User blog comment:Arbington/New ME4 Teaser Pics, Possible Upcoming Reveal/@comment-89.241.230.229-20131109170356

Why does everybody forget that the games have only shows a small percentage of the space faring races for reasons of practicality? Does Barla Von not imply the existence of far more than we see? Is it not stated that the Turians have at least a handful more client races than just the Volus? In the games we see 15 contemporary races (i.e. those from this cycle and excluding Geth but including Collectors). With so few there is no way that any could be obscure (like the Collectors). This number simply does not add up to the attitudes of characters, or even some explicit statements.

Barla Von: "80% of all intelligent species in the known Galaxy acknowledge the councils authority, on interstellar matters. But only the most powerful and influential species have embassies on the presidium."

"...millions of citizens from dozens of different species."

Why do people focus on the Raoli so much? There is loads of room for other races to be introduced; not just rare or insignificant ones either, ones rivaling the Alliance for power or making the Batarians not the only personally spacefaring Terminus race (since the Yarg and Vorcha don't really count).