The Official Mass Effect Andromeda Thread! WE'VE GOT GAMEPLAY!!!

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Scoobes said:

The Fury said:

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.

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These are complete unknowns. The reapers as an AI race, probably wouldn't care about time so much. They could spend half a cycle getting to Andromeda, harvesting and another half-cycle to return. Having said that, I do think that the reapers only cared about the Milky Way. They were made and designed in the Milky Way and I don't think their goals would stretch further unless they had direct evidence of organic vs synthetic life in a separate galaxy where they had to maintain "balance".

Also, we don't know whether Andromeda has Mass Relays or not. We don't really know enough about the civ that built the Mass Relays and the Reapers to know if they ever reached Andromeda.  

Edit- I do remember vaguely that the survivors rebuild the Mass Relays at the end of Mass Effect 3 so their could lead to a new bit of research to get to Andromeda. I can envisage the game having you setup and build new Mass Relays as you make progress, effectively making you a true "pathfinder".

That would be a good side story, to learn more about the ones who build the Mass Relays.