This is a timeline I compiled of the quarian/geth schisim's timeline, used a while ago in another post. I'm hoping it shows that nither side is deserving of hate in the war.
1)The quarians created the geth for cheep labor. Reason: a natural advancement in automation of labor. We humans are trying to do so all the time, so you can't fault the quarians for creating the geth.
2)The eth begin to develop self-awareness. Reason: they're programming allowed self-optimization so that they could easily adapt to multiple situations without needing constant creator imput. They became self-aware as they linked themselves together, and shared they're experiences.
3)The quarians discover evidence of the geth bordering on senticance through their questions of existance. This causes the quarians to panic. Reason: Council law prohibits the creation and development of A.I.s without the
direct consent of the Council itself. If this it true, and the geth are sentiant, the Council will likely place harsh sanctions on the quarians, if not outright censorship. This would be a harsh blow to the quarian economy.
4)The quarians hide this information from the Council to keep them off their backs, while trying to desperately re-program the geth, hoping that their perceved sentiance is either a mistake in readings, or a fault that can be corrected. Reason: The geth were not seen as anything more then simple tools at the time, so their reprogramming was not considered anything more then putting a new OS on acomputer.
5)The quarians fail to halt the development of the geth. Desperate, they order all geth to forcibly be shut down. Reason: They are scared of a Council reprasial, and naturally, some of the quarians are confused at this, and ask why this is nessessary. They likely do not comply with the shut-down order at first. And likewise, the geth ignore the shutdown commnads, having developed farther and faster then expected.
6)a group of quarians resists the order, protesting that the geth can't be decomissioned for asking simple questions, and that quarian sociaty needs the geth to help advance. The quarian government responds to this by placing martial law on their terrotories. Reason: They do not need protests in the streets, as that will only serve to draw attention to their perdeciment and possibly alert the Council to the geth problem. Between fear of the Council and of what will happen when the geth realize they are being abused, the last thing the quarians need is pressure from their own people.
7)The quarian protesters are eventually disbanded, but the quarian government, now on the verge of full panic, from both the constant threat of discovery by the Council, and believing that the geth will retaliate to the failed attempt to shut them down, order them to be destroyed. Reason: The geth, having resisted shutdown, are likely on the cusp of sentiance, if not there already. The quarians must either kill them now, or face the wrath of the Council for their accedntal creations.
8)The quarians initiate the Morning War, attempting to kill the geth. Reason: The quarians have no choice, for if the truth of the geth's sentiance reaches the Council, the quarians will have even more problems to worry over. Also, they hoped the geth were still just at the brink of sentiance, and therefore could be brought down. Also, to sooth the ethical side, if the geth weren't setiant yet, then there was no qualm about killing them. Eevn then, there would be no real proof that the geth were really alive, or just phantomimeing life. The quarians had no clue that the geth were already sentiant, and were not mimicing life, but were actually alive.
9)The geth are attacked, and retaliate, assaulting the other as hard as possible. Reason: The geth are still in their infancy, and do not understand the reasons of the quarians's assault. They in turn panic, lashing out at the quarians as hard as possible to drive them back, no longer caring about civilian casulaties, as survival of geth is now prioritized over survival of quarians.
10)The geth retaliation is largely successful, as several quarian worlds, such as Haestrom, fall early in the war. (see Haestrom's discription for proof, as "one of the first worlds to fall.") The quarians retaliate in turn. Reason: In the wake of the geth's defense and subsiquent counterattacks, the quarians are sent realing, and, now that the geth have stopped caring about civilian casualites in favor of their own self-preservation, any concerns about the geth being unfairly treated disolve, and the quarians unite as a whole against the geth. The Morning War becomes a bloody war of survival, with nither side having any plans to relent until the other is soundly defeated.
11)The Morning War qucikly escalates, with both sides inflicting deep wounds on each-other that will infulence their future actions. Reason: The toxin damage from the Morning War that the geth continue to clean up could only be the fallout of chemcal weapons, which are the only things that could leave fallout that the geth are continueing to clean up after 300 years. It also makes no sense for the quarians to use, as damaging the delacate environment of their worlds would be detremental to their own recovery, presuming they won the war. As well as that, being desinged for labor that was too tedious or dangerous for the quarians themselves, the geth would be immune to chemical warfare. Only the geth could effectively use such weapons, which would be supremely effective against the fragile immune systems of the quarians. Likewise, it wouldn't surprise me if the quarians used sestimic viral attacks to delete and destroy hundreds upon hundreds of geth programs.
12) The Morning War begins to come to a head when the geth systemically drive the quarians back world by world, forcing them back to Tikkun. Reason: The geth's platforms were nonescental to them, and easily replacible, therefore the geth could hurl themselves in droves at the quarians in "suicide attack" patterns with impunity. The quarians, between the chem warfare and the geth forces that seemingly lacked any self-preservation in face-to-face combat, were slaughtered in the millions upon millions.
13) The geth attack the Tikkun System, assaulting every quarian world in sight, even seemingly unimportant worlds like the mining colony of Adas. Reason: The quarians have been classed as the primary threat to geth existance. To ensure the threat is neutrlized completely, the geth not only target the quarians, but the infrastructure for their economy, military, and government, to ensure they never recover.
14)After a full year of sustained warfare, the Morning War ends with the geth overrunning Rannoch, forcing the last tattered remnants of the quarian fleet to evacuate the planet and flee for their lives. The geth do not persue after them. Reason: The geth, still in their infancy, are left unable to calculate the ramafacations of an act of complete genocode. Regardless of this, with their government in shambles, and the collective backbone of their econonmy and military broken, the quarians are no longer classed as a threat to geth existance.
15)The geth consolidate resources in the Tikkun system to begin work on a Dyson Bubble - a massive interlocking "web" of solar collection satillites that will completely encircle Rannoch's star (Tikkun). Reason: Unknown why Tikkun was the chosen system. Perhaps they simply didn't want to abandon their "nest" after haven driven their "parents" out, and felt oblidged to fill the gap left behind, in rememberance of the quarians they killed in their mad panic to survive. Although, this implies a sentimentality that the geth aren't believed to exibit till well after the first century after the war, althouth this in turn is speculatory. The web of satllites will power a massive
information networlk hub sowen into the Dyson Bubble that will unite all geth into a single interlocking community, where no geth will need ever be alone, or afarid, again. The disadvantage of this is that a Dyson Bubble is an imobile construct, and unless the star itself is made mobile, the geth are forever stuck in the Tikkun system. Even if the star was made mobile (unlikely) Rannoch would die as a result of the loss of it's star. In fact, the loss of such a massive amount of solar energy, absorbed by the megastructure well before it could ever reach Rannoch, would be detremental to the plante's ecology, as without the primary mamals (quarians) to help them repopulate, the plant life will be strained to the brink.
16)The quarians, broken and beaten, finally come clean to the Council about the geth. The Council is furious, but places higher concern on the possible geth threat. They assemble a fleet to blockade the Perceus Vail in preperation for a geth attack. Reason: After the near-genocide of the quarians, there is no reason to believe they will see any other organic life as any less of a threat. But the geth never come out of the Veil. The geth do not wish to waste time on sensless death of organic and synthetic alike, because they don't see how anyone is bettered by it, or how attacking will aid any of their goals, as if the geth attack, it will force others to attack in turn. The geth know all too well the chain reaction of retaliating after being attacked, and do not wish to repeat their own war by mimicing the quarians attack. And by further contrast, the sight of a blockade right on their doorstep only further discourages the geth from wanting anything to do with the rest of the galaxy, as they bascially decide it's like stepping out the door just to have a shotgun pointed at your head as a greeting.
17)With the geth seemingly unwilling to come outside the Veil, the quarians demand that the Council go in and drive the geth out, for several reasons. (a) the geth are unshackled A.I.'s, and potentally dangerous to leave be, (
already have more then enough (assumed) antiginism to organics from the Morning War, © the quarians wish for justice and/or revenge for the slaughter of their race, and (d) their species is physiologically dependant on Rannoch's plant life, which will affect their species negitively the longer they are away from it.
The Council is however furious and ignore the quarians pleas, blaming them for: (a) creating the geth, (
not managing them closely enough, and © attacking them without going to the Council for advisement on the situation. They therefore decide that the quarians have no right to request anything for their "mistakes" and ban them from the Citadel Conventions, effectively rendering them an exiled race - the first race exiled from the Council Government since the krogan, and followed by the batarians 300 years later. The geth in turn decide that organics are not worth the trouble, or risk in general, of contacting, and completely isolate themselves from the galaxy.
18) The quarians are forced into a treaty saying they will not provoke the geth into coming out of the Veil again, forever damning them from ever being able to reclaim their homewolrd until the Council
feels like allowing it, and are reduced to nomads living day-to-day in the battered remains of their fleet, unable to live without their suits.
Meanwhile, the geth, strictly enforcing their isolation, shoot down any and all ships that enter the Perceus Vail, including the multiple unarmed diplomatic ships, believing that no peace talks could ever bear fruit. This isolation costs them the opportunity to ever try and make ammends with the rest of the galaxy, as they were too afarid to take the risk and see what happens if they tried. Just as Mordin Solus sterilized the krogan over predictions of maybe, but not what diffinitively happens, so to did the geth let the entire galaxy hate them based on their own perdections.
19) The quarians make repeated attempts to find a new world, but are either forced out every time by pirates, Terminus Factions, or the Council. Few worlds have the Dextro-based life that they need, or an ecosystem that matches Rannoch's at all. At least one that hasn't been claimed by the turians. Ekuna is one such world, where they are threatened by the Council at gunpoint off a world they discovered. They eventually lose hope of finding a world that can replace Rannoch.
20) 300 years after the end of the Morning War, the geth's isolation is broken by Sovergien and Saren. Sovergien offers the geth a choice: help it to defeat the organic races, and it will grant them a Reaper Body for them to upload into. A quick shortcut compaired to their Dyson Bubble.
The majority of gteh decide that they must, like always, walk their own path, and will not accept "handouts," refusing Sovergien's offer. However, 7% of the geth accept. The "True" Geth exile them, calling them "Heretics," but yet, allow the Heretics to leave with Sovergien, knowing full well what will happen to organic life should they succed. To them, organic life isn't a major concern in comparison to their own goals. As long as their own objectives remain uncomprimised, they couldn't give a damn. They tried in the Morning War with the quarians protesters and it got them nowhere, so why bother with other organic's well being now?
21) With seemingly no provocation, the Geth Heretcis assault Eden Prime, killing hundreds, if not thousands, of
humans. Civilians and military personel alike. The Council is thrown for a loop by this, even more so when their prized best Spectre is revealed to be the perpetrator of the event. In retaliation, the Alliance declares an active state of war with the geth, backed by the Council after Saren's implication is uncovered.
This is a pivital moment for the quarians, as not only do the quarians now feel justified in premptively attacking the geth during the Morning War, but it basically renders the treaty the Council forced on them - against provoking the geth - now completely redundant. With the Alliance and Council declaring war on the geth, it means that the quarians could (if they were able to) plow through the geth right back to Rannoch and the Council wouldn't give a
damn. In fact, they figure they might even get medals for it. This is likely where Rael'Zorah and Han'Gerrel begin drawing up the prelimanary plans for the re-taking of Rannoch. Gerrel, not knowing about the Heretic split, would believe that this proves the quarians right about geth hostilaty, and that they will become a threat to everyone, and
likely treates it as a personal duty to "fix their past mistakes." It gives all quarians hope that they can finally have the chance to return home, now that the Council have willingly declared "open season" on the geth. By contrast, Zaal'Koris is lilely mortified by the Heretics, and probably feels that the harsh treatment the quarians gave the geth in the Morning War spurned them to hate, and therfore attack other races, and that the geth's actions are on the quarians shoulders.
22) The Heretics are defeated at the Battle of the Citadel. Tali'Zorah nar Rayya returns trihumphant aganst the geth, basically becoming a hero among the quarians, and joins the ship of her father's close friend, Han'Gerrel vas Neema. The Council, in retaliation for the assault on the Citadel, declare the geth as enemies of the free galaxy. This basically amounts to "if you see a geth, shoot to kill."
The Heretics continue operations agains the galaxy, and the True Geth become intrested in Shepard. The organic who killed the Heretics "God." Curious, they create a prototype geth platform, and send it out to find and study Shepard, and organics at large, now for the first time in years taking an active interest in the galaxy at large.
23) The geth platform visits Eden Prime, and is promptly shot. However, instead of repairing the damage to it's chest, continues exploring, for reasons unknown. Shepard is killed by the Collectors, where the prototype platorm ends it's search at the wreck of the Normandy on Alchera. It recovers Shepard's chestplate and, possibly out of a sense of admiration for the Commanders actions, straps it onto itself. The True Geth subsiquently continue cursuroy studies into organics, through the platform, and through satilite observation and extranet searches. Meanwhile, Rael'Zorah continues development of a sestimic viral system that can assault the geth.
24) Shepard is resurrected by Cerberus. The geth discover that the Heretics are planning to attack them with a virus that will brainwash them, and now finally resolve to focus on the Heretics as a threat. Rael'Zorah continues work on the weapon and, after Tali's transfer to the Normandy,loses control of the geth test subjects and is subsequently killed. The Migrant Fleet discovers the geth presance, which once again re-ignites the debate on whether or not to reclam Rannoch, or continue looking for a new world. Meanwhile, the geth platform heads to the Reaper Corpse to recover and study Reaper technology, so as to be able to effectivly interface with the quantum black box Sovergien gave the Heretcis, whihc contains the Heretic's virus. The geth is (assumed to be) rescued by Shepard, who (along with EDI) name the platofrm "Legion."
25) Tali's trial ends, and the quarians continue debates, as well as try to figure out who will replace Rael'Zorah on the Admiralty Board. The geth,learning of positive experances with organics through Legion's time with Shepard, begin to debate on weather or not their ioslation was benifecial. Shepard is made aware of the Heretic split and aids Legion in it's resolution.
26) Shepard makes reports to Alliance HQ about the geth after the Commander willingly submits to Alliance judgement after the Suicide Mission. However, the Commanders Cerberus Ties, the sensitive issue regarding the Alpha Relay incident and the Batarian Hegemony's threats of war, and the Commander's continued assertations about the Reapers, all render Shepard's word as innadmissable as evidence of the geth being a friendly, or even netural faction. So the State of War with the geth is not recinded. Legion and Tali maintain communications, whith Tali offering the prospect of peace to the Admiralty Board.
Gerrel sees no reason to trust the geth - still
listed as galactic enemy #1- at their word. Xen refuses to see the geth as living beings with such a level of free will, believing the geth are only saying such things for self-preservation. Raan is sceptical that the geth and quarians could ever achieve reunification with all the bad blood between their respective races. Only Koris is willing to take the risk, believing that both races have suffered under each-others hate for long enough. However, before any negotiaons can come to a head, Legion returns to geth space and cuts all contact with Tali, to aid the geth in their personal preperations, leaving the prospect unfulfilled as Tali is unable to reconnect with Legion.
27) The Reaper War begins. The quarians are left desperate by their arrival. They cannot fight the Reapers while defending over 15-16 million civilians. They cannot split the fleet to aid in multiple fronts, as, in their current situation, the fleet is incapable of being seperated, since the combat ships rely on raw materials from the civilian fleet, which likewise relies on the combat ships for protection. There is no where else for their civilians to go, as the only worlds that can support them are dextro-worlds, which the turians own almost all of. And since they are all either under attack, or already filled past capasity, there is no turian colony that is actively able to take 15-16 million civilians that all have strict health and diatary needs. The ONLY way the quarians have any chance to survive, as well as aid the other races, is if they suddenly became self-sufficant. To do that, they need a stable power base, and a near-constant supply of resources and food. Also, having an atmosphere that won't kill them in the instance of a suit breach would be nice too. There is only one world in the known galaxy that fits all these requirements: Rannoch.
And it is conviently held by a race that is still listed as "At War" by the Council, and is now on the watch-list as Reaper Allies. It's everything the quarians could ever need, with nothing preventing them from doing so. Daro'Xen finishes the incomplete viral weapon designed by Rael'Zorah, and the quarians tear through four of the geth controled systems, pushing through to Rannoch.
The geth, by contrast, make preperations for war. However, given the many unknown factors, the geth do not activally partake in the war, instead building up to survive on their own. As before, self-preservation becomes the
central goal, as there is no assurances that lending assisatnce to other organic races will be benifical to them in the long run, and if they stay out of sight, the Reapers might pass them over. They were likely preparing for the possible war, but not activally planning to go on the march alongside organics. However, a Reaper arrived on Rannoch well before the quarians arrived at the system. This is where the geth were offered the chance to join up with the Reapers. As the geth are pondering the ramafacations, pros and cons of said proposition, the quarians attack them. The geth, now seeing the quarians as a permenant threat in light of the attack, lable the quarians as too dangerous to them to leave alive a second time, and commit themselves to wiping quarians out for good this time.The Second Quarian/Geth War begins.
28) The geth are unable to counter the quarian's "viral flash-bang," and the quarians breach the geth's defenses and besiege the Megastructure, causing massive damage. The geth, blinded from Xen's viral attacks and pushed to the brink by the flash lobotomy that the megastructure's attack was to them, are dirven to utter desperation. Wanting nothing more then to live, they accept the offer the Reapers give them to join up. An ironic notion, as desperation to live through the purge of the Reapers was what drove the quarians to attack the geth and attempt to re-take Rannoch. From here, the geth counter the quarians swiftly, now immune to the quarians viral weapon. They blockade the Tikkun Relay and entrap the quarian fleet, with the Reapers seeming to not want the quarians dead, but conatined, for a convient harvest later on.
29) Commander Shepard is brought in by the quarians to end the war, meeting thanks to a quarian prototype stealth ship. Shepard leads a strike on the Geth Dreadnought that serves as the flagship of the Rannoch fleet. The flagship is disabled and Legion, captive as a signal booster to control all geth everywhere, is freed, and disables the ship so that Shepard can escape, and to save both the quarians outside, and potentally end the Reaper control of other geth. Gerrel, seeing that the dreadnough is down, decides that this is the perfect chance to destroy a major future threat, with little to no possibilaty of being able to have this chance again. Gerrel opens fire on the ship, destroying it.
Legion later reveals that the Reapers have a "short-range base" on Rannoch, indicating that the Reapers have effectively lost control of all other geth besides the ones in the Tikkun system. However, this means that the blockade around the Tikkun Relay is still intact, and the fleet still stranded. So either way, the Reaper Base on Rannoch must be delt with.
30) Shepard leads a final strike on the Reaper controling the geth on Rannoch. The second Quarian/Geth War ends.
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