Steelcan wrote...
I'd say they grasped the big picture pretty well. Apparantly the big picture is synthetics wiping out organics. The quarians understand this all too well.
They also understand the necessity of helping against the Reapers and they do this as soon as their fleet is not overburdened with civilians
No actually they didn't. Here are the clear big picture mistakes they made.
1. They allowed the Geth to Network without even running simulations or analyzing what the effects would be as they continue to do so. We have computers today capable of running such simulations.
2. Despite a large majority of Geth being used strictly for manual labor and not war, they made the Geth all capable of easily transitioning to war functionality.
3. Despite creating millions of them, they had no disaster scenario plan that would allow them to quickly shut them down.
4. There is no evidence the Geth ever wanted to attack them yet they provoke them anyway.
5. Even if they did want to attack them, the solution would not be to take on
MILLIONS of a virtually
IMMORTAL army alone instead of calling the council.
6. Related to 5 above, you don't go door to door to kill a
NETWORKED ENEMY. You destroy them at the source ie by destroying the servers and the ability of them to
NETWORK.
And that's just the MW. Sorry, like I said, good with nuts and bolts not with big picture stuff.