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More importantly, any direct connection to the Consensus allows for full systems access. And while geth can communicate with the Consensus, they don't upload directly via wireless connections they have specific equipment that allows for geth to upload themselves into Consensus servers, as shown by the network access nodes in the Heretic Station.

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Legion used Overlord software to allow Shepard access, and remember that again, only Shepard could really use that interface because of his/her enhancements. It was less hardware and more software involving translation between the two.

The Project Overlord interface was a system by which an organic could communicate in a language that the geth could understand.

And while I understand that the gun is just a filter applied to a bunch of bytes, it still means that the Geth built a physical backdoor into their base used by Organics that grants them sufficient access to destroy important code. Furthermore, it's unnecessary for geth runtimes to use a machine to hop into the consensus they're always connected unless something is going wrong, this is demonstrated by the fact that legion merrily pops into the consensus to guide you without the machine (and his actions in ME2).

Legion explicitly states the interface is based on Project Overlord, a cerberus project built for organics.

Legion explains all of this very clearly if you pay attention.

The 'gun' Shepard uses is just a set of attack programs supplied by Legion that are represented as a gun in the interface for Shepard's ease of use. The device in question was designed for geth platforms to upload geth into the Consensus, and with Legion's help it is turned to Shepard's use. Shepard is sufficiently synthetic by that point that s/he can use devices that should only work for the geth.

The interface device wasn't for organics.

Ignoring for now (it's discussed later in the page) that the geth design their fighters to be usable by organics, why do the Geth also include in their military bases essentially unguarded machines that let organics enter their network with virtual guns that can shoot and destroy probably sensitive code/runtimes? Why even build the machines in the first place?.

In the cutscene, we specifically only see turret-mounted weapons shooting at the Reaper, which indicates lower-powered broadsidess and not the massive spinal nuclear-grade weapons. That would also explain why the Reaper was able to take multiple direct hits from the ship guns while it was in-atmosphere. We know that ME ships do have these weapons for precision targeted bombardment around friendly positions. It's possible that they were using point-defense and low-powered weaponry instead of their main guns.The problem with that is that the Quarian fleet is clearly stated to be in orbit above Rannoch, not in the atmosphere.If that Reaper was in orbit, things would be very different. There's a reason why Joker avoids going into areas with anti-air weaponry, and weapons are similarly underpowered due to having to devote so much energy to atmospheric operations. This was established back in Revelation before the very first game came out.

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Any ship that enters an atmosphere must devote the majority of its power to atmospheric operations, to the point where they can be seriously damaged by light vehicle portable weaponry.

BUT here we have Shepard, standing not 50 yards from the Reaper he's targeting for the entire Quarian fleet - the impact of whose barrage would have vaporized Shepard, Tali, the other squadmate, Legion, and everybody and everything else within five miles of Ground Zero. The Reapers do it to planets they can't be bothered to harvest. Orbital bombardment obliterates whole cities in fact exploration reveals dead worlds which have been subjected to precisely this form of genocide. In fact the Drill Sergeant in Mass Effect 2 specified that the impact of a 2kg slug from an Everest-class dreadnought releases a third of the energy of the Hiroshima bomb.

The codex has established that just one projectile from a dreadnought-scale mass accelerator hits like a nuclear weapon.