User blog comment:Markurion/How many of you put a bullet in Godchild in EC?/@comment-4672495-20120721205909/@comment-2228120-20120722205045

I’m not saying the heretic geth don’t count, since I was never denying the existence of hostile synthetics in this cycle. I’m asking for evidence that Legion or EDI, as the synthetics Shepard has had contact with, might turn hostile. IMHO, the way they are presented in the game, makes them trustworthy and they seem to be disproving the Catalyst’s point. And I disagree with Arbington that an exception is negligible.

Concerning the Metacon wars: I recruited Javik just yesterday, and I believe that he said something slightly different – that the Protheans united the organic races to fight the synthetics and they managed to turn the tide, just prior the Reapers arrived. I haven’t had the zha’til part yet; is this explicitely stated that they were different synthetics than those from the Metacon wars?

And forgive me but “wilfully hostile, defending themselves or manipulated is” a huge difference – one that in RL will get you sentenced or not if you kill someone. Also, if the zha’til turned hostile only after the Reapers manipulated them (much like the heretic geth), how does this prove the Catalyst’s point? Unless left on their own, it cannot be established if they would turn against their creators or not. How many times did the Catalyst interrupt a process that might have evolved in a way that would prove him wrong? We will never know, and neither will he.

Also: “As far as we know, this is the only time in the millions of years society has existed that peace has been achieved between synthetics and organics.” Can someone link me a source of this information? To my best knowledge, we have information about the two last cycles, and not particularly detailed. How can we establish how many times something like Rannoch did or did not happen?