[@Hillbilly12] Well the Asari actually are pretty redeeming in terms of the power of the individual. A [i]very[/i] brief tactical analysis suggests that they may be lacking in the space force department, but in an infantry vs infantry battle against even the Covenant, they would be more than a match.

In case you haven't figured out, sci-fi theorycrafting is more addicting for me than cocaine so I could honestly write about 3000 words in response to you, but it's midnight here and I should be getting to bed and I don't want to drop that wall of text all at once. :P Thus I'll save doing tactical analyses of all our factions currently in play & ideas about relative power scaling for later.