IceHawk-181 wrote...
Likewise there is no canon statement that the Quarians ever tried to contact the Geth...so that point is kind of specious.
At the end of the day the Geth Consensus only allied itself with the Reapers when it literally considered the action the only difference between life and death.
Considering for a moment that 74% of all players saved the Geth as part of the ending (with fully 36% directly choosing the Geth over the Quarians) I can reasonably argue that most people do not see the Geth as an MEU analogue of the Borg.
Really at the end of the day, if your entire race was faced with the choice between death and the acceptance of a Faustian bargain, what would you do?
I was disappointed that the Consensus chose to ally with the Reapers, but I can understand why they did it and recognize that it was likely the only logical avenue of survival the Geth could reasonably conceive of at the time.
Why are people not chomping at the bit to sacrifice the entire Quarian race for forcing the Geth into this position, or deciding Genocide was Foreign Policy, in the first place?
Oh wait...36% did!
I don't think you are understanding the situation. It is far more insidious. It goes into the human psyche.
The Quarians are the galaxy's faceless homeless population that everyone wishes would just disappear. You see them hanging around on pilgrimages not having real jobs. They're scavengers. They're dumpster divers. "Will work for food." They don't pay taxes. They're the roaming homeless encampment that no one wants near them. They strip mine asteroids and planets out of necessity and do so quickly. They don't keep prisoners but dump them on other worlds that have prisons. Being faceless it's easy to dislike them.
Tali can't even give a face to the Quarians because we know it's a crappy photoshop job. Bioware wouldn't even give them faces in the Geth Consensus mission. They were in their environment suits before the Morning War! Why? Because it might make one have some kind of rapport it they had faces. They had to remain the faceless ones.
Because one never sees the faces of the Quarians one never really likes or understands them or treats them as equals, but one just pitys them instead, and that can negatively affect the situation.
Legion is even more expressive than Tali because Legion has those plates that move. He has a face and gives a face to the Geth. The Geth are never pitied. They are seen as acting in self-defense. The Quarians are seen as either acting out of desperation or aggression -- both have negative associations.
Do you see, now? (Self-defense + faces) vs. (faceless + desperation)
Self-defense + faces has a much more positive spin.
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you only sacrifice quarians for synthetics nothing else duuuuuh
