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[Dr. Megaverse]

I have a few questions and I'm curious if anyone has any insight. 

1. Is LOS required for a relay to function?

2. If a ship is using a relay, and something happens to cross the relays path would the ships collide?  If not, why?

3. What effects on localized gravity are mass relays known to cause?

I'm not sure if any of this info is cannonized anywhere, not to my knowledge, but I'm hoping someone else might know.  Thanks!

[TruYuri]

1. LOS?

2. They will physically collide, yes. Boom.

3. No idea.

[Kurt Cobain]

1 los?



2. possible theoratically, but actually not possible. relays almost never cross, because they also vary in their position vertically, you know? I mean, when you see the galaxy map, you dont see witch relay is higher than the other.

[AresXX7]

Dr. Megaverse wrote...

I have a few questions and I'm curious if anyone has any insight. 

1. Is LOS required for a relay to function?

If you're referring to Line Of Sight, the answer is yes, the Relays align themselves to send a ship from one to the other.

2. If a ship is using a relay, and something happens to cross the relays path would the ships collide?  If not, why?

I would say it is highly unlikely to happen given the Mass Relays create a virtually mass-free corridor of space-time between each other making the trip instantaneous so the odds are incredibly low, but if it could, I agree with TruYuri, you'll get a 'boom'.

3. What effects on localized gravity are mass relays known to cause?

Nothing that I've read or heard, they can be anchored by a planet's gravity, but I think they have their own 'artificial' gravity created by mass fields to counter the planet's.

I'm not sure if any of this info is cannonized anywhere, not to my knowledge, but I'm hoping someone else might know.  Thanks!

Hope I helped.. You can look at the Codex or the Wiki to get the best info.

[SargeantRenegade]

Dr. Megaverse wrote...
2. If a ship is using a relay, and something happens to cross the relays path would the ships collide?  If not, why?

I would guess no.  Interstellar space, while being a much purer vaccum than we can create on earth, is not completely empty.  The interstellar medium, (ISM) is filled with wandering hydrogen and helium atoms, and the odds of collision with one of those is very high (and continues to increase as you travel greater and greater distances).  At FTL speeds, a single hydrogen atom would cause a catastrophic hull breach on impact with a ship, and I don't believe that a ship's kinetic barriers could handle an impact that heavy (as evidenced right after going through the Omega relay in ME2, where shield strength drops rapidly after numerous impacts with objects moving at sublight speeds; even a small object with a relative velocity of FTL speeds has kinetic energy greater by a magnitude of septillions and would completely obliterate a kinetic barrier on initial impact before punching straight through the hull with the force of several billion thermonuclear bombs).

Yet we never see or hear of any ships being blown to bits by the ISM during relay travel, which leads me to think that collision with anything while in a relay's mass-free tunnel is impossible.  Perhaps the tunnel is engineered so that the only mass that can exist within it is the ship(s) to be transferred through it (my thinking here is that "relatively mass free" means no mass except the mass which is being relayed, and you do hear Joker announcing a transit mass calculation in the ME1 intro, presumably to communicate to the relay so that it can make the necessary calibrations for the perfect tunnel).  If two tunnels were to intersect for some reason, the logic so far says to me that the ships travelling through them wouldn't collide because the mass from one tunnel wouldn't be able to exist in the other tunnel, thus the two masses could not meet and collide, although this is all just speculation on my part until Bioware decides to give us more details on mass effect technology and field dynamics.

[Zeus_Deus]

AriesXX7 wrote...

Dr. Megaverse wrote...

I have a few questions and I'm curious if anyone has any insight. 

1. Is LOS required for a relay to function?

If you're referring to Line Of Sight, the answer is yes, the Relays align themselves to send a ship from one to the other.

2. If a ship is using a relay, and something happens to cross the relays path would the ships collide?  If not, why?

I would say it is highly unlikely to happen given the Mass Relays create a virtually mass-free corridor of space-time between each other making the trip instantaneous so the odds are incredibly low, but if it could, I agree with TruYuri, you'll get a 'boom'.

3. What effects on localized gravity are mass relays known to cause?

Nothing that I've read or heard, they can be anchored by a planet's gravity, but I think they have their own 'artificial' gravity created by mass fields to counter the planet's.

I'm not sure if any of this info is cannonized anywhere, not to my knowledge, but I'm hoping someone else might know.  Thanks!

Hope I helped.. You can look at the Codex or the Wiki to get the best info.

Well if you consider the huge distances between relays (possibly hundreds or thousands of light years) and that the speed of light is fixed, how is Line of sight supposed to work?

[Atomic_Boom22]

As to the gravity aspect I remember them saying that the Charon relay stabilized Pluto's orbit.

[Killjoy Cutter]

Zeus_Deus wrote...

Well if you consider the huge distances between relays (possibly hundreds or thousands of light years) and that the speed of light is fixed, how is Line of sight supposed to work?

In this context, the line of sight refers to a clear straight path between two points, not literally seeing across entire distance.

Modifié par Killjoy Cutter, 23 septembre 2010 - 06:09 .