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[Shimmer_Gloom]

I totally think its the citadel. That, or what we think are the 'arms' are actually really big ships. Remember, these are just fuzzy shapes in the sky. It doesn't have to be citadel arms.

But it certainly looks like the citadel in front of earth.

Why is it called the citadel? Why does it have that hole in the middle? Could you fit a planet in there? Is that what its for? Do you fit a planet in there, then 'close' the arms? Could that be what the hole is for?

[bald man in a boat]

Shimmer_Gloom wrote...

I totally think its the citadel. That, or what we think are the 'arms' are actually really big ships. Remember, these are just fuzzy shapes in the sky. It doesn't have to be citadel arms.

But it certainly looks like the citadel in front of earth.

Why is it called the citadel? Why does it have that hole in the middle? Could you fit a planet in there? Is that what its for? Do you fit a planet in there, then 'close' the arms? Could that be what the hole is for?

You really need to read the codex.

[Shimmer_Gloom]

Thanks. I forgot most of that stuff. Still didn't read anything that says you couldn't fit a planet in that hole like I said, even if it was never made to able to do such. Seems like a great way to protect a planet considering how durable the arms are supposed to be.

[bald man in a boat]

Dude check out the diameter of the Citadel and then check the diameter of a planet Earth's size. Did you even read it? Really? You thought Earth was under 12 km across? Is it flat too? 

It's not going to work. 

Citadel diameter - 12.8 km when open
Earth's Equatorial Diameter - 12,756.75 km 

Modifié par bald man in a boat, 30 avril 2011 - 11:45 .

[Murmillos]

Shimmer_Gloom wrote...

Thanks. I forgot most of that stuff. Still didn't read anything that says you couldn't fit a planet in that hole like I said, even if it was never made to able to do such. Seems like a great way to protect a planet considering how durable the arms are supposed to be.

Diameter of Earth: 12,742 km

Diameter of Presidium ring: 7.2km  -  Total Length of Citadel: 44.7km

The Citadel is going to end up just a tad on the small side.
 

Modifié par Murmillos, 30 avril 2011 - 11:50 .

[didymos1120]

Shimmer_Gloom wrote...

Thanks. I forgot most of that stuff. Still didn't read anything that says you couldn't fit a planet in that hole like I said, even if it was never made to able to do such. Seems like a great way to protect a planet considering how durable the arms are supposed to be.

Didn't read anything?  How did you miss the stats right on that page? The Citadel is ~45km long.  The ring has a diameter of 7.2 km.  Now go look up some planetary radii.  You aren't fitting much of anything in there.

[Jzier]

The space station is Jump Zero not the citadel

[DeadlyParasite]

That sticky at the top of this forum that has collected all of the known info so far mentions we'll be at both Palavan and it's moon.

The drawing looks like the moon and you can see Palavan as that huge planet behind all the dreadnaughts.

[didymos1120]

Jzier wrote...

The space station is Jump Zero not the citadel

Jump Zero is out by Pluto and the Charon relay.  It also has a grand total of ~9,000 people on it.  I.e., it's not that big.

[aimlessgun]

Humans might have copied the citadel's design and made a similar space station.

The Reapers are definitely mini-reapers if you compare them to the size of the structures/windows and such.

And I agree with others, this is probably nonsense concept art. Art teams do what looks cool and tend to bollocks up story stuff to achieve said coolness (like showing Shep burning up in the atmosphere after the SR-1 went down).

[Reapersgonnareap]

Its the Arcturus Station.

/thread

or the Space Station off earth at the end of ME1

Modifié par Reapersgonnareap, 01 mai 2011 - 01:48 .

[didymos1120]

Reapersgonnareap wrote...

Its the Arcturus Station.

/thread

Really?  Based on what evidence?

[bald man in a boat]

 There's only one thing more outrageous than ME fan speculation.

[bald man in a boat]

Double postage.

Modifié par bald man in a boat, 01 mai 2011 - 02:00 .

[Zatwu]

I will reiterate, this is not Palavan because you can see Africa and Madagascar. This is also not Jump Zero or the moon because its far to close. And except for Omega and the Collector station, there is no other structure out there that can dwarf the Reapers.

It does look like concept art, but concept art is made for things the writers and modelers will be creating, not for pretty pictures in a magazine.

[Vez04]

bald man in a boat wrote...

 There's only one thing more outrageous than ME fan speculation.

For some reason i feel like ive seen that back in my childhood o.O

'Bunks his head in the wall'

Modifié par Vez04, 01 mai 2011 - 02:56 .

[Zatwu]

I've added some info from later in the thread to the first post to provide a more complete picture.

[Bluefuse]

Looks like the Citadel may be a weapon as well as a mass relay.

[Leonia]

Reapersgonnareap wrote...

Its the Arcturus Station.

/thread

or the Space Station off earth at the end of ME1

Unless Arcturus station is mobile and can move to the Sol system.. unlikely. It could possibly be a space station but it would be unlikely that such a large station exists so close to Earth without a mention in the Codex.

The comments in the magazine that refer to Palaven and its moon might be referencing the two smaller pictures to the left, hard to say.

[moneycashgeorge]

@irishspectre. Thanks for the picture and yes the shape at the presidium-end of the wards is the same as the shape in the picture. Of course there is no presidium attached, so it still doesnt make sense.

@Zatwu. small thing to point out but on your Africa outlined picture you didnt outline around the "horn", you cut right through the Sahara. if you look to the left of your outline you can see north-western Africa. So I agree it 100% has to be earth. this was a good catch.

However the foreground picture is absolutely not the Citadel. Look at your red outline picture. The two "mountains/ward arms" in the direction of Earth don't look like Ward arms. Wards are completely seperated from each other and end in a triangular point. Those shapes, if they were Wards, would be connected until splitting near the end.

I think that you guys are over-analyzing the distance between Earth and the foreground, as the artist would have ignored this when trying to make the best picture. Earth is that close simply because the artist wanted to fill the frame. The moon is still a legitimate possibility.

[Zatwu]

Actually the ward arms do not end in a triangular point when the citadel is open.



And the "mountains" are not two ward arms in the distance in the direction of earth. That's the end of one ward arm which is curved. If you look closely at the picture of the Citadel at the bottom of the post you can see the end of the arms curve the same way. The other ward arm in the red outlined picture is to the right and is seperated.

And credit goes to marshalleck for spotting the Africa outline.

Modifié par Zatwu, 01 mai 2011 - 05:39 .

[bald man in a boat]

Zat... Zat, Zat, Zat. Did you really say that concept art isn't for magazines? Just so you know, that GI article is packed with it. And so are a lot of other magazines.