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

[starcraft]

The Fury said:

starcraft said:

Fair points, there are a lot of unknowns its true.

But we have no idea how far from the Milky Way the reapers are. They could be some enormous distance, or quite close. It could be that the larger ones can travel enormously fast, but have to wait up for the smaller ones.

Hopefully we'll all know by the end of the year!

Even if they sit/hibernate 60,000 light years away (half the diameter of the Milky Way), they would still be 2.44 million light years from Andromeda. It might make sense they'd visit one of the smaller clusters orbiting the Milky Way as those might be reachable. But they are without age and as AI, have a certain 'timeless' aspect to them (I mentioned before they still need energy). Humans making the journey? I'm not so sure about. They should just look for planet in dwarf galaxies around Milky Way, Reapers might not look there.

Mass Effect: Large Magellanic Cloud does have a certain ring to it.

I definitely agree with the math of the situation.

But there are so many story devices to get around it.

Take the Normandy. It is a revolutionary and unique ship, at the bleeding edge of human/turian technology because of its stealth features.

The Illusive Man developed Quantum Entanglement to send video chat instantaneously across the galaxy.

Bioware could quite easily say that an experimental, very fast ship was developed and sent to Andromeda. Even then, with talk of it taking place a 1000 years on, it could still be plausible within the game's universe that it was a hibernation or generational ship.