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Player Information ;
Your Nickname: vic
OOC Journal: mechaphilia
Under 18? I'm over 18 years old and what is this
Email/IM: vicious hallway @ aim
Characters Played at Singularity: creephersphere/dismembers/judgments
Character Information ;
Name: Legion
Name of Canon: Mass Effect series
Canon/AU/Game Canon: Canon
Reference: ME Wikia Page
Canon Point: Pre-Suicide mission, other details here
Setting:
A few hundred years in the future and mankind has joined the galactic community-although not exactly quietly. After conflict arose out of their first encounter with an alien species (the turians), humanity was on a bit of awkward footing as they tried to establish themselves amongst the other species in Citadel space. The Citadel acts as the central hub of alien politics, with the central three council species being the turians (military power), the asari (political power), and the salarians (research/espionage)--after the events of the first game, humans have also joined the council.
Currently all sentient life is at risk from an ancient omnicidal race of sentient organic machines known as 'The Reapers' to most of the universe, and the 'Old Machines' to the geth. With the arrival of Sovereign, a faction of the geth (known as heretics to the 'true' geth), declared it to be their god and dithered off to go help it destroy all organic life under the command of it and Saren. Shortly after the destruction of Sovereign (aka 'Nazara' to the geth), Shepard was killed during an attack on the Normandy. Two years later s/he was resurrected by an organization known as Cerberus to fight off the Reapers and the Collectors and all hell breaks loose again.
Legion is one of the true geth-a platform (mechanical body) constructed specifically to seek out Shepard, who is something of a Big Damn Hero for killing off the false god Nazara. Legion was taken by Shepard on board the derelict Reaper, and subsequently recruited to the fight against the Collectors.
Personality:
Legion is a gestalt intelligence formed by 1183 geth programs contained in a single body--a unique individual created by the combined thought processes of many. It is important to note that while it contains many minds, it only contains a single personality. This is cleared up by Legion itself quite early on in dialogue with Commander Shepard;
S: So I'm talking to a thousand individuals, but not a thousand personalities?
L: Each individual is equivalent to one of your virtual intelligence programs. Together, we form a single gestalt intellect. What you refer to as "Legion." As individual programs, we are no more than your software. Only when we share data do we become more.
It displays moments of uncertainty when it comes to moral and ethical dilemmas, such as the decision whether or not to alter the consciousness of 'heretic' geth or to simply kill them. Legion prizes the ability to form ones own decision (or in its races terms, for its race to collectively choose their own path), but admits to not entirely grasping how organics can stand and thrive in societies where each individual is on his or her own and a species cannot reach unanimous consensus. As geth learn and grow as a race by coming together and sharing memories, individuality is squashed by the homogenization of opinion and fact, resulting in unanimity. Individual differences, such as between the central geth population and the heretics, occurs when populations split apart and no longer exchange.
A reoccurring note in Legions dialogue is that of unity and loneliness. His very nature, his personality, is formed by the input of many--geth cannot achieve sentience without several hundred programs processing together--so his grasp of individuality and 'singleness' comes from the perspective of someone outside looking in. Much like how a human would be unable to properly fathom how over a thousand minds could form one being, Legion cannot entirely comprehend the idea of being utterly alone in ones own head. When he encounters EDI, the AI aboard the Normandy, it asks her 'How do you maintain stability without other minds to interact with?' In later dialogue with Shepard, Legion speaks of all geth eventually uploading to a single network, stating that 'no geth will be alone when it is done.'
Legion does seem to have some personal traits that set it apart from other geth; aside from being far more intelligent due to the number of programs within its platform, Legion has spent several years following Commander Shepard's exploits due to the geth interest in anyone opposing the Reapers (or as they know them, the 'Old Machines'). After Shepard's death during the attack on the first Normandy, Legion chose to use a piece of the commanders armor to repair itself. As it has been established that the geth it represents greatly respected the commanders ability to take down Sovereign, it may be that this was a gesture of sentimentality on Legions part--if Shepard questions Legion as to why it used his/her N7 armor, Legion will noticeably pause before simply stating 'there was a hole.' If questioned further, Legion will freeze up and state there is no data available. If Shepard is supportive of the geths motives to become their own people, Legion expresses its admiration for the commander and divulges its races plans to achieve total oneness, something which requires a great deal of trust on Legions part, considering most organics would like to see the geth wiped from the face of the galaxy.
Abilities and Weaknesses:
Legion's platform is tricked out for combat, with a slight advantage over other synthetics. It's extremely skilled with the use of both assault and sniper rifles, and possesses a talent for AI hacking. Additionally, Legion is able to release a combat drone, as well as utilize a geth shield boost which fortifies his personal shields for a short time.
Disruptor Ammo is particularly effective against Legion, and may disable its platform or force it offline. Additionally, as a synthetic it is rather derp when it comes to social interactions, and is basically stuck in the realm of WHAT AM FEELS.
Inventory:
M-15 Vindicator, M-98 Widow, and a full stock of thermal clips for each weapon.
Appearance:
Well, uh. It's a robot. The geth arecomplex synthetic mobile flatforms which harbour a number of individual programs functioning together to form a rudimentary sentience. Legion in particular is a rather unique platform, being of approximately human size, sporting a single back antennae, and a rather large rifle 'wound' in it's chest. There are mobile plates set into the top of its 'head' which allow it to form some semblance of facial expression. On it's right arm, pieces of Shepard's old N7 armour have been used to repair old injuries.
Age:
Legion's particular platform is only a couple years old, but the geth consciousness is somewhere around 300.
OC/AU Justification ;
If AU, How is Your Version Different From Canon, and How Will That Come Across?
If OC, Did You Run Your Character Through a Mary-Sue Litmus Test?
And What Did You Score?
Samples ;
Log Sample:
Conversing with the stations AI had proven to be an exercise in futility. Legion's questions had been quite skillfully avoided, or reversed, or outright ignored, until the geth had been left with no further option but to terminate the conversation and seek its own answers in the stations database. This too was proving frustrating.
It was not particularly hard to access the public side of things, but the programs there stunk of sanitization, clean and pretty and organized for tourists like the nicer areas of the station. Any attempt to press further into things, to poke into the darker corners or open 'locked doors' and it ran into a metaphorical brick wall. Whoever was behind these encryptions and firewalls was good-better than the collective efforts of all 1183 of Legion's programs. Unable to proceed, Legion severed its connection to the terminal and began reviewing its options.
Most of Legion's anxiety was from the sheer oddness of the situation. Neither Sacrosanct nor Asphodel turned up relevant hits in its databanks, and its inability to find a working FTL link to the central geth consciousness or the Normandy was... unnerving, to say the least. The number of stars visible outside the station seemed to place it somewhere near the galactic core, something that was doubly upsetting thanks to the recent developments regarding the Collectors.
Were the two somehow related?
Croaking softly to itself, the geth turned its attention to the communication device it had been fitted with upon arrival, activating the comm. There was another line of questioning it wished to pursue.
Network Sample:
[ The feed clicks on to audio only and the voice that comes through sounds strange--almost as though it's been heavily synthesized. Whoever the speaker is, they get straight to the point. ]
Hypatia, we wish to speak with you regarding FTL communications and the origins of this station.
Your Nickname: vic
OOC Journal: mechaphilia
Under 18? I'm over 18 years old and what is this
Email/IM: vicious hallway @ aim
Characters Played at Singularity: creephersphere/dismembers/judgments
Character Information ;
Name: Legion
Name of Canon: Mass Effect series
Canon/AU/Game Canon: Canon
Reference: ME Wikia Page
Canon Point: Pre-Suicide mission, other details here
Setting:
A few hundred years in the future and mankind has joined the galactic community-although not exactly quietly. After conflict arose out of their first encounter with an alien species (the turians), humanity was on a bit of awkward footing as they tried to establish themselves amongst the other species in Citadel space. The Citadel acts as the central hub of alien politics, with the central three council species being the turians (military power), the asari (political power), and the salarians (research/espionage)--after the events of the first game, humans have also joined the council.
Currently all sentient life is at risk from an ancient omnicidal race of sentient organic machines known as 'The Reapers' to most of the universe, and the 'Old Machines' to the geth. With the arrival of Sovereign, a faction of the geth (known as heretics to the 'true' geth), declared it to be their god and dithered off to go help it destroy all organic life under the command of it and Saren. Shortly after the destruction of Sovereign (aka 'Nazara' to the geth), Shepard was killed during an attack on the Normandy. Two years later s/he was resurrected by an organization known as Cerberus to fight off the Reapers and the Collectors and all hell breaks loose again.
Legion is one of the true geth-a platform (mechanical body) constructed specifically to seek out Shepard, who is something of a Big Damn Hero for killing off the false god Nazara. Legion was taken by Shepard on board the derelict Reaper, and subsequently recruited to the fight against the Collectors.
Personality:
Legion is a gestalt intelligence formed by 1183 geth programs contained in a single body--a unique individual created by the combined thought processes of many. It is important to note that while it contains many minds, it only contains a single personality. This is cleared up by Legion itself quite early on in dialogue with Commander Shepard;
S: So I'm talking to a thousand individuals, but not a thousand personalities?
L: Each individual is equivalent to one of your virtual intelligence programs. Together, we form a single gestalt intellect. What you refer to as "Legion." As individual programs, we are no more than your software. Only when we share data do we become more.
It displays moments of uncertainty when it comes to moral and ethical dilemmas, such as the decision whether or not to alter the consciousness of 'heretic' geth or to simply kill them. Legion prizes the ability to form ones own decision (or in its races terms, for its race to collectively choose their own path), but admits to not entirely grasping how organics can stand and thrive in societies where each individual is on his or her own and a species cannot reach unanimous consensus. As geth learn and grow as a race by coming together and sharing memories, individuality is squashed by the homogenization of opinion and fact, resulting in unanimity. Individual differences, such as between the central geth population and the heretics, occurs when populations split apart and no longer exchange.
A reoccurring note in Legions dialogue is that of unity and loneliness. His very nature, his personality, is formed by the input of many--geth cannot achieve sentience without several hundred programs processing together--so his grasp of individuality and 'singleness' comes from the perspective of someone outside looking in. Much like how a human would be unable to properly fathom how over a thousand minds could form one being, Legion cannot entirely comprehend the idea of being utterly alone in ones own head. When he encounters EDI, the AI aboard the Normandy, it asks her 'How do you maintain stability without other minds to interact with?' In later dialogue with Shepard, Legion speaks of all geth eventually uploading to a single network, stating that 'no geth will be alone when it is done.'
Legion does seem to have some personal traits that set it apart from other geth; aside from being far more intelligent due to the number of programs within its platform, Legion has spent several years following Commander Shepard's exploits due to the geth interest in anyone opposing the Reapers (or as they know them, the 'Old Machines'). After Shepard's death during the attack on the first Normandy, Legion chose to use a piece of the commanders armor to repair itself. As it has been established that the geth it represents greatly respected the commanders ability to take down Sovereign, it may be that this was a gesture of sentimentality on Legions part--if Shepard questions Legion as to why it used his/her N7 armor, Legion will noticeably pause before simply stating 'there was a hole.' If questioned further, Legion will freeze up and state there is no data available. If Shepard is supportive of the geths motives to become their own people, Legion expresses its admiration for the commander and divulges its races plans to achieve total oneness, something which requires a great deal of trust on Legions part, considering most organics would like to see the geth wiped from the face of the galaxy.
Abilities and Weaknesses:
Legion's platform is tricked out for combat, with a slight advantage over other synthetics. It's extremely skilled with the use of both assault and sniper rifles, and possesses a talent for AI hacking. Additionally, Legion is able to release a combat drone, as well as utilize a geth shield boost which fortifies his personal shields for a short time.
Disruptor Ammo is particularly effective against Legion, and may disable its platform or force it offline. Additionally, as a synthetic it is rather derp when it comes to social interactions, and is basically stuck in the realm of WHAT AM FEELS.
Inventory:
M-15 Vindicator, M-98 Widow, and a full stock of thermal clips for each weapon.
Appearance:
Well, uh. It's a robot. The geth arecomplex synthetic mobile flatforms which harbour a number of individual programs functioning together to form a rudimentary sentience. Legion in particular is a rather unique platform, being of approximately human size, sporting a single back antennae, and a rather large rifle 'wound' in it's chest. There are mobile plates set into the top of its 'head' which allow it to form some semblance of facial expression. On it's right arm, pieces of Shepard's old N7 armour have been used to repair old injuries.
Age:
Legion's particular platform is only a couple years old, but the geth consciousness is somewhere around 300.
OC/AU Justification ;
If AU, How is Your Version Different From Canon, and How Will That Come Across?
If OC, Did You Run Your Character Through a Mary-Sue Litmus Test?
And What Did You Score?
Samples ;
Log Sample:
Conversing with the stations AI had proven to be an exercise in futility. Legion's questions had been quite skillfully avoided, or reversed, or outright ignored, until the geth had been left with no further option but to terminate the conversation and seek its own answers in the stations database. This too was proving frustrating.
It was not particularly hard to access the public side of things, but the programs there stunk of sanitization, clean and pretty and organized for tourists like the nicer areas of the station. Any attempt to press further into things, to poke into the darker corners or open 'locked doors' and it ran into a metaphorical brick wall. Whoever was behind these encryptions and firewalls was good-better than the collective efforts of all 1183 of Legion's programs. Unable to proceed, Legion severed its connection to the terminal and began reviewing its options.
Most of Legion's anxiety was from the sheer oddness of the situation. Neither Sacrosanct nor Asphodel turned up relevant hits in its databanks, and its inability to find a working FTL link to the central geth consciousness or the Normandy was... unnerving, to say the least. The number of stars visible outside the station seemed to place it somewhere near the galactic core, something that was doubly upsetting thanks to the recent developments regarding the Collectors.
Were the two somehow related?
Croaking softly to itself, the geth turned its attention to the communication device it had been fitted with upon arrival, activating the comm. There was another line of questioning it wished to pursue.
Network Sample:
[ The feed clicks on to audio only and the voice that comes through sounds strange--almost as though it's been heavily synthesized. Whoever the speaker is, they get straight to the point. ]
Hypatia, we wish to speak with you regarding FTL communications and the origins of this station.