How would the different species fare if they were completely dominant in the cycle like the Protheans?

[u/Creative_Strike8202]

My guess is the following

Asari: Incredibly slow progress, they would have been wiped out by the Rachni or their expansion would have been so slow that they would have not achieved much before the Reapers arrived

Salarians: Without the oversight and politics of the council they would have advanced more rapidly. They would have been exterminated by their extreme wrecklessness and curiosity (they would have had to uplift the Krogan immediately for the Rachni for example) or they would have advanced a lot further than any species from this cycle while leaving a wardrobe of crippled uplifted failures and experiments. They might have created something like the Geth on their own and that could have killed them before the Reapers

Turians: I believe they would have had the most stable regime and fetched most problems rather well but their economy would have been rudimentary and their technological progress would have most likely being mediocre

Volus: They would have been wiped out by the first major threat

Elcor: Something similar to the Asari

Hanar: They would have been wiped out by the first major threat

Batarians: They would have enslaved a bunch of primitive species and have a brutal regime like the Protheans with worse technology

Quarians: They didn't progress much until the Geth rebellion. Probably their fate would have been the same

Humans: Probably a very successful cycle with a lot of progress made. The cycle would have been a lot less bumpy than the salarian cycle and without an external threat there would be a higher chance of a major civil war between human factions

Krogans: I am not sure they could have achieved space travel in this cycle after they nuked their planet

Drell: Self-extinction (humans might be heading here in real life but in Mass effect this is not the case)