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The Fury on 17 February 2016
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binary solo said:

The Reapers had no interest in other galaxies, their mandate was to keep the Milky Way "stable". Protheans were arrogant enough to think they could actually beat the Reapers, they weren't interested in running away. And then they found out they couldn't beat the Reapers, and they came up with a different running away idea, i.e. hibernating in secret; which didn't work

I don't think the "because no one did it before the technology doesn't exist" is a good argument. When you have a lore that includes FTL travel you pretty much have carte blanche for being able to travel at least to other galaxies in the local cluster. 

I don't think there should be a series of Ark ships. There should be one ship that was experimentally designed as an intergalactic voyager, as a joint venture undertaken by all council races, that was going to travel unmanned. But with the Reapers showing up they decided that a manned mission was worth the risk.

See, I don't buy that the Reaper's only wanted to make the Milky Way stable. I think they couldn't go to Andromeda because it is too far away. They, as a AI race, would see no issue in carrying out their goal to other parts of the universe if they could gain access to them. The Milkyway is 100,000 light years across and it took the Mass Relays to travel that distance in a small amount of time (unknown really as we don't have any reference to how long that takes)  once they were put there. But there is no Mass Relay in Andromeda to get to, the travel would be based on FTL (as you suggest) and even if that's twice the speed of light, it would still take over 1 million years to reach Andromeda. Even Star Trek's Warp Speed didn't visit other galaxies and that had races like the Borg in it.

I think the sheer distance is just too great. I do not think technology exists because very few sci-fi genre's have done intergalactic travel.

 

I can get what you mean though, I do however think based on game programming/character modeling. Doing a single ship of inhabitants of some human/Asari/krogan etc would be a waste of character models as they are the only ones as none of the inhabitants of Andromeda would be like that.



Hmm, pie.