Harry's New Game Plus Vol 2 by kurokitsune028

Chapter 43

After a bit, Harry decided to ask more about the Quarians, starting with asking more details about this Conclave Tali mentioned "The Conclave? I take it that's your government no?".

Tali tilted her head a bit and answered Harry's question "the Conclave is our civilian branch of government, each ship can elect a representative to serve on the Conclave and make decisions that affect the fleet as a whole.

On matters that affect an individual ship, however, the Captain has the final say, it's tradition that dates back to the early days when the fleet was governed by martial law.

Fortunately, most Captain's nowadays are smart enough to have an elected Council from their crew to give then advice and guidance".

Harry nodded "it's pretty impressive how the Quarians created their own government, while leaving on a ship, live and adapt huh?".

Kunou hummed "so the Quarians have a democratic government, how interesting".

Tali nodded "in practice, the Conclave and the representative Council for each ship tend to set rules that govern our daily lives, but in theory we are still under military jurisdiction.

The top-ranking military officials in the fleet serve on the Admiralty Board, these five had the power to overrule any decision by the Conclave in case of emergency.

To do so requires unanimous agreement among the Admiralty, and they can only do this once, after that, the entire Board must resign their posts.

Its a safeguard that's served us well, in nearly three centuries, the Admiralty Board has only overruled the Conclave four times".

Harry closed his eyes "your people are well organized, and seemed to be thriving despite the difficulties you face daily, it's quite inspiring"

Tali seemed rather embarrassed by the praise,or at least that's the image they got, with the way she began to fidget, Kunou suddenly spoke up "oh~ I wanted to aks you more about the Geth Tali! since the Quarians created them, you must know a lot about them, and since were fighting them, any sort of information would be of greal help".

Both Shepard and Harry nodded in agreement, Tali nodded as well and immediately began to speak "well I doubt I can tell you anything that you can't find in any database, it's been almost three centuries since they drove my people into exile.

All I know is the story of their origins, what they were when we created them, and how they turned on us".

Shepard, Kunou and Harry, stayed silent for a little bit, while digesting what Tali just told them, but in the end Harry decide, that he needed to know more about the Geth and the Quarians "do you mind telling us about it?"

Tali seemed to sighed but nodded "the Geth were originally created to serve as an automated manual labor force, initially, their intelligence was as limited as any VI.

Over time, we made small modifications to their programming to allow them to perform more varied and complex tasks, bringing them closer and closer to true AI status".

Shepard suddenly cut in "wait, I thought AI research is illegal, how come the Council didn't step in and stopped you?".

Tali shook her head "this wasn't true AI research, we may have been skirting the bounds of the law, but we never did anything that was actually illegal.