Talk:Geth War

Hey everyone, this was my first article I've ever written. Feel free to edit as you see fit. I might have missed some information or accidentally misreported it; so please fix any errors. Dtemps123 03:53, March 9, 2010 (UTC)

Millions vs billions
Welp, despite the anon's disruptive behavior, I happen to believe the change to "millions" is correct. Millions upon millions must mean "a multiple of a million", not "a million millions," which is what "millions of millions" would imply. I did some searching on google, and couldn't find a case where someone said "x upon x" and meant it to mean "x^x" and not simply "x+x." If such examples exist, I'd be happy to read them. Dammej 21:13, May 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * It seems to me to boil down to what does the source say? Several of our other articles also say billions, so that's the route I'd be inclined towards for the sake of consistency, but the in-game sources are the ultimate arbiter here. SpartHawg948 21:15, May 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * Forgive me, since I don't have the game handy at work, but what other sources for this number are there? I looked through the Codex entries about the quarians on this site, and I couldn't find an article about the magnitude of the loss. Only that it killed a devastating number of quarians. Either number is enormously devastating. Dammej 21:18, May 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * (edit conflict x2) However you have to consider that the quarians had their homeworld and other colonies, by Tali's admission in the same conversation, and because Earth had around 11.5, I think, billion people in 2183, you have to consider that if the geth attacked every colony and the quarian homeworld, they killed billions of quarians. The quarians went from, a large population, to 17 million million, the current population of the Migrant Fleet. So billions is much more appropiate becuase you have to take it in context, and millions in this context, makes it seem like a lot less than it acutally was. And I have had instances, in my math classes where upon ment "x*x". That was in college. Lancer1289 21:18, May 27, 2010 (UTC)

OK, maybe 'several' was a bit of an overstatement. Let me rephrase, the quarian article also supports billions, which is why I said the source would be the arbiter. But given that, as pointed out above, we're talking a large civilization spanning multiple worlds that was reduced to only 17 million, billions seems more plausible here than millions. SpartHawg948 21:22, May 27, 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, that quarian article was written by us as well, wasn't it? I'd assume that whatever the outcome of this discussion would apply there as well. I don't really think that the wiki would be a valid source of argument here. The -only- piece of information we have on how many people died is that line of dialogue from Tali. That's it. So I think the discussion should center around what she said.

As for the colony worlds argument, isn't that just speculation? We have no idea how large the quarian colony worlds had. Maybe they had 10 total worlds, each with a population of 50 million. That would put their initial population at 500 million, and still make being reduced to "only" 17 million a very real loss. Dammej 21:32, May 27, 2010 (UTC)