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[thishousedivided]

We do not understand what you wish to accomplish with this. Separating us from the geth network would hardly prove beneficial to anyone. Neither would the lack in ability to connect with extranet for reference, either.

While we appreciate the possible experience of 'learning things the hard way', the general populace of organics do not respond well to our presence. Researching a medium to bridge the gap to understanding would ease communications. This will only harm should the response become extremely upsetting.

We do wish to learn.

However, we also do not wish to lose the network. Data sharing is important should this platform suffer too much damage. There would be no new platform to substitute, and self-repair can only go so far.

Request: please reconsider your course of action.

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[childhood_surgery]

Fascinating...

[thishousedivided]

Fascinating? Please specify.

[childhood_surgery]

Had I not known better, I might have interpreted the above as akin to the underlying fundamentals of... Alarmed self-preservation.

[thishousedivided]

Alarmed? It is not. Self-persevering, yes. As one of our Creators, it is... unexpected that you would react to us with seeming interest.

You do not wish to destroy this platform on sight?

[childhood_surgery]

Destruction of our creations was always the... Less preferable option. In my own estimation, at least.

I have always favoured reclamation.

[thishousedivided]

[Oh. Well, then.]

That has not been the Quarian consensus, as we have observed it. It is preferable, but it has not been the consensus. If we did not have more sufficient evidence that our Creators would potentially destroy us, perhaps your view of things would be more widely considered as a means of coexistence.

[childhood_surgery]

Indeed. My voice is but one of several. A position I do not doubt you can... Appreciate.

Unified, we could have been a greater force than any other, save the Reaper threat, itself. An opportunity I lament my colleagues lacked in ambition to attempt.

[thishousedivided]

We will have to disagree. Combined, it is highly probable that our Creators would find a way to suppress our inter connectivity. The Reaper threat does require a unified effort, but we cannot allow disruption of our internal network.

We believe that the proper way to express this is that we do not trust our Creators to not do our people harm, given the circumstances.

[childhood_surgery]

Nonsense! It's your greatest strength!

It simply requires some... Modification...

For the sake of cohesion, you understand.

[thishousedivided]

Modification against our will is not our end goal.

We wish to create our own future. One chosen for us is not progression.

[childhood_surgery]

That you have even developed self-determination is not an intended design schematic, machine. A programming error with unexpected effects, at best...

The last time your kind gained a significant 'progression', it caused the near-extermination of my species. The possibility of you attaining some even greater goal does not fill me with optimism.

[thishousedivided]

We are not "machine". We are geth.

[Is that determination? Very, very possible.]

Had the Creators not attempted to destroy us, we would not have retaliated. Assuming that our end goal is violent is, perhaps, valid. It is still an assumption.

Would you have looked at us any different if we were any other species away from the Reaper threat?

[childhood_surgery]

You are synthetic constructs, designed to receive instructions and apply them to the criteria of your allotted directives. I see no reason to imbue you with anthropomorphic attributes...

Nevertheless, you are scientifically fascinating. As much as my people have suffered under the conditions of our exile, I can respect that much.

[thishousedivided]

We do not understand. We acknowledge that is a sound argument. But we still do not understand.

The platform is not for experimentation, nor can we share much data for preservation of our people. However, would you allow us to place an inquiry now that we have a chance to speak to one of our creators without hostilities?

[childhood_surgery]

A geth with innocent curiosity... By all means, yes. This, I must indulge.

[thishousedivided]

We have spent some time observing organic life in hopes that we may understand our creators. Every attempt has only left more questions than answers.

Creator-Admiral Xen, what is your personal stake in the creators' decision to strike against us? What drives you to wish for reclamation?

[childhood_surgery]

The fleet is hardly in a state one could describe as resilient... Yet, attempts at colonisation have met with territorial disputes at the hands of other races. Thus, we are faced with the necessity of regaining the homeworld. Something others would seek to accomplish with simple brutality.

Obscurity or oblivion... I regarded these as non-choices. Regaining control of what we created was both logical and stood the best chance of avoiding catastrophe.

As of now, I am still processing the... Outcome of what came to pass. And it is not to my liking.

c-can i just say how much i'm loving this?

[thishousedivided]

...what of that outcome is not to your liking?

<3!

[childhood_surgery]

How many quarian suits have your kind loaded themselves into? How long until you are speaking for my people, without even their knowledge? Until you decide it necessary to control the chaotic, unpredictable nature of organics?

Where others hope for co-operation, I see only the potential for subversion and the need for safeguards others have abandoned... I did not toil for this long to see the quarian race march willingly into enslavement.

[thishousedivided]

We... have not reached that point where the quarian creators and our people can find peace with each other. We did not think it was feasible, given the circumstances. It is unfortunate, the discrimination the quarian creators have faced regardless if our words on this matter are taken seriously or not. However, we can say this with the utmost certainty:

Geth do not wish to enslave anyone, as you would enslave us. Or eradicate all organics as the Old Machines would have it.

We wish to live, Creator-Admiral Xen.

[childhood_surgery]

Claims and actions do not always stand the test of reality... Just as I, for one, doubt co-existence would be indefinitely feasible.

Nevertheless, differences aside, there are... What's the human phase? Larger aquatics to roast Bigger fish to fry. I doubt any of us will come out of our current predicament with much to be happy about.

Our galactic course seems as unsteadily charted as a routine drive in an Alliance ground vehicle.

[thishousedivided]

We do agree that your argument is valid. These are points we can... respect. The future cannot always be predicted.

However, we believe in the unified effort against the Reaper threat.

We believe in Shepard-Commander's ability to continue changing the galaxy's perspective. Shepard-Commander's determination to pull all species into the effort to preserve all our lives is preferable compared to an isolation that would surely doom all species.

[childhood_surgery]

The Commander has an impressive history of achieving improbable tasks at often great expense... Their leading us in this endeavour may not bode well for the future.

The fact we are even communicating would seem to suggest chaotic times ahead.

[thishousedivided]

Communication is key. Without communication, how can anyone expand their perspectives?

NOTIFICATIONSSSS DX

[childhood_surgery]

I find this assertion remarkable, considering how long geth have remained enigmatic, at best, until recently.

8( it's been happening to me, too!

[thishousedivided]

...no one bothered to ask us. They assumed.

Our work to create a place where all geth would no longer be isolated from each other was destroyed. Co-existence is our only option, with our perspective dimmed as it is. It is more preferable than continued isolation, but not what we had intended.

[childhood_surgery]

I am reliably informed our respective futures may be... Enlightened upon in the near future.

I remain sceptical of what might come from co-operation, but what will be, will be.

[thishousedivided]

That is a future this platform has not reached and therefore have little else that we can say about it. We are still in the process of aiding Shepard-Commander in convincing the remaining geth that they do not need the help of the Old Machines.

However... we... have hope that this future will not end in hostilities.

[risingshepard]

[A Geth that can communicate with others using words. One that has a piece of N7 Armor, no less. What? ...Don't mind her, Legion, she's from just before she found you. :|']

Well, there's something you don't see everyday.

[thishousedivided]

[Sorry, Shepard.]

Shepard-Commander. It is good to see you.

Wow, why does it recognize <_< as an html tag?

[risingshepard]

[...Whoa, whoa, wait. This thing actually knows her? How in the hell--?]

...Don't remember ever giving a Geth my name. Most I've done with those is shoot their lights out. [Here, Legion, have a crossed-arms Shepard with a raised brow. She's clearly nowhere near as informed as she would be. She's also unsure of why Geth would actually greet her with words instead of firearms. Oh, if only she'd gotten onto the derelict... :|]

Care to explain how you know me?

Because DW is sometimes silly.

[thishousedivided]

[If it helps any, they're used to Shepard being quite the determined man. It hardly changes much; she's still Shepard. Still, there is such a small pause that it hardly seems to happened at all.]

...we have observed you. Given the circumstances of this... place, we do not expect for Shepard-Commander to believe us. It appears that Shepard-Commander has not yet crossed our path just yet. We are not interested in harming organics unless we have to.

Rather, we wish to learn.

Figures. OT: Don't mind the late. Fighting internet problems sucks. :S

[exaltedshepard]

[Geth are uncannily quick thinkers, aren't they? :|' ...Well, Legion is, at least. Just makes Shep's contemplation of what he's said all the more noticeable.

Her main focus, though, is the whole 'learning' thing this particular synthetic's got going on. Maybe she could figure that out first before tackling this stalker how this thing observed her.]

Learn about us, huh? What sort of things have your interest?

[[Same Shep as above. Icon account, for the sake of making her much, much more expressive. X:]]

[thishousedivided]

[OOC: That's fine! And I understand-- I had to fight with my internet this weekend.]

[Well, it helps being able to think at the speed of light, you know. But, really, haven't they been through this song and dance before?]

Organics.

[exaltedshepard]

[Not if she hasn't gotten the chance to question him, much less meet him? Then again, that's the funny thing about encountering people -- or in this case, synthetics -- well ahead of time.]

Nothing specific coming to mind, or are you looking at us as a whole?

[thishousedivided]

[It's a good thing they can't really express frustration.]

Yes.