Second Consensus | Backdated to December 14th

[1183_geth]

[ooc: For reference on Legion's current voice, please see this video starting at 3:08.]

[Legion looks different when the video feed begins to roll. Not physically different except that, when the platform speaks, there is no expression created. There is no movement other than what is completely necessary, and their words are stilted.Unique mobile

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[dontfuckwith]

[Oh crap! Oh crap! This is possibly very not good. She only marginally trusted Legion when he could explain himself, and now he's been restored to factory settings. Who knows what to expect?]

Legion?

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[1183_geth]

[Legion looks at Aria with utter blankness.]

Unit has stated inquiry. We do not know where we are.

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[dontfuckwith]

[Even though Legion is a geth, she can recognize that absence of recognition.]

You're in a city called Abax, and I'm assuming you got too close to that damn tree.

What do you remember- or know? Do you still follow Commander Shepard?

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[1183_geth]

Abax: unknown. Tree: unknown. Commander Shepard: unknown.

We only know of our waking.

[Video]

[missedtwoyears]

Legion?

[Probably-memory-damaged geth. Even given what he'd revealed about the schism between the "true" geth and the heretics, this cannot possibly be any sort of good thing.]

What is your current status?

[Video]

[1183_geth]

[Definitely memory-damaged geth. There is no mention of Shepard-Commander. No look or shift in expression that would indicate awareness of just who she is.]

We are functioning. Unique mobile unit does not recognize location.

[Video]

[missedtwoyears]

[Her internal litany of increasingly-vicious cursing is made evident only in the very precise, clipped quality of her voice.

...Which is still almost sloppily casual compared to robot speech.]

Location is Abax. Planet and system designations unknown.

When did you become operational?

[Video]

[1183_geth]

[Legion is unaware of the difference between Commander Shepard's usual tone.]

Unknown variable.

[text]

[notglitching]

[Not a user. Mech? Possible. Either way, someone is very interested.]

Unique mobile unit: identify function, designation.

[text]

[1183_geth]

[The limited files they have left for basic runtimes is sifted through at the speed of light.]

We were created for protection. Construction. Domestic servitude.

Limited logged data states we are geth.

[text]

[notglitching]

[...]

Clarify: 'we'.

Identity, current status of users?

[text]

[1183_geth]

Unique mobile unit contains 1,183 geth processes.

Unknown inquiry. Please rephrase.

video. ;a; Legiiiion

[nerdstomping]

[ He hadn't seen much of Legion, but he'd seen enough to know that something is off. Something's wrong - some kind of error, some malfunction, maybe?

The voice doesn't sound the same, there's no movement of panels, no expression. ]

Legion. [ A careful greeting. ] Your memory files - are they functioning correctly? [ They'd talked not too long ago. Between now and then, maybe something had.. ]

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[1183_geth]

[Legion turns to the video feed, staring blankly. There is no recognition.]

Diagnostic scan complete. Memory files are functional.

[Functional? Yes. All there? Nope.]

video. can I hug him >8

[nerdstomping]

[ A moment of silence. An attempt to figure out what's off about the situation. Memory files running correctly, ability to run diagnostics, outwardly.. functioning. Maybe it's not an error, he reasons, maybe something is- ]

Is there a way you can tell if you're missing any kind of files?

video. you can try lol

[1183_geth]

Unknown. Connection to geth network is unavailable. Files are limited.

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[fortheoptics]

[Tali sounds most definitely panicked. She's not fully certain of what kind of reaction Legion will have to her now that they're just... a geth, and not Legion.]

Legion, what is the current date?

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[1183_geth]

[Legion stares, blankly, at Tali - no recognition at all, but there is a certain tone in the geth's voice that is indicative of submission, created as a sub-program specifically for quarians.]

Current date is 2463, creator.

[fortheoptics]

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[Tali recoils a little at the tone of voice. She doesn't recognise it, has never heard it from a geth, and seeing what she has always known as the dangerous enemy of her people 'mind'-wiped and totally submissive runs an unexpected chill down her spine.]

Legion, the current year is 2775. The geth haven't been in service of the quarians in three hundred years. You're free.

And my name is Tali. Just... just Tali.

[Her voice sounds almost pleading. She's a little shocked at that herself. Taking a deep breath, she continues.] Have you run a full diagnostic on your local memory banks? Is there any sign of tampering - deletion, corruption, anything?

[1183_geth]

[This is the first real, lengthy pause the geth allow as they build consensus on how to proceed. The creators would not lie to them, would they? ]

. . .

Unique mobile unit has an inquiry. . . Tali. [They do not recall a time when the creators did not order them to say 'Mistress'.] Why do you call us Legion? We are geth.

[This time Legion looks almost contemplative at her question. Still, the helm panels do not budge.] Diagnostic scan complete. Memory files are functional. Addendum: Deletion or corruption of files is unknown - connection to geth network is unavailable. Files are limited.

[They cannot revert back to archival copies as they would for a virus, because the archival copies of their shared data memories are gone.]