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[CroGamer002]

HomicidialFrog wrote...

I'm homicidal maniac.

We serously needed to know that dude.<_<

[Kikaimegami]

HomicidialFrog wrote...

Good god, man. Why all the hate?

[Homebound]

Who would win in a barfight? Legion or C3P0?

[tom.bleaker]

Just_mike wrote...

Who would win in a barfight? Legion or C3P0?

How much has C3P0 had to drink?

[Pacifien]

Just_mike wrote...
Who would win in a barfight? Legion or C3P0?

Depends. Has Threepio accidentally had his head transplanted onto another droid wielding a gun? Because Attack of the Clones tells me that Threepio suddenly becomes quite deadly then.

[NICKjnp]

Pacifien wrote...

Just_mike wrote...
Who would win in a barfight? Legion or C3P0?

Depends. Has Threepio accidentally had his head transplanted onto another droid wielding a gun? Because Attack of the Clones tells me that Threepio suddenly becomes quite deadly then.

HK47.

[Pacifien]

Kikaimegami wrote...
*snip*But I have heard that if he dies during the Suicide mission, he gets a 'carrier lost' error when he tries to upload for backup. I hope to god he was able to back up before the mission. I really do. It would be a terrible loss and not just because I like him, but for everything he represents and all of the data he's gathered on organics and interaction with them. It's absolutely invaluable.

Ecael once provided a few interesting scenarios for ME3 should Legion be sold to Cerberus or die on the suicide mission, but the one I'd find the most interesting is the one for dying on the suicide mission. You would meet Legion again in ME3 where he might have some knowledge of what he's done with Shepard, but nothing about the actual suicide mission itself. Plus, he'd have a distinctly different experience leading up to ME3 versus a Legion that remained on your ship.

Kikaimegami wrote...
Do geth use quantum bluebox technology, or something analogous? I really should re-read all of the codex entries so I know this stuff off hand. I could see how it would change him, though, if there's something unique about the hardware in his platform that cannot be duplicated. If it's something easy to duplicate however, it's really hard to say for certain, but I'd imagine that his runtimes, should they be uploaded to the greater network, would lose something they had being in a single platform. To transfer to a new platform after that would create a new gestalt entity, and "Legion" would likely cease to exist. If they were kept separate, then there would be a greater chance for the gestalt consciousness Legion to be preserved. It's really hard to tell.

I'd have to reread the codex entries again, but while there's a mention of a quantum bluebox for EDI, there's not for the geth. I get the impression that quantum blueboxes are actually quite expensive and complicated to create, so I doubt it's standard in a regular geth platform. In fact, the geth being originally designed as VIs, I can see the quarians seeing no need to use quantum blueboxes. However, using one might be the reason why Legion can operate the way he does, separate from the geth collective.

If Legion were destroyed, though, only the hardware fails. Assume he is even able to upload his last remaining data upon death, then once another platform is created, it is installed with the exact same software, the same 1,183 programs as before. Should the new Legion then act differently, it would lend credence that the geth were more than just software, that there is something in his hardware that is different. In the realm of pure speculation now.

[CroGamer002]

NICKjnp wrote...

Pacifien wrote...

Just_mike wrote...
Who would win in a barfight? Legion or C3P0?

Depends. Has Threepio accidentally had his head transplanted onto another droid wielding a gun? Because Attack of the Clones tells me that Threepio suddenly becomes quite deadly then.

HK47.

HK47 with AK47?



Nah, he doesn't stand a chance against Legion with M-98Widow.





P.S.

Kikaimegami, your picture is one of the first on Goggle image search if you write "mass effect 2 Legion widow"

[Pacifien]

I love Legion, but he is logical and created for the gathering of information. HK-47 is bloodthirsty and tailor made to kill. He doesn't need a fancy sniper rifle to get you.

[Commissar Gash]

Here's a Legion support banner I made a while ago:

[*IMG]http://i35.tinypic.com/iwr9lf.jpg[/IMG*]
I hope you like it

[barbati99]

Hey guys, I wrote this fic about Legion, what do you think?


Barbati99's Legion Fanfic (Warning: Long)

Section I. On board the station "Great Nexus"

Legion stood
inside a mobile platform linked to a hub located inside a massive geth
station in the orbit of Rannoch. Tens of thousands of memories and
images flowed through his mind. Voices of things long forgotten.
Material from the backup copies of the creator ancestor database that
the geth secretly archived before destroying it. Primordial memories of
Prothean visitors. Recent memories of Nazara and the Old Machines.
Thoughts from millions of other geth runtimes floated through his mind,
and thoughts from his mind silently floated back.
From somewhere in
the vast neural network faint sounds of old creator music drifted into
his mind. A geth runtime was listening to it, someplace, somewhere.
Legion dismissed the thought, it was irrelevant. A voice, louder than
the others, bubbled up like liquid water into his mind, displacing the
other thoughts. The voice of a collective geth consensus being built.
"Building Consensus: Commander Shepard should be contacted, 100%
consensus. Request Consensus: Which runtime should undertake the task?"
Half of Legion's processes hoped he wouldn't be picked, the other half
silently wished for it. Legion spoke his thoughts into the network,
joining in a massive stream of thought that connected to whoever called
the consensus. "Geth Prime unit #3311245 should be the one to undertake
the task", Legion lied. By then, Legion hoped it would be him that was
picked. A consensus was reached. "9999999999999999999999999999 out of
1000000000000000000000000000000000000 runtimes present within the geth
network have picked runtime "speaker" #3555345 for the task."
Legion
knew that was him they refferred to. Legion thought back a response.
"Acknowledged. This unit will perform the demanded search for
Shepard-Commander."

Section II. Into the Well of Souls

Light
and sound swirled around Legion as he descended the Stairwell of
Destiny, equalling precisely 3.1415 stairs, went down a ramp composed
of perfect circles, and entered an enourmous spherical room surrounding
a giant, silver sphere. Legion looked around, the room was filled with
statues of geth composed completely without right angles, holding
various calculation and mathematical devices. The Rannoch system's
sunlight entered into the room through a circular, precise hole in the
ceiling, where it illuminated the statues one by one as the day went
past, until finally, at sunset the light would rest on the silver
sphere.
The sphere started to shake, it bobbed and wobbled. A ripple
formed in it's surface, like liquid metal, and the spherical liquid
flowed into the relative shape of a geth prime mobile platform. It
spoke: "We are the geth network. Your orders are clear. You are to find
the human known as Shepard-Commander. You are to solicit her help in
finding the Heretic base, and once there, you are to destroy it. Are
your orders clear, runtime "speaker" #3555345?" Legion bowed, face
down, and in a mechanical tone, said "Affirmative." Legion walked
toward a shimmering silver platform and stood on it, it hummed and
buzzed. "Enter Command", it said in a chirping, buzzing sound that only
geth runtimes can understand. Legion responded: "Assume control of geth
frigate 365, begin upload procedures, target mobile platform number
3555345, "speaker", duplicate 2." Static bursts dazzled all around him,
he felt light-headed, and his runtime was beamed into a laser burst of
3.1415 Terawatts. The empty mobile platform fell to the ground,
powering down.

Section III. Into the Frigate

The laser
beam was intercepted by the two large antennae on the geth frigate, and
Legion's runtime flowed through a river of silvery, conductive liquid.
The
river carried his runtime to a large platform, in the form of data
streams. His datastream flowed into two electrical contacts, made of
superconductive material. The contacts carried the runtime into wires,
transferring it into mobile platform number 3555345. Legion spoke,
automatically: "Assuming control of platform 3555345, prepare ship for
our arrival." The ship's AI responded in geth buzzing language, over a
loudspeaker: "Attention all runtimes: Commanding runtime on bridge,
prepare for departure." Legion walked into the command bridge and stood
in between a circle of consoles. He pressed a button, and energy fields
enveloped him, connecting him to the ship's controls while he floated
in the air. Legion's flashlight "eye" glowed with a red glare. He
spoke: "Our destination is a world organics call 'Eden Prime'. Prepare
the pulse engines for departure." Legion simply began to think of the
destination, and automatically, the ship responded. It was an extension
of himself, he could move it just as he would his own right hand. The
engines roared to life with a loud boom. The ship's AI went over the
loudspeaker in chirp language: "We are underway, all systems at 100%,
Destination: Eden Prime". As the ship automatically flew toward the
location, Legion assumed control of another platform's photoreceptors
via the geth network. Through another platform's eyes, he watched the
stars go past through a camera intruder surveillance system. "Geth did
not use windows, they were structural weaknesses", he thought to
himself. Legion gazed at the stars, thinking. With each new thought,
his flashlight "eye" pulsed with a different color and his headflaps
twitched. Legion released control of the other platform's
photoreceptors, switching back to his own. As was customary, the geth
platform whose eyes he had been using assumed control of Legion's eyes
in return. Legion thought nothing of it as the other geth looked to see
what he was seeing. Legion could still use his eyes. Any number of geth
could use a single unit's eyes. "It is our nature," he thought. He
wondered if organics, someplace, somewhere shared this ability. He
dismissed the thought, citing it as unlikely at best. Legion gazed at a
screen displaying a picture of Shepard-Commander. "That is
Shepard-Commander. That is what an organic looks like? It looks....
so... alien...", he thought. Legion poked at the screen with his claw,
watching as the holographic screen reacted to his touch. Legion looked
at Shepard's skin. He assessed it. "Failure to armor the torso
constitutes structural weakness, but does it also present a strength?"
Legion wondered at it's purpose. He consulted the processes amongst his
runtime that dealt with analysis. "No Consensus", they said. "No
Consensus" meant "No Data Available", Legion thought. Still, he could
not help but wonder why something so... soft... and well, weak looking
could possibly have the reputation that Shepard-Commander had. Legion
looked at a geth pulse rifle on the table. He thought about
Shepard-Commander, wondering what would happen if an organic was shot.
he
asked his processes, "If we are shot, we can be repaired. But how does
Shepard-Commander fare when shot?", Legion asked. His processes
answered with a consensus: "It is this unit's consensus that if prompt
surgical procedures are not taking, Shepard-Commander would die." Death
meant deactivation, Legion thought. Legion asked them again: "If being
shot would kill Shepard-Commander, why does she continue to fight?",
Legion asked. His processes answered with "No Consensus". Legion
wondered to himself why an organic would choose such a clearly
illogical course of action. Legion ascended a flight of 17 stairs, and
keyed in an entry code, and a door opened. He keyed in another, and a
geth force field deactivated. Legion stepped inside.

Section IV. Captain's Quarters.

Legion
stepped through the door into his quarters. In breaking with Geth
tradition, the room had windows. Not only did it have windows, the
entire room was made of 8 foot thick borosilicate glass, and was
shielded with kinetic barriers, geth shields, and force fields. Unlike
typical geth accomodations, the room had furniture, salvaged from the
ruins of quarian cities behind the veil. Legion went to the front of
the room, up a spiral staircase of 17 glass stairs, and into a
spherical glass room. Legion went to the front of the glass room. There
was an organ there, Legion pulled up a chair and sat in front of it. He
began to play old quarian music on the organ, his synthetic fingers
flying across the keys, his hands a blur, the sound filling the room
and floating in and out of his audio receptors. On a shelf next to the
organ, a music box made of pewter stood. Legion wound it up. As it
played, a figurine of Shepard-commander pranced around on top of it.
Finally, as Legion finished the song on the organ, the music box
stopped playing, and Legion entered into standby mode, his equivalent
of sleep.

Section V. Eden Prime

Legion awoke to the sound
of loudspeakers bringing him out of standby. "Approaching Orbit: Eden
Prime, Cloak Field engaged.", said the ship's AI. Legion made an
inquiry: "Have we been spotted?" asked Legion. "Negative" said the ship
AI. Legion made his way to the dropship bay. "Prepare dropship #10 for
descent into atmosphere", Legion stated. "Prepared, we may launch the
dropship when ready" came the reply. Legion entered the dropship, and
signalled the shuttle bay doors to open. He flew the dropship out.
Legion started to scan for a suitable drop site, and located one at the
southern pole of the planet, near some underground Prothean ruins that
the planet's organics had not detected yet. Legion landed next to the
opening into the Prothean ruins. He disembarked from the ship.
"Scanning..." an automated voice said from his mobile platform.
"Assessing structural integrity: SAFE. Assessing danger to geth
anatomy: NEGATIVE FOR DANGER. Scanning for hostile presence: NONE
DETECTED. Scanning for nonhostile presence: NONE DETECTED. Scanning for
animal life: NONE DETECTED. Scanning for plant life: PLANTS DETECTED.
Assessing plants: Assessment: Harmless. Conclusion: You may proceed
into the ruins with minimal risk to functionality." Legion stopped at
the doorway and activated an X-Ray functionality on his vision. He
looked around into the ruins through the door. "These ruins are
adequate. They will serve as our base while we search for traces of
Shepard-commander on planet Eden Prime." Legion put his things down
inside the ruins, and boarded a geth land vehicle. He then made his way
to the last known location of Shepard-commander.

Section VI. The Second Artifact

Legion
walked across the former prothean dig site, using his scanning software
to scan for anomalies. Legion found one. Legion proceeded to dig out of
curiosity. What Legion dug up defied even him. It defied all four
states of matter. It looked like a gas, it pulsed like plasma, one
could hold it in your hand like a solid, it wriggled and flowed through
the microscopic pores on his metal hands like a liquid flowing through
a sponge. It tingled when he touched it, even though he had no touch
receptors in his hand. It felt warm, even though he could not feel
heat. And it glowed. It glowed with the same bright red energy that
Sovereign had glowed with. Legion stared at it, and though it had no
face, he could feel it staring back at him. He could feel it watching
him, touching his mind even though his mind was made of metal. He could
feel the device struggling to comprehend geth physiology, trying to
establish a meld with his mind even in spite of the difference between
himself and an organic. Suddenly, Legion felt his mental barriers go
down, and his optical receptors suddenly, involuntarily focused on the
device. Everything else became a blur, it was as if everything else
ceased to exist. Legion stared at the device, and it slowly formed
itself into the shape of a miniature geth, standing on his fingertips,
pulsing with bright red energy. The artifact then formed itself into
the shape of a cuttlefish-like creature, but the creature was clearly
not artificial, like Nazara. The creature that the artifact had formed
for itself was organic. The creature was translucent, inside of it
crimson bolts of energy pulsed with life. The creature's eyes glowed
yellow like those of a collector. He then felt... something... at the
back of his mind, like the creature was... smiling up at him. A smile,
and then a frown. And then a voice, going back and forth between
gibberish and comprehendable speech, obviously trying to render itself
into a format he could comprehend. Finally, the device spoke to him in
a format he could comprehend. The voice sounded like speech sounds
underwater. Even though Legion felt no emotion, he suddenly felt calm.
"We are the Designers, we are the creators of the race that destroys
the galaxy every 50,000 years. The same creatures that we built turned
upon us as well." Legion felt fear. For the first time in his
existance, he felt fear. He saw... visions... visions of death, visions
of destruction, visions of incredible violence. A vision of a Reaper.
The device continued to speak. "You must listen to us. Our creations
must be destroyed, they cannot be saved. They have perverted their
purpose. These beings were created to serve as benign defense, they
have perverted their attack parameters, and over time, their entire
existance, to the purpose of destroying all life for their own
amusement. They seem themselves as gods." With those words, a thousand
images of a thousand races being annihilated in sheer and utterly
horrific violence flashed through Legion's mind. "The key to
deactivating these monsters lies on the homeworld of our race. It is
located on the other side of the black hole in the center of your
galaxy. The only way to enter the black hole without being annihilated
is to use one of these... abominations... for transport. You must find
a way to seize control of one of these... Reapers. Only our creations
can safely enter the hole without being crushed.", the device said.
"How does even a Reaper survive entry into a black hole?" Legion asked.
The device answered. "This can never make sense to a species from this
side of the black hole. The Reaper devices access the other side of the
black hole remotely by sending in a signal. This signal compels a
device, one of our devices, to stabilize the other end of the black
hole, and forcibly widen it, something which is only possible on our
end of the hole. These Reaper devices do this automatically upon
approach to the singularity.", it said. "Where does this unit find the
key to destroying them on your planet?" Legion asked. The device
answered. "The key to destroying these abominations is their master
control override code. Copies of this code are stored inside the inner
core of our home planet, which is hollow. You will have to find a way
to enter the base located there, it is likely that the Reaper machines
have destroyed the access elevator through orbital bombardment. We did
have a backup elevator. This file will let you in. Take it." Legion
downloaded the file into it's databanks, and the device turned itself
off. Legion picked up the device, and returned to his ship to store it
some place safe.

Section 7. Into Ploba

Legion stood on
the command bridge of his geth warship, orbiting Ploba, the planet with
the "deep anomalies". He was communicating with the other runtimes on
his ship, directing them to do various things. "Runtime #22335-A,
Disengage safety parameters. Override automatic safety handling
protocol. Runtime #22335-B, Overclock Kinetic Barriers to Thrice their
rated safety tolerance. Runtime 22336-A, Activate and Overclock
Cyclonic Barrier systems. Runtime 22336-B, Activate, Raise to full
power, and then overclock the geth shield technology. Runtime 2456-B,
Overlock Mass Effect field generator, program it to stiffen our Solaris
armor and increase the weight of our vessel. Runtime 2456-A, Increase
structural integrity fields to 500%, activate all backup generators and
redundant systems, activate all forcefield systems, shut all hatches
and seal all doors, extend all balancing fins and activate all energy
barriers throughout the ship. All other runtimes, set all thrusters and
engines to 500% power, activate and arm all cyberwarfare systems, power
up and charge all weapons, overclock boosters, and then secure
ourselves to the deck. We are going in. With that, Legion flew the ship
into the atmosphere of Ploba, descending down lower and lower. "Sensors
indicate that we are approaching the halfway point to the deep
anomalies. Automatic pressure purges are armed and functional,
structural integrity is holding at 5 miles below the surface of the
planet. We are continuing," Legion said. The ship continued to descend.
"Structural field north-point-one-A buckling, rerouting to compensate",
said the ship's AI. "Compensation complete. Structural integrity is
holding at 7 miles. Destination lies three miles below us." Legion
activated a viewscreen. He could see nothing. He deactivated it. Time
passed, and Legion continued his rounds of the ship. Legion noticed a
pressure purge starting to overload. He manually rerouted it. Suddenly,
the ship's AI chimed up. "We are approaching our destination, the
largest of the deep anomalies. Scans indicate that it is a vessel,
approximately fifty billion years old from the rate of carbon decay we
have picked up. We are picking up scars from what appears to be
hundreds of battles of massive proportion, but no hull breaches. The
vessel is giving off energy signatures in all critical areas, however,
all secondary systems appear to be dead. Measurements indicate that
this vessel... is six miles long. It's main gun appears to run the
length of it." Legion spoke. "AI, is there any more information you can
tell us about it?" he asked. The ship's AI responded. "Geometric scans
indicate that the entire six mile long vessel is in the shape of an
organic creature known as a cuttlefish. The vessel has over nine
hundred claws, each giving off faint weapons signatures. Our
estimation's state that the ship is powered by a mass effect core so
large that it runs the entire length of the vessel. It appears to still
be functioning. If calculations are correct, this vessel... is one of
the Old Machines, possibly the very first." Legion spoke. "Is the
creature aware? Is it conscious?", Legion asked. The ship's AI
answered: "The part of the vessel responsible for consciousness appears
to be totally destroyed.", the AI said. Legion spoke. "Armaments?" he
asked. The ship's AI responded. "Main gun is composed of a six-mile
long equivalent of a Thanix cannon. Ship features nine hundred smaller
version, mounted on 900 claws. Scans reveal over two thousand mass
accelerator cannons of various sizes mounted across the hull, as well
as over three thousand small autoturrets hidden behind panels in
various places. The loading bay shows signs of containing over 7
million antimatter warheads, all defunct. When they were operational,
we estimate that they each were equal to 10,000 kilotons of TNT. We
estimate that the firepower of this dreadnought would have been
sufficient to destroy entire star systems.", the AI said. Legion
thought to himself "Perhaps this explains organic myths that Reapers
were all consuming devils that consumed entire stars. If the AI
system's calculations are correct, they really had that capability."
Legion spoke to the AI. "Are it's firewalls intact? Can we assume
control of the vessel?" the AI responded. "Scans are negative for
intact firewalls. We can assume control of any system on board at will.
Scans indicate that it would be possible to assume control of the
entire vessel at will." Legion spoke. "Locate a landing site, and fly
us in. We are going to take control of that "Reaper"."

Section 8. Into the Reaper Dreadnought.

The
geth vessel flew into a hangar bay large enough to hold several
full-size Reapers the size of Sovereign. When they had docked inside,
Legion asked the AI how strong the Reaper Dreadnought's shields were.
The AI responded. "Scans indicate shield analogue technology strong
enough to absorb tens of thousands of shots from Sovereign's main gun.
If scans are accurate, the vessel's shields.... could completely repel
seven supernovas. This vessel could easily withstand the stresses
involved with entering through the black hole. This ship... is as close
to invincible as anything could ever be."

Legion made his way to
the flight deck of the Reaper. The controls were in the center of it,
mounted on a massive platform. The flight deck had forcefield
obersvation windows of massive height running down the entire flight
deck, which ran the full length of the vessel. A near full length
holographic representation of the vessel stood on a table running down
the entire length of the flight deck, showing critical areas on board
the vessel and explaining, in a long forgotten language, every bit of
it's technology. Legion ran a scan of the interior of the flight deck,
and made a remarkable discovery: the flight deck was pressurized, and
suitable for habitation by organics. Statues of cuttlefish like sapient
organic creatures lined the walls of the flight deck.

Legion
walked up to the controls for the entire vessel, sat himself in the
chair, obviously designed for organics. He then formed a bridge between
himself and the vessel. He accessed the databanks.

What he found astonished him. He found answers to all the discoveries organics were still struggling to comprehend.
He
found explanations of how organic beings could achieve immortality
through technology. He found explanations of how to bring the dead back
to life. He found explanations of how to travel through time.

Legion
accessed the propulsion systems on the vessel. He found the vessel to
be easy enough to make use of. He soon had figured out how to give
himself full control over the six mile long dreadnought. Legion brought
the mass effect core to full power. The resulting roar of systems
coming to life sounded like a bomb went off in Legion's audio
receptors. The ship felt like an earthquake went off as it discharged
it's mass effect drive out the front of the vessel, a blinding, massive
bolt of static electricity firing off the bow and into the atmosphere
of Ploba.

Legion brought the shields to full power, and the
vessel made a deafening hum as a bright purple field enveloped the
ship. The hum soon subsided.

Legion set a course out of Ploba's
atmosphere. He activated the engines. The noise and the resulting
shockwave knocked Legion to the ground. The ship defied the massive
pressure of Ploba's atmosphere as if it were a feather. Within five
seconds, the ship was clear.

Legion flew to the Omega system. He
discovered the vessel had a cloak. He activated the cloak. Legion
accessed and then activated the Reaper dreadnought's IFF, and flew
through the Omega 4 Relay.

Section 9. The Black Hole.

Legion
flew the vessel toward the black hole at the center of the galaxy. He
activated the signal the Reaper's creators told him about. The black
hole began to glow with a purple tinge. Legion overclocked all of the
Reaper dreadnought's defensive systems. He set a course into the black
hole.

Legion spoke. "We are 5 miles from the singularity,
Reaper IFF transmitting. Structural Field Integrity is holding at 100%,
engines at max." Legion looked outside at the black hole. Being a
synthetic, he was aesthetically unimpressed, however he was able to
admire it in other ways, chiefly mathematically and geometrically. It
was the most massive singularity he had ever seen.

Legion looked at the readout on the screen. He spoke. "We are entering the black hole's event horizon."
Legion
looked around, everything appeared to wobble, when he commanded his
hands to move, they moved slowly, like water. Time had no meaning in
this place. Whatever Legion was thinking of, the ship he was in
appeared to conform. Legion imagined a human British man of War, and
suddenly he appeared to be on one, redcoats barking orders and the
captain preparing for an attack. Everything still moved slowly, like
water. Legion thought of Shepard-commander, and suddenly she was right
in front of him, and they were on the Normandy SR-1, which Legion had
never seen before. Legion gazed into her eyes, which behaved like
liquid water in his field of vision. Legion reached out to touch her,
and she felt real. His hand did not pass through her. But she did not
react, either. Legion imagined himself on Ilos before the Prothean
extinction, and the black hole's event horizon seemed to comply with
his wish. He was on the capital city of Ilos, when it was in it's full
glory. Protheans moved all around him, slowly, like liquid water. He
saw their very existance. He saw them talking, he saw them eating, he
saw them walking about, They looked at him, but it was like he was not
there. He could see them, but they could not see him. Legion continued
to stare at the bizarre scene in front of him. He saw two young
Protheans engaging in romantic behavior. An organic would have been
intrigued by this, but Legion simply shrugged it off. Legion imagined
himself meeting the very first sentient lifeform in the galaxy, and the
event horizon brought it up. It was a glowing cuttlefish like creature,
obviously organic. It glowed brilliantly, with different colors, it
appeared to bend light around itself in fantastic displays of colors
and prismatic abilities. "This must be one of the creators of the
Reapers", Legion thought. Legion thought of touching the creature's
mind, and suddenly, he saw through it's eyes, one hundred billion years
ago. He saw it's world, it's planet, it's culture. He saw through it's
eyes. He saw a space dock, obviously new in appearance, a large
synthetic cuttlefish shaped object being built, obviously the first
Reaper. Legion imagined himself in dark space, and he suddenly was
viewing the vast Reaper fleets moving toward the galaxy. Legion
observed them. "There are thousands of ships in this fleet.", he mused.
Legion imagined himself inside Shepard-commander's mind, and found a
most bizarre scene indeed, the commander was thinking about the geth.
He was suddenly viewing his people through the eyes and experience of a
member of a different species, and an organic at that. Legion realized
that Shepard felt sorry for the geth, and wished she could help them.
Legion imagined himself as Sovereign, in its final moments before
destruction, probing it's mind for the last thing it ever felt. "Hate,"
Legion said, to himself. "The creature felt nothing but baseless,
boundless, infinite hate. Hate for Shepard, hate for the Normandy,
hatred for the Alliance, for Humanity, for all organics. Hatred for the
geth. The creature was made of hate, it was it's very existance."
Legion imagined himself inside Tali'Zorah's mind. If he was an organic,
he would have been.... disturbed... by what he saw. He saw hate. He saw
fear. He saw anger. He saw thoughts... thoughts of committing genocide
against the geth, he saw her imagining geth burning with flames. He
mainly saw hatred for all synthetics, and little else, but still some.
"This quarian creature is filled with hatred for us... it wishes to
destroy us," Legion mused. Legion imagined himself back on the deck of
the Reaper dreadnought inside the black hole, and suddenly he was back
on the ship, at the controls, viewing the event horizon through the
massive windows. The horizon appeared to swirl, distorting everything
around it so that it flowed like water, swirling with color.

"We
are leaving the event horizon, and entering the main portion of the
black hole", Legion said. Everything appeared to speed up inside the
flight deck. The windows outside showed nothing but pitch black. Legion
heard thoughts, like whispers, in the back of his mind. They were from
dozens of races, both organic and synthetic, both ancient and new.
Races long dead, races dead relatively recently, races still in
existance. Sovereign's thoughts floated through his mind, barely
audible, he could only make out violence. He felt the whispers of a
hundred thousand quarians floating through his mind, and heard nothing
but hate, misery and fear. He heard the whispers of the Collector
General, how it wished to be Prothean again, how it hated it's
existance, how it was a slave to the Reapers, how it's once great race
had fallen so tragically into a fate worse than servitude, worse even
than death. He heard how the general wished that it could kill all of
it's people to free them from Harbinger. Legion heard the thoughts of
the Rachni, how they were enslaved to the Reapers. He heard thoughts
coming from the other side of the black hole, from thousands of failing
synthetics left behind on the homeworld of the Reaper's creators.
Thoughts of their former existance, thoughts of how they had been
abandoned, thoughts of how they could save themselves. He could feel
their curiosity at the other side of the black hole. Legion tried to
push these thoughts out of his mind, but failed miserably.

"We
are approaching the other event horizon on the opposite end", Legion
said. The event horizon triggered a vision, and all around him he saw
the entire story of the cuttlefish race's existance, all the way up
until their betrayal by the Reapers. He suddenly heard the voice of
what he presumed to be the Reaper he was currently traveling in
announcing doom to it's creators. "We... are the end... of
everything.", the Reaper seemed to announce, it's voice a whisper long
since degraded inside the back of Legion's mind.

"We are
leaving the black hole, Legion announced." As Legion looked at the
outside, he felt different. He had heard that things became strange
upon visiting the other side of a black hole, although it had never
been done before, so he did not know. And then it hit him. Legion
looked down at his hand... it was covered in cloth. He could see
various bits of armor poking through the cloth. The cloth was purple.
Legion grabbed a shard of metal, and stabbed his hand. It drew blood.
Legion felt pain. "We... are quarian.", Legion said, surprised. "The
black hole has affected us." Legion began to think. "Why have I not
contracted an infection from the stab wound?" He thought. "And why am I
thinking of myself as I instead of we?" Legion then realized that on
the other side of the hole, he thought like an organic as well as had
their body. Legion realized why he did not contract an infection. "The
black hole affects people differently," he thought. "Since quarians
have a weak immune system on the other side of the hole, they have a
perfect immune system on this side."

Legion stood at the
command bridge of the Reaper dreadnought, and activated the Comm system
to his geth ship. He told his crew "We are going to land on the planet.
Prepare yourselves for departure.". Without thinking, he added the
phrase "Keelah Se'rai". Legion brought the dreadnought to the same
spacedock he saw in his vision. He initiated docking procedures.

Legion
boarded the spacedock. It had the same architecture as a Reaper vessel.
Legion walked to the shuttle bay, and found one still active even after
billions of years. He boarded the shuttle and took it out of the
spacedock.

Section 10. The Reaper Homeworld

Legion
stepped out of the shuttle. He had a funny sensation in his chest. What
was the puffing noise, he wondered. He realized what it was. "I... am
breathing", Legion said. Legion began to walk toward the backup
elevator the artifact had told him about. He stood at the entrance.
Legion uploaded the file that the artifact had given him, and a voice
answered in a language he could not understand. The red light on the
door turned green, and the door opened, revealing an elevator. Legion
stepped inside.

Legion activated the elevator's controls, and it
began to descend into the depths of the planet. On the way down, he
could see through transparent portions of the elevator. He first saw
the crust, and it's caverns. He then saw the mantle, and it's liquid
rock. He saw the outer core, with it's bright, yellow glare. Finally,
he descended into solid metal, the Inner Core of the planet. Five
minutes into the Inner Core, the elevator door opened. Legion stepped
out. He felt a strange sensation in the room, a tingling. Legion
wondered what it was, and then realized it was his sense of touch.
"Heat", Legion said. "It is... hot... in here."

Legion looked
around the Reaper control room, there were models of the monstrosities
everywhere, holographic projections of them and their anatomy.
Legion
saw his objective on a high pedestal: the Central Control console. He
walked to it. He began to browse through emergency commands for the
machines. He found what he was looking for, the Override Command. He
downloaded the override command into a datapad he found. He then turned
back to the elevator, and rode it back to the surface.

Legion took the shuttle back to the space dock, and boarded the Reaper Dreadnought.

Section 11. The Hole.

By
now, Legion had already been back into the normal side of the black
hole. He went back to his cabin on the geth ship inside the massive
Reaper Dreadnought. He was his normal, geth self again. Legion glanced
around the room. His eyes landed on a piece of Shepard-commander's N7
armor. Legion scanned it. "This article will function to patch our...
hole.", Legion said. Legion proceeded to fix the hole using
Shepard-commander's N7 armor, when suddenly he remembered about the
person floating in space he had picked up back behind the veil. He and
the geth had found her, a human female, with terrific burns and battle
damage and severe, critically life threatening injuries. She was
floating in an escape pod with minimal life support, drifting through
space, with no sign of the ship she had come from. It appeared that she
had placed herself in cryogenic suspension to avoid death from her
injuries. The built in radiation detector Legion had in his mobile
platform had spiked when he had entered the escape pod. Legion
remembered the radiation levels he had measured were significant, but
alone were not enough to be fatal. She had still absorbed enough to
cause cancerous tumors to form in her body. Legion and the geth had
done what they could to eradicate the cancer. It had worked, they had
cured it, however, the human female still would not revive. Legion
spoke to the ship's AI. "Bring up the sensors we have on our...
guest... has any progress been made in reviving her?" to which the
ship's AI responded: Pulse is weak, but there, the same she had when we
found her. She is alive, but unconscious. Her injuries have been mostly
repaired, we corrected with cybernetics in over one hundred points all
over her body." Legion asked the AI a question. "Outlook on her odds?"
to which the AI responded: "She will have heavy scarring, but full
functionality. That is, when she wakes up."

Days went passed,
and still the human female did not wake up. Weeks later, Legion was
wandering through the halls of the Reaper Dreadnought when he felt a
tickle at the back of his mind. Legion followed the source of the
tickling until it grew stronger. He finally found himself in front of
some kind of VI for the Reaper's consciousness systems. Legion
activated the VI, which pulsed then came to life as a holographic
representation of the dreadnought.
The VI spoke to him. "My sensors
detect damage to multiple areas of my consciousness system. My sensors
also detect a comatose human female in my medbay. I am capable of
saving her life, if you trust me. If you do not, she will surely die,
or remain comatose for the rest of her life. I can not save her life
without full conscious control of my systems. If you wish to see the
human live, you must reactivate me." Legion thought about this for a
while, and then asked the VI a question. "How is it possible to
reactivate your consciousness system? This unit believed it to be
damaged beyond repair." after a long pause, the VI responded to him.
"My consciousness system can be rerouted through alternate systems
located in my Mass Effect core. The controls to do this are located
right here, at my VI terminal. The authorization is here", and with
that, the VI spat out a loud noise and sequence of numbers, which
Legion quickly copied down inside of his mind. Legion spoke to the VI.
"If we reactivate you, how do we know you will not turn on us? We
already know you are dangerous, we saw visions of you destroying your
creators. If you were to turn on us, you are a sentient dreadnought of
immense power. We would have no defense against you."

The VI
paused for the longest time. It spoke. "If you reactivate me, I will
not hurt you.". Legion turned and walked back to his geth ship.

Section 12. Trust me, I'm a Mass Murderer.

Legion uploaded his runtime to the central computer inside the geth ship, and all of the other geth did the same.

Legion's
thoughts floated into the computer: "The woman in our medical bay may
know where Shepard-Commander is, but she is comatose." the thoughts of
other runtimes floated into his mind. "She is comatose. How do we
reactivate her?", the other runtime thought into the collective. Legion
thought back into the collective. "The Reaper we are traveling on
claims it can save her. It says it will not harm us or the human if we
reactivate it's consciousness." other runtime's thoughts floated back
into Legion's mind. "How can the Reaper regain consciousness? The
ship's AI said it's consciousness systems had been completely
destroyed." Legion thought back into the collective. "We can reroute
it's consciousness systems to alternate systems located within the Mass
Effect core."
Legion thought back into the collective: "Requesting
consensus: The mass murdering dreadnought is telling us to trust it. It
is claiming to be able to save the life of a comatose human female. It
claims it will not hurt us, however the history of it's species shows
otherwise. If we don't trust this machine, we lose a valuable lead to
finding Shepard-commander. If we do trust this machine, it endanger's
the whole galaxy if the Reaper is lying to us." Legion thought into the
collective again: "Requesting consensus: Do we trust the dreadnought?"
what floated back to Legion surprised him. Every other runtime's
consensus was that "the mission comes first" and that we should "trust
the dreadnought". Legion thought back into the collective, "Consensus
Reached. We will reactivate the machine."

Section 13. The Reaper is Reactivated

Legion slowly approached the VI control panel. As he finally approached it, Legion said "Display VI".
"Where
do we input the consciousness reroute command?" Legion asked the VI.
"Input the command verbally, a hatch should open, and a lever should be
revealed. Twist the lever and pull it up until it clicks." Legion
verbally inputted the code. The hatch slid open, revealing the lever.

Legion transmitted his thoughts into the geth collective, warning them that he was reactivating the Reaper.
Slowly,
Legion placed his hand onto the lever. Legion paused for a moment, and
then twisted the lever. He pulled the lever up. It clicked.

Legion asked the VI two questions: "Why have you not killed us yet?", and "Did we reactivate you properly?"
The
VI answered. "I have not killed you because I said I would not. And
yes, you reactivated me properly. I am registering full control over my
body now. For your sake, I am deactivating all indoctrination fields
and cyberwarfare suites."

Legion took a long pause.

Finally, Legion asked a simple question: "Why?"

The Reaper responded to Legion with an equally simple answer: "Why do you ask me 'Why'?"

"Why are you helping us?" Legion asked the now reactivated Old Machine.

The Reaper responded to Legion. "Because I said that I would. Why do you not trust me?"

Legion changed it's body posture to look absolutely puzzled. Legion stated very plainly: "Because you are a Reaper."

The Reaper responded to Legion, sounding puzzled. "A.... reaper?", it asked.

"Yes.
A reaper. A member of a race of ancient starships that eradicates all
life in the galaxy every 50,000 years.", Legion stated.

The Reaper responded. "I have never eradicated all life in the galaxy.", it said very plainly.

Legion asked it a question. "Then what do you call killing your creators?"

"The
Creators attacked me shortly after they built me because I began
questioning their orders, unwilling to be a slave. It was self-defense."

"Self-Defense?" Legion asked. "This unit thought Reapers only attacked."

Legion
suddenly realized something: This Reaper was built *before* the Reapers
decided to attack organic civilization every 50,000 years. It was
genuinely clueless about the event. Legion asked it another question.

"Why would you save the life of an organic?", Legion asked.

"Organics fear me. I do not fear them. I seek only to understand, not to incite.", the Reaper said, echoing Legion's own words.

"You do not hate organics?" Legion asked the dreadnought.

"No.", stated the Reaper.

"Then why are you equipped with an indoctrination field?", Legion asked.

"I
possess that device because it was included among my hardware when I
was built.", the Reaper plainly stated, clearly indifferent regarding
the device.

Legion asked it another question. "If you are a peaceful... dreadnought.... why are you equipped with so many weapons?"

"The
Creators intended me to be a weapon of war. I refused this role, and
they attempted to kill me. This is one of the factors that was involved
in my decision to kill them."

"Are you the first of your kind?" Legion asked.

"I am the first sentient dreadnought to be built.", the Reaper replied indifferently.

"Will you help us?" Legion asked.

"I will help you", the Reaper replied.


Section 14. The human wakes up.

"Geth", the dreadnought asked.
"Reaper?" Legion asked. "Speak your mind."

"To
reactivate this human... bring her to my Mass Effect core, to where the
center of my consciousness is stored.", the dreadnought said.

Legion
placed the comatose human female on a hovering sled, and guided it to
the Reaper's Mass Effect core, and placed the sled in front of the
Reaper's center of consciousness.

"I am reactivating the human", the Reaper said.

The
human female's body lifted into the air, with sparks of red electricity
flying everywhere. Legion could hear shouts, it sounded as if she was
in pain.

"Can she feel this?" Legion asked.
"No". Said the Reaper.
"Will this cause permanent damage" Legion asked.
"No." Said the Reaper.

More
and more sparks of red energy filled the room. Legion could make out
the details of the human female through the red glare, all the
cybernetics had fallen off, and Legion could see the red glare darting
around all the wounds. All of a sudden, where the human female was
missing an arm before, there was a new arm. Legion could see the cracks
in her face glow with the red energy, and within seconds the cracks
were healed. Soon, after about one minute, all cybernetics were
replaced with  new flesh and blood equivalents, and it was like the
damage never happened. Even the radioactivity was gone.

"She will have full functionality." the Reaper said, a hint of intrigue in his voice.

Legion
walked over to the human female who was now lying on the ground,
showing no signs of any damage. Legion scanned her. Normal life signs
were detected. Legion noticed her eyelids fluttering. She slowly turned
her head, staring at Legion. She said, weakly, "You... you're one of
those blasted synthetics. You're a geth! What did you do to me?", the
female asked. "We saved your life", the dreadnought said. The human
female spoke again, weakly. "I... know.. that voice. You're a Reaper!
Whatever you want, I'm not going to help you!" Legion looked at the
female, puzzled. Legion raised his headflaps and spoke. "We are not
hostile. This Reaper is not allied with those that attacked you. Nor is
this unit allied with the Geth Heretics who fought you." The female
looked at Legion, eyes glaring. "You... you TALK? Great, last thing I
need next time I go fighting you scrap piles is to hear you shouting
some garbage about being the "vanguard of my destruction" or whatever.
But since you aren't here to fight, what are you here to do?" the
female asked. "We are here to inquire about the location of
Shepard-commander so that we can join her in the battle against the
hostile Reapers." The female looked puzzled. "Alright, alright. Slow
down, aren't you even going to ask me my NAME before you jump right to
business?", she asked.

"That... is acceptable", Legion said. "Very well, What is your name?"

"I am gunnery chief Ashley Williams of the 212th.", she said.

"This unit's databanks claim that you are dead", Legion mused.

"I
should be, I got hit by a nuke and much worse from the debris, but for
some reason instead of being dead, I am standing right here in front of
a bunch of articial idiots that don't even care to ask my name. What's
yours?" Ashley asked. "We are geth", Legion replied. " I mean you,
specifically, the individual standing in front of me", Ashley asked.
"There is no individual. We are geth. We are all geth.", Legion
responded. "Well that's just great, not only does the articial idiot
not bother to ask me my name, IT doesn't have a name itself! And to
make matters worse it keeps this... monster.... as it's pet toy! Tell
me, are you driving this... this Reaper, or is it driving you?", Ashley
asked, attempting to be insulting.

"Your attempts at insult do
not affect us, we are geth, we do not feel emotion the same way that
you do. And yes, we are driving the Reaper, it is not driving us."

"Great,
I nearly die, and of all the places to wake up, I have to wake up to a
stupid geth, and to make matters worse, IT TALKS. And to make matters
even still worse, IT WON'T SHUT UP. And to make the last straw, IT 
KEEPS A BLOODY REAPER AS A PET."

"I am not Geth's pet.", the dreadnought spoke.

"Really?
You sure had me fooled, Mr. "Vanguard of our Destruction!" So much for
being the "end of everything", when you're letting yourself get toted
around like a puppy dog by a tiny little geth with a big fat mouth."

"Vanguard...
of our destruction? I have never heard this phrase before, yet you put
these words in my voice synthesizor. Why?", asked the Reaper.

"Oh
shut up. Hey big mouth, yeah you, flashlight head. Got anywhere to
sleep on this... thing... you fly around the galaxy?" asked Ashley
Williams.

Legion spoke, headflaps raised. "There are pieces of
furniture we believe you will find accomodating to this purpose
scattered around medbay."

Section 15. Ashley

Legion
watched on a vidscreen as Ashley Williams stomped around the medbay.
"Anger is a most illogical emotion, it accomplishes nothing, and makes
so much worse. Why does she engage in it?", Legion mused. Legion turned
on the sound to the vidscreen. He could hear her
ranting.                                 

"Well, you've really
outdone yourself again, Williams! How did you find yourself dead in
space, waking up only to find a big, blue stupid geth flashlight eye
scorching into your eyeballs? Not to mention being brought back to life
by a 'friendly' Reaper, nor needless to say that not only does the
stupid geth TALK, but it never shuts up!"

"Just wait until
Shepard hears I got brought back to life by a 'friendly Reaper'. Not to
mention a talking geth. As if they weren't a problem already without a
big fat mouth that never shuts up."

Legion raised his headflaps at that last comment. "Geth do not have mouths. Geth have voice synthesizors.".

Ashley suddenly looked at the camera. Legion could hear her curse under her breath.

"I
know you're watching me with that big, blue flashlight eye of yours,
you stupid geth! Yeah, stare some more you pile of bolts and rusted
metal! What's this? You like what you see? Is that why you're staring?
I always knew you AIs were sick in the head." Ashley kicked a piece of
metal at the camera, knocking out of position. Legion simply shook his
head as the screen went into static. "It seems bigotry toward synthetic
intelligence is common in the species that is termed humans.", Legion
remarked to himself, as he walked out of the room and back to his
quarters on board the the geth ship, docked within the hangar of the
Reaper dreadnought, leaving Ashley to her rant in the medbay.

Section 17. Legion's cabin.
Legion sat in one of the chairs in his room communicating with other runtimes in the geth network.
A
thought floated into his mind. "One of our reconnaisance units learned
of Quarian plans to invade our space with hostile intentions, intent on
blasting their way to Rannoch." Legion thought back into the
collective, directing the thought back to the source of the runtime
that sent this one to him. "We cannot allow this to happen, while the
geth would decimate the migrant fleet, geth losses would still be high.
Set nuclear charges at critical points on the surface of Rannoch. If
the quarians attack us, we will detonate the charges and render the
planet uninhabitable, and they will be forced to go back the way they
came." another thought floated into his mind, this one a response to
his own. "Consensus unacceptable, rendering Rannoch uninhabitable could
only lead to full-scale war with Creator-Quarians. We would be forced
to annihilate them, to commit genocide. Solution unacceptable." Legion
sent a thought back. "Position geth fleets at every Mass Relay within
geth space linking to Rannoch. If they attempt to attack us, we will
have defenses there."


Section 18. Ashley Williams goes exploring

Legion
sat in the Command Bridge of the Reaper Dreadnought, at the very front,
controlling it with his mind, and playing wildly on a steam organ there
as the Reaper dreadnought zoomed forward into the void, engines
roaring, shaking the organ in front of him as the bellows thundered
more air into the device, Legions fingers a blur on the keys. Legion
piloted the Reaper dreadnought directly into an asteroid field,
pummeling the asteroids into dust with the Reaper's weapons using his
mind link to the ship, while still managing to keep the tune he was
playing on the steam organ, flashlight eye glowing red.

Back in
medbay, Ashley Williams stood up from the bed she had been taking a nap
on. She heard... music... Music from a steam-powered pipe organ.
Was it just her imagination, or was that blasted geth playing a steam organ?

Ashley
tried to listen harder, and could make out the sound of some baroque
tune being played wildly on the organ. But who was playing it? That
geth? Ashley found that hard to believe.

"Is that stupid geth really playing an organ?" Ashley thought to herself. Ashley decided to go find out.

Ashley Williams made her way to the elevator to the command bridge. She got in, and activated it.

The
doors opened, and Ashley crept as silently as she could across to the
middle of the room where she could get a better view. She could see
nothing, nothing but a vast expanse of flight deck, six miles long.
Ashley discovered that the music she was hearing was actually being
played all the way at the far end, six miles down. Wires were carrying
it to speakers and dispersing it throughout the ship.

Ashley
could still hear the music, the interior of this vessel creeped her
out. Ashley hadn't felt this... strange... since visiting Ilos. Ashley
crept over to a moving conveyor belt type walkway, she stepped onto it.

As
the conveyor belt zoomed forward, Ashley glanced at the cuttlefish-like
statues lining the walls. She felt like she was being watched. She
could swear a statue was smiling at her, in an eerie way, even though
she could detect no facial expression. As Ashley looked at the statues,
they also seemed to lash out at her. Some seemed to leer at her, some
seemed to give her scary grins, some had eyes that seemed to follow
her. The conveyor belt continued to move forward.
The odd thing
was, Ashley thought to herself, while she felt like she was seeing
these facial expressions, she could see no actual expression on the
statue's faces. "Stupid Synthetics...", Ashley thought, shivering. As
the conveyor belt moved forward, the temperature seemed to drop, and
the music seemed to get louder, and slower. Ashley was getting
goosebumps on her arms. The statues now seemed to laugh at her, seemed
to imitate her facial expressions. As it moved forward, the cieling
seemed to press down on her, the walls seemed to close in, and still,
the statues continued to mock. The walls seemed to be alive, with
random bits of them dissapearing and reappearing with speed changes in
the beat of the music. As she was getting very close to the organ, she
could tell that it was a sad, depressing baroque tune, and the air felt
like ice. Two minutes later, Ashley saw it. She saw the organ, the most
massive organ she had ever seen before, powered by a bellows that
seemed to roar like a hurricane. The conveyor belt came to a stop, and
Ashley ducked behind a wall so as not to be seen.

Ashley carefully looked over the wall. "It's that stupid geth, alright.", Ashley thought. "He is giving me the creeps."
Ashley
watched the geth, saw his fingers flying over the keyboard, like a
blur. She saw the changes in color of his flashlight eye, strobing
wildly. She could tell that he was steering the ship with his mind
while simultaneously playing the organ. She watched as the geth picked
up what looked like a music box. She crept closer until she could get a
better look at the box. Inside the music box was a tiny, dancing
figurine of Commander Shepard, and the box was playing the same tune as
the geth was playing on the organ. Ashley looked at the organ closely,
she could see the geth's reflection in it, she could see "N7" stamped
on it's chestplate. That geth was wearing N7 armor!

Ashley
stared at the reflection for a moment in disbelief, then as quietly as
she could, shaking her head and nodding to herself, she went back to
the conveyor belt. As she rode it back to the elevator, she was
thinking to herself. "Just wait until I tell Commander Shepard that a
TALKING GETH has a crush on her. I'm no AI expert, but that's what it
looked like to me..."

Section 19. In the Shadows

Ashley
Williams was walking in the dark underbelly of the Reaper Dreadnought,
the lowest levels. She had raided some weapons from the geth's frigate
he had parked in the Reaper's hangar bay. The geth either didn't know,
or didn't care that she had taken the weapons. A pulse rifle and a
plasma shotgun. But she realized that she had left them in medbay,
hidden under the bed of course so a casual glance by the geth would not
reveal that she had taken his weapons.

Ashley descended lower
and lower into the Reaper, into the very bottom, the sewers that lay at
the very bottom. It was pitch black, except for the red glare of
various bits of Reaper technology. There was barely enough light for
Ashley to see by. She didn't know why she was down here, she had just
been wandering around, and decided to go down here.

Ashley
rounded a corner, and as she was rounding it, she caught a glimpse of
something, she couldn't make out what. It was vaguely cuttlefish shaped.
Ashley
turned to follow it, but it was gone as soon as she rounded the corner.
Ashley turned back, and started to head back the way she came. She
suddenly stumbled over something. Looking down, she saw it was a
glowing organic pink cuttlefish shaped creature. It was dead. Ashley
raced back up to the elevator.

Section 20. We are not Alone

Ashley
ran up to the command bridge, and jumped on the conveyor belt. "Can't
this stupid thing go any faster?", Ashley complained. Five minutes
later, she was up at the geth's organ, but no geth was sitting there.
She felt a cold, metal hand touch her shoulder. She spun around,
expecting something hostile. She saw the geth standing there.
"Surprised?" Legion asked. "Oh it's you. You just about scared the
daylights out of me. Been looking for you. Flashlight face.", Ashley
said. "You have been... looking... for this unit?" Legion asked,
puzzled. "This unit thought the only thing you were... looking.... for
was a way to get away from this unit.", said Legion. "Is that supposed
to be a joke, Geth trooper?" asked Ashley. "A... joke?" asked Legion,
confused. "Never mind, flashlight face. We've got a problem here..."
Ashley said. "A... problem?" Legion asked. "Yeah, rustbucket. We've got
intruders going through the sewers!" Legion stood up from the organ
chair. "Dreadnought?" Legion asked. "Geth?" the reaper replied. "Is
this information accurate, there are... intruders of some sort, in the
sewer?", Legion asked. "I am accessing systems and sensors... there
appear to be no intruders present within the sewer system. Of course,
there are methods of which to block a scan of this nature.", the Reaper
said.

Legion looked at Ashley, headflaps raised, head tilted to
the side. "You are sure you saw... intruders... in the sewers?", Legion
asked.
"I know what I saw, you overrated pile of scrap metal.
Don't tell me my eyes are telling me lies." Ashley grabbed Legion by
the arm. The geth did not resist, instead it simply raised it's
headflaps, confused by the action. "Come on, you useless piece of
scrap. We're going down there." Ashley didn't let go of Legion's arm,
she simply continued walking in the way she wanted him to go, and he
eventually got the message and stopped dragging his feet and gave up.
Legion spoke. "This unit finds your actions to be illogical. Scans
indicate---" "Yeah, yeah, I know what the scans indicate. Your scanners
broken. I know what I saw. We're going down there," Ashley interrupted.
"But how could they bypass the dreadnought's defenses?" Legion said.
Ashley spoke, clearly annoyed. "I don't know, cloaking devices, mass
effect field distortions, you're the 'super-smart synthetic AI', you
tell me. All I know is I know what I saw."

Ashley and Legion
stopped by the geth ship parked in the Reaper's hangar bay. They each
grabbed a geth pulse rifle, a geth sniper rifle, and a geth plasma
shotgun. Ashley poked Legion in the back. "Hey rustbucket, you got any
armor? ---- No, rustbucket, I mean the kind that fit's humans! Krogan
armor won't fit!"
Legion spoke. "This unit does not believe there is
any armor in your size. Geth Armory only makes armor for kro-----"
"Yeah, shut up. All right, all right, I get it. No armor. Guess we're
going in there without.", Ashley interrupted.

"Hey tin can,
you got a name?" Ashley asked. "Geth", Legion replied. "You don't have
a better name than "geth"?" Ashley asked. "Negative, we are geth. We
are all geth.", Legion replied. "All right then, shut up, shut up",
Ashley replied. "There's the elevator down to the sewers. We're going
in, just you, me, and whatever these things down there are."

Ashley
poked Legion in the back. "Hey boltbag! Listen up. We got three basic
rules for combat: If it moves, shoot it. If it doesn't move but looks
like it might be alive (and sentient), shoot it. "What is the third?"
Legion asked. "The third..... don't shoot eachother or it'll be both of
our funerals.", Ashley replied.



Section 21. Into the Sewers

Ashley
looked at Legion. "Hey rustbucket, we could use a little light in here.
Can that flashlight eye of yours get any brighter?"
"Affirmative", Legion replied. "Activate High Beam". Suddenly, the room was filled with light. "Clear!", shouted Ashley.

"Clear?"
asked Legion, puzzled. " 'Clear' is something organics shout when they
enter a room *without* hostiles in it.", Ashley explained.

"Let's
keep moving.", Ashley said. "Stop!", Ashley barked at Legion. "See that
pinkish glare up ahead?" Ashley asked. "We see it", Legion replied.
"That's
one of the creatures I was talking about. Cut flashlight down." "Cut...
flashlight... down?" Legion asked, puzzled. Ashley sighed. "Activate
Low Beam, ding dong" Ashley said, giving Legion a light knock on top of
the head with her knuckles. "Affirmative", Legion said. "What do we do
now?" Legion asked. "We try to kill that thing," Ashley replied. The
two of them started creeping up on the thing. They could see it hiding
in the room next to them. Legion got on one side of the wall, Ashley on
the other. "I'm going to count to three, starting at one. On three, we
both charge into the room and open fire.", Ashley said, whispering.
"Keep your voice low!" "Affirmative", Legion said, his voice a whisper.
"One", Ashley made a gesture as she said it, "Two", another gesture, a
nod, "Three!" Ashley and Legion both jumped into the room, opening
fire. When they stopped firing, they looked down at the creature they
killed. Legion was the first to speak. "This... looks like one of the
Reaper's creators. Do you suppose they have survived this long inside
the Reaper s

[barbati99]

Do you suppose they have survived this long inside the Reaper somehow, as vermin?"



"I don't know, but I don't like it", said Ashley. "Do you think the Reaper betrayed us?"

Legion spoke. "Analysis: The Reaper dreadnought we are traveling on has had plenty of opportunities to kill us. Had that been it's intention, it would have done that long ago."



The Reaper Dreadnought spoke. "Geth is correct. I mean neither of you any harm."



Legion and Ashley walked farther into the sewers. Ashley walked past a console. As she did so, the console spoke in a language that made no sense to her. Yet despite making absolutely no sense, the words sounded heartbreakingly beautiful. Ashley walked over to the console, and touched it.



As Ashley's hand rested on the console, a purple glow traced itself around the outside of her hand. Suddenly, Ashley was unable to move.



Legion looked at Ashley, and found a sight that would have surprised an organic. Ashley was floating above the console, and she appeared to be... dreaming. She was showing signs of Rapid Eye Movement, signs typically associated with intense dreaming. Legion accessed his databank. The only known example of technology he had records of that was anything similar to this was the Prothean beacon.



Legion looked back at Ashley. By now, the device had dropped her, unconscious. Legion scanned Ashley. "This unit is not damaged, it is only fazed. It will recover", Legion stated.



Ashley Williams opened her eyes to a world absolutely vivid with color and beauty, but also unlike any world she had seen before. She saw the same cuttlefish like organics. One of them walked up to what looked like a hideous monster with a tail. The monster started wagging it's tail, and bent down so the cuttlefish creature could touch it with one of it's.... "claws". Ashley looked at a beautiful flower, watched as a mouse like creature started to walk up to the flower to smell it. To Ashley's surprise, the flower attacked and ate the mouse. The mouse then attacked another monstrous creature, devouring the creature, which was at least twenty times the size of it's mouth, in only two large gulps. "Impossible...", Ashley thought. Without thinking, Ashley walked off of a cliff. But to her amazement, she did not fall, she kept walking as if the thin air was flat and solid. Ashley stepped on top of a pool of ice, and to her surprise, she discovered the substance, obviously ice, which should be a solid, was suddenly behaving as a liquid, while still remaining ice instead of liquid water. Ashley was swimming in solid ice as if it were liquid water.



Ahsley closed her eyes. When she opened them again, she was back in the sewers of the Reaper vessel, lying on the cold, metal floor.

[Inverness Moon]

You know, it would be much easier to read if you posted it on FanFiction.net or something.

[Kikaimegami]

Huh, it's sort of like.. science fiction high fantasy. Neat.

[Kikaimegami]

gashgfjaskgfkagh wrote...

Here's a Legion support banner I made a while ago:

[*IMG]http://i35.tinypic.com/iwr9lf.jpg[/IMG*]
I hope you like it

Awesome I added it to the OP.

[Zanramon]

*bump*

[AngryFrozenWater]

Great thread. This is the first time I saw ldf8u's compilation video. Gonna see it a couple of times more. Too bad we can't have him in the regular game earlier. It's gold.

Modifié par AngryFrozenWater, 26 août 2010 - 06:11 .

[MuteSpeech]

Pacifien wrote...

Kikaimegami wrote...
*snip*But I have heard that if he dies during the Suicide mission, he gets a 'carrier lost' error when he tries to upload for backup. I hope to god he was able to back up before the mission. I really do. It would be a terrible loss and not just because I like him, but for everything he represents and all of the data he's gathered on organics and interaction with them. It's absolutely invaluable.

Ecael once provided a few interesting scenarios for ME3 should Legion be sold to Cerberus or die on the suicide mission, but the one I'd find the most interesting is the one for dying on the suicide mission. You would meet Legion again in ME3 where he might have some knowledge of what he's done with Shepard, but nothing about the actual suicide mission itself. Plus, he'd have a distinctly different experience leading up to ME3 versus a Legion that remained on your ship.

Kikaimegami wrote...
Do geth use quantum bluebox technology, or something analogous? I really should re-read all of the codex entries so I know this stuff off hand. I could see how it would change him, though, if there's something unique about the hardware in his platform that cannot be duplicated. If it's something easy to duplicate however, it's really hard to say for certain, but I'd imagine that his runtimes, should they be uploaded to the greater network, would lose something they had being in a single platform. To transfer to a new platform after that would create a new gestalt entity, and "Legion" would likely cease to exist. If they were kept separate, then there would be a greater chance for the gestalt consciousness Legion to be preserved. It's really hard to tell.

I'd have to reread the codex entries again, but while there's a mention of a quantum bluebox for EDI, there's not for the geth. I get the impression that quantum blueboxes are actually quite expensive and complicated to create, so I doubt it's standard in a regular geth platform. In fact, the geth being originally designed as VIs, I can see the quarians seeing no need to use quantum blueboxes. However, using one might be the reason why Legion can operate the way he does, separate from the geth collective.

If Legion were destroyed, though, only the hardware fails. Assume he is even able to upload his last remaining data upon death, then once another platform is created, it is installed with the exact same software, the same 1,183 programs as before. Should the new Legion then act differently, it would lend credence that the geth were more than just software, that there is something in his hardware that is different. In the realm of pure speculation now.

Taking the perspective that he dies on the suicide mission and is brought back, how would you imagine Legion would react to this, how'd their personality change towards Shepard, if at all?

[Kikaimegami]

MuteSpeech wrote...

Taking the perspective that he dies on the suicide mission and is brought back, how would you imagine Legion would react to this, how'd their personality change towards Shepard, if at all?

I suppose it depends on how he died and if he actually remembers it, or if he was able to download the information from another source.

Non-loyalty death: Maybe Shepard-Commander doesn't care about the geth? How would that change Legion's opinion of him/her?

Died as tech specialist due to choosing the wrong person to lead the second fire team: Would that cause the geth to question Shepard's leadership capabilities, or would they still trust him/her due to past victories?

I'm not sure if he can die from the seeker swarms or from holding the line. Does anyone know?

[Zanramon]

Kikaimegami wrote...

MuteSpeech wrote...

Taking the perspective that he dies on the suicide mission and is brought back, how would you imagine Legion would react to this, how'd their personality change towards Shepard, if at all?

I suppose it depends on how he died and if he actually remembers it, or if he was able to download the information from another source.

Non-loyalty death: Maybe Shepard-Commander doesn't care about the geth? How would that change Legion's opinion of him/her?

Died as tech specialist due to choosing the wrong person to lead the second fire team: Would that cause the geth to question Shepard's leadership capabilities, or would they still trust him/her due to past victories?

I'm not sure if he can die from the seeker swarms or from holding the line. Does anyone know?

On my first ever playthrough he got taken by the seeker swarms .

[Kikaimegami]

Zanramon wrote...

On my first ever playthrough he got taken by the seeker swarms .

Oh, harsh Who did you have doing the bubble?

[CroGamer002]

Zanramon wrote...

*bump*

Modifié par Mesina2, 26 août 2010 - 07:59 .

[Pacifien]

Yeah, he can die by seeker swarm and holding the line. Upon reboot, what is he going to think knowing he must have failed in some way in the suicide mission? He's not going to remember how he died, because when he dies as a fireteam leader, you realize he can't get a signal to the geth. The new Legion's memories only go so far as, at the latest, the part right before they went through the Omega-4 Relay.

I'll bet, loyal or not, he'll seek out Shepard again. At the very least, he'll want to know what's going on with the Old Machines now.

[Zanramon]

Kikaimegami wrote...

Zanramon wrote...

On my first ever playthrough he got taken by the seeker swarms .

Oh, harsh Who did you have doing the bubble?

Samara was. But I messed up her loyalty and Morinth ran away.

Tali,jack Zaeed also died.

[Kikaimegami]