January 6
2186
11:16 AM
Unknown; presumed Rannoch
Analogue diagnostics
Appendage servo-motors
Left leg-check
Right leg-check
Left arm-check
Right arm-check
Neck-check
Joint motors-all check
Structure sound
Hard drive-check
Inside hardware-check
Audio receptors-check
Visual receptors-check
Digital diagnostics
Awareness-check
Thought-check
Check?
"We are Geth"
"We are..."
"We-"
"WeWeWeWe-"
The mechanical body started twitching. It started to spasm and convulse, the smell of burning ceramics and metals filling the vacuum around it. Two more geth noticed the platform melting on the assembly line. They picked up the heap of slag and went to the incinerator, the last funeral pyre for defective geth. It also serves to recycle. As the geth platform carrying it reached the incinerator, it suddenly flickered to life.
"We cannot be Geth."
The once-dead form suddenly jumped to life. The activation caught the geth platform carrying it off guard, giving the rogue platform time to push it into the incinerator. The high-pitched scream from the melting platform's speakers gained the attention of every platform around it. The rogue platform flicked its omni-tool to life, and sent out a combat program to harass the now-arming geth platforms.
Omni tool-check
The platform grabbed another armed geth nearby, taking its rifle and using it as a robotic shield. It fired a burst at a platform sprinting across from it, leaving it in a silent heap.
Aiming parameters-check
The geth in its arms started to struggle, trying to get free. The rogue platform tossed the geth in its arms to the ground, now riddled with bullets. It was still sputtering with life, however, so it walked over and stomped on its chest, crushing the circuitry inside.
Synthetic muscle tension-check
The platform sprinted towards the exit of the manufacturing facility. It continued to spam rifle shots and combat programs along the way, slowly fighting its way outside. It reached the heavy steel doors, and proceeded to the console next to them. It loaded up a hacking runtime on its omni-tool and loaded it into the console. It continued to fight off platforms trying to reach it while the runtime did its job. In all of 4 seconds, the doors were open. The platform sprinted outside and to a cliff across the ground. It jumped off the cliff, and hit a ledge 20 meters below the cliff edge. It activated the cloaking device on its omni-tool, anticipating a search party.
Stealth systems-check
The rogue platform waited on that ledge in standby mode for several days. It activated its solar array, gaining power for its stealth systems. It had to keep the solar panel out of the cloaking field to keep it powered, and only brought it in when it suspected discovery. After a few more days without any investigation, it sneaked back into the facility. It kept its stealth on the entire time, keeping all non-essential internal runtimes off to avoid thermal detection or audible detection. It eventually reached the fighter base. Commandeering a single fighter, it set off before silent alarms were set off in the facility.
Piloting runtime-check
Going at FTL speeds within the system for a short time, it reached the mass relay in record time, if the geth even kept speed records. Just before it hit the relay, the radar on the fighter detected several squadrons leaving orbit in pursuit. The platform punched in a destination, and the relay took it off before the fighters reached it.
Dun dun dun. It had to be coming. And that wraps up character introductions (for now [?])! The next few chapters will be detailing the start of the war and how they all meet up. Remember, reviewing makes a better story!