remydat wrote...
silverexile17s wrote...
1. The Reaper invasion. Wacthing the humans and turians get their asses handed to them. Also, the batarians were getting thrashed at least a week or two before ME3, so that was also a scare. Also, based on the diolouge in ME2, it seems the quarians were more accepting of the Reapers existance. In fact, in Mass Effect: Ascention, an unspicified member of the Admiralty Board was suggetsing capturing a Reaper, and brainwshing it to be their slave, then send it to enslave the geth, wither willingly by presenting them with a fake "God" to worship, or reprogram them through the Reaper.
I'd bet $100 the Admiral that suggested this was Xen. Fortunetly, the movement was shot down. Regardless, it shows that the quarians, at the very least, were treating the Reapers' existance as possible since the end of ME1.
Also, in case you missed this, if the war fails, ALL RACES are harvested. That's not negotible. And to have a chance of fighting that fate, the quarians need a world to secure their future on. After all, having a world has been key for near-every race in the Reaper War.
Also, Tali says that because she alone kenw Legion was sincere in his belief on negotiation. No one else besides Koris believed it would work, or in Xen's case, that it was even an option.
2. WHY would they target something that was basically out of the way? And the Codex spicifically lists them as destroying it after they drove the quarians off Rannoch. AFTER they forced the quarians off. So if there were no quarians left, WHY did they need to destory those archives?
3. Those geth WEREN'T disabled. The entire point of the Alerei mission was showing that the geth Rael worked on were "born" by powering them up and creating new processes. It's escentally "birthing" the first new geth by quarian hands since the Morning War. "Birthing" them, and then making silver-white ribbions with their innerds and scrambled gray eggs with their brains. Xen likely tested on larger and larger "newborn" geth as time went on, until she was confident enough to test on independant geth.
Also, the fact that the Reapers had to, and I qoute, "fight through the asari to take Thessia" or "push to take it," is more proof, because the main priority should be taking each species' homeworld, then focusing on the colonies. But because the Relays are all unsealed, they can't close them off ans segregate the races anymore, so they have to slog through every system in their path. That's half the Reason the galaxy was doing as well as it was against the Reapers.
Just face it: This interconnected Relay idea is not true. You have to jump, exit, then make the next jump.
1. Koris and Tali would not have disagreed with the war if the Reapers were coming tomorrow. Tali and EDI would not have a discussion about how the Reapers don't seem to care about the Quarians if the threat was eminent. The Quarians have a penchant for jumping the gun. There is nothing in the game that suggests they could not have waited. Nothing. The Reapers were not concerend about them. They could have tried for peace.
2. Because they served no purpose Silver. They are machines. They are likely using Rannoch as a base. Stuff like playgrounds, archives, restaurtants, etc. serve no purpose to them.
3. A war involves fighting thousands if not millions of Geth. Xen did not test her weapon on thousands or millions of Geth. The only way to see if it works against thousands or millions of Geth is in war. The Reapers have an interest in stoping at each relay to investigate the system. They haven't been around for 50,000 years Silver. They don't know exactly what they will find.
1. Again, "we need a world to shelter our noncombatents while we do it." Koris is still clinging to the idea that somewhere out there, a world that matches Rannoch is going to fall right into their laps. Koris is an idealist. That's not a bad thing, but banking everything on blind hope can only go so far. As for Tali, it's because she's friends with Legion, and after what happened with her father, she's grown tired of the mutiual distrust from both sides. She now wants a world where geth and quarians co-habitate, a view that Koris shares. And Koris is the only one willing to take Legion's word on blind faith. None of the other Admirals are willing to do anything without evidence. Think of Koris as the quarian version of Anderson on the Council - willing to trust Tali on faith that she knows what she's doing. But still different, in that Anderson had Kaiden/Ashley confirm your claims first. Koris is again, an idealist, which is risky when 17 million hang in the balance. You don't screw around with an entire races future unless you have hard proof to back up the action your taking.
2. It STILL was no threat to them. Look at Haestrom. They didn't buldoze the ruins on that world for construction. Why did they need to do so for Rannoch's Ancestor Archives? What was gained?
3. Geth don't need bodies, remember? Testing it on geth programs contained within an isolated server is just as effective - she likely learned from Rael's mistake of giving them bodies. One server housing enough programs to pilot a ship. If that is effective, she moves on to work on two servers. Then three. Then finally, field testing. As a viral weapon, it can be used by ANY SHIP, meaning that one quarians ship can disable several geth ships with this weapon. Field test being sucessful, she would move to the coup de' grace - active use in war. Remember, Xen was developing this weapon for at least 5 months following ME2 - more then enough time to garuntee it's functionality, and get at least one field test. And then the last month before ME3 was spent voting on weather to go to war, and then arming all ships for the invasion when the majority vote came out as "yes."