ok but imagine if, rather than super-serious nerds, salarians were the “hold my beer and watch this” species when it comes to science and innovation
prosthetics made by salarians will have all sorts of extra doodads and be like a gajillion times stronger than natural limbs, because somebody’s lab partner bet them a hundred credits they couldn’t do it.
those uv lasers they use because it’s more efficient compared to the ones used by every other species? the last lab techs to leave for the night had a “what happens if i do the exact opposite of what this safety regulation says to do” moment, and discovered technology the entire military latched onto.
a great many experiments go on purely because the dalatrass didn’t give them a definite “what the fuck, no”
the salarian motto re: scientific progress: “when people ask us ‘why,’ we answer, ‘because nobody was sober when we asked why not.’”
