Has anyone else noticed that there is a RECIEVING conduit inside the Presidium? How did the scientists get there in the first place if they needed to build both the transmitting and recieving part of the Conduit? If the recieving conduit is the actual Citadel conduit intended for the reapers, how would they all fit inside the Presidium when they arrived? Are they not all the size of Sovereign?
The Conduit
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Posté 06 février 2011 - 02:56
Elvis_Mazur
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Ehhh. The miniature of the Mass Relay was created before the Reaper's invasion, and since it was created by the Protheans, I would assume that the circular form of the Presidium is actually where the Reapers would come through had Sovereign completed its quest.
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Posté 09 février 2011 - 07:19
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I've been wondering about this as well. I can't quote directly from the game, but dialogues made me think the entire Citadel and not just a part of it was a giant mass relay. Also, going by what we know about mass relays, I'd say both the Reaper relay and the Conduit have to be Primary relays, else someone could link to them by accident. But this also means that both of them can only be accessed from their respective twins.
Of course, story-wise, the only thing that would make sense is that the Protheans somehow found a way to link to the Reaper relay from Ilos. They needed an existing relay to link to, and there was no way they could build two of them and then ship one to the Citadel (not to mention that had they had a working ship, they wouldn't have needed to build a relay. And the ship would have had to use the relay system, which would have tipped off Sovereign that someone was still alive.)
All right, so there seems to be no way to solve the problem. Let's try a different approach (sorry, I'm sort of thinking this out as I type). Let's assume the Reaper relay is nothing like the rest of the network: it's not primary, but not secondary either. This might be the case, since it appears to be a one-way route, and the Reapers can't open it from dark space, they need Sovereign to activate it. This seems the opposite of how relays normally work: when you travel through them, you have to activate the sending relay, which in turn activates the receiving relay (this is my assumption, but I don't see any other logical way). In this case, the Citadel would be the receiving relay, which means the whole process goes backwards. We can't be even sure if it has a twin somewhere in dark space, though it is likely. Or perhaps the Reapers have some sort of built-in mechanism? But the Citadel relay has to be activated before they can link to it, like it's put into some sort of 'stand-by mode'? That would actually make sense (although it's pure speculation since we never saw any indication of such a technology). But I digress.
Perhaps the 'statue' in the Presidium is the Reaper relay after all. The Reapers might have disguised it as a statue, although I don't see why they couldn't simply hide it in the Citadel's 'inaccessible core'. Maybe they followed the 'hiding in plain sight' rule. If this is the case, the rest of the station might act as some sort of amplifier for the tiny relay, making it possible for a huge fleet to come through. Maybe Sovereign only activates the amplifier--this way, the Conduit can link to the relay itself but it won't open the large 'gate' the Reaper fleet uses.
Anyway, this is just my theory, and it will remain as such until Bioware comes out with an explanation.
Of course, story-wise, the only thing that would make sense is that the Protheans somehow found a way to link to the Reaper relay from Ilos. They needed an existing relay to link to, and there was no way they could build two of them and then ship one to the Citadel (not to mention that had they had a working ship, they wouldn't have needed to build a relay. And the ship would have had to use the relay system, which would have tipped off Sovereign that someone was still alive.)
All right, so there seems to be no way to solve the problem. Let's try a different approach (sorry, I'm sort of thinking this out as I type). Let's assume the Reaper relay is nothing like the rest of the network: it's not primary, but not secondary either. This might be the case, since it appears to be a one-way route, and the Reapers can't open it from dark space, they need Sovereign to activate it. This seems the opposite of how relays normally work: when you travel through them, you have to activate the sending relay, which in turn activates the receiving relay (this is my assumption, but I don't see any other logical way). In this case, the Citadel would be the receiving relay, which means the whole process goes backwards. We can't be even sure if it has a twin somewhere in dark space, though it is likely. Or perhaps the Reapers have some sort of built-in mechanism? But the Citadel relay has to be activated before they can link to it, like it's put into some sort of 'stand-by mode'? That would actually make sense (although it's pure speculation since we never saw any indication of such a technology). But I digress.
Perhaps the 'statue' in the Presidium is the Reaper relay after all. The Reapers might have disguised it as a statue, although I don't see why they couldn't simply hide it in the Citadel's 'inaccessible core'. Maybe they followed the 'hiding in plain sight' rule. If this is the case, the rest of the station might act as some sort of amplifier for the tiny relay, making it possible for a huge fleet to come through. Maybe Sovereign only activates the amplifier--this way, the Conduit can link to the relay itself but it won't open the large 'gate' the Reaper fleet uses.
Anyway, this is just my theory, and it will remain as such until Bioware comes out with an explanation.
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Posté 09 février 2011 - 09:50
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Maybe you just need a relay at the other end to jump with precision. Perhaps there are a load of floating prothian corpses in the nebula who overshot or undershot. Maybe a couple went through first in a ship.
