silverexile17s wrote...
That's a joke, right? If anything, no race, save the krogan, has demonstrated more selfishness then the geth.
They stay behind the Veil as the Heretics brun the Attaican Traverse and Skyllian Verge, and do nothing until two years later, when it affects them.
They stay behind the Veil while Earth and Palaven burn, not involved in the war till Right before Priority: Tuchanka, where the quarians launch their attack.
They let the entire galaxy hate them for 300 years, killing anything that came into the Veil, even unarmed peace envoyes, and did nothing to change public opinion of them.
And lies of omission are Legion's specialty in ME3. Legion lies by omission redarding the reason he helped you in the Geth Server, not telling Shepard that he intended to use the Commander as a diversion to recrute more geth. Legion again lies by omission regarding the fact that he stole the Reaper Upgrade Code for himself.
And WRONG. Legion spicifically says that all the programs that supposedly died were actually saved, transferred into the Geth Primes. He is NOT any more trustworthy then all those you talked about above.
And Admiral Gerrel was placing his people's survival at the highest priority. The entire reason they attack is so they can survive the Reapers, because they are little to no help to anyone unless they suddenly become self-sufficant. That's impossible without a world of their own, and Rannoch is the only one that has everything they need, and and atmosphere and crops that won't kill them.
And if you even try to bring the Geth Dreadnought into this, remember that if your entire race hangs in the balance of a choice you are making right now, any lifelong military man worth his rank will put the safety of his people over the safety of a single alien.
And if you do nothing in ME2, Tali allows herself to be exiled from the fleet, never to return under normal curcumstances, for the sake of preserving the fleet's stabilaty. Legion is no more a Patriot then Tali is.
Another example is Mordin or Padok Wiks dying to save the krogan, even though there is the possibilaty that it will doom the Salarians, as the resurgant krogan could want revenge. Shepard killed 300,000 batarians to stop the Reaper's arrival six months beofre in ME2.
Expecting people who you have laws prohibiting their existence and who you tried to exterminate to help you when you are in trouble is ridiculous. The Quarians are allies but they decided it was more important to kill Geth than it was to help humans and Turians. In fact, none of the races wanted to help each other until Shepard made them do it. They would have happily let each other burn if it meant it allowed them more time to prepare for the Reapers.
So where is your disdain for all these allies who didn't come to help? The Geth being long time military men as you called Gherel know it is stupid to risk your life for an enemey who would destroy you if they could. You want the Geth to do something that you are ok with Gherel not doing. Bull.
And if self-sufficiency was so important to Admiral Gherel maybe the Quarians should have settled a new world a long time ago. This is illogical. If they could magically grow food and survive on metal spaceships for 300 years, it is illogical to pretend like there were no other planets they could have settled. They refused too.
Also, please prove to me that these peace envoys were unarmed? Did the novel explicitly say they were unarmed or are you assuming that because I would think most ships are armed outside of pure civilian ships.
The Geth were hated for merely existing. That is it. Their existence was banned and attempts were made to exterminate them. If they want to not involve themselves with the prejudiced a**holes that created laws banning them that is their right. This would be like saying it is up to the black person to force the KKK to like them. Or for Jews to force the ****'s to like them. No it isn't. It is up to the a**hole prejudiced person to stop being an a**hole prejudiced person.
Was the Dalatross remorsefull for being a manipulative douche? Everyone lies especially when the lives of their people are at stake. The difference is Legion still felt ashamed for lying while these other leaders were not.