One of the lore freaks here: I'm totally on-board this idea.
As I've already argued in other threads, synthetic biotics would make much more sense than organics ones. Whereas organics have to somehow learn to fire the correct synapses at will in order to stimulate the eezo nodules without tearing their own tissue apart, synthetics could simply have the nodules embedded into circuitry they have full control over. It wouldn't even need to be their blue box. As biotic abilities are supposed to be a very straight-forward manifestation of common mass effect fields, there shouldn't be any difference between artificially produced and the naturally occurring kind, other than that the former should by all regards be more powerful and accurate.
If anything, the lore gives rise to the question, why
haven't any of the intelligent species developed artificial biotics? If such powerful effects can be produced by random smatterings of eezo, certainly they could also be produced by design. The Geth could be forgiven for not yet having jumped on this bandwagon, having largely been secluded from species other than the quarians, who have little to no naturally occurring biotics (conceivably owing e.g. to their neural networks not allowing for precise control of the eezo nodes -- this point has AFAIK never been elaborated on). There's no reason they couldn't start researching and building units with biotic abilities now, though.
Modifié par Negative_Creep, 14 février 2013 - 04:43 .