TheRock1525 posted...
LeonhartFour posted...
And the only reason they EVER fought the quarians is because the quarians attacked them first. The geth didn't want to fight them, but their will to keep existing was stronger, so they defended themselves. The geth were never the instigators. They weren't even living on Rannoch to spite the quarians. They preserved the planet in case they ever came back, in fact.
Although the fact that they COULD have wiped out the quarians but didn't speaks volumes as well.
Right, but the only reason they didn't wipe out the quarians was because they didn't know what would happen. Not because they felt sorry for them or because they wanted peace.
Yes, the quarians were the instigators, yes the geth initially just wanted peace, but once the war began and once they drove them off planet, the only reason why they didn't wipe that out wasn't a sense of remorse or pity towards the quarians, but because they really had no idea what the effect of wiping them out would be.
And JZ, you have yourself a good woman. Hang onto her.
But they also never pursued them after the fact. Legion elaborates on this point multiple times in ME2. They didn't pursue war, but they also didn't pursue peace because they didn't accept it as a viable option until Shepard came along and gave them a kind of "hope" that coexistence was possible. "When the creators have believed victory was possible, they have attacked us 100% of the time," I believe it went. Regardless, the Catalyst believes synthetic life will rebel and seek to destroy organic life, but the geth have never personified this. They simply want to be allowed to exist. They have never sought to destroy organic life. They have only defended their right to existence. Again, Legion deals with that in ME3. "We only defended ourselves because the creators attacked. Do we deserve death?"
I guess it comes down to whether you believe everything the Catalyst says is fact. We don't have enough information to say one way or the other, but I do think there are several reasons to believe the Catalyst is not infallible.
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