Turians

'''***The following is the Initial Draft, subject to change with ME3's release. It should only be used as a temporary guide.***'''

The process of overtaking and securing the galaxy for human dominion was concluded within a single galactic year. During this process humanity committed genocide against key species dangerous to their imperialistic goals, and crushed any remaining opposition while bringing the rest to heel. The first species to be crushed were the turians, the prime species viewed as the greatest threat to human supremacy. Charged by the now ubiquitously powerful Terra Firma party as the perpetrators of the reaper invasion, the scapegoated turians quickly became reviled across the galaxy as doctored “evidence” was presented against them. Saren’s actions became the turians’ collective shame and the fuel Terra Firma needed to stir up support for their galaxy-wide campaign.

The Hierarchy fleets had taken heavy damage from the reaper invasion and provided only marginal—though by all means courageous—resistance to the human invasion. With every human victory a turian colony would fall to devastating orbital bombardment by human vessels. Within weeks, the human fleets reached Palaven’s orbit and rained nuclear fire upon its surface, rendering the planet an inhospitable wasteland.

Survivors escaped in small, swift ships protected by volunteers who remained behind on Palaven’s surface, manning the surface-to-orbit cannons and providing the distraction the survivors needed as they disappeared into unknown regions of space. Whether these turian refugees survived, no one could claim a definitive answer. Where they might have gone is a mystery as no trace of them could be found. These escaped turians would become the ever-present specter of the Turian Menace, used to keep a frightened, confused, and brainwashed populace beholden to the “heroic” Terran Empire for decades to come.

The turians who survived this genocide were enslaved, openly and brutally oppressed and reviled by the empire and forced to work hard labor and live in the harshest environments. Their numbers are kept in check with careful breeding programs, implants, slave collars, and various other high-tech control mechanisms to ensure the slaves’ utter cooperation and subservience to the Terran Empire. Any children allowed to be born are taken from their mothers at birth and raised by the state. Turian slaves are afforded no rights, are never allowed privileges afforded to loyal members of other species, and are not allowed beyond their carefully secured compounds. No turian is allowed to be owned by a private individual; all are owned by the state.

Notable Turians

 * Adohn Krylus
 * Haiste T'Car
 * Haraguroi
 * Lokirus Garan
 * Micah Phal
 * Nephira Darikus
 * Operative Revoke
 * Operative Spider
 * Quinta Phal-Evhrat
 * Raum Korvin
 * Kobayashi
 * Tolth Retwin