Mordin has a geneticist nephew who just turned 16 and earned his tenure at the university where he works. "Following in my footsteps," he says modestly. He lied about where he was and what he was doing, but his nephew still suspects.
(I can have Shepard go, "What, tenure at 16, lol. Is he some sort of prodigy?" and Mordin goes, "No. Well-- Yes. Don't mean to insult him. But not the way you mean." Salarians live to be about 40.)
Inquiring about his family not knowing about his work has Mordin give an interesting little tangent about how salarians give off biological/reflex cues about whether or not an issue can be pressed, or would be bad to press. (He describes non-essential secrets as, "Invites suspicion, exploration. Puzzle to be solved. Reward for intelligence, curiosity. Drama!" I love him.)
He called his nephew not because he thinks he might not come back from this mission, but because statistics and concepts like "the whole galaxy" are depersonalizing and hard to bring meaning to. They're cold hard ideas and numbers. He wants the personal connection for this fight he's trying to win. "Can't anthropomorphize galaxy. But can think of favorite nephew. ...Fighting for him."
Bawww, bb.
He adds that he's happy to be here. His work with the genophage was good work that helped the galaxy, but it was dirty work, ethically ambiguous. Troubling. But this is work he will be proud to see in the biography of his life.
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(I can have Shepard go, "What, tenure at 16, lol. Is he some sort of prodigy?" and Mordin goes, "No. Well-- Yes. Don't mean to insult him. But not the way you mean." Salarians live to be about 40.)
Inquiring about his family not knowing about his work has Mordin give an interesting little tangent about how salarians give off biological/reflex cues about whether or not an issue can be pressed, or would be bad to press. (He describes non-essential secrets as, "Invites suspicion, exploration. Puzzle to be solved. Reward for intelligence, curiosity. Drama!" I love him.)
He called his nephew not because he thinks he might not come back from this mission, but because statistics and concepts like "the whole galaxy" are depersonalizing and hard to bring meaning to. They're cold hard ideas and numbers. He wants the personal connection for this fight he's trying to win. "Can't anthropomorphize galaxy. But can think of favorite nephew. ...Fighting for him."
Bawww, bb.
He adds that he's happy to be here. His work with the genophage was good work that helped the galaxy, but it was dirty work, ethically ambiguous. Troubling. But this is work he will be proud to see in the biography of his life.
Unless he dies.
"Proud posthumously, in that case!"