Mass Effect 2 - What Happens If You Don't Activate Legion?
1,664What happens if you don’t activate Legion after recovering him from the Derelict Reaper in Mass Effect 2? In this video, we’ll be exploring this exact scenario, including how it impacts events in Mass Effect 3. Keep watching to see it all.
MASS EFFECT 2 - WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU GIVE LEGION TO CERBERUS?
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RARE MASS EFFECT 2 SCENE - LEGION MEETS THE COUNCIL
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MASS EFFECT 2 - WHAT IF YOU BRING LEGION TO TALI'S TRIAL?
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0:00 Introduction
1:05 ME2 Immediate Consequences and Unique Dialogue
1:45 Mass Effect 3 - Meeting the Geth VI
2:51 Unique Dialogue on the Normandy
3:35 Learning About the Geth Heretics
4:31 Squadmate Distrust of the Geth VI
5:04 EDI Chats with the Geth VI
5:38 Tali and Geth Fighter Squadrons
6:00 Priority Rannoch Without Legion
6:30 Siding with the Quarians
6:51 Siding with the Geth
7:27 Unique Dialogue with Geth Prime
8:08 Squadmate Reactions to Losing Tali
8:41 So... Legion Assassin?
9:40 Conclusion
A few months ago, I explored what happens if you give Legion to Cerberus after the Derelict Reaper mission. But today we’re going to analyze what happens if we keep Legion on the ship but do not activate him before the end of the game, which actually leads to some unique dialogue and scenarios that are distinctly different from the time we gave Legion to Cerberus.
For starters, we do not receive the cash bounty from Cerberus if we decide to keep Legion on the ship. If we speak to Kelly Chambers, she will express her fear over the inactive Geth down in the AI Core and encourage us not to activate it. If we leave Legion untouched, eventually EDI will remind us that there’s still a Geth down there that we can activate if we want to.
We first encounter this holographic reconstruction of Legion near the end of the Geth Dreadnought mission. This dialogue after we did not activate Legion in Mass Effect 2 is different from the dialogue if we gave Legion to Cerberus, one of a few subtle differences between those two scenarios.
Legion 0.5 will tell us that not all Geth follow the Reapers and explain the Geth Heretics - which is information we would usually get from OG Legion in Mass Effect 2. Aside from EDI, our other squadmates are mistrustful of the friendly Geth. For instance, James will ask us if we can really trust it.
Dialogue is also modified during the Geth Fighter Squadrons mission - mostly removing some scenes that we would normally see with Legion, such as Legion picking up a sniper rifle and another memory of his interaction with Commander Shepard.
During the final moments of Priority Rannoch, we will not be able to peacefully settle the conflict between the Geth and Quarians without the presence of Legion. We will have to choose a side in the war. The Geth VI will appeal to Shepard on the basis of their fleet size, rather than Legion’s typical “does this unit have a soul?”
If you side with the Quarians, the Geth VI attacks and Tali will kill it to save Shepard and the Quarian fleets.
If you choose to side with the Geth, then Legion 0.5 will sacrifice itself to complete the code upgrades. But it will still speak in terms of “we,” failing to achieve the full self actualization we would typically see with Legion during this scene.
The Quarian fleet will be annihliated and Tali will jump off a cliff after watching her people get destroyed in the skies over Rannoch. Afterwards a Geth Prime unit will roll up on Shepard and have some more unique dialogue.
So what about the Legion Assassin unit on Cronos Station? If you give Legion to Cerberus in Mass Effect 2, he will show up as an enemy during the assault on the Illusive Man’s base near the end of Mass Effect 3.
But if you kept Legion in Mass Effect 2 but simply did not activate him, then he will NOT show up as an enemy during this mission. This makes sense when you think about the chain of events.
In the canon of Mass Effect 2, after the successful suicide mission, Shepard went on to blow up the Batarian Alpha Relay during the events of the Arrival DLC. This led to the Alliance impounding the Commander’s ship and placing Shepard under house arrest. The Alliance went on to retrofit the Normandy SR-2 and likely recovered the inactive Geth unit we know as Legion. What happens after that is a big mystery. Did the Alliance scrap Legion for parts or use him for testing in a R&D lab? Or do something else with him entirely? We’ll never know for sure.
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