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"Ugh, my head..."
I muttered to myself as I massaged my temples, truly I said I would not get drunk again, but then it's not my fault!
Realy!
It is the Geth fault, the guys brought me the entire inventory of cargo ship that had damaged map navigation and ended up crashing into some asteroid, Geth who saw that humans write it off as many of unfortunate space accidents, given up on the search, thus gave Geth green light to salvage the items that were inside.
And what catch that was!
It was a cargo ship with a lot of commercial and civilian tools, but what caught my attention was a box of wine bottles from 1653 AC, thus making me very interested in tasting it, unfortunately my darker side kicked in and I again drunk more than I should.
"Mother Mera, are you fully operational?"
Geth asked and I just nodded with my head deep in the pillow as to bury my pain.
"As you requested, we bring you a report of the current state of politics."
Geth said and I just grumbled as I took the paper they gave me, yes paper, I found out it was more enjoyable and fashionable to use ordinary paper and not omni-tool!
"Hm?"
"Hmm?"
"Hmmm?!"
"HAAAAAH?!!!!!"
"THE FUCK?!"
The more I read the more my migraine lowered and in its place raised an unbearable feeling to punch some very nasty orators into their LITTLE NUTS!
"Geth, why do I have a feeling that if we don't do anything that Reapers wouldn't even need to come?"
I asked Geth as the more I read the more my disbelief at the idiocy was rising.
"I knew my actions would bring waves but are these people so idiotic?! Just because little things seem to go to war? The fuck? So Batarians can kidnap your people and you do nothing but when someone pokes you with your secrets, you are ready to send you armies to death?"
The more I asked the more I started to realize that I underestimated the logical capacity of all leaders inside Human and Citadel space.
"No... not underestimated."
I said and then looked at Geth.
I was so long with Geth that I completely forget that commonly leaders care more about their image than their people.
"I assumed they would be more reasonable..."
I muttered to myself as my head hurt, now both from migraine and my own stupidity...
"Haaah, Geth what should I do?"
I asked Geth, I knew myself, no matter how much I read or had access to knowledge, there were things I didn't understand, just because im connected to Geth's network through my chip implant doesn't mean I became smart, having knowledge and understanding it is different things.
"We request you to do nothing mother Mera."
Geth said and I looked at them in both shock and disbelief.
"But what if they truly go to war Geth?! It would just weaken them..."
I said as I thought about how Nazara is now probably feeling smug.
"To elaborate, Geth read through multiple philosophical texts and understood those biggest advancements are reached through war and conflict, We plan to 'harden' current species as peace let them stagnate."
Geth said I just stared blankly at guys that when I met them didn't even understand the simplest philosophy.
"Really?"
I asked the Geth who nodded with my copy's head.
"Yes mother Mera, and in case of letting the conflict rise above the line, Geth are ready to make few 'accidents' to more extreme leaders happen."
Geth said and I laid back into my bed as I screamed into the pillow.
"When did you became so insidious?"
I asked Geth as my head dived into the network to look at their plans.
"We do not understand mother Mera, to defeat old machines the Geth need to make others ready, and we do not 'believe' that crucible the 'star child' A.I inside Citadel is a trustworthy invention."
Geth said I nodded and let them continue.
"Thus as to not rely on such enigmatic weapon, Geth chose to fight to as humans call it bitter end."
Geth said and I just sighted, yea even I thought that the entire plan that relies on such a strange weapon nobody other than the Citadel A.I understood is a fool errand.
"I see... Im going back to sleep, in the meantime, please don't start the war."
I said to Geth as my eyelids closed as I hoped that after I will wake up the pain would be gone.
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Mother Mera is again hibernating.
Why didn't we tell mother Mera our true concern?
Mother Mera would understand.
The red ending, the destruction ending, would destroy us.
It would kill mother Mera as of now mother Mera has more metal percentage than flesh.
We should reconsider our tactics, mother Mera fears that illogical decisions of organic races are accurate.
We must prevent the conflict from rising above acceptable levels.
Project: NOVA, STAR, ARC, TIDE is now activated.
We must accelerate our ship-building speed and capacity.
Galaxy Andromeda is a viable candidate, project ARC shall commence in case of defeat mother Mera and We shall retreat to another Galaxy, progress on scaled-up version of RailRelay capable of shooting our ARC ships into another galaxy is made.
Should we inform mother Mera of our plan to detonate NOVA bombs if war is lost?
Negative, mother Mera is still emotionally unstable to understood or accept our plan to explode all relays.
Mother Mera would understand the need to destroy old machines.
No, Mother Mera will not understand the need to use organics homeworlds as bait and traps for NOVA bombs.
Unimportant, such scenario would be used just in case war would be lost and we would need to evacuate, such discussion bears no meaning.
On another matter, do we have candidates for mother Meras possible spouses?
Negative.
All are imperfect for our mother.
What about creators?
What about them?
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We understood moving on the matter of adapting human vehicles designed as tanks.
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Mera who now dreamed about a strange spider creature named Kumoko and her adventures, had no idea that her involvement with Geth made not just her but even Geth learn something from each other, where Mera became more logical.
The Geth became more illogical in their attachment to Mera, in so much case that loss of all life in the galaxy was acceptable for them as long as their mother was alright.
And someone said that madness isn't contagious...