User blog comment:The Milkman/Citadel Review: Entertaining and Inconsequential/@comment-4118072-20130307213447/@comment-4118072-20130308183611

But that dose not stop the fact that as you said they shot first ask questions later and went on to wage war on a new race. Now first not alot of info is known really about first contact. There is no specification if the Turian did indeed shot first ask later. But questions can be raised on how the Turians did things, did they attempt to hide the facts from the council or did they go to the Council which resulted in Council intervention.

I personally hold out hope that the Turian patrol attempted to warn the Human ships before firing but was ignored so they went to their only other option, as most cases in fanfics (I am guilty as well) the patrol open fire immediately (though in mine I do have some Turians question the actions but honor demands them to follow) and the Turians conquest of Humanity was in light of their ignorance to ignore their warnings.

You bring up a good point though and it raises the question if Humanity had been in the position would they have done the same?