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† tali'zorah vas normandy | the machinis

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[Tali's been thinking a lot about Legion, lately. It might be because it had died right in front of her, or it might be because up until a few moments before his death, she hadn't been certain of whether he cared for her or wanted to kill her.

It had been the latter, it turned out.]

Tell me, City -- how do you feel about artificial intelligence? Does it exist it your world?

If it does, do you trust it? Is it its own species -- or many species?

If you killed it, would you consider it murder, or simply -- deactivation?

[She glances off-camera.]

I don't doubt that people feel differently here, with the AI having bodies. I'm just -- curious.

[Really, she's trying to sort through how she really feels about them -- the geth, at least. Making a generalization about all AI would be as ridiculous as making a generalization about all organic life. The Reapers were far different from the geth, after all, and they'd proved that repeatedly.]

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More experience with the latter, but I'm an ex-cop so it was kind of part of the job.

And yeah, people accept them? Sure they get 'tin can' jokes and stuff like that, but some of them you can't even tell. Have skin and everything.

That's surprising to hear, I have to say.

Which part?

That people were so accepting.

Can't say how it was when they first came about, I wasn't alive. But yeah, now it's really no big thing. We got AI, aliens, magicians, you name it back at home.

Ah, so it's been some time since they were created.

That's one thing that makes your universe much different from mine.

So they're new where you're from?

Not new, but the fact that people are so -- accepting of them.

Oh? What's it like then?

Up until very recently, all inorganic life was at war with the organics.

Now -- well, some of them still are.

War?

Yeah, that doesn't sound like where I'm from at all.

How did that happen?

Once the geth began showing signs of wanting independence, the quarians attempted to ... wipe them out.

[It had been wrong, but up until very recently she'd have tried to do the same.]

[Wow. A definite pause before she speaks.]

Don't blame them for a war then.

How did the situation change?

Believe me, I don't blame them.

[Especially not now.]

It's been a few hundred years. Some of us are sick of living on ships.

Ships? What happened?

[Just casually ask invasive questions about a war someone personally went through, Renee, it's cool.]

[Seems like a legit plan.]

The geth drove us off the planet.

That would explain the comment about ships.

How were things going when you left?

We were settling back down on the planet.

[There's a few hundred years in between her previous statement and this one. She hadn't actually been alive during the flight of her people.]

[Even though this war happened in a universe she will never visit, there's relief in her voice.]

I'm glad of that.

But yeah, the way AI are treated here is more like where I'm from than that. I bet it's been an experience.

It was something to get used to.

[She bobs her head in a nod.]

If they had treated the geth like they treat AI here, I don't think the war would've happened.

Hindsight, huh?

Heh, yeah.

Useless hindsight too. I heard you don't even remember this place when you go back for good.

[From the tone of her voice it sounds like she wishes she would remember.]

Fortunately for me, the quarians might finally be learning the lesson of how to treat the AI for themselves.

[The geth having their own individuality now didn't hurt things.]

Good.

How are you feeling now, bout the whole AI thing?

Confused, but I think that's a good thing.

[She's not just blindly believing that people should wipe out the geth completely. That's something.]

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