They are capable of, and have been, alive. This synthetic exhibits qualities held in high regard to organics: self-awareness and curiosity, honour and duty, and attachment. But when Legions memories are revealed the question that started the purge, the selflessness that created the hole in its chest, and the respect it has for the organics who fought for and were kind to the geth, you'd be hard-pressed to deny the obvious. The majority view in the galaxy seems to be that they're tools, nothing more than circuitry and light bulbs. He's not such a bad collective of software, once you get to know it.Īs an organic seeking other organics to fight synthetics, it would seem peculiar, perhaps overly-sensitive to sympathize with a synthetic. First because of their mere existence, and the second time to reclaim the home they were driven from after losing the first conflict. Fellow organics, the quarians, had created, attempted to annihilate, left alone, and then resumed attempting to annihilate the geth.
As it happened, the geth turn to the Reapers out of desperation, fearing eradication. After meeting Legion though, it complicates the situation yet again. Things were going well, until the geth turned to their old godlike figures, the Reapers. The quarians have launched a campaign against the geth to reclaim their home-world. Just past the middle of Mass Effect 3, we meet Legion again. Nonetheless, prodding the character to show signs of individuality, or to explain already present signs such as the piece of Shepard's armour it grafted onto the unit, only to have it stumble and insist it's not an individual was incredibly endearing. Interacting with Legion was one of the best things in Mass Effect 2, and it was unfortunate that it entered the story late into the game. Legion was a geth that wasn't hostile to Shepard and co., instead it offered assistance against the Reapers. Legion had no name, insisted it was not an individual, and always referred to the itself as "this one" or "this unit". Things didn't really get complicated until Mass Effect 2, when we're introduced to Legion. In Mass Effect 1, the synthetics were clearly the enemies, and while the history of the geth might have seemed complicated, the present threat was clear. Fearing destruction at the hands of their creations, the quarians went to war against the geth, but were promptly defeated by the unified AI army who ran them off of their home planet. Created by the quarians, who continuously modified the creations to be more advanced, it wasn't long before the geth began to show signs of artificial intelligence. Reapers were intelligent, independent, and all-powerful machines, and the young society of robots quickly stood by their ideal. The enemies forces of Mass Effect 1, the geth saw the Reapers as gods. organics isn't the Reapers and their purpose as revealed by the Catalyst, it's the story of the geth. However the most interesting case of synthetics vs. organic problem comes to a head as the Reapers mount their assault on all developed organics who in turn must band together if they want a shot at surviving. Interestingly, he sees synthetics as a tool for getting a leg up in the classic organic vs. So while the overall themes of the game develop towards seeing synthetics as more than just mindless walking guns, Cerberus, specifically the Illusive Man, sees synthetics as a tool. Tools that humanity needs to control and integrate in order to assure dominance over all other organics. organics though is that machines are nothing more than tools. Cerberus' take on the problem of synthetics vs.
Mass Effect 2 served mostly as set up, with Shepard now working for the transhumanist organization Cerberus.
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Then the sentient machines called Reapers came, and started the series toward the ultimate conflict between the two forms of life. This was at its most basic in Mass Effect 1, when the line was clear between geth and all organics. One constant across the Mass Effect series has been synthetics opposing organics.
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