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Mass effect 2 legion6/10/2023 Designed to interact diplomatically with organic lifeforms, Legion develops a unique fascination with Shepard, whom he refers to as "Shepard-Commander". Unlike EDI, another AI companion, Legion lacks the concept of a sense of humor. In terms of appearance, Legion looks much like other geth units, but is far more advanced and capable of independent thought. A collective consciousness formed from 1,183 geth programs, Legion's unit is eleven times more powerful than standard geth mobile platforms as it is meant to contain a host number of "core Geth intelligences" in a single mobile unit. The "true geth" represents a majority of the geth consensus that refused to follow Saren Arterius and the Reapers to war with all other sentient life in the first Mass Effect, whose geth enemies are revealed in the sequel as members of a splinter heretic faction who worshiped the Reaper Sovereign. Legion is the first representative from the "true geth" consensus encountered by the player in the role of series protagonist Commander Shepard for the original Mass Effect trilogy. Nick Clifford, Mass Effect Assistant product manager But he does somehow, right? Why did he choose to attach Shepard’s armor to his frame? Because there was a hole." "Legion has an ideology all his own and, for me, he’s the best-developed character in the story, which is a quirky paradox seeing that, as a machine, he’s meant to have no character. When more than one geth are brought together, they can network their processing power while not quite a hive mind, the geth are capabe of forming a system which consists of the coordination of multiple simple programs akin to swarm robotics, freeing up cycles for more advanced forms of reasoning, and making the individual geth capable of more complicated tasks. A single geth program has enough processing power for its motor functions and sensory input, and is essentially a simple software program housed within "mobile platforms" made from flexible synthetic material. Legion is also featured in various official and unofficial Mass Effect merchandise.Īccording to the lore of the Mass Effect series, the geth are a collective of AI ( artificial intelligence) beings which do not have the concept of individuality, and think in terms of the entire consensus. Commentators have referenced Legion and the geth in their discussions about artificial intelligence in fiction. The character's physical appearance and "does this unit have a soul?" catchphrase has attained wider recognition in popular culture. Legion is a popular and recognizable character, having earned numerous placements in "top character" lists. Legion is designed to operate outside of geth space in a diplomatic manner, and develops a fascination for series protagonist Commander Shepard. The philosophical basis EDI relies on is the biblical story about the demonic entities from the exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac, which alludes to the multitude of geth runtime programs housed within the mobile platform and the emergence of a swarm intelligence system which consists of these programs interacting locally with one another and with their environment. "Legion" is a name given by The Normandy SR-2's artificial intelligence, EDI, to Geth Platform 2A93, a robot unit inhabited by the gestalt consciousness formed from a host of networked artificial intelligence entities known as the geth. After Mass Effect 2, Legion returns in Mass Effect 3 as a supporting non-player character. The character first appears in Mass Effect 2 as a party member (or "squadmate"). Legion is a character in BioWare's Mass Effect franchise. Legion's design as presented in The Art of the Mass Effect Universe.
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