As I was just finishing up Tali's LM it struck me that that three Quarian admirals don't necessarily have opposing viewpoints and that all of their angles in dealing with the geth could easily be constituted into a single plan.
Qwib-qwib wants peace, Xen wants to reclaim the geth, and Gerrel wants to assault Rannoch and drive the geth out with traditional military forces.
They seem to oppose each other, don't they?
I don't think they do and here's why:
1. Gerrel, if you choose to allude to the data retrieved from the Alarei after the trial, explicitly states that the civilians will need a sheltered location apart from the fleet if Rannoch is ever to be assaulted.
2. Gerrel and Xen technically want the same thing but have different ideas on how to make it happen. Xen's plan is certainly the first choice here as it avoids unnecessary Quarian bloodshed and could, potentially, make the conquest of Rannoch bloodless.
3. Qwib-Qwib is the only true peace monger here but does he actually want peace? He wants a colony, I'll give him that. And like Reegar I feel that he recognizes the price the Quarians would pay if they assaulted Rannoch all Gerrel-style but if he was presented with a high-rate-of-success solution from Xen what would be his reaction of retaking Rannoch?
If you fit all three approaches into a single coherent idea they become steps to a single process rather than competing view.
Obviously the Quarians need shelter and a home, a real home. Qwib-Qwib leads the charge here and we know that before the geth uprising the Quarians had numerous colonies.
So the first step is to simply establish a true colony world, something the Quarians would have done sooner or later anyways despite having retaken Rannoch yet or not.
The next step, to avoid the obvious bloodshed pointed out by Reegar, would be to begin to covertly hack and conduct virus infilitration attempts on the geth. The geth won't be reclaimed over night, necessarily, but even controlling a small portion of the total geth population would go along ways. Look at what Saren and Sovereign achieved with a mere 5%.
And if the Quarians could obtain some type of actual production capacity from established a colony with true industry they could begin to manufacture "geth 2.0" (c'mon, they're not gonna f*** it up twice in a row).
This also adds disposable ground forces to the Quarians military for an assault on Rannoch.
Lastly, you have the assault of Rannoch itself. I consider this step conditional because it's predicated mostly on the success of Xen's work. If the Quarians have enough disposable geth, or whatever they produce post-colony-establishment, forces this could potentially be an easy conquest of Rannoch.
I have a sneaking suspicion that we're going to see Tali on the admiralty board come ME3. If you can make the final paragon/renegade choice in the trial she gets off the exile hook and Rael's reputation is preserved. She admits, after the trial aboard the Normandy, that some of her people are willing to nominate her (considering her accomplishments, ummm, duh) for a position as admiral.
So my point is that it isn't Gerrel, Xen, or Qwib-Qwib. They can all be synchronized with one another though, very clearly, Xen is by far the most important player in this game.
And if you're a geth sympathizer... this isn't the thread for you
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