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jpcerutti1
9 years ago

Re: Benefactor (contains spoilers)

@UndeadHessian wrote:
arthurh3535 wrote:

I'm betting it's the Geth, myself. They'd be very interested in A.I. research (and not biased against it, of course). They have the resources to fund building five Arks and the Nexus itself. They have/had access to Reaper technology (like the OSDY drive that just happens to work very similarly to the Reapers FTL drive.) They are shown to not be genocidal to a fanatical degree (and even tried to save the very few Quarian pro-Geth supporters on Roanok(SP?) while still being casually ruthless enough to kill someone figuring them out.

The fact that the Benefactor had a "legion" of faces and the name Andromeda Initiative could be subtle hints. They could have been active the whole trip over, preparing to move in the background with their own stealth ships upon arrival.

I also keep getting stuck on this idea. Where it's the geth or not, they are involved in some way. I played through my NG+ and I found another factor to include. They mention that the geth had a FTL telescope and the initiative used this to view the Andromeda Galaxy better. Or quicker in a sense. Lol

So why did the geth conveniently have a FTL telescope to view another Galaxy, and if I remember correctly they were already looking at Andromeda!?

AND who the hell went to the quarian home system and magicly found this telescope, and took said telescope which I imagine is quite large and not easy to move, and knew how to use geth technology. Didn't Shepard need legions help to use geth technology?

Suvi is a little sketchy about the details; mostly because she doesn't really understand how it worked (and says so).

You wouldn't have to actually move the telescope/relay, you would just have to "borrow" it by pointing it wherever you wanted and looking. If they were already looking, you would just have to either piggyback/tap onto what they were doing or, more likely, get ahold of their raw data afterwards and study it yourself.

The Geth worked with/held in reverence the ancient machines for a fair bit of time. Long enough to form a separate faction and then split it off... some amount of time pre-ME1. They could of been searching the universe for the rest of the ancient machines.

It depends what you mean by using Geth technology. A mass effect relay isn't Geth technology and the rest of the galaxy uses them quite often.

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago
    jpcerutti1 wrote:

    Suvi is a little sketchy about the details; mostly because she doesn't really understand how it worked (and says so).

    You wouldn't have to actually move the telescope/relay, you would just have to "borrow" it by pointing it wherever you wanted and looking. If they were already looking, you would just have to either piggyback/tap onto what they were doing or, more likely, get ahold of their raw data afterwards and study it yourself.

    The Geth worked with/held in reverence the ancient machines for a fair bit of time. Long enough to form a separate faction and then split it off... some amount of time pre-ME1. They could of been searching the universe for the rest of the ancient machines.

    It depends what you mean by using Geth technology. A mass effect relay isn't Geth technology and the rest of the galaxy uses them quite often.

    Oh yes you are right, they could of used it without moving it but still they went to the quarian home system and use this telescope and the geth didn't intervene? And that's a clever idea, the geth looking for the old machines....... Maybe that's what attack​Ed the jardaan. And by using geth tech sorry I was referring to the virtual interface to stop the geth, I didn't think that through. 

    Still though ; geth telescope! Pretty convenient they had one and the initiative "found" it. 

    And thanks for the suvi info, I'm trying to read into the dialogue of the characters to figure this out. Or at least the possibilities.

  • jpcerutti1's avatar
    jpcerutti1
    9 years ago
    @UndeadHessian wrote:
    jpcerutti1 wrote:

    Suvi is a little sketchy about the details; mostly because she doesn't really understand how it worked (and says so).

    You wouldn't have to actually move the telescope/relay, you would just have to "borrow" it by pointing it wherever you wanted and looking. If they were already looking, you would just have to either piggyback/tap onto what they were doing or, more likely, get ahold of their raw data afterwards and study it yourself.

    The Geth worked with/held in reverence the ancient machines for a fair bit of time. Long enough to form a separate faction and then split it off... some amount of time pre-ME1. They could of been searching the universe for the rest of the ancient machines.

    It depends what you mean by using Geth technology. A mass effect relay isn't Geth technology and the rest of the galaxy uses them quite often.

    Oh yes you are right, they could of used it without moving it but still they went to the quarian home system and use this telescope and the geth didn't intervene? And that's a clever idea, the geth looking for the old machines....... Maybe that's what attack​Ed the jardaan. And by using geth tech sorry I was referring to the virtual interface to stop the geth, I didn't think that through. 

    Still though ; geth telescope! Pretty convenient they had one and the initiative "found" it. 

    And thanks for the suvi info, I'm trying to read into the dialogue of the characters to figure this out. Or at least the possibilities.

    There's also either a journal or codex entry you get early in the game (by the beginning of the first mission) that talks a little about it.

  • chrissyce1123's avatar
    chrissyce1123
    9 years ago

    The shadowbroker, batarians and vorcha worked with the collectors who worked with the geth. 

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