User blog comment:Supergodzilla118/Justification of the Genophage/@comment-4452849-20140808135014/@comment-11209678-20140809001924

That's one thing I found curious about the council is that there doesn't seem to be a policy as far as when a race can be contacted and how it is done. There are a few examples that you can read about in the games lore. The first is obviously the krogan, who were uplifted after a nuclear war obliterated their planet and prevented them from proper technological development. The next one I find particularly curious, the yahg. The yahg were not even capable of spaceflight (described as being similar to 20th century Earth, I would guess early 20th century) when the council surveyors were sent there to be subsequently slaughtered. And finally the humans, who the turians declared war on. There doesn't seem to be a unified policy and you seem to be at the mercy of who meets you first.