syntax errors in Mass Effect species list, a couple species have improper spacing. Fixable by just hitting "tab" on those two lines.

The New Human portraits are replaced by the old human ones

Reapers, rachni and geth aren't capable of using gestalt consciousness; no hive mind or machine mind, and therefore no origins that depend on those qualifiers. The game essentially considers them to be organic because their portrait is in the same category as everything else, from what I gather. The Reapers are at least partially understandable since they're more like individualistic machines, but that doesn't really seem to hold up given they all work towards the same goal of harvesting all sapient civilizations.

I digress; with the way it's set up, it severely limits roleplaying possibilities and prevents me from being a proper determined extermiantor.

This is an issue that I considered when updating this mod. I'll probably look into the categories and sort them better, but for now an easy fix would be to simply create a new portrait_set for the machines and set their class to MACHINE (don't forget to add it to the respective portrait_category). I'll be polishing this mod in the near future...