Legion - Geth History and Motivations part2

Legion explains about the Geth, their history, and their motivations in these conversations.

Geth Technology: The most difficult aspect of geth existence for organics to comprehend is that a body is meaningless to geth. The biped form commonly perceived as a geth is nothing more than a "mobile platform." A geth's software -- hundreds of programs whose interactions mimic organic consciousness -- can be installed in any given hardware. The geth that was a bipedal soldier an hour ago may now be a quadruped heavy armature and, in another hour, might be a starship. Between tasks, geth programs upload to gigantic space station mainframes that allow billions of programs to exchange thoughts and memories with minimal lag.

The claim that the geth are an example of the extreme risk posed by AI development is misleading. As opposed to the "top down" design of organic-created AIs, in which hardware and software are specifically designed to achieve consciousness, geth are a "bottom up" model. They were never intended to possess more than animal-level, trainable reasoning.

Designed as VI-driven robots -- not significantly different from modern security mechs -- geth consciousness developed as their adaptive learning programs interacted with one another via networked processing. The geth code-base discovered that three individual robots using a wireless local network to form a single mind could perform many tasks more efficiently than they could as individuals. As these local networks were more heavily exploited, they reached a critical mass of processing, achieving consciousness.

Modern geth retain this remarkable interconnectivity, constantly exchanging data with one another and networking to increase their cognitive abilities. To geth, these mind-sharing abilities are as natural and unconscious as breathing is to most organics.

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[Terastas]

This is what I absolutely love about BioWare. They could have easily just kept the Geth as generic enemies, but instead they took the time and effort to make this. How cool is that?

[Valen123456]

Accept that the Geth actually respect the process of development ... the Borg impose it on anyone and anything they assimilate ... they think their way is best and enforce it on others, no better than any other conquorer

All the geth really want is to be left alone to develop by themselves ... the irony is that they seem to need an organic persective to fill in the parts they lack

[xXPureEvilXx101]

legion said you can use him as a hub to send a message to the geth. but he never let me do it!!

[marco1991pl]

I honestly think Legion is the most interesting background character in games ever.

[Truth118]

"We wish to improve ourselves." That's a borg quote.

[Deamonkiller100]

It seems that the quarians really REALLY misunderstood geth and theyr motives :/ they would be at peace if they would agree to talk :P so the quarians would live on their homeworld if they wouldnt be so agressive towards their own creation.

[DimitriFilichkin]

@pyramidheadkitten9 well technically, they were running from the Lambant infection. the sub-terrantian catacombs they lived in was killing them by mutation, they attacked the surface to escape that. the whole thing feels a bit tacked in though. like the writer was thinking "nobody who buys this game will care about the story....*sigh*"

[pyramidheadkitten9]

@Terastas It's definitely better thant he standard black and white good guy bad buy format most games have. at the end of gears of war 3 i almost expected something to reveal the locusts were slaves or not all evil or something.

[SchwarzundWeis]

does it change something if I have not had all the dialogue with legion at the end of ME2?

And how can you have all the dialogue BEFORE the final mission AND saving all of your crew members?

[Ryagful]

ha! a slap in the face for Skynet! i really hope the geth and quarians get over in ME3

[Zoloft77]

@Terastas I feel sorry for those who quickly sold Legion out to Cerberus. Never would I had thought I would have made inroads with the geth. Understanding, yes but to have a civil conversation with one or a gestalt representative? I may have gained an ally. One of a few that may offer alternative intelligence sources about the Reapers since I decided to let the Collector base fall into Cerberus hands.

[ryan1000011]

@Dragodemon000 none if he servives the missons his a big part of mass effect 3