4stringwizard wrote...
My apologies beforehand for the long post...
It feels like most people, if forced to choose, decided to wipe out the Quarians rather than the Geth during the Rannoch. Which is fine and dandy by me cause it's your choice, but it's not as if it's done cause it's paragon/renegade. The main reason given by most people seems to be:
1. The Quarians are genocidal maniacs and had it coming.
2. The Geth are just innocent victims in all this.
Really? Although I'm not very surprised since Bioware tried their darnest to paint the Geth as helpless victims in ME3, I still don't understand the amount of bias towards the Geth in this case. First off,
1. The Quarians weren't "genocidal maniacs". They tried to reclaim their home world. For crying out loud people, wouldn't you have done the same thing? Beside, not all Quarians supported the war or the first "Morning War." And they were attacing machines. I repeat, MACHINES. Whether the Geth were alive/sentient at the end is moot, but the game makes it clear that the Geth didn't achieve sentience until after they got the Reaper upgrades. Even if they were alive/sentient, the Quarians wouldn't have known this. For all they knew at the time, the Geth were just machines still. Speaking of Reapers...
2. The Geth weren't "innocent" in all this. They sided with the Reapers not once, but TWICE over the course of the trilogy. Yeah, the first ones to side were the "heretics", but even still, they were once true Geth. if they could turn, why couldn't the true Geth? At best, this shows the Geth to be untrustworthy. As far as ME3, even if the Geth were desparate, they sided with the Reapers knowing full well what their intentions were. Nobody is even bothered by this? Again, this shows the Geth to be untrustworthy. What would have stopped them from waging war against organics later to better themselves?
3. Another pro-Geth argument I've heard is that the Geth were peaceful and let the Quarians live during the first war, when they had to chance to pursue them or wipe them out. Well, Legion himself says the ONLY reason the Geth didn't wipe out the Quarians was because they weren't smart enough to make that decision at the time. Even during the game, Legion basically admits to Shepard that the Geth aren't any better than organics. (This occurs after Shepard finds out that Legion had his something from him.) The Geth wouldn't have been more useful. The Quarians had the largest fleet in the galaxy and the Geth were weakened if they had been destroyed rather than re-written.
So again, I don't understand the sheer amount of bias toward the Geth in this case. If you ask me, they were no better allies than the Quarians (maybe worse given the circumstances). Thoughts?
Here's the deal:
* The Quarians started the Morning War.
* The Geth let the Quarians go.
* The Geth were non-hostile on a major scale beyond protecting their borders. In short, if you left them alone, they left you alone.
* The **Quarians** started the second war when they thought they could win. And in so doing killed many Geth runtimes. Now, this isn't a bad thing if you don't see the Geth as collectively sentient.
But they are.
And you completely misunderstood the plot of the Chapter in 3. The Reaper Code upgrades allowed an INDIVIDUAL Geth to achieve sentience. Before the Reapers it took many Geth interconnected to achieve the same level of cognizance.
Legion actually SHOWS you this on screen.
* Throughout the entire chapter, it's the GETH that want to stop the fighting.
As for them joining the Reapers, "The enemy of my enemy..." comes to mind.You have a race that is more like you than the organics and is offering aid against a race that just attacked you again, killing many of you and threatening your entire race
* The Geth maintain and honor the memories of Quarians who stood up for them while it's the Quarians have held on to nothing but obsessive, seething rage.Tali once gripes to Shep in 2 about how it it would take decades or longer to adapt, so we HAVE to go back to Rannoch.
Well, ummm...if you had settled somewhere within even a few decades of your expulsion, you'd have a new home by now.
And they WERE smart enough to destroy the Quarians if they chose to after the Morning War. As Legion explains in dialogue they didn't pursue because they were "young" the Quariansd were gone, and didn't want to deal with the moral issues and unknown consequences of genocide.
Fact is, even my Renegade Shep finds saving the Quarians just too repulsive to do. As J in MiB said, "Don't start nothin', won't be nothin'"
The Quarians started it...TWICE and the only reason the they REALLY wanted Shep's help was because the Geth were gonna finish it better for the second time.
Modifié par cerberus1701, 10 avril 2012 - 03:30 .