I have a question about Salarians, specifically about the legal issues surrounding the 'breeding' contracts that they make. what happens when you break a breeding contract?? are you held legally liable? will you have to pay out the other party? what if your sterile and its not your fault? is the contract void? is the other party now SOL because they waisted their peek breeding years on a Salarian that can not or will not fulfil the contract?
ok this is a super interesting thing to think about. i had to quickly go over the Salarian entry on the wiki to jog my memory.
breeding contracts are never explicitly mentioned in the wiki, but iirc the salarian who's getting a bachelor party in me2 says that's basically what's going on.
so based on these 2 paragraphs, we can determine that these agreements/contracts (I'm going to call them contracts going forward) are only used to produce female salarians, as male salarians can be produced without the need for a second party.
looking at these 2 sections, they highlight just how important female salarians are to the species and their society. so any contract made to produce more females would undoubtedly be taken very seriously.
ultimately, I think the outcome of breaking a breeding contract comes down to one main thing; gender of the salarian breaking the contract
because of the way that the contracts seem to be formed, the candidates chosen are likely the most desirable of their clutch; most intelligent, physically healthy, no physical or mental "defects," etc. (Yes, this is kind of leaning into eugenics. but honestly, knowing salarians, that's not a huge suprise)
all that so say that I think questioning the viability of the other party involved wouldn't really be an option, given how much work goes into preparing these contracts.
ok so going back to what I think would happen if the contract was broken: I think it mostly depends on the gender of the one who breached the contract.
if it's the male that breaks the contract, it's still a big deal, and he'd probably end up disowned by his clan, but ultimately one of his relatives may be able to fill his place, purely due to the abundance of male salarians.
if it's the female, I think it'd be an absolute shitstorm. given that female salarians only make up about 10% of the population, there's a lot less options when it comes to repairing the contract.
HOWEVER, if the female breaks the contract due to infertility, I think it would become more of a mourning situation. having a female who's unable to even produce male offspring could be detrimental to a clan.
so that's what I think. If anyone else has anything to add please feel free to! I'd love to discuss this more and get other people's povs.
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