Wouldn't the Reaper Code significantly reduce The Geth's potential? A single Geth is nearly mindless. Ten networked together being to resemble sentience. A thousand or so and they're as capable as most organics.
This has no limit. There's no ceiling. A million geth? A trillion? Isn't that their goal? Wasn't that their ambition? To build a super-structure. A hive-mind? A mega-server to upload all Geth? Network all Geth? Create a "mind" the size of a galactic arm? Was that not the future they wished to forge for themselves in ME2?
With the reaper code, they become individuals. "We" becomes "I". Wonderful. However, individuals have limits. They can no longer network. They can no longer build consensus. They are subject to many of the same limitations as organics. They've diminished their ultimate potential and they've taken the short-cut that they refused to take in Mass Effect 2, they allowed the Old Machines to hand them their future.
They would no longer be Geth, and so they'll be nothing. Quarians it is.
People tend to forget this. Mainly because the games never bring this point up. They seem to prefer to think of the quarians as some homogeneous group that all pushed for war and wish destruction on the geth. They don't consider that wiping out the quarians means killing millions of innocent children.
Shepard mentions it to EDI when she pouts at him for killing Geth. She counters that the Civilian Fleet was more or less held hostage by their own people. Her point is valid.
Modifié par Red Dust, 24 mars 2012 - 03:53 .