Genophage

From FABT

"Those salarians stole our future from us...this isn't just some disease; its a mutation. It changes us by taking away the most vital aspect of our people, of any people...our children. Why slit our throat when you can leave us to bleed?"
Urdnot Jarrod, a former Battalion Commander of the Tuchankan Imperial Army.

The Genophage, known to the Special Tasks Group as Mutagenic/Biological Bacteriophage/Designate 519-333, was a bacteriophage created by the Salarian Union and deployed by the Turian Hierarchy as a biological weapon against the Tuchankan Empire during the Krogan Rebellions. The weapon effectively ended the Krogan Rebellions, leading to the dissolution of the Tuchankan Empire, and the removal of the krogan as a galactic superpower. The phage itself was designed to severely reduce krogan numbers by targetting their breeding capability, ensuring a 1 out of 1000 chance of successful birthing among the krogan numbers. This made it so that the krogan are no longer capable of reproducing properly, affecting their ability to keep consistent numbers.

By 2186 CE, a cure was developed during the Reaper War and successfully deployed on Tuchanka. The genophage, as a result, has been wiped out.

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