User blog comment:Braveangel/The longest serving turian and the longest serving human/@comment-217683-20100423055415

Also, a tidbit I just remembered- in response to your query 'Why did the turians choose the baddest egg amongst their ranks and ranks of fine gentle-turian officers?' remember that, unlike the humans, the turians don't appear to be very selective in who among their ranks gets considered for Spectre-ship. Recall the conversation on the matter you can have with Garrus in ME, in which he comments that he was one among many turian servicemembers considered to be a Spectre (the implication of the conversation being that he was considered because he was in the turian military, and that this is commonplace).