The Geth Initiative

The Geth Initiative – Geth lovers rejoice in my head canon, enemy of geth falter before my undeniable logic! Tl;dr; the geth did it.



The Long: I had scoured the internet for information on the geth in Andromeda and it was pretty universally believed that of any race worthy of being left behind, the geth were most. Even volus, hanar, and batarians were listed as more likely. Some few arguments for the geth were that a third consensus, like the heretics, had been made and contacted Cerberus AI factions, or non-Cerberus SAM developer, working on the Andromeda initiative. One stated the geth would make ideal crew for the trip while in cryo, where others suggested this was the reason for the long-lived krogans another suggested the krogan would still require food, life support, and therefore produce heat in the trip. I will not go into arguments against the geth because at least one reason will be obvious to everyone and most people will have their own ideas about why geth are not good candidates for the trip alongside organics.



I had read an offhand comment mentioning that the geth had been considered as an alternative to ME2’s Cerberus for the perpetrators of the Lazarus Project, if you are interested there are some threads on this specifically that talk about things like the geths motivations for reviving shepherd, the coolest ‘for’ comment I found said something like “shepherd had killed the heretics god, and so the geth took interest” this explains why legion was the way he was; his N7 armor, his tracking shepherd across so many planets to get that armor, etc. It also makes sense in that the geth would be more advanced than humanity (they came from quarians and I just remember kasumi’s comment “when was the last time quarians wrote on stone” – or similar, they are old and technologically advanced and the geth not as old are even more advanced) and no one else has brought dead back to life to my knowledge (i.e. why are humans so technologically advanced?). I digress.



There is also this dark ark theory talking about the similarities of the arks and the collector cruisers. Anyone arguing for these cannot argue the geth would not have access to them as well. Further a major argument for the dark arks is that the arks seem to be massively advanced ships that no one knows about, that just come from nowhere. What better place could nowhere be than geth space, and where better to get advanced ships? Even if the arks have not to do with the cruisers this argument holds. Think, where did the arks come from? The nexus? And could the geth have built it? Maybe they repurposed a large, or very very small, piece of their Dyson sphere. It may be that the ‘third’ consensus is actually the one that stuck around to build the sphere and the majority of the geth decided to make for Andromeda.



So then ask, why bring organics along at all? Well clearly the bulk of the Andromeda intiative has little to do with the geth, much of the volume and mass of the stations are not conducive to geth progress they are conducive to the progress of all these other species. Well, why not. The geth may be huge contributors to the Andromeda initiative, larger than all the other races combined, and they still would not have made it without the resources of all these other species. The reason must be that the geth have calculated that without organic aide they will not complete construction in time to beat the reapers. It’s a 1 or 0 answer so they go for organic help with the contingency plan to abandon the quest if organics are unable to be allied with. Ultimately it is a combined effort, but it would go something like this:



1 A ridiculously small in scale AI development cell is made in support of the pre-Andromeda initiative operation, which at this time may have no allusion to such a trip. 2 the geth contact the cell and ultimately the cell brokers the deal because if they do they provide unprecedented resources for a cell their size, making huge names for themselves, meanwhile the geth make the deal because that is what they are there for and have calculated the organics responses to this situation. 3 the cell provides to TIM-equivalent pre-Andromeda initiative operations head an unprecedented gift of a massive space station which is to be built up into the nexus, complete with trip plans to escape the reapers. No one immediately questions the gift and by the time questions are raised the cell is erased and no one really cares to remember where the ships came from, much like the relays before them, ‘don’t look a gift horse in the mouth’. Oho, so it turns out SAM is a geth in disguise I suppose.


P.S. this is my first post, so please go easy on me. I hope this gets some good attention, causes discussion, etc. and that you guys and girls enjoyed my most probably wrong theories.


Tl;dr2; Everyone wonders where humans got the tech for lazarus, the answer is the geth were originally planned not Cerberus. Everyone is wondering where these massive ark ships and super advanced nexus came from, the answer is the geth are originally planned not the council races. Or so I choose to believe because… because legion.