What did you do today in ME?

This is not good news.
I installed that mod for the first time and haven't played it yet.
I was going to leave my next trilogy run through until a bit closer to Andromeda, but I might try out ME1 now.

Mark Shepard:

Rannoch: Gonna save Admiral Koris. The civilian fleet will be under a warmonger without him. Couldn't not take Tali. We found some dead quarians along the way and some geth we helped get to the same state. Picked up a Geth Spitfire. The things it does to geth! Love it! The we found one badly injured but still living quarian named Dorn'Hazt. He was maintenance. Should never have been placed in a war zone. With his dying breath he asked us to tell his son Jona that he'd made it to the homeworld. The name is familiar from when we fought on the Alarei after the admirals had accused Tali of treason. One video log we heard was from a quarian who, at the end of her message, died. In it she mentioned a son named "Jona" and that "mommy loves you very much". "Mommy" suggests a small child and this one now has no parents thanks to the admirals forcing this war. This is right in line with Xen's comments that "[the civilian fleet's] wants are immaterial". Finally, we took out the geth jamming tower and were able to contact Koris. He wanted me to save the civilians rather than himself but I convinced him he was needed to lead the civilian fleet.

Normandy: Once back with the fleet, Koris contacted me to say I was right and that the civilian fleet would have left and been destroyed if he hadn't returned. I know I'm hard on the admirals but I don't actually hate the quarians. I just think their leaders are too emotional and make rash decisions because of it.

We all know that, when large numbers of them are combined, the geth are a functional AI. However, with the Reaper upgrades each singular geth is fully evolved. Less of a cluster and more individual. They'd be like EDI. Admiral Raan didn't want to acknowledge this as life but it was clear that's what they were.

War Assets: 4622 x 95% = 4390

Rannoch: Since I'm here I need to take care of the Geth Fighter Squadron that's tearing the quarian fleet apart. Legion brought me to a geth server that housed the programs of the geth in the fighters. Wiping out the programs would put cause the geth bodies to stop working. Surprisingly, Javik and EDI said nothing when Legion told me I had to be plugged into the server. Once inside, Legion appeared to me. It was a weird landscape with clusters of blocks (which were the programs) and platforms that appeared to guide me to my destination. Also, I had a gun that was needed to wipe out the Reaper programming. I realized this was like destroying a city but Legion said it was necessary.

Got to see video logs from the awakening of the first geth all the way until the end of the Morning War - which ended when the quarians fled and the geth chose not to pursue. It's pretty damning information about the quarians. Creating AI hadn't been the intent but civil war erupted over it. Those opposed to the geth would destroy those in opposition, be they geth or quarian, fighting or surrendered.

The unexpected happened when I came out. The inert geth prime I had seen in pods emerged. If I'm understanding it right, the geth in the server transferred into these new hosts. They also renounced the Reapers and offered to join. That means quarians aren't being killed and at least some of the geth were now on our side instead of against us. Sounds like a win all around.

I've picked up the chronicles of Eva Shepard in the weekend. She "saved" Maelon and made damn sure Urdnot Grunt killed the thresher maw on foot. She advised Mordin to keep Maelons data for now.

Thank you both, stephenw32768 and fraggle!

I have also caught up to Rannoh quests with my Mark the Renegade. Unfortunately, I've missed Grissholm Academy this time around, because I did not know that if I trigger Udina's betrayal, the quest is considered a fail. And, I went to hand in one of the smaller missions back to Citadel, and, well, the rest was history. Jack's name does not appear on the wall of the names though on Normandy, so I suppose Jack just disappears from Mark's life.

as I was playing through the rest of the ME2 companion related quests, I started to think how Mark certainly sees a darker, grimmer world because he is a renegade. Dagg does not get to emerge from the Ravagers infested tunnels coated with blood like Grunt did for my Paragon. mark shoots Samara's last surviving daughter and reads unopened letters by Morinth, who alone hunts somewhere out there... and lo and behold, there is no avoiding Miranda's sister even via killing Miranda, he has to hear that she was abducted by her father. Ashley was told to take an assignment with Hackett.

All and all, I feel that Renegade portrait falls into place now, not so much as some puppy kicking raving lunatic, but simply the guy in whose world good but improbable things simply do not happen just because he really hopes for the best, like the Paragon.

So, after much going back and forth, I am going to finish Rannoch with destroying the Geth - because they are a proven liability. So Tali's and Legion story is going to end in defeat. Mark cannot be the one righting the old wrongs.

I still sort of want the Control ending, but it feels wrong for Mark to take his chances. He will never believe that it can end well.

Oh, and I've finally got the Paramour achievement by Mark pledging himself to Liara. Poor guy, he needs something nice. 😀

My renegade Liam Shepard took a break from punching kittens to recruit Tali, took Garrus with me this time. Loved the back and forth between himself and Tali, d'aww. He also didn't take kindly to being shot at whilst on board, so if he couldn't punch a kitten he punched Admiral Gerrel instead.

If you're not worried about spoilers I'll just tell you.

I think the thing with Jack makes sense.  If you go to Grissom and read the data pads you discover Cerberus considers Prangley and Rodriguez to be high priority targets to turn into phantoms. It's definitely a thing Cerberus was doing with biotics.

According to several sources Morinth appears on Earth, so you can still see her (same as me in my current run)

I'm glad that you enjoyed my post, and I'm also glad that Mark Shepard will choose to save the quarians

Not much of late, finished my ME2 playthrough that was on the old BSN, then started ME3 but that ground to a halt at the start of the Tchunka arc.

Fallout 4 has been occupying me of late.