[Life should come with warning signs, or ways to U-turn. It doesn't, though, and he started on this path when slipping up on the names. There's no way to turn back now. His voice is grim as he leans forward, resting his elbows on his knees.]
Tali... You were sending geth parts back to the Fleet. And your father was building geth so experiments could be run on them. On a sentient species.
[Slowly he looks back up. He can't blame her for her hatred, or for the experiments since she hadn't known. He's not angry. What she'd done had been for a good cause in theory. But the quarians had started the fight, and what had she expected to happen with the parts?]
The experiments were harsh, Tali. And once the geth got a chance, they took over the ship. One of the Fleet. It only isn't exile because the trial wasn't about your actions as much as it was the Fleet Admiralty using you to try to sway the quarians toward or against war, depending on the admiral and Shepard called them on it. You didn't know what the parts were being used for, but they didn't care about that.
[Today isn't going to be an easy day for either of them.]
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Tali... You were sending geth parts back to the Fleet. And your father was building geth so experiments could be run on them. On a sentient species.
[Slowly he looks back up. He can't blame her for her hatred, or for the experiments since she hadn't known. He's not angry. What she'd done had been for a good cause in theory. But the quarians had started the fight, and what had she expected to happen with the parts?]
The experiments were harsh, Tali. And once the geth got a chance, they took over the ship. One of the Fleet. It only isn't exile because the trial wasn't about your actions as much as it was the Fleet Admiralty using you to try to sway the quarians toward or against war, depending on the admiral and Shepard called them on it. You didn't know what the parts were being used for, but they didn't care about that.
[Today isn't going to be an easy day for either of them.]