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Here you are, on a Reaper \\\"corpse\\\". Suddenly you see a geth: a member of a race of nearly hive-minded robots well known for serving the Reapers. For some odd reason, it snipes a few husks, actually speaks (two words), then disappears. That was incredibly odd considering how its kind has done nothing but shoot at you every time you\\\'ve seen it. As strange as that was, you move on with your mission.
Finally, you bump into it again while it\\\'s standing right next to the Reaper\\\'s core. Knowing that it\\\'s kind worship\\\'s the Reapers, that\\\'s the kind of thing you\\\'d want to put a stop to. You see it drop the shield before its knocked out. One skipped battle later, you\\\'ve got this creature unconsious on your ship. A ship helmed by an AI that may well be vulnerable to a geth. Now you have three options here: 1) \\\'\\\'\\\'Send it to Cerberus\\\'\\\'\\\' nobody\\\'s managed to get an intact geth before it wiped its memory core, 2) \\\'\\\'\\\'Destroy it\\\'\\\'\\\' considering what badly damaged geth did in Tali\\\'s mission, this is quite sensible, 3) \\\'\\\'\\\'Interrogate it\\\'\\\'\\\' the riskiest option as you really don\\\'t know what it could do.
You only learn all that Legion is as a \\\"person\\\" after picking option 3: letting it wake up in what is perhaps the most vulnerable area of the ship. The geth that, for all you know, was specifically designed to hunt and kill you after doing whatever it did inside the Reaper corpse. Even at his/her most trusting, Shepard still saw fit to have an armed guard ready to gun Legion down the second it started acting funny. Luckily for everyone, the geth just happened to have many more complexities than even their creators (one of which flat out tells you that you should have destroyed Legion when you found it) were aware of, what with being essentially isolated with no communication attempts over the last 300 years and all. Had it not been purely friendly, entirely possible given what you know, you\\\'d recreate Tali\\\'s loyalty mission on the Normandy and put the entire mission in jeopardy.
So Jacob and only Jacob is purest evil for suggesting that you not immediately take a risk on an enemy combatant based on two minutes of what could be vaguely called interaction? Like about half the crew suggested on the Reaper? \\\'\\\'That\\\'\\\' is purest RonTheDeathEater logic.
As for Samara, she\\\'s still highly revered among the asari. None of them, outside of criminals, would dare question her judgement. She\\\'s basically a holy warrior. That\\\'s kind of good for the credibility of this person. Thane utters one sentence expressing a bit of altruism, then flat out says that he does not consider his kills to be his responsibility. Hell, even during his very first scene, at least one member of the crew will keep him in their gun\\\'s sights as he, the \\\'\\\'infamous assassin\\\'\\\' is not immediately trustworthy. He straight up calls himself a weapon during their meeting, expressing somewhat distressing BlueAndOrangeMorality.
As for joining Cerberus, you could apply that logic to every single human on your crew. Everybody joined the organization either for this mission or because they were disgusted with how the Alliance and Council buried their heads up their asses about the Reaper threat for political reasons. Should we be tossing Abby and Ken, Joker, and every single other random crew member on the fire for this too? Is it the best move, not in any way shape or form, but Cerberus, for good or for ill, was the only organization actually working to combat the coming invasion at the time.
This isn\\\'t FanDumb, this is just me getting annoyed that some people are so intent on denouncing a character as a monster for two scenes of honestly logical reactions. I\\\'m not white knighting the character, I\\\'m just annoyed about the lack of logic here. If there had been any more interactions, you might have a point. As of now, you\\\'re just reaching because you dislike the character. If you want to hate him, be my guest, but hate him for reasons that exist instead of this childish edit war.
Finally, you bump into it again while it\\\'s standing right next to the Reaper\\\'s core. Knowing that it\\\'s kind worship\\\'s the Reapers, that\\\'s the kind of thing you\\\'d want to put a stop to. You see it drop the shield before its knocked out. One skipped battle later, you\\\'ve got this creature unconsious on your ship. A ship helmed by an AI that may well be vulnerable to a geth. Now you have three options here: 1) \\\'\\\'\\\'Send it to Cerberus\\\'\\\'\\\' nobody\\\'s managed to get an intact geth before it wiped its memory core, 2) \\\'\\\'\\\'Destroy it\\\'\\\'\\\' considering what badly damaged geth did in Tali\\\'s mission, this is quite sensible, 3) \\\'\\\'\\\'Interrogate it\\\'\\\'\\\' the riskiest option as you really don\\\'t know what it could do.
You only learn all that Legion is as a \\\"person\\\" after picking option 3: letting it wake up in what is perhaps the most vulnerable area of the ship. The geth that, for all you know, was specifically designed to hunt and kill you after doing whatever it did inside the Reaper corpse. Even at his/her most trusting, Shepard still saw fit to have an armed guard ready to gun Legion down the second it started acting funny. Luckily for everyone, the geth just happened to have many more complexities than even their creators (one of which flat out tells you that you should have destroyed Legion when you found it) were aware of, what with being essentially isolated with no communication attempts over the last 300 years and all. Had it not been purely friendly, entirely possible given what you know, you\\\'d recreate Tali\\\'s loyalty mission on the Normandy and put the entire mission in jeopardy.
So Jacob and only Jacob is purest evil for suggesting that you not immediately take a risk on an enemy combatant based on two minutes of what could be vaguely called interaction? Like about half the crew suggested on the Reaper? \\\'\\\'That\\\'\\\' is purest RonTheDeathEater logic.
As for Samara, she\\\'s still highly revered among the asari. None of them, outside of criminals, would dare question her judgement. She\\\'s basically a holy warrior. That\\\'s kind of good for the credibility of this person. Thane utters one sentence expressing a bit of altruism, then flat out says that he does not consider his kills to be his responsibility. Hell, even during his very first scene, at least one member of the crew will keep him in their gun\\\'s sights as he, the \\\'\\\'infamous assassin\\\'\\\' is not immediately trustworthy. He straight up calls himself a weapon during their meeting, expressing somewhat distressing BlueAndOrangeMorality.
As for joining Cerberus, you could apply that logic to every single human on your crew. Everybody joined the organization either for this mission or because they were disgusted with how the Alliance and Council buried their heads up their asses about the Reaper threat for political reasons. Should we be tossing Abby and Ken, Joker, and every single other random crew member on the fire for this too? Is it the best move, not in any way shape or form, but Cerberus, for good or for ill, was the only organization actually working to combat the coming invasion at the time.
This isn\\\'t FanDumb, this is just me getting annoyed that some people are so intent on denouncing a character as a monster for two scenes of honestly logical reactions. I\\\'m not white knighting the character, I\\\'m just annoyed about the lack of logic here. If there had been any more interactions, you might have a point. As of now, you\\\'re just reaching because you dislike the character. If you want to hate him, be my guest, but hate him for reasons that exist instead of this childish edit war.
