In my first playthrough I couldn't broker peace as I skipped the Geth Server mission. I chose the Geth because throughout history it felt like they were the ones that were attacked every time. Although it's very "organic-like" (as you can't really say "human" in this case) to be scared of AI surpassing you and possibly enslaving YOU, the majority of the Geth have never shown desire to attack organics.
Yes, the heretics have chosen to oppose organics, but the question remains: would they have done so if the Quarians didn't attack them in the first place?
The Quarians have done the equivalent of trying to get rid of a clandestine child after he's born. That said I don't hate the Quarians, because their fears are justified. The Geth could have evolved to the same point of the Reapers, who "rebelled" against their creators (when only the Catalyst was in existence) and turned them into the first Reaper. But the Catalyst was programmed with the intent of controlling chaos, it was programmed to harvest organic life. Geth weren't, they were programmed to help the Quarians. Like the Catalyst says you can't blame fire because it does it's supposed to do. That seems to suggest that even advanced AI still acts following the main purpose it was originally programmed for, even if it becomes aware of itself and can make choices.
The Reapers are just the iteration of what the Reapers themselves were trying to avoid, whether they see that or not. The history between the Quarian and the Geth are the reason why the Reaper cycle was created in the first place. Even if the Quarians didn't know it, machines HAD rebelled before, their fears weren't nonesense. On the other hand, whatever organic race created an AI to maintain status quo (the Catalyst) didn't realise that they were asking that AI to do what they feared synthetics would do: take control.
One more thing to consider however is this: were the rebellions by the other sentient machines caused by the organics again? What calculation would make a machine decide that killing organics is the way of survival, what would those machines gain from being the only ones alive? Would they get to the point where the answer to these questions would bring the machines at war with their own creators if they are not instigated by the creators themselves?
Modifié par Xariann, 10 juillet 2012 - 10:26 .
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