@Mr.Green: You rise a very good point with the first question. I’ve scratched my head a few times, thinking about that.

I think humanity is getting along with turians better because unlike pretty much every other race, the turians HAVE, for a few decades now, generally tried improve relations. They’re showing that they WANT to get along, despite the FCW. Humanity might be dicks in the PV, but they seem to still respect effort.

The more cynical answer? Both species see the other as someone getting manipulated by the asari, so they’re think “fuck it, we need to get along and fuck up the blue bitches plans.”

http://logicalpremise.org/?topic=open-questions-ask-them-here

Third to last post in that thread has LP answering a question about the FCW and general outlook of the participants on that conflict and its resolution.

I fear I gave away waaay too much in that thread, especially about Uressa.

1) Not sure where you get that there’s not a lot of anti-turian sentiment in the SA. Both Earth First and Terra Firma are frothing at the mouth angry at the little-guy level at the Hierarchy even today, at least the older people.

But it was thirty years ago, and the younger generation has forgotten or never experienced it. Part of the problem is the stories don’t show much from the view of older people who lived through it. Ahern commented on this in his interview with Wong.

Wong checked her datapad. “The war was deeply traumatic for many people. A lot of humans still dislike and distrust turians for it. Given that you lived through it, what do we who were born after it need to know?”

Ahern rubbed his chin as he thought. “Damn good question. I think the biggest take-away is that most of the bitterness and dislike us older citizens have towards the turian is not racism. We saw their armies burn and kill our loved ones, shatter our cities, blow our fleets out of the sky. They thought themselves perfectly justified to commit all out genocide, and from what I heard if not for one asari woman with a spine, the Citadel would have let them do it.”

He folded his arms. “None of us are going to forget or forgive that. I won’t make very many friends by saying this, but the reaction to anything going wrong with galactic stability appears to be pretty hostile. They offed the rachni, damn near offed the krogan, and didn’t bother to help the quarians. Cut the batarians aloose at the first sign of a problem.” He gave a cold smile. “Kids today who tell us we need to ‘let go of the past’ didn’t live through it. You didn’t grow up in shit, struggling to make ends meet, and just when you get things going good again lose everything to a pack of cowards who’s idea of ‘honor’ is to assault people weaker than them while outnumbering them ten to one.”

He exhaled. “It’s a touchy issue, ma’am. I think the Alliance has done a good job in closing many of the old scars of the First Contact War, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to forget what caused them in the first place.”

Turians can’t go anywhere in Alliance space without pretty shitty treatment. Now, outside of the Alliance? A lot of the wildcat colonies had no issues with the turians beating the crap out of the Alliance, and most humans who leave Alliance space are live and let live types.

But AAT also has a good point. A lot of people ‘in the know’ realize the turians are at least trustworthy, whereas while many civilians idolize asari and hate turians, most of what the asari have done for humanity is less an equal trade and more pats on the head.

Ultimately? Marines in the SA have trained with turians in various war games for the past twenty years, and are less inclined to blind racism because they can see the turian as a person. Rachel Florez’s ‘turian kill it kill it’ viewpoint is held by a good third of all humans, while another third are distrustful of the turians and the Hierarchy.

2) Military Gear:

The main reasons are simple: the same reason our American soldiers are sent out with out fucking interceptor plates in their armor, or decent spall linings in the APCs, or fuck-ass fuel hoses in our attack choppers. Money and politics.

The High Lords don’t give a flying fuck about wasting money or resources, and they CERTAINLY don’t care about casualties. What they worry about is open revolt, and that the military will turn on them. That is what is the primary reason why they tend to enoble badasses, why they make knighthoods a thing for command officers, why they have Commissariat bombs on every ship and spies in every unit.

A more subtle reality is that the Alliance hasn’t faced open war with anyone but the batarians for a long time — and against anything but the Fist or the SIU, even the crap gear marines had was sufficient in most cases. Unfortunate attacks like Mindoir and assaults like Torfan were rare, while fucking assbeatings like Dirth — where even with half the marines shot out of the sky they fucked up eight times their number in batarians — were the norm.

They expend so much money on the Solguard and First fleet because 85% of humanity still lives in Sol or Arcturus. The rest of the Alliance primarily only provides raw materials and food. To a point, the High Lords don’t worry much about their borders because with only a few exceptions there’s no real gain in taking those worlds.

The military sees the problem quite clearly. But they are all, almost to the last, now members of the nobility or knights themselves. There’s a very sharp and wide divide between most officer types and their people — Shepard didn’t do that because she was never ‘trained right’, but she is very much the exception.

3) Richard Williams cares about Richard Williams.

To the extent that he cares about his family, he’s equally convinced that they simply not in line with his thinking. He is also a vast hypocrite in most things. At the same time, he still would not be the heir of the Family if it were restored.

But ultimately you are asking the wrong question. A restoration of the Williams Line would focus IMMENSE scrutiny on him — something he certainly does not want now that he has been ‘adopted’ by the Manswells. He’s powerseeking above sentimental.