DoomsdayDevice wrote...
This is an older thing I still wanted to respond to;MegumiAzusa wrote...
Proving the Reapers point by trying to fight themBleedingUranium wrote...
Congrats Doomsday, you've successfully bought the kid's BS.DoomsdayDevice wrote...
I've always made peace. This is my first playthrough where I will side with the Quarians.estebanus wrote...
I take it you killed the geth then?DoomsdayDevice wrote...
I would have more faith in AI if they weren't based on Reaper code.
I do want to trust synthetics, my paragon Shep always has. I just have sincere doubts about 'repurposing Reaper code'.
I'm not sure what you guys are getting at here, but let me clarify my standpoint on this.
First off, I'm still playing through the game, and I might actually end up changing my mind about this, depending on how I'll experience the whole thing this time.
If I will be siding with the Quarians, it will not be because I agree with the Starbinger BS that synthetics will always turn on organics.
Several reasons:
- My Shepard trusts synthetics, but the problem I'm having with this case is the whole Reaper code thing.
We were talking about pattern recognition earlier, well, in this case I'd like to point to several things. If you have read the topic in my signature, you may be aware that I am of the opinion that Javik (and From Ashes in general) has some important things to say in the foreshadowing department. The following thing is foreshadowing synthesis IMO, but there's more to it.
Shepard: You mentioned before your people had problems with AI.
Javik: The Zha'til. They were as the Geth to this cycle.
Shepard: What happened?
Javik: Their creators lived on a dying world. It was beyond their ability to save. So they resorted to implants to enhance their intelligence.
Shepard: I think I know where this is going.
Javik: The AI seized the physical body. It could alter the genetic material at the deepest level. In time, the offspring were molded into a slave race. Few organic traces were left. They were monsters.
We're talking about a race that can't live on their homeworld any more. Sound like Quarians? Coincidence? If you let Legion use the Reaper code, and you make peace, the Geth will start uploading themselves into the suits of the Quarians to boost their immune systems and such.
That's not everything though, the Reapers were involved as well.
Javik: "In my cycle, a race called the Zha used machines, the Zha'til, as synthetic symbiotes. The Reapers subjugated the Zha'til as they have the geth. Their mechanical swarms blotted out the sky. They were brutal,
merciless."
Tali: "Keelah. What did you do?"
Javik: "We sent their star into supernova. I believe the Zha would have thanked us."
That's two times that he explicitly draws the parallel to the Geth, not to mention the creepy similarities between the Zha and the Quarians.
And then, of course, there's Legion betraying his own ideals:
Legion: an interesting choice, Shepard Commander. Your species was offered everything Geth aspire to. True unity. Understanding. Transcendence. You rejected it. You even refused the possibility of using the Old Machines' gifts to achieve it on your species' own terms. You are more like us than we thought.
I hope you understand it is not because I don't trust synthetics. It's that I don't trust Legion's sudden enthusiasm for a free Reaper upgrade. Whatever happened to achieving our own future, on our own terms?
I think it resembles a really devious trap in which Legion simply can't pass up instant ascension, and Shepard goes along because he doesn't want to kill either of his friends, all in the name of everlasting peace between synthetics and organics. Throw in Legion's sacrifice and we've got ourselves a beautiful case of synthesis foreshadowing.
It isn't for nothing that synthesis supporters always bring up this argument when debating IT-ers.
Think about it, it would be so devious. We think we're making peace between synthetics and organics, the Geth think they ascend to true AI status, the Quarians think they'll all benefit from this, but the Reapers have the last laugh.
By once again not being able to withstand the temptation to use their 'gifts', we pave the road to hell with good intentions. The Reaper code may take over the Geth, the AI will then seize control of the Quarians and we could have ourselves a new generation of Collectors.
Once again, it's not because I don't want to trust synthetics, I want to. But either I have my confirmation bias and my pattern recognition mixed up, or you guys are way too sure of yourselves that the writers would never pull such a devious trick on us, in which case I ask you: why do you believe in IT again?
I had another quote that was relevant, but I forgot what it was. I'll post it later if I can remember what it was.
Just to add my two cents. I think you maybe right. What is the only arc that Cerberus, or the Reapers via proxy, doesn't interfere in? Yup, the Rannoch arc!




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