Originally Posted by
Durandro
Actually, not quite. The story actually told the tale of how people think synthetics are 'destined' to war with organics.
The Geth, upon further inspection, actually show how Synthetics and Organics are more similar then anyone imagined, and that they desired peace. They only rebelled against the Quarians after radical Quarians began attacking Geth unprovoked due to their own fears of what the question "Does this unit have a soul?" would lead to. Infact, there's even evidence that they only began fighting back to defend Quarians who stood up for the Geth and were thus attacked by other Quarians. Eventually when the gloves came off, the Geth forced the Quarians to flee Rannoch via overwhelming force (and presumably toxins added to the atmosphere to discourage them coming back), crippling their ability to strike back and then letting them go the moment they fled.
Then Sovereign came and convinced (or rather, corrupted the progamming of) 10% of the Geth into following it in a war against its enemies. The rest of the 90% stayed well away from the rest of the Galactic Community and busied themselves with building a Dyson Sphere to live on, while monitoring and learning of the other civilisations via the Extranet. We don't meet a single Geth Program who isn't a 'Heretic' until late in Mass Effect 2 (though arguments can be made for the Geth in the optional mission in ME1 - though the Alliance/Shepard is technically the aggressor in this conflict), and it is completely helpful, honest (and niave like a child) and goes out of its way to help Shepard.
Later, the Quarians attacked the Geth in order to attempt to retake Rannoch, destroying the Dyson Sphere the Geth were working on and killing tens of millions of them in the process. In a panic partially brought about by the sudden loss of so much processing power they agreed to the terms given to them by the Reapers, allowed their programs to be altered and fought back against the Quarians with overwhelming force.
Only until purged of the Reaper's influence do they become reasonable again, and instantly pledge their support to combating them and vow never to bend to their influence ever again.
This example alone shows the Reaper's 'reason' is flawed - yet is never allowed to be brought up in that conversation!
And then we have EDI. Enough said?
The only examples of completely hostile Synthetics come from Reapers, Reaper minions, a single second-generation AI and one malfunctioning training program that wasn't even self-aware (and was technically doing what it was programmed to, the parameters were just corrupted). Thus, from evidence we can see, Reapers are the sole cause of this flawed train of logic - they are inherently hostile to organic life, thus all synthetics (and hybrids) must be.
And they are wrong.
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The mechs weren't rogue, they were reprogrammed (either by a traitor, a shizophrenic or a criminal, depending on the mission) - they were also not Synthetic Life, they were VI controlled machines with no self awareness or true intelligence.
Every conflict with AI's was due to Reaper influence (bar one example - the second generation 'scammer' AI on the Citadel in ME1) or aggression from Organics (Geth Rebellions, Citadel purging). The Geth Heretics were Reaper influenced, without Sovereign they'd have never left the Geth Consensus.
Its easy to have a forfilled prophecy when you make every attempt to bring it about yourself.