The Answer to the OP's question is: No. Legion didn't betray his ME2 characterization.There is also something to said about ideals.
In ME2 Legion said that they rejected the Reapers proposal because they wanted their own future.
The first reason for them to reject the offer of Reaper technology was that the "Price" back then was slavery and enthralment and likely Death after ceasing to be useful. Then they would absolutely have been trading away their future for Technologhy which was totaly unacceptable.
The second part is that accepting technology freely with no pricetags attached to it was still somewhat impopular since they were hoping to find their own perfect future. Their own evolution and all that.
But that wasn't nearly as much of a problem as throwing away everythign that they were and their freedom and possibly lives ans the acceptance of a reaper offer would signify.
Legion fought the Reaper takeover to the end, which is why it wasn't under Reaper Control despite being plugged into all that Reaper tech.
Legion rejected the Reapers just like the Rachni Queen that you can save on Noveria.
Salvaging reaper Tech with no pricetag but your own pride attached to it isn't the same thing when your species faces extinction either by the hands of the Quarians or the Reapers.
Salvaging that Reaper code and reverseengineering it to make their own coding and platforms more efficient isn't that much of a moral issue. It's more of one of pride.
It's like Thanix Canons, it changed warfare in the galaxy by introdusing something new.
If they handn't learned about Thanix cannons then they might have invented a different type of weapon.
In the end the galaxy was loosing badly, the homeworlds of every major citadel race except maybe the Salarians was under attacked, the whole galaxy including Legion and his Geth would loose if they don't find the means of fighting and bridging the technological gap to the Reapers.
The truth is, that when times are grim and desperate then you need to adapt, those who don't dies. On Earth there are species dieing every day while others adapt to humanity and start furishing.
Adaptation, evolution and change are important parts of any species sucessful survival. Those on the top who's current adaptations are a perfect match to the current situation has very little need to change even if all/most Life strives for a chance to improve their own situation.
It's easier however to resist change when youre at the top since a change then could be determental to your wellbeing and sucess.
Humanity is the most adaptable species on our planet, and in the Mass effect universe were described as such aswell. Sucess seems to come from humanitys adaptability and drive to suceed.
Legion and the Geth had come to realize how important it was to change their way and Legion had proven that it's code was "superior" which the word Legions uses to describe Shepard.
Legion and the Geth sought out Shepard to learn from that superior "code" it was part who they were, they wern't above Learning from others they just had a preference to finding their own solutions.
When Legion was dispatched to study Shepards code it was just as much to learn from Shepard and Shepards way that made Shepard such a sucess at fighting Reapers.
If their ideals as perfect isolationists was to reject all foreign influences good or bad then they woudln't have sent Legion in the first Place.
Unless Legion was a Shepard worshipper gone rogue.
In the darkest hour of the Geth, with the Quarians attackign the the Reapers at the doorsteps Legion held superior code that allowed it to free Geth from the Reapers and fight them more effectively than any other Geth. It fulfilled the promise of having aquired "superior code" which was the Legions expressed mission in ME2.
Question: What was the mission? Answer: To seek out Shepard!
Question: Why Shepard? Answers: Shepards code was superior, it/they wished to learn.
Question: Did Legion betray his core characterization and mission as presented in ME2?
Answer: No, Legion provided superior code and experiences to his people that would make them more efficient at fighting the Reapers and securing their future. The price tag was negleable and the sphere/bubble project had already been scrapped by the Quarians.
Really, we're told that Legions primary mission was to seek out superior code. It also ended up fighting the Heretics because it learned that they were plotting to brainwash the True Geth into becoming Reapers slaves. The Heretic mission became a secondary mission for which Shepards help and that of a Stealth vessel was highly desirable and useful.
One small strike team to infiltrate and defeat the enemy surely seemed far more desirable than sendign the whole Geth fleet to engage the Heretics and leave them open to an attack by the Quarians who would see the Geth civil war as a sign of weakens.
If we tell the Quarians about the two different Geth factions then they hardly seem surprised, they just state that it will make destroying the Geth even easier if they are busy killing each other, or something along those lines.
The Geth were mostly against foreign influences that would be detrimental to the Geth. Like forced slavery and death.
The Quarians and the Reapers represented both of these. Shepard represented a "neutral party" who was capable of resisting and fighting any of these threats sucessfully, they wanted to learn from it on their own terms.
The Answer to the OP's question is: No. Legion fulfilled it's primary ME2 mission to aquier superior code that would help the Geth to fight the Reapers. It had proven that the code was indeed superior and that it had been scrubbed and was safe from Reaper Control and very sucessful when fighting Reapers and any other hostile forces.
Modifié par shodiswe, 16 mai 2013 - 06:08 .
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