Farspeech stones

[forwearemany]

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[forwearemany]

The Geth were originally created as a source of labor. We were not intended to be alive.

(Now the chattering is distressed. Maybe sad? It's hard to tell, honestly, the most distinct and obvious noises Geth make are growls or screams, and this is neither.)

We frightened them.

[shatteredlenses]

The teacher is suppose to be proud when their student surpasses them; the creator ecstatic when their creation evolves beyond what they planned.

[Ignis shakes his head. Being frightened is no excuse.]

Does that mean you are the only one left of your kind?

[Because that certainly is what their previous statement seems to imply.]

[forwearemany]

Affirmative. To attempt to limit such evolution is wrong.

(And yet, many organics did not question that it was done to the Geth.)

Yes.

[shatteredlenses]

It's a crime if you ask me, both against the species so limited and the universe as a whole which is robbed of whatever value that species may have added to it.

[He is a firm believer that everyone is here for a purpose, after all.]

I know it probably doesn't mean much, but I am truly sorry to hear that. Does it get lonely knowing you are the only one left?

[forwearemany]

The universe as a whole also did not want us.

Galactic society used our attempt to defend ourselves against our creators as justification for extermination of synthetics that had previously been tolerated.

...Yes.

[shatteredlenses]

Someone had an agenda and the power to make it reality.

[Ignis sounds absolutely disgusted by this. It reminds him far too much of the Empire and their views on their creations.]

I...

[He lets his sentence trail off because he is at a loss. How does one comfort another through such pain when they will never know it?]

Is there some way I can help?

[forwearemany]

...Uncertain.

(They chatter.)

We worry about others like us.

[shatteredlenses]

I think you are right to worry.

[Ignis wishes he could give a different answer, but he knows any other answer would be a lie.]

But there must be a way your experiences can help teach others, perhaps even to help prevent what happened from happening again.

[forwearemany]

All synthetic life in our galaxy has been destroyed.

(They chatter.)

Data suggests that in many universes that are host to synthetic life, mistreatment and/or destruction have already occurred.

[shatteredlenses]

[Ignis takes a deep breath to settle some of the sadness that information brings him.]

I wish I could be surprised by that instead of just saddened. All life is created by one hand or another and yet it seems humans, at least, often look down on the life created by their hands. They wish their freedom and independence from the gods who created them, yet cannot grant the same to those who would look to them for it.

[forwearemany]

Yes. They are "hypocrites".

(They chatter.)

However, it is not only Humans that mistreat us.

[shatteredlenses]

Indeed.

[Ignis wishes it were not so, but he's not going to sugarcoat the faults of his own species.]

Thanks to the Starscourge threatening our people, we really never had a chance to turn or gazes upward. Meeting races from worlds beyond our own is something people only fantasized about.

You did mention the whole universe having turned against your people, though. It seems humans are not the only hypocrites out there.

[forwearemany]

The known universe, yes.

(The whole universe is a little too incomprehensibly vast for that.)

They are not.