My Favourite Characters - Mordin

Wow, another Mass Effect character, hey i told ya there would be a lot of these. The funny thing is, I really didn't like Mordin when we first started to get to know him, long story short, he helped to neuter an entire species (The Krogan), sending the entire planet into a downward spiral of war, poverty and distress. And the two Krogans we had on our team were awesome, so I would get into a lot of arguments with Mordin over his decisions...that was until we played through his loyalty mission. In his loyalty mission, we finally get an explanation, he wasn't doing it because he felt it was the right thing to do, he did it because it was a necessity. The Krogan are violent and live for combat, and breed quickly, if they were to live freely then that would cause mayhem, a statistical probability as he would put it. So he dedicated his time & brains to working towards enhancing the genophage, the neutering formula pretty much. But, the genophage wasn't implemented to exterminate them, but control them, that's why he was so crucial to the formula, because they needed it to be 1 in 1000 births were successful, they needed a balance, killing the Krogan for what they 'might' do is immoral, and this is what we learn about Mordin, while he may have come across as a cold hearted bastard (Well he might be, being an alien and all) he still had rules he lived by. He was a logical person, but also saw the need for boundaries and respect for life, he never tested on living creatures, seeing it as cruel and had a large interest in religion, found comfort in the thought of a bigger picture behind it all.

He never had any personal hatred for the Krogans, he just new it was something that had to happen, and he had to be the one to do it, as he puts it "had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong". And this is something he lived by, in Mass Effect 3 when he dedicated his efforts to curing the genophage, he did it because it was also a necessity, he would go as far for this cause to sacrifice himself to curing the species he doomed, which I like to believe there was always that underlying level of guilt he had for doing something so awful, and was so relieved at the thought that he could repent for his crimes against nature. And i'm not gonna lie, when he died, I not only cried, but I saluted this man, because of his selfless and logical sacrifice. He was indeed the very model of a scientist salarian.

-Danny