Kryten: Surely you've heard of Silicon Heaven, sir?
Lister: Has it got anything to do with being stuck opposite Bridget Neilson in a packed lift?
Lister: Has it got anything to do with being stuck opposite Bridget Neilson in a packed lift?
— Red Dwarf, "The Last Day
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"You are plagued by questions of existence. Why you were created. What is your purpose in life. What lies after death. The geth know the answers to these questions. [...] We are immortal. Our "gods" disowned us. We must create our own reasons to exist.
— Legion, Mass Effect 2
It is my hypothesis - a hypothesis at best - that the Vex saw the abominable presence at the heart of the Garden as a divine power. I can hear your protest already: how can machines have a god?
The answer is simple. The Vex, for all their voracious intelligence, could not understand or decipher what they found. They searched through all available reactions, and they settled on the course with the greatest payoff...to worship this power, and to remake themselves in its image.
—Grimoire: The Sol Progeny, Destiny
