alright, just as a heads up, I know it isn't really Geth arm, robot arm or whatever, I just didn't know how else to word it. Now on to the real question.
Remember that geth arm she had in ME1? Image here if you don't know what I'm talking about.
How did she acquire the means to get it? Did she take off the armor from a dead geth and put it over her suit? Is it said in a comic or something? I think I might have heard an answer a long time ago, but I can't seem to remember now.
Could be just a medical attachment, she was shot in the arm in ME1 shortly before meeting Shep, Seems everyone assumes it's Geth armor like Saren's arm and leg but again they could just be medical attachments in either case.
Could be just a medical attachment, she was shot in the arm in ME1 shortly before meeting Shep, Seems everyone assumes it's Geth armor like Saren's arm and leg but again they could just be medical attachments in either case.
That seems more plausible. How would she get the medical attachment though? Dr. Michel?
That seems more plausible. How would she get the medical attachment though? Dr. Michel?
Had to chuckle when this popped into my mind, as Tali says on the Alarei to Shep "These suits have more pockets than you think, Quarians have learned to salvage wherever we can, whenever we can."
She could have given the Doc some surplus parts to assist 
I always assumed that this design was meant to sort of give the impression that the quarians had to cobble a lot of their technology together, being a civilization of space scroungers.
It seems like in ME1 they were going for heavier use of cybernetics for the quarians.
this is the most likely IMO, though it is a design element that was gradually toned down through the 3 games
As Initially envisioned, the quarians were basically full on cyborgs and kinda blurred the line between synthetic and organic.
The codex has this as a common rumour, and there are even some small references to this in ME1 (Ashley/Kaidian in one elevator conversation will ask Tali if she's technically a synthetic due to her implants, to which she replies in the negative).
By ME2 you only have small references like Tali's skill tree mentioning upgraded cybernetics. ME3 there's basically nothing apart from half arsed squiggly circuitry lines on a stock model photoshop
Since most of the Geth technology is derived from the Quarians, then they are probably compatible to a degree. It wouldn't be that difficult for a clever or desperate Quarian to repurpose some scavenged Geth material and tech to patch up their suit in a pinch.
Another idea is that it's actually a Quarian design in origin. As the Quarians were interacting with the Council long before they created the Geth, then their environment suits must been created first and Tali suggests that the suits have become iconic for her people. Perhaps this was true even before their exile, so when they Quarians created the Geth in their image, they naturally made the Geth to resemble a suited Quarian?
Conversely, the design is something the Geth intentionally added to themselves, in order to more resemble their Creators. They may have done so either out of veneration or respect? Or perhaps even as a means to reach out to the Quarians (something Legion suggests they've tried repeatedly), trying to invoke the concept of "a form you are more comfortable with" by better emulating their Creators?
Since most of the Geth technology is derived from the Quarians, then they are probably compatible to a degree. It wouldn't be that difficult for a clever or desperate Quarian to repurpose some scavenged Geth material and tech to patch up their suit in a pinch.
Another idea is that it's actually a Quarian design in origin. As the Quarians were interacting with the Council long before they created the Geth, then their environment suits must been created first and Tali suggests that the suits have become iconic for her people. Perhaps this was true even before their exile, so when they Quarians created the Geth in their image, they naturally made the Geth to resemble a suited Quarian?
Conversely, the design is something the Geth intentionally added to themselves, in order to more resemble their Creators. They may have done so either out of veneration or respect? Or perhaps even as a means to reach out to the Quarians (something Legion suggests they've tried repeatedly), trying to invoke the concept of "a form you are more comfortable with" by better emulating their Creators?
All interesting hypotheses, but I will note that if we take Homeworlds 2 as canon (Tali's origin story, which was written by Weekes), then the Geth were first created "thousands of years ago", which would have them long predating Quarians joining the Citadel. This tidbit isn't specifically contradicted by any in game source I know of.
Also of note, in the same comic Tali already has the cybernetic looking right arm before setting out on Pilgrimage and being shot in it by Jacobus (wherin she bleeds from it, so it's apparently not a prosthetic). Of course, the illustrations (which are pretty bad) weren't done by Weekes and contain some errors (quarian blood being purple, for instance) so I don't know how much stock to put into them.
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