but asari erotic dancers are often used as set dressing in the background of the galaxy’s bars and clubs. The asari NPCs that the player interacts with are usually powerful political rulers, crime bosses, or expert scientists and researchers. On the other hand, the codex entries say, asari are not more promiscuous than other races and their military and economy are the most powerful in the Milky Way. The Mass Effect games have pushed and pulled the asari from the realm of “the hot space babe race” over their course, establishing that yes, the asari prefer to mate outside their own species and most races in the galaxy find them attractive - even turians, who have significant physical differences from asari. You see, though the asari are a parthenogenetically reproducing race with only one biological sex, they essentially look like blue human women with fancy head-tentacles - and they’re all female. And in an era where simply having a sex scene in a video game could get it on Fox News, a romance between a female Commander Shepard and an asari character was famously Mass Effect’s only same-gender romance option.
The asari are possibly the most infamous alien race to appear in the Mass Effect series.
