What happens if you free the Rachni Queen?

If players choose to spare the Rachni Queen, she'll flee to the wilderness of Noveria and promise Shepard that her children will remember the kindness shown to her by the Commander. If players decide to kill her, the Rachni Queen will plead with Shepard.
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Should I free or kill the Rachni Queen?

Overall, the best decision is to save the Rachni Queen. She offers more benefits to having saved her in Mass Effect 1 than killing her. When she appears again in Mass Effect 3, and you choose to save her from the nest, she becomes a superb asset.
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What happens if you release the Rachni Queen in Mass Effect 3?

In Mass Effect 3, if you saved the Rachni Queen, she will be captured by the Reapers. However, unlike most other sentient beings, she is resistant to the Reaper indoctrination, and thus proves useless to them. She is kept in shackles, and you must lead an assault on the base where she is kept in order to free her.
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Should I free the Rachni Queen Mass Effect 1?

Letting her free will award you with Paragon points, while killing her will raise your Renegade rank. And this is pretty much the only difference in Mass Effect 1. Letting her go or killing her, doesn't change anything to this entry.
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Is saving the Rachni Queen worth it?

If she is saved, rachni workers are sent to the Crucible project, where they are prized assets for their engineering capabilities, industrious nature, and good teamwork. If Shepard did not spare the Rachni queen on Noveria, the Reapers will artificially construct a Queen thrall in order to control a rachni army.
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Mass Effect 3 - What Happens If You Save the Rachni Queen? (SAVE OR KILL?)



Should you save the Rachni in ME3?

To that end, you should always choose to save Grunt's team if you didn't save the Rachni Queen in the first game. If you did save the Queen in the first game, then the choice is far less cut and dry.
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Does Grunt live if I save the Queen?

If Shepard chose to spare either queen, Grunt dies if his loyalty wasn't secured prior to the suicide mission. If Shepard chose to abandon either queen, Grunt survives regardless of his prior loyalty, limping out of the rachni nest all bloody and asking for something to eat.
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Does the Rachni Queen betray you?

If you enlist the help of the Clone Rachni Queen: the clone isn't the same Rachni Queen, and ultimately will betray you. You initially get 100 points of Rachni support for the war; but ultimately they turn on you later in the game, and an email will reveal that they have fleed.
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Can you have both Ashley and Liara?

In Mass Effect 1, female Shepard can romance either Kaidan or Liara. Male Shepard can romance either Ashley or Liara. Aside from these main romances, you can also experience a romance scene with the Asari Consort on the Citadel.
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Can you save matriarch Benezia?

Fortunately, Benezia is on her own for the final phase, so avoid her biotic attacks and lay your own at her to bring her down. Even though she can briefly be her former self, she knows she can't escape Saren's mind control as long as she's still alive.
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Is it better to save the Rachni Queen or Aralakh company?

If you choose to rescue the original queen from Noveria, Aralakh Company will suffer grievous losses in the holding action, reducing their strength by 25 points. However, the queen provides rachni workers worth 100 points.
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Should I save or sacrifice the council?

Weighing the pros and cons, it's best to save the Citadel Council at the end of Mass Effect 1. Whilst having the Destiny Ascension as a war asset is worth slightly less compared to the fully stocked Alliance fleets (70 vs. 100), Shephard will have an easier time throughout the trilogy by sparing the alien leadership.
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Is the Rachni Queen indoctrinated?

She is located on Utukku, deep within a perversion of a rachni hive filled with Reaper technology. Her young are indoctrinated and converted into Ravagers for the Reapers' forces.
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Can Grunt survive Mass Effect 3?

Completing the ritual allows Grunt to become a member of Clan Urdnot. This Loyalty mission cannot be failed, so as long as players completed it, Grunt should remain Loyal to Shepard. This ensures that, no matter the player's decision during Attican Traverse: Krogan Team, Grunt will survive.
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Who is the best romance in Mass Effect?

Liara T'Soni

Liara's status as by far the best long-term romance option in the original Mass Effect game is already reason enough to rank her high on this list, but her lofty placement is really all about how your relationship with Liara evolves across the trilogy.
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Can you romance Ashley in Mass Effect 3 if you cheated?

In that sense, 'cheating' does not limit your options in any way. However you will need to overcome an additional obstacle to your relationship. You can also enter a relationship with either of the ME1 survivors in your squad regardless of whether you had done so previously. Tali, Garrus, or Miranda.
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Can you romance Miranda as a female?

In addition, both Garrus and Tali become romance options for female Shepard and male Shepard respectively. As male Shepard you can romance the following characters: Tali'Zorah vas Neema. Miranda Lawson.
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What happens if you save the Council in Mass Effect?

If you let the Council die, the Alliance forces will be superior War Assets in Mass Effect 3, while if you save them, the Alliance will be weakened, but you'll get The Ascension as a War Asset to balance it out.
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Is Grunt immune to Genophage?

Grunt is a genetically engineered tank-bred Krogan super soldier. He is the pinnacle of Krogan evolution, possessing the traits of the greatest of Krogan Warlords. Grunt is excessively violent, loving nothing more than a good fight. Unlike most Krogan, Grunt is immune to the effects of the genophage.
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Are the keepers rachni?

In addition to this, the keepers who maintain the Citadel were either engineered from the same original species that the rachni were created from, or in the case that the rachni are the original, the keepers are altered rachni like the Collectors are for the Protheans.
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Can I save mordin?

During Mass Effect 3's main story mission “Priority: Tuchanka,” Mordin will need to stay behind in the exploding Shroud tower in order to successfully disperse a cure for the Genophage. Under the majority of playthrough scenarios, there is no way for Mordin to survive the blast and he will die as a result.
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What is the rachni Homeworld?

Suen, the rachni homeworld, is tidally locked to the system's red dwarf. With one side constantly bombarded by the sun and the other completely frozen, life evolved in the terminator, the perpetual twilight zone between Suen's two extremes.
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Did the Reapers cause the rachni war?

It is postulated that another party, possibly the Reapers, manipulated the rachni into starting the Rachni Wars. When confronting the Rachni Queen on Noveria, she will explain to Commander Shepard that she was unaware of why the rachni went to war against the galaxy.
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Are the rachni a hive mind?

The rachni, a species of spacefaring insects guided by a hive-mind intelligence, evolved on Suen, a planet tidally-locked to its red dwarf star.
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