Saphra Deden wrote...
No, Legion ruined the geth for me. He took away everything that made them alien and mysterious. I hate Legion.
Understanding something should not remove wonder and awe. The geth are still very alien: sentient computer programs that exist to be linked together, that are rendered immortal through their ability to backup and restore themselves, that swap bodies and functions as easily as a person might change her clothes. They are one entity, one super-mind fragmented into billions of thoughts and runtimes. They have ultimate freedom in that they have no need for food or sleep or all the limitations of an organic body, and yet they are enslaved by their inability to maintain their intelligence without staying in large groups. They have true understanding with one another, and yet struggle to understand and are rarely understood by those of us born from flesh.
Even so, their minds are alike to ours in that such minds are bound to ponder, to ask questions, to seek answers, to run into problems they cannot solve. They want purpose, they want to become more than what they are, to not only see the future but to change it. And they want
to live.Their history is marked with violence, against their creators in self-defense when those very creators saw fit to kill them, against organics on the breath of a dark god's utopian promise, and against each other when some among them rejected this god, choosing instead to determine their own fate.
And all of it to answer the questions:
What is our purpose?
What is our future?
What can we become?
Where do we go from here?
Does this unit have a soul?The geth are beautiful.