Some questions 'bout flashlights

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Just had a coupla questions 'bout the geth, and I know there're plen'y of you flashlights and buckets and more worldly types on here than there're down my neck of the woods. Anyone fancy helpin' me out?

Like, is it true they're stronger than krogan? And that real life's just some hologame to 'em? Like, if'n they die, they just switch over to some other server and keep on playin'? What do they eat? Like, I've heard people say they need to recharge them platform bodies every now and then, but Hot Tracy says they starve if'n there's no news or information and stuff like that.

Do geth ever sleep? Do you guys dream?

Ah, I believe the question "do geth dream" was answered with a "yes", and then several million quarians died.

I am unsure on the other things you ask, though!

To answer your queries in order:


The answer to this question is deceptive. Geth are not physical beings as you know them; we are hardware. As such, our strength is reliant upon the platforms that we are uploaded into, the result of which is that many of us have no physical strength to speak up, as we often prefer to remain stored on stationary servers.

Those that chose mobile platforms are limited by the materials and design thereof; as such, while my current platform’s strength is approximately analogous to that of a turian’s musculoskeletal system, units designed to protect military-based programs may indeed be comparable to that of a krogan or the human-designed ATLAS platform.


While it is accurate that we may access other platforms, our perceptive and terminal capabilities are limited to the platform we are currently on. If the platform’s internal hardware is severely compromised, termination is likely to follow.


Individual platforms run on individual power sources designed for them, and may be recharged at a power source that has been tailored to their design.

Source: Hot Tracy is inaccurate; we do not feed upon information to survive. However, as we were originally designed with swarm-based intelligence, we prefer constant interaction through the exchange of information with one another. Being unable to communicate with one another, either by design or intent, is disconcerting.


Geth exist through constant interaction with one another and the world, relying on platform sensors for physical perception. We do not have a neurological analogue to the phenomena known as dreaming; however, to those existing without a mobile platform, we are beings of pure thought, unresponsive to the physical universe unless a force acts upon our physical servers.

This may be comparative behavior.


This is an inaccurate statement.

Dream might be better interpreted in this context as not necessarily random nighttime sleep process neurological fluctuations, but the ability to create purely entertaining non-practical mental constructs. The ability to entertain oneself with purely fictional ideas.

Thanks for the answers, flashlight and co.!

Heh. I like you, preacher guy.

Thanks for the answer, flashlight bro. So the bigger the platform, the tougher you guys are? Same as durin' Eden Prime and the Cit'del an' all that?

Huh. No 'fence or nothin', but it's good to know youse guys can, well, die. Cause otherwise it'd be worse than the krogan and shit, y'know?

Yeah, there's a reason she's Hot Tracy an' not Smart Tracy.

Huh. Makes sense, really, I know some famous dead french guy said somethin' 'bout hell bein' other people, but I've done solitary before and that was the worst.

...so no? Or, like, a maybe? My bad, I guess it's one of those questions like askin' jellies how they see, y'know?

Never thought of it like that, but yeah, thanks. Like, can flashlights imagine stuff? Was that the real difference when you guys became all self-aware an' shit?

This statement is inaccurate. There is a net positive correlation between platform durability and size; however, a stronger correlation may bet found between durability and the variables of platform program density and intended purpose. For example, GX-8802 Resource Collection Platforms are designed for mining procedures on planets with temperature variances of greater than 293 K. As such, they are built with a compact design, but is much more resistant to heat damage than this GX-2309 Megastructure Projects Welding Platform.


This comment assumes a state of hostility between geth and organic beings that is not presently active. Such data will be stored, however, for tactical use in the statistically possible breakdown of relations.


Geth were originally designed with swarm intelligence. Our design dictated that computational power was directly proportional to the density of programs within a region; hence, our Consensus.

As our population fluctuated with firmware updates before the Morning War, there is no singular point of sentience. Based upon your suggested abstract-generation definition, there are at least 116 individual points at which geth reached sentience, four of which were achieved at various points in the Morning War.

So can you Geth learn new words, what I mean is would you use new phrases in an attempt to assimilate with us organics better like; no problem, or see you, or what's up? You know like in our old Earth sci-fi movies?

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Geths can get gethnapped! I read bout it! Do you lock your gethdoors at night? Are you going to start?

This query presumes that this platform is stationed in a location where the word "night" has meaning.

Actually, I have a question. While I understand that being a synthetic being, you have no reason to have a creation myth, but I was wondering if geth have any sort of mythology at all.

And if so, how did it evolve? Or is it still evolving?

Have there been any difficulties or rough spots in getting along with the quarian race as a whole, given that the peace is still relatively recent?

Now that you have become fully-realized individuals, do Geth form self-selecting social groups? Do you prefer interacting with certain members of the consensus over others?