Geth

 

 

The geth are a humanoid race of networked AIs. They were created by the quarians 300 years ago as tools of labor and war. When the geth showed signs of self-evolution, the quarians attempted to exterminate them. The geth won the resulting war. This example has led to a legal, systematic repression of artificial intelligences in galactic society.

 

The geth possess a unique distributed intelligence. An individual has rudimentary animal instincts, but as their numbers and proximity increase, the apparent intelligence of each individual improves. In groups, they can reason, analyze situations, and use tactics as well as any organic race.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Geth space is located at the trailing end of the Perseus Arm, beyond the lawless Terminus Systems. The Perseus Veil, an obscuring 'dark nebula' of opaque gas and dust, lies between their space and the Terminus System.

 

 

 

 

Geth Destroyer

 

 

Known Geth Types include

 

Drones - Recon and Rocket

 

Silver Armour - Standard Geth trooper

 

White Armour - Shock Troops

 

Red Armour - Anti Tank/Fire Support 

 

Larger type (Destroyer) - Fire Support/Assault

 

Primes - Largest of the Standard type Geth (uparmoured Destroyer) - Fire Support/Assault

 

Hoppers - EW

 

Armatures - see below

 

Colossus - see below

 

 

Armatures

 

 

 

 

 

Armatures are quadruped all-terrain heavy weapons platforms, akin to the armored fighting vehicles of other races. Geth being synthetic intelligences, armatures are not crewed vehicles, but intelligent entities, capable of independent decision-making and learning.

 

Armatures are equipped with heavy kinetic barriers. Their main cannon, mounted on the articulated 'head' turret, appears to be a highly efficient conventional mass accelerator. It is capable of firing in anti-personnel and anti-tank modes. Some armatures carry drones into battle, presumably for reconnaissance purposes. Others host a swarm of insect-sized repair microbots.  Recently a uparmoured version of the armature has been observed, termed Colossus.

 

 

Hoppers

 

 

 

 

 

The geth models collectively dubbed 'hoppers' by Alliance forces are electronic warfare platforms. They can project electromagnetic radiation across a broad spectrum as an offensive weapon. They can also perform cyber warfare attacks against the onboard computers of body armor hardsuits and weapons, adversely affecting their performance.

 

The structure of hoppers consist of an advanced and highly elastic artificial muscle material. This allows a hopper to compress its entire body for powerful leaps. Hoppers also have thousand of molecule-scale 'barbs' on the surfaces of their hands and feet, which are used to cling to walls and ceilings. Hoppers are very difficult to target, leaping from one surface to another in rapid succession.

 

The quarians have no record of any geth model similar to hoppers. This new morphotype must have been developed over the last three hundred years by the geth themselves. This is troubling proof that the geth are continuing to move towards technological singularity. Experts in synthetic life are intrigued that hoppers appear to be even more organic then the baseline geth.

 

 

 

 

 

The identified subtypes of hopper have been codenamed Sapper, Stalker, and Ghost.

 

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