Legion

Legion



Legion is the name given to Geth Platform 2A93, a unique geth terminal with 1,183 active geth A.I. programs housed inside it. Legion belongs to the true geth (the geth fought in both games are referred to as "heretics", and do not represent the geth majority, who believe that organic life does have the right to exist). EDI gives the platform the name "Legion" based on the Gospel of Mark 5:9, wherein a man who is possessed by demons refers to himself by saying "My name is Legion, for we are many". Legion is separated from the geth at large, having acted as a stand-alone unit since the events of Mass Effect. It is a skilled hacker and marksman and generally prefers long-range combat, as it is first spotted protecting Shepard's squad from attacking Husks with a sniper rifle on board a derelict Reaper. It has a certain fascination with Shepard, and previously repaired itself from damage sustained in its travels with pieces of Shepard's old N7 armour. When Shepard asks Legion why it did this, Legion cannot explain, citing a lack of data. Unlike other geth, which contain roughly a hundred geth identities within each unit, Legion possesses over a thousand geth identities. This was done in order to grant Legion with sentience, as the usual amount of geth programs housed in a platform would amount to little more than feral behaviour without the aid of the geth's neural network. Legion's primary mission was to find Shepard as well as destroy a virus capable of turning all geth into Heretics. In the mission to gain Legion's loyalty, Shepard must travel to a Heretic station and either choose to destroy all Heretic geth or to reprogram the Heretics own mind-altering virus so that the Heretics will rejoin the true geth. After completing the mission, Legion will become loyal to Shepard and will eventually reveal that the Heretics decided to help Sovereign in the original Mass Effect order to receive a Reaper body so that all geth could upload themselves and join together into a single consciousness. The true geth believe that all life should achieve their future through their own means and that the process is as important as the results. Legion reveals that the true geth intend to do this by building a massive Dyson Sphere.

It is confirmed that Legion will make an appearance in Mass Effect 3 if it survives the events of the suicide mission in Mass Effect 2.

Legion is voiced by D.C. Douglas.