If someone in the ME universe constructs a telescope that can resolve detail at a high enough resolution, it is theoretically possible that if it is located roughly 50,000 lightyears from one of the many planets in the codex that have visible scarring from orbital bombardment, then they could witness the bombardment happening.
In fact, such a telescope already exists* in the ME universe, built by the Turians.
*or existed, thereby proving the concept of an immense interferometric telescope.
Prior to the Alliance's expansion into the Voyager Cluster, Gromar hosted half of a turian interferometric telescope array. Connected with similar telescope in the Attican Beta cluster by an expensive chain of FTL comm buoys, the two functioned as a virtual "lens" with an effective aperture equal to the thousands of light years between them. The turians used this to map the Terminus Systems with great accuracy.
http://masseffect.wi...com/wiki/Gromar
Of course that doesn't describe what resolution it can resolve, so who knows if one could show, say, sub-kilometer-sized detail (the size of a Reaper) or maybe continent or planet-sized detail.
At the very least it should be possible to point such a telescope array at one of those worlds and detect the emissions in the x-ray and gamma range that would result from a cataclysmic space battle and resulting orbital bombardment. If it were mobile it could be deployed anywhere in the galaxy that is accessible by mass relay and FTL in order to point it at the other side of the galactic plane, effectively letting one map the entire Reaper attack 50,000 years ago, or nearly the entire thing.
Thoughts?
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