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KiwiQuiche wrote...

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KiwiQuiche wrote...

so everyone who has a differing view on what a parent/child relationship is from you is wrong? Interesting.

Just
because they are battle-ready doesn't mean they are lunatics who'll
kill everyone whio looks at them wrong. Just look at the Rannoch arc;
the geth stopped firing and weren't attack, the ****** quarians
wouldn't stop their attack. The quarians in this ready are more  'battle
ready and capable' in this regard as they obviously ignore the fact the
geth are open to peace yet the quarians are too stupid to get it a
chance.  Also, the geth aren't guns. They don't learn, they don't think,
they don't debate, so stop using that comparison, it's incorrect.
The instant a gun starts asking me about the meaning of life is the
instant it stops being a gun and becomes a person, a living thing with a
mind. Not alive in organic sense, but alive in spirital sense which I
think you are confused by.


Geth don't chill on their own,
they are a hive mind. They don't like being alone so they are AIs, not
VI. sorry, but that isn't a valid complaint despite you harping on about
it. Tali is biased against the geth, I'm more inclined to listen to
Legion. Even the damn Primes are more reasonable than Tali like this. 

Never
played Citadel and never will. And good, the geth should defend
themselves from a galaxy who will kill them without hesistation for just
what they are. They learned that first from the quarians over-the-top
reactions and then the rest of the galaxy. And you question why the geth
are so battle-worthy? Because it's obvious other species won't
hesistate to kill them. If I knew my neighbours would try and kill me if
I went outside I sure as hell would carry a gun and wear body armour
whenever i left the house and would assume anyone who approached me was
hostile if i had been shot at instantly for the last three years by
everyone.

Oh yeah? Try questioning Legion about Shepard's armour
he's wearing. No emotions my butt. They may not function like human
ones, but they certainly do odd things. Heck, even the heretics worship,
which is a organic mindset, wanting to find out your purpose. That was
the heretics reasons; because they thought Soveriegn was a god, which is
why they followed him, not because of 'tech' as you put it. They
worshipped him, which 'logical cold machines' wouldn't do, as it would
be odd and illogical. You dragged Citadel into this and apparently it
shows the council killing organics; even more proof the geth were aware
of the current mindset of the galaxy, not to mention the fact their
minders and creators tried to kill them as well.

If I had been
attacked by other people then saw others killing more of my kind, I sure
as hell wouldn't be rolling out the welcome wagon. I wouldn't let them
near me, which is what the geth are doing in terms of survival and their
'hostile' actions. Geth are only hostile when people cross into their
land; if you leave them alone, they leave you alone. Not the typical
reaction of a 'war mongering machine race' is it? They didn't see
everyone as useless, they just wanted to be left alone. They only
attacked people who crossed into their land. They still let the quarians
leave. The quarians wouldn't have been so kind to the geth if they had
won the war.

The organics most likely wouldn't have believed the
true geth anyway; also they sent legion to investigate and contact
shepard, so that "they sat and did crap all" argument doesn't hold water
as they did do something. And what would you do? Oh a group of people
disagree so lets kill them all right now? The geth let the heretics
leave; they didn't kill them purely because they had different views.
With organics, we kill each other over different views all the time, so
we can't boast. Even quarians killed each other over disagreements.

The
quarians actions didn't help; they did utterly nothing in the past 3
centuries to help themselves, instead they drifted around complaining.
They could have mimicked virus attacks on their systems to strengthen
it; they did not. They could have colonised a world with permission;
they did not. I have no sympathy for people who seem to think dooming
your population due to pride and stupidity is a good thing.

And yes, have you watched Terminator recently? You should try the Sarah Connor Chronicles.

WRONG. I'm saying that YOU have the wrong interpertation of the quarians and geth - according to LEGION HIMSELF. THAT is
the truly interesting fact - you try to defend them without
comprehending their relationship as NOT that of parent and child, but as
builder and tool. Your deifination is directly contridicted by Legion's own discription of what the geth were to the quarians. I am telling you that you are wrong by LEGION'S standards. Think about THAT. I garuntee you will find THAT "interesting."

The point is that with the flip of a single switch, they CAN become exactally that - killing machines that can't stop. And you think them having the abilaty to flip that switch themselves, when they DON'T have restraining morals or emotions, is safe? It's
a loaded gun to the head of everyone on the planet. No sane or rational
person would take such a gamble with their entire family. Also, IFY,
the battle transcript in the Codex says the quarians stood down first, not the geth. It says the geth broke off AFTER the quarians did. Think about that too.
Also,
AGAIN, you assume that the first thing people are going to assume of
the walking killing machine is that it's not going to kill, when it's
not following any safety measures, has nothing it wants or needs from
you, and has no emotions or morals to reason or empathise with. That's
NOT a safe bet. It's a literal coin toss to which way it will go, and
with your family potentally on the line, how willing are you to make
that risk? Can you look your family in the eye and say that you consider
their lives worth betting on said coin toss?
You aren't even trying
to comprehend the situation the quarians were in, or the fear they felt
that their weapons could rise up and kill them without any provocation
or warning. Try living with that thought of that threat 24/7 and
THEN see if you're still so high and mighty to others that would rather
try the safe alternitive. You can't begruge the quarians actions any
more then you can begrudge Shepard for destroying the Alpha Relay.

Um... WRONG. Remember in ME1 where Tali says that "Hive Mind" is EXACTALLY THE WRONG WORD TO DESCRIBE THEM?
A hive mind is a group that all has the same thoughts. Geth are EXPLISITLY NOT this way - they are a group of individuals
interlinked together. Legion corrilates this as well - "we are many
pairs of eyes looking at the same thing. One will see something the
other does not, and make different conclusions." The geth all interpert
and disceminate data DIFFERENTLY. Legion himslef proves this with how he
was in private contact with Tali before the Rannoch war in defiance of the other geth.
And
in the Codex entry in ME2 - Geth: Culture, it AGAIN states that the
geth are "more individulistic then ever sucpected," as it explisitly
points out that if the geth were a hive mind, there would never have
been a Heretic Split - they would either of all joined Sovergien, or all
refused. They would NOT have been a division had they been a hive mind.
This alone again proves that you have no comprehension of the geth.
Also, FIY, LEGION is
the one that says that all geth are nothing more then internetworked
V.I.s. He straight-up tells you this in ME2. What Tali said is
DIRECTLY CORRLATED by Legion himself, so HOW is it "not reasonable" when
BOTH of them say it?

Um.... those WEREN'T the geth killed in
the Citadel DLC. They were a completely seperate group of A.I.s. Also
this event was never public knwoledge, so the geth weren't aware of
Council prejudice to them. Also, this sheds some intresting light on the
fact that you apperantly haven't seen all the information in the game,
and are thus lacking in knowledge of lore (which makes sense based on
how you didn't know the geth weren't a hive mind when Legion, Tali, and
the Codex all stated they are not a hive mind in the least.). I'll
assume you didn't read the books either, and too bad as well because
they expand quite a bit on the lore of the Morning War and the quarians.
Also, the geth were NOT killed for "being synthetics." They were killed
because they were an unstable threat and a potental danger. An organic
race would NOT have been treated any differently. The krogan and rachni
are proof of that.
You AGAIN make the same mistake @remydat always
did - prejudice had NOTHING to do with the quarian's fears of the geth.
Simple fear of the geth not being reasonable and being unstable and
dangerous were the causes. Also, AGAIN, wrong. The geth were battel
ready FROM THE BEGINNING. They were made as "tools of labor and war" by
the quarians. They were always combat-ready, and all could be combat
units. Didn't that agriculture geth in the recordinsg picking up a Widow
Sniper Rifle (the gun that shatters the arms of normal people) prove
that? Most of your statements are contridicted by Legion's own words.
Don't you find that odd?
Also, when the racist and supremist Council is the one starting peace talks and sending unarmed diplomats to your door - when YOU are the one shooting first instead of them, don't you think that makes you a hypocrite? 
I
mean, blowing up defensless peace envoys instead of just sending them
away was better how? How exactally did it teach people that the geth
WEREN'T a hostile race? You keep saying the galaxy "misjudged" them, but
when they kill everyone that ever tries to make peaceful contact with
them, and never respond to any comm signals, what other conclusion do
you THINK they are going to come to?! If the Council "didn't hesitate to
kill them" then why didn't they just say "to hell with the Terminus
systems" and march into the Veil? Why bother sending peace envoys at
ALL if that's how you feel? Everything that happens in the games
completely contridicts you.

Legion is an ISOLATED PLATFORM THAT SPENT TWO YEARS IN ORGANIC SPACE LEARNING AND MIMICING THEM. Legion himself has stated that he is different from all other geth.
How did you miss THAT one?
Also,
AGAIN dead wrong. Legion says that the Heretics actually do NOT worship
Sovergein. They just want it's tech. They "devote" themselves to
Sovergein to get Reaper tech. They DON'T worship Sovergein. They just
idolize it's technological advancements. Legion says that "God" was all
but figurative to the Heretics - "shorthand" for "Pinnical of their own
evolution." It's like how EDI uses "I like it" as "shorthand" for her
processing priorities for certin tasks and people. They don't mean "God"
as in a literal religious sense. They mean "God" as in their ultimate
asperation of what to become. The Heretics DID act out of logic - the
logic that serving Sovergien would get them better tech quicker then
they could produce themselves, and better themselves as a whole. The
True Geth believed they should develop the tech themselves. THIS was the
schisim - NOT a religious split, but an idological split on how to
advance as a race. Also, AGAIN, dead wrong because that event was in the
Council's private archives - NOT public information.

AGAIN, you
falsely antromorphise the geth by assuming they have orgnaic reactions.
They are NOT organic, so don't apply your morals to them - you can't
state how they would have reacted if left on their own. They didn't need
the quarians for anything, yet the quarians needed them for everything.
The geth had the power to devestate the quarians instantly, and no
morals or emotions to restrain them, or any safeguards to restrict them.
And you want to trust billions of people to a complete unknwon like
that? That's like entrusting the entire galaxy to the Leviathans just
because they've been around longer. "they've existed longest, so they
must know what's best!" That's no better then what you just put up.
ONCE AGAIN, how about you provide PROOF that the geth would have just
stayed a slave race for all eternity? The quarians relaized that if
their tools were somehow thinking, they they would go form being tools
to being slaves. They relaized that the geth would never stay that way
if they really were sentiant. And since there was nothing the geth
couldn't make for themselves or take for themselves, an uprising was
assumed to be inevitable - the geth, who would not need them, would
assumedly dispose of them. That had the highest probabilaty of being
true, so they put their families first and tried to kill them beofre the
geth could potentally attack them first. They were a loaded power keg
that could go off at any time. Prejudice had NOTHING to do with it. The
same thing would have heppened had the geth been organic.

Um...
DEAD WRONG. More like the True Geth haven't GIVEN anyone reason to
believe them. I think a contingent of True Geth actually DOING SOMETHING
about the Heretics would have changed people's minds. Also, AGAIN, let
me clear something up for you - Legion was NOT a diplomat. It was ment
to study Shepard as an organic being and learn and observe the organic
traits that allowed Shepard to beat Sovergein. It was NOT ment to be any
kind of diplomatic representitive. ONCE AGAIN, dead wrong, because I
ask you, HOW does sending ONE GETH to hunt for a single person while
COMPLETELY IGNORING THE HERETICS FOR THE FOLLOWING TWO YEARS not
constitute "they sat and did crap all?" YOUR arguement is the one not
holding water here- name ONE THING that the geth did to stop the
Heretics? Hell, Legion tells you that the True Geth willingly accepted the Heretics actiosn, and ALLOWED them to carry out their goals.
Legion says the geth collective shared an uplink with Sovergien,
meaning that the geth KNEW what Sovergein was planning and LET it
happen. That DOES explisitlly constitude "
they sat and did crap all."  You keep saying the geth want to be all
cuddly and friendly? Then why didn't they do ANYTHING to help organics,
or stop the Heretics? Also, last I checked, the Heretics turned around
and did that EXACT THING to the True Geth with their plans regarding the
Virus, did they not? So you can't boast about THEM either. Especally
when the True Geth turn around and either mass lobotomize the Heretics,
or slaughter them outright. Genocide or brainwahsing. So, sorry, but
THEY don't have anything you can brag about either. Especally when
Legion flat-out admits that the geth feel like they were in the wrong
for killing so many quarians in the Morning War.

Um... Ekuna?
Remember THAT? They tried to settle on a new world THEY discovered, and
the Council wouldn't let them? How about Gei Hennom? Oh, right, the geth
didn't let them - shot down the scout ship. Perhapse you missed the
entry in the Codex that stated that ALL THE QUARIANS DID FOR 300 YEARS WAS LOOK FOR A NEW WORLD.
They did nothing BUT look for a new world, and couldn't find one.
That's ALL they did for 300 years. Perhapse you ALSO missed how, when
the quarians asked for permission to land on a wolrd THEY found, it was
responded to with a death threat. You honestly thing settling on a world
WITHOYT permission will be any better? The Council won't even bother
with warrings at that point - they'll just nuke the quarians wholesale. I
mean REALLY, did you read ANY of the lore in the game? Eventually they
lost hope and gave up. Any dextro worlds out there were already
turian-owned, and no world thus-far had Rannoch's insect-free ecology.
Even the Codex itslef states Rannoch is the ONLY wolrd the quarians have
any chance of florusihing on now, and that it is of "physiological
necessity" that they reclaim it. I repeat, the Codex states
that they physically need Rannoch, and that no other world can
substitute for it.
Unless you intend to ignore ME3's Codex as cannon?
And
didn't I JUST explain that it would be risky since there are no clean
environments to test this (Like Rannoch) and that minipulating the suits
many systems and implants could only be handled by an A.I. (like the
Geth) and that an organic could have too high a margen for error in
balanceing all the subsystems, AND that since they still have no
environment where they can ALL safetly co-habitate (like Rannoch) it
STILL wouldn't allow them to live without their suits. Did you MISS all
that?
You have MISPLACED sympathy, and FALSE assumptions and
conclusions. And LOL, WHAT? You look at how they live day-to-day on
scraps and have the gall to say the are too prideful? After they were
forced off a world they discovered, you accuse them of being "too
prideful?"
Wow does not even BEGIN to cover that smutboy.

And YES, I've seen that show, which makes me wonder how YOU can possibly be so backwards about the quarians and geth.


Lol you do realize you were barking about how you thought it was a diverting opnion, right? Not Legion?

Where did I say it was geth getting killed in the DLC? I didn't. Reading comprehension, wut. The geth saw the Council killing fellow AIs. They obviously came to the obvious conclusion that the Council was obviously hostile to AIs and reacted appropriately. What's wrong with that? If you know everyone is hostile to you and your kind, you aren't gonna go up to their doors and ask for a cup of sugar.

The Heretics were lying to the true geth; we see this in Legion's LM when we see the Heretics spying on the geth and hiding things from them.  Diplomatic? Where the hell are you pulling this crap from? I never said Legion was gonna stroll in on the Embassaries on the Citadel and ask for a metting with the Council.

You say how the geth could have devestated the quarians instantly? Guess what, they still let them live. Hand wave that however you want, the geth still let the quarians bugger off (bad move in my mind) yet the quarians would have just kill or enslaved them again if they won. Also, fun fact; Tali would have killed all the geth with no remorse. At least the geth feel bad for killing so many quarians, when so many quarians don't give a crap about the geth.

I didn't play the Citadel DLC, as I repetedly stated, so stop sceaming at me about it. Give me a damn source if you are gonna drag that in. So maybe the geth saw how the Council reacted with the Krogan and Rachni? Organics aren't very friendly and the geth are certainly aware of that.

Geth didn't stay a slave race; the instant they questioned their existance, the quarians tried to kill them all. So if the geth hadn't have defended themselves, they would have all been dead. It would not have happened if the geth were organic; the quarians would have been freakin' batarians then if they kept a race of organic slaves.

Ekuna; the quarians started to settle WITHOUT asking the Council. It was a planet in Council space and the quarians were arrogant enough to simply park in and start colonizing it without permission. Then after a while they thought "hey maybe we should tell the Council." I really don't blame the Council for being angered at the quarians blatant lack of respect for them. If someone moved into a spare paddock you owned and squatted there for three years then finally told they had been chilling on your land, how would have you reacted? "Oh cool dude go right ahead." Yeah right. The Council punished the quarians for their arrogance by kicking them off Ekuna. If the quarians simply, you know, followed the damn rules, they could have gotten a new world.

But hey, it's nice to know you totally know what I was thinking better than myself! Wow, are you a Seer?


Screaming at me in caps and bolded letters isn't helping, bro. Neither is the rampant insults and high-and-mighty route you are taking. Calm down and have a snickers.



silverexile17s wrote...

KiwiQuiche wrote...

Finn the Jakey wrote...

So
wait, people get pissed off that the Quarian leadership get their
civilians killed by the million in order to get their planet back, but
when Shepard gets said civilians killed it's suddenly justified?

lollogic


They aren't civilians when they join in on the war with guns strapped to their ships.

But Tali swan-diving was a high-light....

And when EVERY OTHER CHOICE is instant death, what else do you expect them to do? Dance their problems away?
The geth did nothing to make anyone think they could be negotiated with.


So the quarians would have killed anyone who tried to leave their armada? Maybe stop b!tching and moaning about the geth and get on with their lives and not start another stupid war while the Reapers are invading?

Well duh. Leave them alone. Don't go hurling a rock at a nest you know is full of killer bees. It's just common sense.



Cyrax86 wrote...

KiwiQuiche wrote...

Cyrax86, the Fan Creations Forums are here; http://social.biowar...egory/368/index

You'll find people willing to RP with you there.

 
This shows how little you know about the Geth/Quarian conflict. 
Family Q = Quarians 
appliances = Geth  
P.G = Council / Citadel 
Family H = Shep / Alliance / Human 
super toaster = Sov./ Reapers 
Space Batman = Garrus 
Totally Awesome Love Interest = Tali 


  All of this was explained in game at one point or another. This is exactly what happened, minus a few details to keep the story focused on Geth/ Quarian conflict, and to keep it short. I also left out the fact that the appliances nearly bombed(Chemical weapons) Family Qs home to where it was almost unusable. If i were to continue the story, the appliances become much worse, while Family Q continue to be punished by everyone for the crimes their great grandparents committed.


...

I was mocking you.


Also, Garrus isn't Space Batman. Batman doesn't kill. Omg pick up a DC Comic once in a while.

LOL, you realize you didn't refute ANYTHING, right? Also, IFY, your entire first paragraph is nitpicking. You wouldn't know because you didn't play the Citadel DLC (only DLC worth the price, by the way. Shame you don't plan on getting it). Also, you seem to have MISSED the part where I stated that the killing of the A.I.s was not a publicly known event, and thus, the geth NEVER KNEW ABOUT IT.   So it never figures into the geth's decisions AT ALL. They can't react to what they DIDN'T KNOW.
And you said I was the one using selective facts? You somehow missed that entire sentance.

And that DOESN'T prove that the synthetics have nothing to brag about? It seems to prove pretty diffinitively that they are nothing for you to lord over organics with. Also, you said that Legion was the one that was supposed to make peaceful first contact with Shepard, when that was NOT Legion's mission. He was to study Shepard. YOU were the one that staed he was to "speak with Shepard" about the geth.

Guess what? According to LEGION, That was done out of a failure to compute a mathmatical ramafacation/consiquence. NOT a moral debate. They let the quarians leave because they could not euqate the impact genocide would have mathmatically. NOT attachment, NOT kindness, and CERTENLY NOT mercy. The geth felt NOTHING about the quarians living or dying. If they had been able to calculate the probibilities, they would have ended it then and there.
Also, "fun fact" - the geth sided with the Reapers and became a danger to the rest of the galaxy. Any sympathy Tali had would have died there, after seeing the geth throw away their individuality instead of trying to speak with the quarians. ANOTHER "fun fact" - did you notice that the geth never once try to open comms with the quarians, or try to peacefully resolve the fighting before the quarians could push the geth that far? Making the effort to at least try and talk would have been something at least. It would have caused the quarians to realize that the geth weren't straight-up hostile like their reputation makes them out to be. Also, if you play ME2, and play thorugh the Alerei. speak to Tali in front of the lab console, if you select the options "That's a bad idea" and "Then take it back," Shepard asks why the quarians haven't already tried to retake Rannoch if it's so important. Tali says that it's because the quarians DO regreat their actions. She flat-out states that most quarians blame themselves for jumping the gun in how they handled the geth, and that the reason the geth (assumedly) hate organics is because of them. So, sorry to burst the bubble, but the majority of quarians ARE just as remorseful of the war. They simply chose to put their own species first, since the geth had seemingly sided with the Reapers and were thus enemies anyway.
Alot you seem to have missed. Little fact - @remydat isn't someone that looks at both sides of the war. Don't try to replicate him.

Well, walking death machines that can screw with their own safety systems don't constitute trustworthyness, do they? Also, the Rachni and Krogan gave the galaxy reason to treat them that way - the Rachni killed with no responce to negotiation, and the krogan kept expanding until they threatened the Council themselves, and used asteroids to bomb worlds intp ruination. They brought their negitive rep on themselves, although the rachni aren't really to blame for theirs, but nobody knows that. In those fights, the Council wasn't the overall agressor, were they? And when they send peace envoys and suggest peace talks first, when they are the bigots, it tends to make one think on their position.

Actually, NO, the quarians did NOT instantly try to wipe them out. At first, they ignored the problem, hoping it would rectify itself, or that it was a glitch. After that, they tried reprogramming, so that they WOULDN'T have to be forced to destroy the now-growing public security risk the geth were becoming. They attacked the geth as a LAST RESORT.
So, sorry, but AGAIN wrong. The same thing would have happened if the geth were organic - look at the krogan. They became a risk, so the Council kicked off a war with a barrage of Spectre attacks. How the Council treated the Krogan is no different to how the quarians treated the geth, They showed signs of becoming a major risk to them all, so they decided to not risk their people on a maybe. Sorry to tell you, but being synthetic had absolutly NOTHING to do with the war.

Ekuna; a world the quarians DISCOVERED. They were the one's that uncovered that world and put it on the map. How does that NOT entitle you to it? The batarians don't have rights to colonize worlds, but they still do. The krogan and vorcha don't have rights to settle worlds, yet they have. I don't see the Council coming in to kick THEM off those worlds. Find a world, settle it, then get formal recognition from the Council. That's how it worked for humans in the Attican Traverse. Sorry, but it's a baltent DOUBLE-STANDARD of the Council. It was NOT any form of "lack of respect" so don't even try that asspull. It's a paddock THEY found, and one that is actually in the border space between the Terminus and Council space, and technically, NOT in their juristiction at ALL. The only thing that made Ekuna accessible to Council law was the quarian's own request. The Council just used an excuse to kick the quarians around. It was anything BUT fair. The COUNCIL is the arrogant one, flaunting power like that. And after how they treat the geth, you are vouching for them? Strange how you side with someone as soon as they are focused on an ORGANIC race. Double-standard much? Also, FYI, the quarians were on Ekuna for ONE DAY. Not a punishable offence. Especally since, as an exiled state, the Council's laws DON'T APPLY to them. Unless the Council wants them to of cource. And you call the quarians arrogant? If the Council, you knwo, weren't complete dicks with the anti-synthetic policy, do you think things like the Morning War would have even happened?
Re-examine your beliefs, because they are contridicting themselves quite heavily.

Sorry, but as I stated, everything you stated was proven diffinitively wrong by the information in the game and Codex. No, I am not a seer, but I know the lore of the game - more then can be said for you.

Also, I am NOT screaming. The caps are my defult way of highlighting something. Too much texting. It's just natural to me. I am using it as an extra highlight for the things you repeatedly ignore. After you accuse me of acting like a seer, you go and act like you know the tone of voice behind every itillic, bolding, underline, and cap?
I'm not responding in a manner any different then the condisending way you were just now and before. Perhaps if you act the way you advocate, it would work.

(Second paragraph)
No, but those ships would fall prey to pirates. It's pretty diffinitively stated that the fleet is reliant on interdependencey. Seperation means death - they literally cannot function alone anymore. Also, AGAIN, read the ME3 Codex. "Matter of physiological need." For 300 years, all they HAVE done is look for another world. They haven found one. Also, with the Reapers invading, they don't have a choice BUT invade now. Because without a world for their civilians to shelter on RIGHT NOW, then their entire race is doomed against the Reapers. "get on with their lives" - how insensitive. When you live day-to-day in a mobile shack unable to survive outside your suit, what life do you HAVE to move on with? How ignorant can you get?

Also, last I chekced, the attack on the Citadel, Eden Prime, Feros, Noveria, Virmire, and Therum seemed to be proof that the geth were already hostile, and that the quarians were seemingly right all along. If only the True Geth had DONE SOMETHING to let the galaxy know otherwise.  "It's just common sense."
With all the geth failed to do in regards to fixing their ill reputation, the quarians are the LAST group you should be lecturing on common sense.

(third paragraph)
OMG - you really have to be that petty? You started this - at least take your own debate seriously. It shows how little yoy actually care about the debate, or the groups in it, at all.

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KiwiQuiche

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Ya know Silver, if I wanted this kind of argument I would go pick a fight with David lol

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Half-right. The geth were simply supposed to handle assignments better under the supervision of their quarans overseears. It was for the purpose of making them more dependable. They had set peramiters for tasks. Pre-determined instructions.  However, they WEREN'T supposed to conduct the assignments unsupervised, nor without handling of some sort.


And why weren't they supposed to conduct assignments unsupervised?   Why did every other race manage to take those precautions?

What you're saying here seems to be that the Quarians knew - as did all the other races who they had met by that point - that if you allow a VI completely unsupervised networking, it could become an AI.  That chance is the reason the supervision is neccessary, yes?

This particular line of thought screams to me "Yeah, we knew unprotected sex could make a baby.  But we didn't actually want to make a baby, we just wanted to enjoy unprotected sex.  Yes, we knew the risks, but it wasn't our intent!" 

That doesn't actually seem like an improvement to me.  And, technically it's still the Quarians who gave them that ability.  Their failure to take countermeasures doesn't erase that.

Because they are TOOLS. They were not MENT to do that, because they were not BUILT to do things on their own. They were ment to do what you told them, when you told them. They were not supposed to have any form of perogitive.
Also, every other race took those precatutions because they had the geth rebellion to look back at. The fact that I have to explain to you that the Morning War resulted in tighter laws regarding V.I.s is extrordinary. This should be a generally assumed fact that they would tighten down the laws and make interlinking strictly monitored to prevent it from happening again.  The quarians proved what happened when you didn't monitor and tinker with a system enough. The Council was tighter with the software.
Bottom line - same exact software. Same capabilities. Different levels of micromanagement.

NO. The quarians were NOT aware of that. WHERE did you get that from?
They were completely unaware that a V.I. could develop in such an abstract way as to share processing power without having to become a hive mind. They evoleved in a way they never believed possible.

AGAIN, dead wrong. It has NOTHING to do with that. Your example is false, because it involves doing something and getting an unexpected result.
The quarians got they result they DID want. It panned out in a way they didn't want. The PROPER analouge is creating a custom-made tool, then having that tool suddenly stop working properly/expectedly several years later.

Also, AGAIN, it's NOT the quarians fault according to even Legion himself, who says that the geth's evolution was completely unpredicted. And AGAIN, no, the quarians DIDN'T give them abilities that other V.I.s lacked. They didn't tinker and micromanage the geth enough.

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Ya know Silver, if I wanted this kind of argument I would go pick a fight with David lol

I don't even know who that is.

Guess the jokes on you then.:P

It's now my fault you misintertperted the lore and didn't look into it at all.

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Phatose wrote...

silverexile17s wrote...

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Their ancestor's didn't care about revenge either. They simply valued their own homeworld over the Geth's lives.

That's the same mistake.

Well, look at the geth's recent actions. Eden Prime, Feros, Noveria, Virmire, Therum, Ilos, The Citadel. What exactally have the geth done to make the quarians want to value them over their own people? No one knows about the Heretic split, so they assume the Heretics represent the mainstream geth, and are thus genocidal and irridemably hostile.
I mean really, please provide one thing that the geth did to endear any sort of public love from anyone, let alone the quarians?

It's NOT the same mistake when the other side have seemingly cast the first stone, now is it?


First stone?  You mean the morning war?

No. I mean the Eden Prime attack, That was basically casting the first stone against the rest of the galaxy in the quarian's eyes. It basically validated their beliefs about the geth being monsters and irridemably hostile.

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silverexile17s wrote...

KiwiQuiche wrote...

Ya know Silver, if I wanted this kind of argument I would go pick a fight with David lol

I don't even know who that is.

Guess the jokes on you then.:P

It's now my fault you misintertperted the lore and didn't look into it at all.


You don't know who DAVID is? Good lord, run while you can.

Nope. But carry on with the high-and-mighty act. I admit, you are good at it.

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sH0tgUn jUliA wrote...

I love Bioware's writing.

Quarians: Single births != 0 population growth. It is negative population growth doofuses. Silly Bioware writers.

Regarding the interlink fashion and adaptation to changing circumstances, with the Quarians not monitoring and regulating. Here's why:

The Quarians didn't do that because Bioware was creating a version of a Battlestar Galactica (1978) race roaming around the galaxy looking for a home. The cylons er... geth they created were a thorn in everyone's side. The Quarians were in suits because they were to be faceless. It is easy to dislike and turn your backs on a faceless people. That is exactly what the Council continued to do. The only races who have people alive long enough to remember what the Quarians looked like without their suits are the Asari and the Krogan. So they are faceless and homeless to everyone else.

They were the people on the side of the road on pilgrimage "will work for food." The suit-rats.

They pay no taxes to the emperor because they own no land. The only taxes they pay are during commerce, and they're scavengers which mean they pay virtually nothing. They find a mineral deposit on a world and they strip mine it quickly and leave. They don't keep prisoners, but rather drop them off on the nearest world, which places the burden of incarceration on that world's authorities.

If they had their own world they'd be able to do all of this on their own. One would think that they would have found a suitable world by this time. It has been 300 Earth years or about 480 Quarian years. Apparently the d-dna worlds are scarce. To adapt to an l-dna world would require species-wide experimental gene therapy fpr about 600 years and it is forbidden by the Council. And even if they were to find a suitable d-dna world, it costs money to file papers for a colony on a world with the Council or organization within the Terminus Systems, but it seems the Council sticks its nose in there as well.

I imagine most space-faring races take out bonds to file the paperwork and get approval, then get private investors. I imagine it isn't like filing a fee with the county to get a lot rezoned. We're talking an entire planet. Most of the colonization took place before the council really got a foot hold. It was like "free planets" at first, Now that most space is claimed, it's not.

I'm guessing the Quarians are not classified with a AAAAA credit rating since they're both homeless and faceless.

So basically the Quarians are in a no win situation, especially with the way Walters buggered up everything with this story line. Their ships are going to last about another 80 years before completely falling apart and their entire race dies. But then the reapers would have killed everyone or the war would be over. Or they take their home world back, which is a world that can actually support them. This isn't about right or wrong. It's about survival. We fight or we die. That's the bottom line for the Quarians.

And after we watched the Reapers bucther Earth, and decided to pin all our hopes on a Deus Ex Machina we just found out of nowhere, we humans should understand better then anyone the concept of "fight or die."

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KiwiQuiche wrote...

silverexile17s wrote...

KiwiQuiche wrote...

Ya know Silver, if I wanted this kind of argument I would go pick a fight with David lol

I don't even know who that is.

Guess the jokes on you then.:P

It's now my fault you misintertperted the lore and didn't look into it at all.


You don't know who DAVID is? Good lord, run while you can.

Nope. But carry on with the high-and-mighty act. I admit, you are good at it.

There are more then a few people with the name "David" in their screan-names. Perhaps you could be a little more spicific?

I'm only doing that because you did the high-and-mighty bit first with your sympathy bit for the geth. When I pointed out how it was based on an incorrect notion and false information, you retaliated, and I responded in kind. Simple as that.
Same thing that @remydat and @Alud Wulf do. It's fire vs fire.

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@ exile: Mind pointing out when I talked to you the way you do?
And what is that video proving exactly? That Quarians allowed linking and self-optimization? Who built the Geth? Who made it possible for them to link up and learn? Who didn't even think proper safe-guards were necessary? I agreed that the Quarians didn't mean to create AIs but that doesn't mean they are devoid of all blame. If I accidentally step on a mine and kill myself and 5 people that walk with me I am responsible for their deaths. Did I mean to kill them? Nope. Are they any less dead because of it? No. Geth are as guilty of becoming sentient as those people were to walk with me. They did what their programming told them to do - link up and learn. 

For christ's sake, pal. You need to develop some people skills.
Not the best thing to say when trying to advocate taking reasonably. Just saying.

The quarians didn't allow anything that wasn't used by the rest of the galaxy for commercial V.I.s. They had the same base software and limitations, and the same interlinking capabilities. The only difference was that the quarians did not micromanage the geth's internetworking, and didn't monitor all the geth's data-exhcanges. The geth became self-aware on their own, and did so without prompting from the quarians, and without them ever being aware of it. The proper safegurards WERE there, they just weren't maintained as througholly and as heavily as the rest of the galaxy did. Also, NO, you would NOT be responcible for their deaths. The person that set the mine would.

The geth are the only ones to blame for becoming sentiant, according to Legion himself. Legion seems to quite diffinitively hold the geth accountible for sentaince. He seems to diffinitively believe that.
They didn't act any different then other V.I.s did. They simply evolved further then they ever had the chance to.

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silverexile17s wrote...

KiwiQuiche wrote...

silverexile17s wrote...

KiwiQuiche wrote...

Ya know Silver, if I wanted this kind of argument I would go pick a fight with David lol

I don't even know who that is.

Guess the jokes on you then.:P

It's now my fault you misintertperted the lore and didn't look into it at all.


You don't know who DAVID is? Good lord, run while you can.

Nope. But carry on with the high-and-mighty act. I admit, you are good at it.

There are more then a few people with the name "David" in their screan-names. Perhaps you could be a little more spicific?

I'm only doing that because you did the high-and-mighty bit first with your sympathy bit for the geth. When I pointed out how it was based on an incorrect notion and false information, you retaliated, and I responded in kind. Simple as that.
Same thing that @remydat and @Alud Wulf do. It's fire vs fire.


Considering you've run into Remy and Wulf, I would say Seival and David7204 would be up there as well.

But thank you for putting me on their level, it's quite flattering.

High and mighty? Why, because I picked the side of the defenders? Stay classy, BSN. Chuck knows I'm used to it.

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silverexile17s wrote...

KiwiQuiche wrote...

silverexile17s wrote...

KiwiQuiche wrote...

Ya know Silver, if I wanted this kind of argument I would go pick a fight with David lol

I don't even know who that is.

Guess the jokes on you then.:P

It's now my fault you misintertperted the lore and didn't look into it at all.


You don't know who DAVID is? Good lord, run while you can.

Nope. But carry on with the high-and-mighty act. I admit, you are good at it.

There are more then a few people with the name "David" in their screan-names. Perhaps you could be a little more spicific?

I'm only doing that because you did the high-and-mighty bit first with your sympathy bit for the geth. When I pointed out how it was based on an incorrect notion and false information, you retaliated, and I responded in kind. Simple as that.
Same thing that @remydat and @Alud Wulf do. It's fire vs fire.


False information is in the eye of the beholder, you even tend to interpret codex entries opposite to what they are saying.

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@ exile: You quoted my last post after a page of patronizing remarks from you. I didn't imply you were stupid for "still not getting it" and didn't tell you how "WRONG!" you were. I am merely making a conversation. Trying, anyways. Tali says that they "may have been skirting the law but they never did anything illegal". I remind you - Tali is the daughter of an admiral who hates the Geth in ME1. This is consistent with what happened in the Geth War. Hell, if you read the religion codex you might get even more insight into the type of work Quarians did. Besides, if the proper safeguards were there but they weren't maintained as thoroughly and heavily as in the rest of the galaxy then they weren't exactly proper, were they? The person that set the mine didn't make me miss it and step on it - I did. If I accidentally fall of a cliff mother nature isn't the one guilty, that's just me being a ****** (or very unlucky). He who armed the mine may be guilty of placing it there but I am responsible for stepping on it. If you are good with technology and make a machine that can learn - that machine will learn. That is precisely what happened with the Geth. They were programmed to self-optimize and self-optimize they did. Monitoring them better would have averted the issue altogether.

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silverexile17s wrote...

Reiisha wrote...

Artifex_Imperius wrote...

geth understand that they're creators have a few "lose nuts and bolts". so the geth could easily sum it up that the ball is on their court.

geth can live anywhere but quarians can't? or rannoch means much to quarians, maybe?

maybe out of respect for their creators geth should just leave rannoch. find a planet far far away. with more resource maybe?

can't understand why they'd stick to rannoch, or is this some ultimate trolling by the geth?
rannoch is probably mined out anyway?


Rannoch is their homeworld too you know. The Quarians started the fight, the Geth were the defenders. Why should they flee their own homeworld? By then it also houses a lot of their main hardware and structures aswell. They have a vested interest in the planet.

They do respect their creators, but the creators that truly respected them in return were killed off by the militant Quarians, who were (rightly so imho) exiled from their homeworld. Even now you have people like Xen who treat them like property or lifeless machines.

Centuries of propaganda have prevented future Quarian generations from seeing the truth. Only now, with Legion being the catalyst for change, have they started seeing the error of their ways. This is why it's possible for the Geth and Quarians to finally make peace in ME3.

Did you miss the part in ME2 where Legion said that the quarian's account is "largely the same?'" Pretty hard to call it "propoganda" when the opposed faction AGREES with the dipiction of the events, don't you think?

Also, NO, Rannoch is NOT the geth's "homeworld." Legion himself states that the geth do not believe in the concept of homeworlds. He says that home is where you are, not a rock you live on. The geth don't BELIEVE in the concept of a homeworld. Also, since the geth were not created as living beings, or intended to be equal to the quairans, they have no more claim to Rannoch then an appliance does to your house.

Also, AGAIN, wrong. When the geth stopped caring about civilian casuties, the quarians that supported the geth turned on them by their own accord. The geth could have just as easily NOT used chemical weapons on the quarians, or NOT have caused mass slaughter, instead staying solely on the defensive. Or they could have left Rannoch themselves if they didn't want to fight. Instead, their first option was to butcher everything. The quarians DIDN'T resort to that right off the bat (first they ignored the problem, then tried reprogramming so that they WOULDN'T be forced to kill them). Saying it's "rightly so" that the quarians were forced is the same as saying that humans were "rightly forced" off Earth by the Reapers. Think about that, imho.

Also, IDK if you realized this, but Legion had NO INTREST in rectifying the conflict. He was only to find and study Shepard. Also, when he made contact with Tali and presented a peace option to the Admirals, he did so in defiance of the rest of the geth. They did NOT support his actions, and subsiquently locked him up for it, preventing him from contacting Tali again.. So FYI, the geth were JUST as unwilling for peace. They are JUST as guilty. SHEPARD is the only reason peace is possible. NITHER the quarians OR geth did anything to cause that.


1) "Largely" is not "everything".

2) Legion is wearing a piece of Shepard's armor without being able to answer why. I'd say that this hints that the Geth do have at least a notion of sentiment towards such things. Aside from that, Rannoch did hold their assets.

3) Where are those details divulged? I've never heard that from Legion in the games. It's stated over and over that they had no intention of harming the Creators in the games, which leads me to believe that those civilian casualties are something from either the books or a bad fanfic. A writer who doesn't care about continuity in any case.

4) He didn't think it was possible to negotiate a peace untill Shepard offered it due to an assumption about organic life (assumptions are the mother of all f**kups). He then submitted this for consideration. He wasn't locked up by the Geth, but the Reapers, after fear (!!!!!!!) drove the Geth into their arms, though we still don't know the exact circumstances. There may not have been a conscensus about this decision, since we also know and get to see (!) that a lot of Geth join Shepard even BEFORE the Reaper influence has been dealt with, which implies that the Reapers forced a consensus on the Geth in some way.

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shodiswe wrote...

silverexile17s wrote...

KiwiQuiche wrote...

silverexile17s wrote...

KiwiQuiche wrote...

Ya know Silver, if I wanted this kind of argument I would go pick a fight with David lol

I don't even know who that is.

Guess the jokes on you then.:P

It's now my fault you misintertperted the lore and didn't look into it at all.


You don't know who DAVID is? Good lord, run while you can.

Nope. But carry on with the high-and-mighty act. I admit, you are good at it.

There are more then a few people with the name "David" in their screan-names. Perhaps you could be a little more spicific?

I'm only doing that because you did the high-and-mighty bit first with your sympathy bit for the geth. When I pointed out how it was based on an incorrect notion and false information, you retaliated, and I responded in kind. Simple as that.
Same thing that @remydat and @Alud Wulf do. It's fire vs fire.


False information is in the eye of the beholder, you even tend to interpret codex entries opposite to what they are saying.


I noticed that as well, hence me stopping from taking him seriously.

Also, Silver's favourite word seems to be
http://forums.massas...11698&stc=1

As if yelling that enough times will make him right in everything.

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2) Legion is wearing a piece of Shepard's armor without being able to answer why. I'd say that this hints that the Geth do have at least a notion of sentiment towards such things. Aside from that, Rannoch did hold their assets.

It hints that there is a disconnect between events described in ME1/2 and how the Rannoch arc evolved from ME2 to ME3.

The writer confirmed that this was not his intention and forced on him by higher ups who thought it would be cool. He was also responsible for EDI and the Reapers and we all know how that turned out.

I believe, he left half way through ME2 and hasn't played either game (ME2/3). 

3) Where are those details divulged? I've never heard that from Legion in the games. It's stated over and over that they had no intention of harming the Creators in the games, which leads me to believe that those civilian casualties are something from either the books or a bad fanfic. A writer who doesn't care about continuity in any case.

Possibly from the codex of ME1. Additional content can be accessed by adding Legion as a squadmate early.

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klarabella wrote...

Reiisha wrote...
2) Legion is wearing a piece of Shepard's armor without being able to answer why. I'd say that this hints that the Geth do have at least a notion of sentiment towards such things. Aside from that, Rannoch did hold their assets.

It hints that there is a disconnect between events described in ME1/2 and how the Rannoch arc evolved from ME2 to ME3.

The writer confirmed that this was not his intention and forced on him by higher ups who thought it would be cool. He was also responsible for EDI and the Reapers and we all know how that turned out.

I believe, he left half way through ME2 and hasn't played either game (ME2/3). 

3)Where are those details divulged? I've never heard that from Legion in
the games. It's stated over and over that they had no intention of
harming the Creators in the games, which leads me to believe that those
civilian casualties are something from either the books or a bad fanfic.
A writer who doesn't care about continuity in any case.

Possibly from the codex of ME1. Additional content can be accessed by adding Legion as a squadmate early.


Yeah, that would be Chris. Real shame that he left. He wrote most of the Codex and, to my understanding, almost everything pertaining to the Geth prior to ME3.

I'll c/p this for Reiisha's sake. Also, the bit about the Geth using chemical weapons is inferred from Legion A) denying that the Quarians used WMD (if brought to Tuchanka with Tali), and B) revealing the Geth are nonetheless still clearing "rubble and toxins" from the Morning War. The ME3 codex says they're repairing "ecological damage" done to the planet in the course of the war.

Mass Effect: Revelation (Drew Karpyshyn), page 116-118:

Attempting to develop artificial intelligence was one of the few things specifically banned in the Citadel Conventions. Developing purely synthetic life, whether cloned or manufactured, was considered a crime against the entire galaxy.

Experts from nearly every species predicted that true artificial intelligence - such as a synthetic neural network with the ability to absorb and critically analyze knowledge - would grow exponentially the instant it learned to learn. It would teach itself; quickly surpassing the capabilities of its organic creators and growing beyond their control. Every single species in the galaxy relied on computers that were linked into the vast data network of the extranet for transport, trade, defense, and basic survival. If a rogue AI program was somehow able to access and influence those data networks, the results would be catastrophic.

Conventional theory held that the doomsday scenario wasn't merely possible, it was unavoidable. According to the Council, the emergence of an artificial intelligence was the single greatest threat to organic life in the galaxy. And there was evidence to support their position.

Three hundred years ago, long before humanity appeared on the galactic scene, the quarian species had created a race of synthetic servants to serve as an expandable and expendable labor source. The geth, as they were called, were not true AIs: their neural networks were developed in a way that was highly restrictive and self-limiting. Despite this precaution, the geth eventually turned on their quarian masters, validating all the dire warnings and predictions.

The quarians had neither the numbers nor the ability to stand against their former servants. In a short but savage war their entire society was wiped out. Only a few million survivors - less than one percent of their entire population - escaped the genocide, fleeing their home world in a massive fleet, refugees forced to live in exile.

In the aftermath of the war, the geth became a completely isolationist society. Cutting off all contact with the organic species of the galaxy, they expanded their territory into the unexplored reaches behind a vast nebulae cloud known as the Perseus Veil. Every attempt to open diplomatic channels with them failed: emissary vessels sent to open negotiations were attacked and destroyed the moment they entered geth space.

Fleets from every species in Citadel space massed on the borders of the Veil as the Council prepared for a massive geth invasion. But the expected attack never came. Gradually the fleets were scaled back, until now, several centuries after the quarians were driven out, only a few patrols remained to monitor the region for signs of geth aggression.

However, the lesson of the quarians had not been forgotten. They had lost everything to the synthetic creatures they created... and on top of this, the geth were still less advanced than a true AI.

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@Phatose

Yes paying for the mistakes of their ancestors, even though these Quarians have done nothing to the Council they are denied a help/aid or a new homeworld, Council forced them into the position their in and are treated badly by everyone else because of it. In ME2 we know the Quarians have no good options. Option 1 is oppose/fight the Council, Option 2 find a home in the Terminus which may or may not exist and hope that pirates/slavers don't attack. Option 3 continue to fly around on their decaying ship whose resources are being strained and hope they last more than the projected 80 years(?). Option 4 Try to negotiate with AIs that killed billions of your people, attacked council ambassadors or anyone entering their area of space just because they got to close, and just recently attacked the council/citadel and became enemies of the council.

Tell me what is the best Option for the Quarians in ME2?


@Kiwi

Fine, Space Punisher = Garrus. Ignore everything i said and change the subject.


Quarian: What is Quarian word for "Servant of the people"
Geth: The word is "Geth, creator Z" (Forgot his name)

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@Kiwi

Fine, Space Punisher = Garrus. Ignore everything i said and change the subject.


Quarian: What is Quarian word for "Servant of the people"
Geth: The word is "Geth, creator Z" (Forgot his name)




Oh no, I know full well what you said but I didn't care for it.

Yup. See? Servant, not slave. That means the quarians have no right to throw a wobbly and kill them for asking a damn question.

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Because the Quarians don't deserve rannoch....they did drive themselves away from it after all

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Denion and silver for the win.

There's no purpose in the geth holding Rannoch hostage. They could easily have foght off the quarians and isolated themselves in a distant cluster. Reducing a population to ONE PERCENT is the very definition of attempted genocide.

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@Phatose

Yes paying for the mistakes of their ancestors, even though these Quarians have done nothing to the Council they are denied a help/aid or a new homeworld, Council forced them into the position their in and are treated badly by everyone else because of it. In ME2 we know the Quarians have no good options. Option 1 is oppose/fight the Council, Option 2 find a home in the Terminus which may or may not exist and hope that pirates/slavers don't attack. Option 3 continue to fly around on their decaying ship whose resources are being strained and hope they last more than the projected 80 years(?). Option 4 Try to negotiate with AIs that killed billions of your people, attacked council ambassadors or anyone entering their area of space just because they got to close, and just recently attacked the council/citadel and became enemies of the council.

Tell me what is the best Option for the Quarians in ME2?


Best options for Quarians in ME2?  Same as the best option since they lost their stupid war and their homeworld with it.  Go out into the Terminus and tough it out.  Humanity friggin' managed it. 

Biggest fleet in the Galaxy, no homeworld or empire to protect.  And they're scared of pirates and slavers.  Yeah, right.  Do they also sleep with the light on because their are monsters under the bed?

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KiwiQuiche wrote...

silverexile17s wrote...

KiwiQuiche wrote...

silverexile17s wrote...

KiwiQuiche wrote...

Ya know Silver, if I wanted this kind of argument I would go pick a fight with David lol

I don't even know who that is.

Guess the jokes on you then.:P

It's now my fault you misintertperted the lore and didn't look into it at all.


You don't know who DAVID is? Good lord, run while you can.

Nope. But carry on with the high-and-mighty act. I admit, you are good at it.

There are more then a few people with the name "David" in their screan-names. Perhaps you could be a little more spicific?

I'm only doing that because you did the high-and-mighty bit first with your sympathy bit for the geth. When I pointed out how it was based on an incorrect notion and false information, you retaliated, and I responded in kind. Simple as that.
Same thing that @remydat and @Alud Wulf do. It's fire vs fire.


Considering you've run into Remy and Wulf, I would say Seival and David7204 would be up there as well.

But thank you for putting me on their level, it's quite flattering.

High and mighty? Why, because I picked the side of the defenders? Stay classy, BSN. Chuck knows I'm used to it.

Wrong. Because you failed to realize that there IS no "defenders." BOTH are on the same level. The geth are not anything to brag about, nor have done anything to brag about - as Legion himself admits. My point is that you are defending them against crimes that Legion himself has ALREADY ADMITTED GUILT TOWARD. That's where the "high-and-mighty" is stemming from you -  the fact that you ignore Legion's OWN ADMISSION that the geth are anything but innocent. In ME3, he oepnly admits that the geth are a threat to everyone, and even rebukes Shepard when the Commander says "the geth are better then this," to which Legion refuses, saying that "Based on emperical evidence," they are NOT. You are being contridicted by Legion himself on this.

That is my point - you are playing defender to a party that has already admitted their own guilt of the crimes they committed. And then go as far as to try and pin it all on a faction that was driven to desperation by making a choice they were literally forced into by circimstance - no different at all then what the geth were forced into. THAT'S what you fail to realize - the geth and quarians are the same. Chastize the quarians, and it simoultaniously chastizes the geth. It makes you the ultimate hypocrite, just like @remydat was.

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@Phatose

Yes paying for the mistakes of their ancestors, even though these Quarians have done nothing to the Council they are denied a help/aid or a new homeworld, Council forced them into the position their in and are treated badly by everyone else because of it. In ME2 we know the Quarians have no good options. Option 1 is oppose/fight the Council, Option 2 find a home in the Terminus which may or may not exist and hope that pirates/slavers don't attack. Option 3 continue to fly around on their decaying ship whose resources are being strained and hope they last more than the projected 80 years(?). Option 4 Try to negotiate with AIs that killed billions of your people, attacked council ambassadors or anyone entering their area of space just because they got to close, and just recently attacked the council/citadel and became enemies of the council.

Tell me what is the best Option for the Quarians in ME2?


Best options for Quarians in ME2?  Same as the best option since they lost their stupid war and their homeworld with it.  Go out into the Terminus and tough it out.  Humanity friggin' managed it. 

Biggest fleet in the Galaxy, no homeworld or empire to protect.  And they're scared of pirates and slavers.  Yeah, right.  Do they also sleep with the light on because their are monsters under the bed?

LOL, WHAT? The humans have the second-largest space with dozens of colony worlds. You realize that with DOZENS of worlds, and billions of people, humans are NOT COMPARIBLE IN ANY WAY to the quarians? You know, since humans HAVE a homeworld to rely on for support?
Also, IFY, the quarians are dextros that need a specilized insect-free symbiotic ecosystem. Something which, according to the Codex, is unique to Rannoch. There literally IS no where else.
Also, tough it out is what they did for 300 years, but with the Reapers coming, that DOESN'T CUT IT. How insensitive can you get? Try to tell the humans on Earth to "tough it out" so flippently and see how long you go without getting your ass kicked for gross insensitivity.

Also, AGAIN, wrong. They have the most ships. Their actuall combat fleet is SMALLER then the turians. The title of biggest war fleet in the galaxy actually goes to the geth. In case you were still unaware, 75 - 80% of the quarian ships have civilians on them, and are thus, USELESS for front-line combat as they are now. Many ships actually pre-date the Morning War. All their ships are fallinhg apart. Tali tells you in ME1 that the most terrifying thing for a quarian is silence, because on the fleet, that means something has broken and that you have five minutes to live.
They live in CONSTANT fear that their ships are going to just stall out and die on them from simple old age. THOSE are the ships you want to fight Reapers with? While they are loaded with Civilians?
Hell, Hackett's reason for wanting the quarians was troop transport and supply running, NOT fighting. They were ment to be the supply infrustructure, not the battle lines. The only reason the fight against the geth was possible was because they had a viral weapon that could disable them en masse.

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shodiswe wrote...

silverexile17s wrote...

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Ya know Silver, if I wanted this kind of argument I would go pick a fight with David lol

I don't even know who that is.

Guess the jokes on you then.:P

It's now my fault you misintertperted the lore and didn't look into it at all.


You don't know who DAVID is? Good lord, run while you can.

Nope. But carry on with the high-and-mighty act. I admit, you are good at it.

There are more then a few people with the name "David" in their screan-names. Perhaps you could be a little more spicific?

I'm only doing that because you did the high-and-mighty bit first with your sympathy bit for the geth. When I pointed out how it was based on an incorrect notion and false information, you retaliated, and I responded in kind. Simple as that.
Same thing that @remydat and @Alud Wulf do. It's fire vs fire.


False information is in the eye of the beholder, you even tend to interpret codex entries opposite to what they are saying.

This comming from the person that ignored the Codex entry stating that Rannoch was a physical need for the quarians. I'm not the one that ever misinterperted the Codex.

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@ exile: You quoted my last post after a page of patronizing remarks from you. I didn't imply you were stupid for "still not getting it" and didn't tell you how "WRONG!" you were. I am merely making a conversation. Trying, anyways. Tali says that they "may have been skirting the law but they never did anything illegal". I remind you - Tali is the daughter of an admiral who hates the Geth in ME1. This is consistent with what happened in the Geth War. Hell, if you read the religion codex you might get even more insight into the type of work Quarians did. Besides, if the proper safeguards were there but they weren't maintained as thoroughly and heavily as in the rest of the galaxy then they weren't exactly proper, were they? The person that set the mine didn't make me miss it and step on it - I did. If I accidentally fall of a cliff mother nature isn't the one guilty, that's just me being a ****** (or very unlucky). He who armed the mine may be guilty of placing it there but I am responsible for stepping on it. If you are good with technology and make a machine that can learn - that machine will learn. That is precisely what happened with the Geth. They were programmed to self-optimize and self-optimize they did. Monitoring them better would have averted the issue altogether.

AGAIN, you fail to grasp that your assertations were the wrong ones. Not mine. I states how Legion himself contridicts everything you said. You haven't proven that wrong.
AGAIN, "skirting the boundries" means not regulating the technology as througholly as the other races did. I ALSO remind you that Tali's father was a lier and committed war crimes that endangered the entire fleet, so citing him as a source of information is a point DOWN for you. You just weakened your own arguement with that statement.

Also, AGAIN, completely contridicted by Legions statement, and he was THERE. I'm pretty sure the geth would know their own tale of rising to sentiance, don't you? The only way you are right is if you are willing to admit that Legion is a lier. Can't have it both ways pal - either you are right, or Legion is. Take your pick, but me, I'm siding with the person that actually was there for the geth rebellion.
Plus, unfortunetly for your arguement, the quarian's ancestroal archives were SEPERATE from the geth. DIFFERENT constructs, and were NOT related to the geth at all. "hell," the geth destroyed those archives when they took Rannoch. Explain that one. Sorry, but again, I state it - either you are wrong, or Legion is lying. Make your choice.

Also, AGAIN, wrong. You AGAIN fail to make a correct analogy - NO, you are NOT to blame. The person that set the trap is. It doesn't MATTER who triggered it - if it wasn't placed there, it wouldn't have happened. Who stepped on it has JACK-SH*T to do with fault - it lies with the person that staged the trap. And if you accidently fall off a cliff, then NO ONE is guilty, certenly not you. Even had they been monitoring them, they would have looked for a hive-mind intilict, not the internetworked processing that the geth use. That was something much more complex and abstract then expected, and the quarians never saw it coming.