The Benefactor is..

Totally agree, Reyes is intriguing as I think the way he plays the Charlatan maybe a reflection of him being played the same way by the Benefactor if that makes sense. That is he acts for the Benefactor without knowing who said Benefactor (The Geth or SAM) is and was probably the one to kill Jien. Well that's my theory anyway. 

I just don't see him as the Benefactor, just don't see how he could pull the resources together to help fund SAM and the AI.

Or maybe he is safe as The Benefactor still needs to influence events directly? Some of Reyes comments & motivations seem strange too for someone who seems so shady. He was concerned Sloane would start a war and that it would decimate the initiative, he came to Andromeda to "be someone" yet doesn't want to be in the limelight visibly leading the collective. He goes out of his way to make sure the Kadara Outpost is protected as well.

I'll be so disappointed if this isn't addressed in DLC sometime soon. 

I always shoot Sloane but have read about his "plot armor".

Been great chatting Gladiolusofaugust, game just finished downloading (again) to try and sort out some issues so off to play for a few hrs whilst I can 

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If its like the previous stuff, the geth will still be more of a threat than in the narrative of the trilogy, but we're taking a lighter side of them (or at least what becomes a lighter side) so we don't have to focus story arcs on their issues.

So yeah, being a part of the Ai but in a covert way and surprisingly sneaky (Geth do not infiltrate! Yes Legion, but what about when they DO) way and with objections and fears of Quarians, albeit maybe a relatively less war-desiring Quarian population.

Sound legit?

Yeah, I don't think they are going to be an enemy if that's what you are saying. I think they will be an ally eventually and that the Quarians are just freaking out because when they left the MW the Geth were still the enemy and they didn't expect to wake up 600 years later with Geth ships in Andromeda or Geth aboard their ark.

I think the benefactor is the geth and here is my reasons:
 
1) According to Suvi the geth turned a Mass Effect relay into an FTL telescope and somehow they allowed the Initiative and Alec Ryder to get intel on Heleus Cluster and the Golden Worlds.

2) The geth being software could have stored enough programs to be a colony in anything that had enough processing power.

3) EDI states in ME2 the geth mind was the size of a galactic arm.

4) Legion in ME3 states that the geth believed him about the Reaper threat. This might have been a plan to save themselves by saving as many of the other races.

5) Legion also states in ME3 that they work on a huge project when the quarians attacked them and that was why the quarians were able to surprise them. Could this have been a geth ark?

6) Also the benefactor is shown to use as a series of other MW races. Since the geth aren't exactly loved in the MW this feels like a convenient way to disguise who they are.

7) The geth also had advanced technology that could have helped the construction of the Nexus, the various Arks and their drive cores, the various SAMs and their implants, and so on. 


I also think the benefactor did not kill Garson. I think it's possible that Garson faked her own death and either got on a shuttle and left the Nexus in the confusion possibly to try to find Alec Ryder and the human ark, or she went back in cyro-status to hide in general population like the salarian pathfinder.

Yeah, hadn't thought about that. Given that the Geth are the majority of AI in the MW and Alec ask the SB to find him AI tech part's of SAM's code would most likely be Geth I'd think.

I think SAM reminded me most of Legion when we glimpse Legion speaking as an individual just before he died. Also SAM's feelings regarding Ellen and how he failed her and how he wants to make it right reminded me of Legion a lot.

Now if I can just get it out of my head that SAM is voiced by the woman who voiced Calpernia in DAI, I will remember SAM is male lol

I smiled so badly haha I loved her really! Always told her she was being used. Never saw her as an enemy. That email plus her voice actress guiding me through MEA was just awesome! Anders email made me facepalm so bad I made my face red lol and Varric's email was just perfect!