Just a thought, the Altarians look a bit washed out and dead like, but the cover pic of the nice Altarian lady is much brighter, like an ideation of an ascended god like civilization would never used bad words and are quite huggable.  The profile pics in gc4 for Altarians, by contrast, i am afraid of, they're going to drain me of my blood when I take a nap, i just know it.  Here's my concept of a more vibrant festive altarian, obviously this is just a terrible hack job without even the finesse of pixel approximate selection, but this colour seems closer, but i am old enough to be in glasses now so maybe not.   Love their markings. Wish there was more to them than just stats and a single sentence cover story. Mass Effect them