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You know what this means, right?

Go buy me the damned account. You have more screencaps than a Geth up a Reaper's ass. Just do it and get it done. And go buy Connor's while you're at it. Preferably before you pass out on me and forget I've given my damned blessing. What about Chakwas and the rest of my crew? Sure, I guess some of them are out there, but it's not like I'm going anywhere.

Goddamned Reapers haven't killed me yet.

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Shepard... Those comments of yours. The ones logged with your present administrator.

Don't think I'm unaware of them.

Jam it, Admiral. I could care less if you know I'm talking shit about you.

That much is clear.

Obviously. I didn't give a shit the first time I did it and I'm not gonna start giving one. You intimated taking apart my friend for your own technological advances, so.

Fuck that and fuck you.

Charming... How do you console yourself, the moment your omni-tool encounters a data error?

Mmm, sarcasm. I thought my diet needed more of that.

Not to worry, Commander. I'm sure your pet mechanoid will heal all wounds.

It has extensive files on organic physiology, after all. These things help in their quest to collectively exterminate us.

Legion is dead. And he sacrificed himself so his entire race could evolve and take the step toward true sentience. But I doubt anyone told you that because you're too busy dissecting Geth in your lab to care. Right now, on Rannoch, your people are being helped because Legion believed that was the right thing. He believed in your people. This war of yours against the Geth? It's steeped in misunderstanding and fear.

[She takes a breath, pissed off because Legion's dead, but...coming to terms with his sacrifice. It was the right thing to do, she knows that.]

It's time to let the war go because it's gone past all reasoning. No one needs to die, not the Geth, and not the Quarian people. You want your homeworld back? The Geth will give it to you, now. You want to live like the people you once were? The Geth will help you. If you stop shooting them.

No, Commander. I've been too busy constructing your doomsday weapon, when I could have been investing my time in projects which at least come with a theoretical idea of what they're meant to do.

Perhaps if the geth had simply departed Rannoch, rather than take time to exterminate every man, woman and child in their campaign to cleanse both my homeworld and its planetary colonies of all quarians, my work would not have been so dedicated... Work, I might add, which is proving most valuable against the galactic threat we now collectively face!

You, of all humans, I would have expected to see the inherent danger of placing trust in a vastly superior synthetic force, which can decide to eliminate you on the basis of instantaneous calculation...

Yes, Commander... I'll help your project. I'll even stand by and watch my people stupidly upload geth into the very suits they depend upon for survival - without safeguards. But don't presume you can lecture me on the supposed benefits of equality for automated hardware...

[Would be Vader-breathing so loud in your face if her mask allowed for it, right now.]

You're both at fault in that fucking mess of a war and your races will fix that shit in time. That any of your people are willing to trust the Geth so far as to upload them into their suits is a step in the right goddamn direction. The sooner you can learn to trust each other, the better off you both will be. They're doing more for your people right now than anyone thought they would.

Don't fucking discount the positives.

[Stabby finger.]

Mind you, anyone can decide that anyone else needs to be exterminated based upon calculations. Look at the Krogan, the Turians, the Salarians. Galactic fuckery lead to a species nearly exterminated and now they're working together to fight the Reapers with the Krogan headed in a peaceful direction with its new leaders.

The Geth have free will and they have decided to help us--you, me, fight the Reapers, help us save our Universe...

And Legion did that.

I'm glad you're working on the Crucible, but I don't give my blessing on the shit you did to the Geth or anyone else who got in your way. It's a far fucking cry from humane, and I refuse to condone it.

Edited (...fuck English) 2012-05-20 17:36 (UTC)

Most organics don't have the capacity to turn ideas into species-wide actions at the speed of light, Commander... Geth do. They do not, however, suffer from the emotional complexities of guilt.

Be careful of the values you assign to something, simply on account of it having an audible voice. Especially when its kind has also demonstrated the ability to lie to gain a strategic advantage.

What you do is your business, Commander. And your sacrifices afford considerable respect from me. But do not expect the rest of us to always share your beliefs as our own.

Guess we'll just have to choose to disagree and leave it at that.

At the risk of appearing civil, this is not a course of action I object to.

Good. This fucked up Universe has enough conflict in it.

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