User blog comment:TheUnknown285/Things You Do and Don’t Want from ME4/@comment-24200891-20140613075000/@comment-24200891-20140613183032

Shepard saved the galaxy, the council was passive even after the reapers appeared. They didn't unite the galaxy, Shepard did it on behalf of the Alliance. Asari were hiding their prothean artifact whole time, salarians tried to preserve the genophage. Elcor ambasador asked Shepard for saving his people, because rest of the races turned from them. Krogan warriors and quarian and/or geth fleet supported the battlefields and they evecuated civillians. Council races did nothing, but the Alliance (Shepard), krogans, quarians and/or geth did. Many fans speculated salarians and asari are expelled from the council after their lack of desire to help and keeping their secrets for themselves. What heppened with all the refugees on the Citadel? They all died when the reapers took over the Citadel. The council not only never helped, but also catastrophically failed when tried. It is incredibly hard to be eager to make business with the Citadel Council. That's why I prefered to make own pact with krogans and quarians as rival of the Citadel to supress those pathetic banch of empty promices givers. I considered pacts w ith other races, but it's impossible, batarians aren't only going to extinct, but also still are enemies of humans, when vorcha are disorganised and live too short to make alliance that last long. Volus are too close to turians, so hanars, elcors and drells are left. However turning them on human side will be very very hard. If humans invented a method to cure Kepral Syndrome before the Salarians, they would have already had drells as close allies. The galaxy after the armageddon is heavily disorganised, so it's reorganisation time and everyone will compete for the biggest influence in the new hard era.