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[ The post drifts up onto the comms one evening, just a simple line of text to ask a simple question:]

guys, how do aliens know when other aliens are hot?

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what.

Seconded. What.

Asari only have one sex and reproduce by melding with their partner's nervous system, using the connection to "read" the DNA, and somehow applying that information to randomize parts of the child's DNA. It also basically merges the partners' consciousnesses briefly.

Look, it makes no sense, I know, don't ask me to explain more than that. I majored in shooting things, not xenobio.

That makes two of us but you're still doing a heck of a job being a cultural ambassador here.

Oh, they can do this with any species. Did I mention that part?

I'm kind of afraid to ask how many species this has been tried across.

Gonna go out on a limb and say "all of the ones capable of consent."

And they . . . enjoy that?

The asari or everyone else?

Either way, the answer's "yes."

space is so fucking weird, shepard.

I didn't even get to the part about the sentient hivemind species that has to talk by puppeting other species' bodies.

Just for my clarification, are you talking about the Rachni or the Thorian?

[There's a slightly longer pause than usual.]

Somehow I managed to forget there were two.

I meant the rachni.

there were two.

[ He's just... making sure here. ]

why is space terrible in like every universe?

Possibly three.

[Because the Reapers seemed to be eerily on the same page - shared consciousness to some degree if not an actual hivemind.]

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It doesn't make any more sense to me, for the record.

Liara kept trying to explain it to me and I kept telling her I only cared about the results.

[...Wait.

Shit.]

That came out wrong

I didn't figure you were ready to settle down, Shepard ...

[He's not just letting that slip, Shepard.]

[Sigh.

Oh well, roll with it.]

Mordin turned me down, so I just had to settle.

[Like you wouldn't be doing the same.]

Probably for the best. Always seemed like he was more married to his work than anything else.

[Like white on rice.]

That's what happens when you fall for a species that doesn't form romantic attachments. I really should have known better.

They have conscious control over whether the melding results in pregnancy.

[Which is a good thing because otherwise Shepard would owe some child support after ME1.]

Do both of them have to want to procreate, or do accidents happen?

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