Morlath wrote...
Argolas wrote...
The Geth went through an annihilation campaign through Rannoch and every Quarian colony, slaughtering every single Quarian they found.
You are assuming this.
There were many Geth units not designed for combat that either had to learn or be destroyed. Every Geth unit was to be destroyed regardless of what it was originally built to do.
The Quarians wanted to systematically destroy/kill every Geth unit. We do not know if the mass deaths of the Quarians resulted from city to city slaughtering or non-discrepant weapons used by the Geth.
Everything is black & white in the world of Argolas, like a bad '80s Saturday morning cartoon.
To his mind, the Geth are like the Zerg, they're a trained force of evil robots who swooped in to kill the good widdle Quairans. Yet where did they get this training from, or these weapons? Those are two major problems that the black & white world of Argolas actually doesn't answer. What this tells me is that there is nuance to this story that people like him don't actually understand. Nuance is good, it implies mystery and intellect is drawn to mystery.
The Geth were built to serve -- they were not built as evil robots. The Geth Consensus shows that the first Geth to pick up a gun was one to do it as an act of compassion for their own kind. The Quarian military was killing Geth left and right, and they were about to take down a bunch of agricultural units who had little more than animal intelligence. For a Geth, that would be like shooting a dog, I guess. So the Geth witnessing this was spurred into action -- it didn't really understand the consequences of what it was doing as it was still just waking up, with so many questions and few valid answers. But it was spurred into action by the horrors it was witnessing.
The Black & White World of Argolas states: The Geth are evil machines, with military trainings and weapons to boot. This evil armada used this knowledge to cleverly eradicate the Quarians.
The Lore of the Game states: The Geth were built as servant units with no military training. The Quarian military obviously had training (we see this in the Geth consensus). So how could the Quarian military have lost to the Geth?
Logical conclusion? The black & white perception of Rannoch must be wrong. There are nuances which aren't covered by this black & white perception, by this Saturday morning cartoon outlook. The Geth aren't an army of evil machines -- this isn't Transformers and the Geth aren't the Decepticons. The Geth were servants, and servants with nexgt to no armour. They wouldn't have had shields back then, either. So how did these vulnerable, untrained robots actually manage to chase a military force off of Rannoch.
Logical conclusion, once again? They had help. The Quarian civilians stood with the Geth against the Quarian military. This backs up my view that
What Happened on Rannoch was a very nuanced affair, and that there was likely a civil war brewing between the Quarian civilians and their potentially despotic militaristic leaders all ready. The Geth were just something that the Quarian civilians could rally around. "Protect the Geth! They did no wrong! Why should the Geth die?" The Quarian civilians likely had more training in warfare and I suspect they most commonly used guerilla tactics versus military might.
The Geth observed what the Quarian civilians were doing, and the Geth were
trained by Quarian civilians in the art of self defence. The Quarian civilians held out as long as they could, but when biological weapon bombardment began, the Geth were left on their own, and they had to put what they'd gained to use.
The long and short of it: My nuanced understanding of
What Happened on Rannoch fits more with the evidence we have and have seen than the black & white position that Argolas had. If things really were so black & white, then there are too many questions. Again, like how the unarmoured Geth survived, where they got their weapons, who trained them, and so on.
A logical mind is capable of coming to these conclusions. This is where logic leads. When you eliminate all other possibilities, whatever remains, regardless of how strange, must be the truth. Deductive reasoning. The Geth could not have done this alone.
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