Fenrisfil wrote...
TheWerdna wrote...
Honestly the only reason i am not sobbing like a baby about the ending is because it is still possible for my Shepard to reunite with Tali and the rest of the Normandy crew.
In my ending Shepard lived, and he would never rest until he finds his friends and love interest. I had little hope of this working at first, since even with FTL it would take years just to go to the surrounding planets. Then I did the math and realized that it would only take a few decades to get from one end of the galexy to the other.
Thus is should be fairly easy to find the Normandy crew, they can't have ended up that far away. Thus the first thing my Shepard is/will do is find the nearest QEC, even if he has to break out of the hospital to do so. Then he is going to take the first ship he can get with FTL on it, even if he has to steal it, and go find his friends dammit!
And then they live happily ever after...on earth since the Relays still went boom, but still. (And why goes the stargazer ending still happen? I dunno, people decide to colonize that world because, hey, a Garden world not that far from earth)
There may be a problem with relative time when making extended FTL journeys. Though not sure if the ME universe just sidestepped that with made up tech. Also no idea quite the effect of going FTL in real life, since it's not generally considered possible. But, if it worked out anything like near light then while it may take 20 years to get across the milky way (that's without stopping to vent too I believe), a much much longer amount of time would probably have passed outside of the travelling ship. It's possible that, depending where they are standed all your friends could die of old age by the time you reach them. Both the speed and mass have implications for relative time, but without any mention that I know of about how that's dealt with in ME it's really impossible to say just how feasible the whole thing would be.
Anyway, physics aside. It's not going to be easy to track down the crew. If they are truly stranded, you'd pretty much have to scan every planet in the entire galaxy to find them. I'd like to think my Shepard would never give up trying to find Tali. But it seems unlikely he would ever succeed. They may get lucky and get picked up by a civilisation in whatever area they are in, or they may manage to repair the Normandy. But even then it won't be easy to get together. Probably the sensible thing to do would be to head to Rannoch and just hope Tali is able to get there too. Hopefully a quantum entanglement communication system will get set up to help survivors find each other. If Sheppard can keep tabs on the main worlds then he could run around planet scanning until he dies, or finds something. Sad way to spend your retirement.
Well aparently FTL in the ME universe somehow fixes the whole time difference issue, so if Shepard knows what direction they are in, it shouldn't take too long. Honestly, I choose to believe that the QEC was still functioning on the crashed Normandy (for the sake of my own sanity). Since they were only in FTL for a few minutes, they can;t be that far away, maybe a few weeks at most via FTL.
From I imagine my Shepard would find a way to deterimine their location, either via triangulating the possition, the Normandy crew sending out a distress signel, or even just looking at the starts to try and figure out where they are reletivly. I know its a long shot (it counts on a few "if"s), but there is no officaly evidence saying this is immpossible and the logic is sound (making it atleast possible) so I am going to keep imagining this is what happens. I choose to believe that maybe, one more time, Shepard continues to defy the laws of averages and gets lucky, and is able to find and rescue the Normandy crew. For my own happyness and to ward off depression I am going to pretend this is what happens,
Beside, it still makes way more sense then the rest of the endings.
Modifié par TheWerdna, 19 mars 2012 - 01:21 .
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