Chapter 177: For We Are Many

=== Summary ===
After carefully restocking their supplies and upgrading their thrusters, the Normandy sets out on their trip into darkspace- an eight day journey in total (four there and four back again).
The trip is disquieting to the crew as a whole, even EDI and Vi. Shepard finds herself filled with anxious energy with most of her normal stress relieving activities less effective than usual- her body tires long before her mind becomes quiet. She heads to the Normandy’s Observation Deck, as she has several times before, and allows herself to sink into the darkness that upsets the rest of the crew so badly. Dr. Lupé Espinoza joins her after a while, having been altered of Shepard’s return to the Observation Deck by EDI. The two talk about Shepard being drawn to the darkness outside for a while. Shepard describes it as being “loud and quiet at the same time. It’s… too much, but also nothing.”  Lupé expresses understanding that the darkness might be familiar to Shepard and in a way comforting, but also expresses concern with Shepard’s behavior given that familiar and comforting does not equal healthy. The doctor suggests they try to figure out why Shepard is attracted to the darkness. Shepard answers that she remembers being dead, and that memory and this darkness sometimes sound alike. Shepard also admits that as she stares into the abyss, it stares back.
Upon reaching the Geth Superstructure orbiting a red dwarf. EDI hails the station, and the structure replies with an automatic handshake protocol, making sure that they are not a Reaper and EDI is stunned at the beauty of the code. After the ring extended a docking clamp suitable for the Normandy or their Kodiak, Shepard leaves the cockpit to prepare for her mission. Vi is not happy at the idea of mom leaving, and very little can comfort her.
On board the Superstation, EDI directs Tali and Shepard to a room using the schematics the station has provided to her. Inside, they discover a geth VI. It explains that the geth designed the station to be a repository for all the information they had and have it outlast the Reaper destruction cycle. After showing the VI what they intended to do with the pod they brought with them from Rannoch, the VI began to manufacture a port for them to access the information they were seeking.
Once complete, Shepard stepped into the pod with the intention of trying to find data, any data, that might allow them to save Earth’s sun. Initially, her organic mind cannot make sense of the data she has access to, eventually resolving as thin lines of intricately connected circuits of white light, turning slightly blue where they touched her. As she asks out into the infinite for directions and help her attention shifts to a line stretching out farther than the others. Shepard has an epiphany, realizing what Legion had meant when she had seen him as she had lay dying months ago and shoots her consciousness down the farthest line, calling for the geth to wake up.
Outside the pod, Tali, EDI, James, and Steve are shocked as alcoves around them open, realizing that hidden geth platforms are suddenly moving. Shepard’s eyes glow green, striking fear into her companions, as she opens the lid to the pod and welcomes the geth back to the material world. A tiny light at her elbow tells her Thank you, Shepard-Commander before disappearing.
=== Title Meaning ===
When Shepard initially spoke to Legion after acquiring the Reaper IFF in her mission to stop the Collectors, she asked the platform what she should call it- resulting in a short circular conversation where it insisted "we are Geth" each time Shepard rephrased the question. Eventually EDI quoted the Gospel of Mark, saying "My name is Legion, for we are many." The geth platform found the name Legion an acceptable metaphor. 
=== Easter Eggs ===
==== Discord Highlights ====
New friends, istie revealing her nerd card yet again, and reworking the Discovery "The World is Just Awesome" commercial.