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[Ksandor]

You can't bring Shepard back from dead -- it is impossible.

If you are brain dead your neurons and neural pathways and protein based memory molecules decompose. Since nobody knows what protein based memories and neural pathways Shepard had in life reconstructing them is impossible (you can't reconstruct memories and the personality).

Besides quantum mechanics says 100% reproduction is impossible. Especially when it comes to a complex system like a thinking brain. Unless there was some sort of hibernation mechanism in Shepard's suit reviving a brain dead person is impossible.

If I were Bioware I would create circumstances where Shepard's brain could be salvaged more or less intact. At least they did not clearly state that Shepard fell to the planet. No "body" can survive that. Simple impact would pulverize the body even if the atmosphere does not contain oxygen so the body would not burn. Maybe Shepard's body was in orbit and his body suit's emergency systems preserved him to some degree. Any specifics about this in Redemption comic?

The solution would be to imply that Shepard's body recovered from orbit and the suit protected him from extreme decomposition -- especially an emergency mechanism which protected his brain. This would not directly conflict with Jacob when he said Shepard was dead as dead can be and Miranda when he summarizes the extensive damage Shepard suffered. If your brain is preserved bringing you back from dead should be possible with future tech.

I wish they just said that Shepard was in comma for 2 years. That was the most plausible solution but Bioware wanted to scandalize audience with this flashy death idea so instead they have chosen this Hollywood no brainer. They should retcon this without conflicting Mass Effect 2.

[Dusty Everman]

I just want to give a comment about the Normandy SR-1 or Shepard burning up in the atmosphere.



We usually think of re-entry into an atmosphere as a massive event of heat and fire. This is due to the speeds of the object entering the atmosphere. Meteors fly in at amazing speeds. For example, the Leonid shooting stars hit the earth at more than 160000 mph. Space vessels and satellites orbit the earth at speeds from 6000 mph to 18000 mph. This is obviously much faster than terminal velocity, so the atmosphere slows down the object with a friction that generates the intense heat.



The Normandy wasn’t in orbit around that planet. After the combat that occurred, the ship was relatively at a standstill above the planet. The ship and Shepard did a free fall straight down into the planet (yep, orbit gives weightlessness, but if you aren’t in orbit and within the gravity well of a planet, there is gravity!).



I don’t have the time (or the knowledge of physics) to calculate just how fast the Normandy and Shepard would have been when they hit the thick of the atmosphere and were brought to terminal velocity. Maybe a physics-savy fanactic… err, I mean fan… could make some assumptions and do the math .

[Dusty Everman]

smudboy wrote...

http://social.biowar...93197/7#2709226

However Shepard is not starting at free fall, and we have to assume there are no other objects or air resistance stopping or slowing their descent.  Shepard's moving at the "Velocity Of Detonation", or whatever explosion pushed them into space.  Explosive forces range from 1800-10300m/s, but we'll just go with 5000m/s.  That's roughly 11,000 miles/h, in space.

Shepard instantly went from 0 mph to 11000 mph from the destruction of the cockpit?  The cockpit more breaks apart than explodes, and you see Shepard drift from it at maybe 20mph tops.  I'm no physicist, but this argument seems flawed to me.