poiumty said:
Oh bullshit. The only threat to the galactic civilizations that ever had anything to do with the relays was the reapers. What exactly would happen if they DID continue on this path and leave the relays intact? Would they suddenly turn into dumbasses and stop progressing? For what reason?
And if the slave master is dead, doesn't that technically mean they're *free*? How and why is it worse? Is there some chip implanted in every organic's brain whose existence depends only on the relays that keeps us from learning how to use the technology properly? Do you feel bad about learning advanced physics in school because you didn't have to discover gravity by yourself? Do you feel bad for driving a car without building the engine yourself?
What's all this predicting-the-future nonsense? And what about the "societal path"? It's stated in the DLC that Protheans were an all-consuming imperium and had a very different society from the one the galactic council has right now. So there you go, proof that mass relays don't force society to develop a certain way. The geth have always desired to commune with the quarians: proof that synthetics don't always want to rebel against organics. In fact the entire Quarian vs Geth war is based on the fact that the Quarians were the warmongers while the Geth were just trying to get along, and they didn't think twice about forming a mutual cooperation even after the quarians tried to wipe them out over and over.
Given the fact that according to Matriarch Aethyta the Asari are total unwilling to even attempt to build a Mass relay of their own, and that The citadel counsel has banned almost all studying of the Mass relays, The citadel, and the Keepers out of fear of losing them, the logical outcome is that they would reach the pointjust bellow the Mass relays and stop technologically because they have no idea there is any better because they spend their entire lives trying to protect it that they have no real idea of what it is they are trying to protect.
them being completely ignorant of what the things they posses really and their ignorance being their downfall was a GIANT deal in ME1, and was stated by Sovereign on Virmire.
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How can one be free if they still wear the chains of their masters and still working within the limits their masters set for them never going beyond them? The answer is that they cant.
Secondly your comparisons are totally different because those things were made by humans, for humans, to help humans. while the Mass Relays were built by The Reapers, to help the reapers, and to limit civilization
You are comparing apples to oranges
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I never said they could predict the future, don't make things up
Secondly there are many societal paths that can emerge that fall within the same limits.
Thirdly the Geth have always wanted to communicate wit the quarrians peaceful yes, HOWEVER the only reason why the peace was able to be brokered between the two species is because of the Reaper invasion.
Has the reapers not shown up things would have played out VERY differently.
The Geth would have stayed behind the Perseus Veil suffering form attacks by the quarrians and other Organics who don't like synthetics and eventually an event very well could have happened that caused them to feel like it was necessary to go to war.
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You cant just say that because peace was brokered with the geth because the Reaper invasions allowed it that the same peace would be established had the reaper Invasions never happened
It simply doesn't work that way.
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so yeah, you are either completely ignoring everything sovereign said in ME1 and what was hinted at in both ME2 and Me3, or you are so deep in a hate campaign against bioware to see how it actually makes sense if you payed attention.