Lurking in the Background

One of Miranda's 'upgrades' when rebuilding Shepard should have been a synthetic brain.

Just like an organic one so Shepard would be the same, but made of inorganic material and therefore resistant to indoctrination.

The geth aren't ever indoctrinated.

In ME3, the Reapers use a signal to reprogram(?) them.

I'm not sure if it's ever stated outright, but my takeaway is indoctrination doesn't work on synthetics.

This:

... kind of sounds like the same result, doesn't it? I mean, I find this entry kind of contradictory. They have "simulated indoctrination" and they all got a virus, which means they had no choice, yet it also says the geth chose this willingly.

Compare it to the description of how organic indoctrination works:

This doesn't describe indoctrination as a virus, and it doesn't detail how it works other than sound waves that taking over your limbic system.

In ME2, we learn that Sovereign provided the heretics a virus that would change the true geth's low-level process so they would agree with the heretics and join them. (Conveniently, increasing Sovereign's own forces).

Legion's loyalty mission is about preventing the heretics from using the virus (and possibly using it to rewrite them).

Shepard: "What good will that do?"

Legion: "All memories will be shared. All perspectives will be unified.

"We gain intelligence by sharing thoughts. But we do not have adequate hardware for all of us to share at once.

"No geth will be alone when it is done."

Shepard: "So you're going to build a giant spaceship to load yourselves into. That sounds like a Reaper to me."

Legion: "We bear no malice toward organics. You are different, but we accept you.

"The Reapers are more your future than ours.

"We judged that Shepard-Commander would understand. We never wanted to harm organics. We wish to improve ourselves."

Legion never disagrees that the geth are essentially turning themselves into a Reaper.

Can you imagine if ME3 had followed through on this?

This cycle could have potentially have had a Reaper on their side!

A native born reaper, that maybe you could get to make peace with the quarians so it would have a reason to fight for you.

It could have provided so much insight into the Reapers! How they came to be originally. How they function. Perhaps how they communicate and a means to destroy them.

It could have taken ME3 into a radical direction.

Is it just the size?

The presumed danger it potentially could represent?

The idea of an Actually Intelligent ship? (In which case, please cough politely to remind them you're here, EDI)

Is it the complexity or enormity of the mind it would possess?

The mobility said mind would possess?

The idea that it's Soylent Green'd, that is, it's "made from people"?

Did they want to convey that any sufficiently large and intelligent ship would spontaneously become "Reaper-like"? And if so, again, in what way?

Legion, if you ask it about Sovereign : "Nazara. That was what the programs within the Reaper called themselves. 'Sovereign' was a title given by Saren Arterius.

"Saren and the heretics believed Nazara to be a 'supreme ruler'. A sovereign."

Shepard: "Sovereign was one ship. You're saying there were multiple programs inside it?

Legion: "One ship. One will. Many minds. Like the geth. We study your records. Sovereign told you this on Illos.

"'We are each a nation, independent, free of all weakness.'

"A state compelling to the geth. We are a nation, but interdependent. Separation is our weakness.

The geth see Reapers as a single people that have merged together into one entity. A gestalt.

That's what the geth intend to do - merge together into one platform to become a single, large gestalt.

In the same conversation the original post quotes from, Legion says that the Reapers even offered the geth a platform they could use, but the true geth turned it down. They believe building the platform is an important part of the process.

Shepard: "That's what Sovereign offered you. A Reaper's body for you all to upload into."

Legion: "Yes. A shortcut to our objective.

"We will achieve it ourselves. The process is as important as the result."

One of Miranda's 'upgrades' when rebuilding Shepard should have been a synthetic brain.

Just like an organic one so Shepard would be the same, but made of inorganic material and therefore resistant to indoctrination.

The geth aren't ever indoctrinated.

In ME3, the Reapers use a signal to reprogram(?) them.

I'm not sure if it's ever stated outright, but my takeaway is indoctrination doesn't work on synthetics.

Eggs are used in this recipe because they smell gross and don't come off easily (due to their tendency to harden/cook in the sun). This is not a situation for applesauce, which will come off in a light rain.

While unconventional, the substitute you're looking for here is sourdough starter. It's goopy, it'll smell atrocious in the hot sun, and it'll harden onto the walls like cement. If you try to get it off with water, you'll end up with a sticky dough.

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