User blog comment:JediSpectre117/Council not helping in ME3/@comment-2250460-20110921060626/@comment-1900300-20110924030202

There actually is a reason there is one Destiny Ascension. The Council itself didn’t build it, the asari did. But according to Aynena, asari aren’t militarily ambitious anymore. Maybe they were at one point, but it seems to Ay they are focusing more on other cultural pursuits. They have a military but great advancement in the field don’t seem to be coming form them. They even laugh at the concept of building mass relays. They would be able to build another, but have become too complaisant i guess to want to. Which i never really got. What kind of culture would turn down building such great advances in technology? And with the Conduit, even non-functional, it should be easier. But the youths are spending time in merc bands, maidens are spending time raising families and matriarchs are being wise old people. It’s kind of like they are so long lived they truly act like they have all the time in the world, and so ultimately do nothing. It is in vast contrast to humans.

As for the turians maybe something so big is not their style. They seem to like manuverablity