User blog comment:Legionwrex/What happens to husks in the Synthesis ending?/@comment-70.143.75.215-20120904191156/@comment-2250460-20120904192303

We don't even know if they are still sentient, so don't jump the gun. Besides, I would rather be a sentient husk than be dead.

@TW6464 this is another common incorrect statement, that EDI and the geth would be willing to sacrifice themselves. No, they wouldn't (at least not the geth). The only reason Legion sacrificed it's self was to save the geth, not to stop the Reapers. As a matter of fact, Legion will even try to kill Shepard (knowing full well that he is the galaxies only hope) if Shepard decides to save the quarians. The geth have shown time and time again they are willing to ally with the Reapers for self preservation.

And the quarians can't just build more geth, sure they would be synthetics, but it wouldn't be the same because the original species of geth wold still be dead.