians until 2256. So they have like a century of colonization expansion.

The reason why Humanity population explored is due to discovering expanding a human lifespan (decreasing telomerase shortening through mitosis) in around 21th century, increasing average life expectancy to 180 years. Even though this solves the so-called "fertility crisis", it cause an overpopulation crisis since now the death rate is nearly absolute zero lol. Actually this common for any other race that increases their lifespan. I took the idea from my races, Indrin/Rin/other species, who, in 1955, have a population of 50 billion, and by 3456 (first contact with Earthian humans), reach 25 trillion.

Other races/history/etc.

The books and codex said there're dozens of species instead of just the ones in the game (the game engine could only handle so much). I put the number at least 76 species, with a total population of 1.5 quadrillion. Turians have one of the highest populations, at least 20 trillion, and Turian females are one of the most common bedmates (genetic donors) or lovers for Asaris. At least have of the species are gonochoric (having only two sex for reproduction like humans), though some of those races are not similar to humans (I strongly in the belief Turian males do not have dick; Garrius tribs the living shit out of femshep [I'm a strong Shiara shipper lol] and he does well). Mono-sex species like Asari (though even other mono-sex species found Asari odd for theirs) are evenly proportion with gonochoric, other S.R like hermaphrodite, multiple different sex (think Andorian from Star Trek), and others.

Can't really think of anything else: some ideas i have like the formation of the Citadel Council and why the Treaty of Farixen was signed. The idea I have is that there were multiple other international organizations like the CC (though CC is the strongest) and that it lead to multiple arm races, some of which lead to wars (causality up to dozens of billions of death). These I.O. merge with the CC and the Farixen was signed so that there wasn't another interstellar war. Another idea is that the Rachnie War (taking place at 900CE, last for 1 century with interspersed skirmish for another 2 century) led to 1 trillion deaths (oof) and the Krogan-Citadel War (1300-1400 CE) cause 250 billion deaths (the Krogans throw a fucking Moon-size satellite at a Turian planet the fuck?).

I also thinking of an alien nation having a robotic army before the Rachni War, and use it against a war with the CC (like the CIS Droid Army from Star Wars). Only, the robots, after gaining sapient, didn't like to being told and cause a brutal genocide against them. Through the CC managed to stop them, this incident, and Quarian Genocide, what drives the fear of AI to them.

Not much else to add, Bye-Bye!

@dr-jekyl @dr-ladybird @stealthydentist @keeper-of-the-flames @berryshiara @masseffectfanwork

[milkywayes]

GARRUS VAKARIAN: DATABASE IMAGE ACCESS. > PT. 1 : 2160, 2166, 2170. > all files backdated according to user preferences: (terran_coordinated.calendar).

[lassieposting]

Okay but like. A thought

Turians start their compulsory military service at fifteen, and they're not allowed to leave military service until they're thirty*

That means that, aside from a minority of early bloomers, they spend the horniest, most hormonal period of their lives in the army. All of them. No exceptions.

So like. There is no way Shepard is the first time Garrus has crushed on a superior officer. Having the hots for your CO and having your Yearning™ subvocals accidentally announce it to your entire unit is practically a rite of passage in Awkward Turian Puberty. It's expected, and forgivable...for a teenager who can't keep his dick behind his plates for longer than five minutes, because he's realising for the very first time that Girls Exist.

Anyway. Garrus who's absolutely dying of cringe for like the whole of ME1 and most of ME2 because he's the wrong side of 25 and still getting inappropriate crushes on authority figures and she's human and they have so many weird little fingers, like fucked-up pyjaks, what is wrong with him? And it's getting a bit ridiculous now anyway like this is the kind of lesson he should've learned when he was nineteen and hit on his pretty, older squad leader and she laughed in his face, but apparently not - and it's so juvenile and even without Wrex around to laugh at him he's - wait hold on Shepard what do you mean blow off steam?

Oh. Oh. Well, alright then. He could be convinced, definitely

* Garrus straight up deserted to go play Batman, y'all

[yourfaviseverything]

Isaac, Eden and Rainmaker from The Binding Of Isaac are genderfluid, nonbinary and gay respectively and you are gay for playing Isaac!

[dynamitegun]

So the Codex mentions that some Turians have picked up Confucianism and Buddhism in the aftermath of the First Contact War. Since both religions feature the concept of forgiveness and reconciliation as steps to enlightenment, i like to think that Shanxi, the site of the worst fighting during the First Contact War has a small Turian enclave living planetside, who performs civic projects like fundraising and clearing damage still present from the war, like undetonated explosives. Just a handful of veterans who want to make amends for the damage done during the war and are open to living alongside their former enemies as a sign of goodwill.

[oonaluna-art]

After making my previous drawing of Garrus, inspired by baby t-rexes being born with feathers that they lose over time; I decided to draw two more little Turians.

Above: Saren Arterius (i gave him longer feathers, inspired by silkie chickens)

Below: Nyreen Kandros

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[hyperfixationstation128]

Mass Effect headcanon for Turians!!

So, we all know that Turians are pretty much based on birds, right? And some birds communicate by head movements, feather movements, etc.

Well, I was thinking, what if Turians have certain head movements that have different meanings? I think that'd be really cool!

[squigglysquidd]

Turian Body Models

I'm curious, what is your canon turian body look like?

I'd love to hear from anyone who wants to share in their headcanons!

[that-wildwolf]

I feel like I'm going insane. I can't trust my brain at this point I keep seeing people talk about how Garrus said let's retire to the beach or draw them on the beach together I'm going legitimately insane where are you getting this. did he actually mention a beach and I completely missed it. Because like yeah headcanon what you want, it's cute, I don't mind, but it shows up even in meta analysis posts??? I'm slowly falling to madness did he ever say a word about a beach

[arteriussovereign]

Turian Ancestors?

Probably Dragonborn for me, the kind from such like Dungeons and Dragons stuff. Like Baldur's Gate 3. Why? Well:

[wingsy-keeper-of-songs]

Gimme more turian culture. Gimme decorations like piercings in the side fringe or feathers from animals on Palaveni braided in-between the blades. Colorful colony tattoos if it's just the pattern that matters and not the color. More clothes that drape and emphasize parts that turians find attractive like the hips and waist. Give me even more insight into their language and what the sub-vocals mean to them. More turian art and music and folklore that doesn't focus on their military service.

I dunno I just want to know more things about the space raptor-cats along the lines of what we learn about the quarians, krogan, and asari.

[nemo-me-impune]

Mass Effect Turian Headcanon:

Turians naturally change sex if too many of one sex are kept together. This made sex equality greatly favoured when their civilisation was developing because the process isn't pleasant (hormonal changes never are) and could be easily avoided by just encouraging a mix of different sexes in all areas of society.

In the modern day the process can easily be prevented or reversed in early stages through synthetic hormones which has relaxed the necessity of it but most turians still prefer working with mixed groups.

Some turians use the synthetic hormones to intentionally trigger the process when they wish to change sexes.

Chakwas had some hormones in stock on the Normandy because Garrus was on his own, which meant it could have been an issue if they had ever picked up more male turians for an extended period of time.

[milkywayes]

POV you went through Garrus' most-encrypted folder (if tyrannosaur babies can be covered in down so can he)

[lassieposting]

Okay so I know "turians purr" is like. Old hat and basically accepted fanon at this point, because they are Space Kitty People, but.

I like the idea that it's not necessarily a direct translation to "this turian is happy".

Like a human smile, it's all wrapped up with other body language and can mean a dozen things - a smile can be sad, or uncomfortable, or pleased, or passive aggressive, or threatening.

ME1 Shepard is paying close attention to her new alien crewmembers, so she figures out fairly quickly that purring suggests satisfaction or contentment more than outright joy - he purrs when she tells him "Good shooting today, Vakarian," or when he's finished a good meal or when he's cleaning his rifle, which she knows he finds relaxing. She knows Nihlus made a purring noise when she gave a response he approved of.

ME2 Shepard finds out that turians also purr as comfort, similar to the human shhh. When she goes to the battery after Aratoht and feels her face crumple and bursts into tears because 300,000 innocent people are dead and she couldn't save them, he wraps his arms around her and rests his chin on her head and rumbles into her hair until she calms down. And it's not just to comfort others - she hears him purring when he's semi-conscious in the medbay after he takes a rocket to the jaw, and when she alerts Mordin he helpfully clarifies for her that she doesn't need to be alarmed - Garrus is hurt, and scared, and he's self-soothing. He also purrs when he's floundering trying to flirt with her in her cabin before the collector base, and her translator chip interprets it as nervous laughter.

Like. It's a social behaviour. It's evolved out of "I am content" in some ancient Palaveni animal into basic comfort ("you are expressing distressed body language, so I am demonstrating calm, contented body language to reassure you there is no threat here") in primitive turians and into a dozen multifaceted social cues in an advanced species with a complicated culture that calls for formality and politeness.

[drelldreams]

my headcanon for what different species call our galaxy:

asari: athame‘s fields, silver stream.

quarians: tides of light, path of light.

turians: silver road, seam of spirits.

salarians: way of souls, wheel of silver.

krogan: road of warriors, firestream.

elcor: silver meadow.

drell: tides of silver., silver ocean.

batarians: silver flames, river of light.

hanar: reflected path, way of the enkindlers.

[dynamitegun]

It occurs to me that a Sole Survivor Shepard might be more sympathetic to Tarquin Victus in ME3 when they land on Tuchanka. They lost their own platoon on Akuze to Thresher Maws, they've been in Vivtus' shoes.

When Lieutenant Victus loses hope, wants to abort their mission, I think Shepard's pep talk comes from deep inside them, for a moment not from Commander Shepard, but Lieutenant Shepard, who watched their men slaughtered, yet fought on.

When Tarquin admits his responsibility for the loss of half his men, a paragon Shepard can tell him.

"Owning your mistake takes guts, but you have to get over it and move on."

The mission comes first. They have a job to do and quitting now will only mean his men died in vain. They'll mourn later. Shepard learned this at Akuze, that to give up betrays the dead and passed this lesson on to Victus.

In the end it's Victus who's willing to make the ultimate sacrifice in the name of victory. To do right by his family name and perhaps pushed by advice from someone who'd tread that same path.

"All right, saddle up. Let's get back into the war."

-Final line, Sands of Iwo Jima, 1949