Mr.Green wrote:

1) Speculation: Turians not blockading Shanxi

Why didn’t the Turians blockade Shanxi, when they had likely more ships and better tech – during the initial First Contact.

I know the whole boner for war. But it would have made more tactical sense – to simply sit in orbit and take pot-shots at any AA-Turrets. Or what?

In the initial attack, the goal was suppression — they were under the belief that humanity was operating solely from Shanxi. A blockade would have made no sense.

In the follow up, when it was clear this was only a colony, there was no real point in blockades, either. They needed to capture the planet to get intelligence on what they were facing, and given the relative unimportance of Shanxi they had enough ships for a fight but not for a full blockade.

Mr.Green wrote:

2) Speculation: First Contact War, Turian Primarch

Who was the motha-fucking, chicke-[CENSORED HEAVILY]-idiot. The Turian Primach, who thought, that blasting new spaceflight species into dust, to improve your economy is a good thing?

There’s a very good reason why Fedorian broke the dudes arms and legs before tearing off his mandables. Like many Primarchs, he was a compromise candidate, and unfortunately for the Hierarchy he came into power on the back of a backlash against the Families by several strong Clans, who wanted a Primarch they could influence.

Ultimately, the turian’s do not VALUE peace, and the idea that any race of beings could so successfully deny them in war was seen as insulting. Turians do not think like humans and what makes ‘sense’ to us manifestly does not to them.

Mr.Green wrote:

3) Speculation: Lord Manswell and Richard discussion.

Namely, Manswell stated – they had been compromised, and that such a thing hadn’t happened since the Days of Iron.

So, I am curious to this easter egg. What did Lord Manswell mean, to Richard, when speaking about geth-control plans. That the SSA, had been compromised once during the Days of Iron? Who and What had that been?

That it could be compared, to the likes of the current galactic affairs?

The ‘geth control plan’ was their flawed understanding of what Saren and Benezia were doing — they were under the impression that Saren was using the geth to produce a conventional conquest and overthrow of the Citadel government and to unseat the asari and salarians.

As for being compromised, that sort of ties in with the ultimate source of the truth about Jacen Manswells suicide manifesto. Certain things that happen in Lions in Blue and Silver hint at something that if extrapolated should yield a clue. 🙂

Mr.Green wrote:

4) Speculation: Humans and Turians, =3

This is my simple, fandom love here. Question being, any turian and human pairs around the galaxy? OR are they usually burned by Commissar fire? Or skinned alive by the Hastatim?

Honestly, no one really cares who sleeps with who unless its one of the Lords of Sol or a high ranking Family or Clan. Turian-human relationships aren’t unknown — the turian mechanic and the security director on Noveria were one, for example. They certainly aren’t the norm, but generally speaking people tend to focus more on their own lives than mouth-frothing outrage over species deviantism.