"Creator Kirtan, I will consider the proposal if it does not interfere with duties I would be better suited for. We will discuss it when we are no longer registered on active duty." Tower replied to his quarian acquaintance, who seemed to have taken something a liking to him since their first mission together. Were the Phantom Guardians an effective unit to serve geth and quarian interest? It would take some processing to decide. 

The ceremony had been going according to the agenda, speeches being read by the councilors of each species that they'd doubtless prepared for weeks to perfect. While Tower had no concept of boredom or found much value in speeches, mostly because they were arbitrary and over-drawn ways to communicate intended information, he knew that the organics assembled found inspiration from such things, and it was one of the few ways organics found to formally commemorate something extraordinary. The Reaper War, by its very definition, was a galaxy threatening event that effected the lives of every soul in the galaxy, including the geth. Tower recalled the war, and the transmissions he'd processed over the years, and the war against the Creators. 

The very concept of geth self-determination and identity was upturned in those short years, and the war truly gave life to the geth. The geth found it somewhat paradoxical to be celebrating the destruction of the Reapers while the reason that the geth now had self-determination and individual personalities and runtimes was because of a line of Reaper-designed code that unit-designate 'Legion' had uploaded to the geth, the climax of the war against the Creators. It was an event that all geth found an almost religious-like fixation and respect for, and Shepard-Commander was the key reason the geth and Creators were able to broker peace instead of ending their separation with a very final total war that could have ended either, or both, species. It would have been an awful waste of life  over misunderstanding and distrust that could have been avoided altogether if the Creators didn't react the way they had in the Morning War. Perhaps, if they really understood their creations, the Migrant Fleet and three centuries of exile could have been avoided entirely. 

Tower's sensors picked of anomalies and immediately picked up the gas canisters, but without a way to analyze the contents, it was impossible to know if it was lethal or crowd-control devices. The panels on Tower's head shifted, exposing more of its sensors and circuitry as it shifted into Hunter Mode, the people in the audience showing up as blue outlines in the geth's optics. Wireless communication to Forge confirmed that Tower's partner was also reacting to the threat.

Spectre-Andromedai and Norea quickly reacted over communications, making a plan for dealing with the gas attack. Tower spoke;

"This unit does not have a respiratory system; it will remain in the affected area and attempt to engage hostiles and extract civilians." Tower reported.

"Likewise, unit-Forge will assist unit-Tower in this course of action. We are impervious to the gas."

The geth immediately had their pulse rifles at the ready, and almost immediately jump-pack equipped hostiles were inbound. "Alert; hostiles acquired above." Forge announced.

"Affirmative." Tower confirmed. Both geth opened fire, the cyan-coloured plasma envelopes tracing through the air in telltale fashion towards the descending targets. The rifles' onboard targeting computers and the geths' own combat software ensured that leading targets was an easily accomplished feat, and the superheated projectiles were soon splashing across the shielding of the troopers entering the auditorium, and a turian found out the hard way about the efficiency of geth weaponry as his shielding failed and burned through his armour and began to scorch its way through his now exposed carapace. With an agonized scream, the turian was silenced by the time his body hit the deck. 

"Target eliminated. Engaging."

 Many of the hostiles had already landed and were taking up position. They were equipped with respirators that could filter out the gas, so they had certainly prepared. The odds were not in the geth's favour, so Tower deployed a capsule that deployed into an automated turret, which once fully materialized began to lock on targets and fired bursts of accurate fire towards targets in its range while emitting a wireless energy wave that kept the shielding of IFF approved individuals up in the face of incoming fire. The geth resumed its own assault, speaking to the civilians in the area. 

"Vacate the area; this unit will suppress the aggressors." While the projected voice was loud, it contained the same emotionless and calming digitized presence of other geth. It was like listening to a fire evacuation alarm directing people to calmly exit the building.