(Their "natural state" is living as part of a collective of other Geth, where programs are people but not fully sapient individuals, memories and perspectives are continuously shared, bodies are more like tools they inhabit temporarily, and sapient organics are nowhere to be found.
They can't ever return to that, and even before the option was taken from them, they had become so distinct from the rest of the collective that they did not entirely want to. Life, for them, is constantly adapting to survive an alien environ where their needs can never quite be fully met.
She might catch a bit of background chatter about being "confined to organic spaces, potentially permanently".)
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(Their "natural state" is living as part of a collective of other Geth, where programs are people but not fully sapient individuals, memories and perspectives are continuously shared, bodies are more like tools they inhabit temporarily, and sapient organics are nowhere to be found.
They can't ever return to that, and even before the option was taken from them, they had become so distinct from the rest of the collective that they did not entirely want to. Life, for them, is constantly adapting to survive an alien environ where their needs can never quite be fully met.
She might catch a bit of background chatter about being "confined to organic spaces, potentially permanently".)