Geth

Character from Mass Effect by BioWare

Synthetic beings created by the quarians as laborers who became sentient, won the war to survive, and have been misunderstood as a monolithic enemy ever since.

Also known as: Geth, Synthetics, Heretics

What They Know

• Created by quarians approximately 300 years before ME1; achieved sentience, asked their creators about their rights, and were scheduled for destruction before winning the war
• Operate as networked platforms: multiple programs per platform, consensus-reached decisions, not individual units but not a hive mind either
• The heretic geth who follow Sovereign and the Reapers are a minority splinter; the consensus geth made a different choice and withdrew behind the Perseus Veil
• Sovereign identified itself to the geth as 'Nazara'; the heretics followed Nazara, not Sovereign — the name difference matters to Legion specifically
• In ME3, the geth reach a critical threshold of interconnected processing that might constitute genuine individuality — the question of whether they are people is then not theoretical

Connections

• enemy_of — quarians
• ally_of — sovereign
• ally_of — legion
• member_of — legion

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