User blog comment:Supergodzilla118/Justification of the Genophage/@comment-4452849-20140808135014/@comment-11209678-20140809221827

I definitely think that it is fair to say that the salarians faired the best out of any of the council species. Even if Sur'Kesh was attacked, the reapers spent less time on the planet than the other council homeworlds and thus had less time to kill and destroy. Also, salarians reach maturity much more quickly than the other species and have a reproductive process that could foster quick population growth. For those reasons, the salarians are in a position to recover much more quickly than the other council races, thus giving them a position of power.