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[sponge56]

 Right, here starts rampant speculation due to ME3 being months away.

Im hearing lots of talk of how the Migrant fleet is going to be a key part in taking down the reapers due to its size. Only thing is, theres a few problems with this idea-  

1) The Quarian fleet is mainly very old and doesn't seem like it could fight effectively
2) Its full of civilians, your not going to charge into battle when your entire species is going to die if you do

One of these problems is solved if we are able to get the Quarian civilians onto their homeworld, but we still have the issue of a fairly useless gigantic rust fleet (although, we dont know if the quarians have some kind of tech-savy edge which gives these ships an advantage).  Essentially all we have gained is a gignatic target of space junk.

So how about the quarian fleet is used as a gigantic distraction.  With the use of VI programs you could remove the problem of a crew and get all of those ships to charge the reaper fleet, all guns blazing, with little to no loss for the allied races.  The reapers would have to focus their attention on the migrant fleet (hell, you could even use these ships as suicide bombs) meaning that all their attention is on the Quarian ships.  You could then have the ships of other races shooting up the reapers, taking less casualties and making more of an impact on the battle.  Hell, you may even be able to force the reapers to withdraw.

Now admittedly this is all based on high speculation but a similar thing did happen and DID work in real naval history, when the English Navy used fire ships in order to break up the Spanish attack and force them to withdraw.

Any Thoughts? 

[King Zeel]

Yes. send the quarians in as some sort of Kamikaze type of thing. and then come in and clean up the mess.

Modifié par King Zeel, 25 juin 2011 - 07:54 .

[Obsidian Gryphon]

Well, it would work. If Reapers are actually being run by programs, they could even send in a few ships blasting out EM field type of viral signal once they're in range, disrupting the Reapers. ... that conjures up images of ID though... ugh

[Raiil]

If there were a way to program at least some of them to auto-pilot, maybe. But given their relatively small numbers, I don't know how many lives you'd potentially want to throw away (you being relative; I know some have a 'whatever it takes' outlook on things).

Then again, quarians probably have the highest percentage of pilots. Tactically, it could work.

[sponge56]

Valentia X wrote...

If there were a way to program at least some of them to auto-pilot, maybe. But given their relatively small numbers, I don't know how many lives you'd potentially want to throw away (you being relative; I know some have a 'whatever it takes' outlook on things).

Then again, quarians probably have the highest percentage of pilots. Tactically, it could work.

You might not even need pilots, VI's could do it, auto pilots and computer fire etc.

[Raiil]

sponge56 wrote...

Valentia X wrote...

If there were a way to program at least some of them to auto-pilot, maybe. But given their relatively small numbers, I don't know how many lives you'd potentially want to throw away (you being relative; I know some have a 'whatever it takes' outlook on things).

Then again, quarians probably have the highest percentage of pilots. Tactically, it could work.

You might not even need pilots, VI's could do it, auto pilots and computer fire etc.

Hence the autopilot, but yeah, totally. Or if they could somehow be connected to the main geth body.

[MigrantFleetCitizen]

Oh Keelah........

[Paulinius]

The mass accelerators on dreadnoughts accelerate a 20 kg slug to 1.3% the speed of light and that causes massive damage.

Now imagine a bunch of Quarian ships that weigh from a few tons to hundreds of thousands of tons FTL'ing into Reapers.

[Raiil]

MigrantFleetCitizen wrote...

Oh Keelah........

Don't worry, it will be an honourable death for the Qwib-Qwib.

[Ianamus]

Get Geth platforms to operate them. The Geth wouldn't 'die' as they would relocate to the nearest carrier. This means that all of the more beaten-up Quarian ships could be used as distraction/kamikaze without the loss of any life.
It would mean less Geth platforms for cobat though... would make for a good tactical decision.

[Skirata129]

I'm all for this. best use we could get out of those rust buckets.

[DCarter]

I guess if the quarians retook their homeworld then the majority of their fleet would be redundant, so using it as a distraction is a possibility.

[The Baconer]

Paulinius wrote...

The mass accelerators on dreadnoughts accelerate a 20 kg slug to 1.3% the speed of light and that causes massive damage.

Now imagine a bunch of Quarian ships that weigh from a few tons to hundreds of thousands of tons FTL'ing into Reapers.

I don't think they can scrounge enough eezo to do that. Unless, they can somehow 're-aim' a Relay and effectively use it as a gun.

[Bocks]

Did you see what one Quarian ship did to that ground Reaper in the gameplay demo?

[DCarter]

Bocks wrote...

Did you see what one Quarian ship did to that ground Reaper in the gameplay demo?

No, link?

[Sir Ulrich Von Lichenstien]

Valentia X wrote...

MigrantFleetCitizen wrote...

Oh Keelah........

Don't worry, it will be an honourable death for the Qwib-Qwib.

you just reminded me, if there is ONE ship out of their fleet that I think they need to show it is indeed the Qwib-Qwib

[DoNotIngest]

I like this Geth-platform overseeing on the worse-condition ships idea. Load 'em up with mines or put a few turrets on 'em, and you have some good no-life-loss fodder.

Of course, convincing the Migrant Fleet to give up some of their precious ships into the "hands" of the Geth... Heavy risk...

DCarter wrote...

Bocks wrote...

Did you see what one Quarian ship did to that ground Reaper in the gameplay demo?

No, link?

When Shepard's turret-ing that Vaterral-Reaper on the back of Legion's escape ride, there's an orbital strike from the Quarian fleet. Y'know, the gigantic explosion that drops it for a few seconds?

[gunswordfist]

I am guessing that the only way the Quarians won't get damn near extincted is if they team up with the Geth

[Rykn]

Hot knife through butter my friend. Hot knife through butter. But then again, That's pretty much everyone. For reference play through ME1 and see how fun it is to get hit with reaper laserz

Modifié par Rykn, 25 juin 2011 - 10:29 .

[rumination888]

Just because the quarian fleet are made up of junk frigates doesn't mean their shields and armaments are also junk. Tali retrofitted the Normandy's shields with Cyclonic Barrier Tech, afterall.

[Raiil]

rumination888 wrote...

Just because the quarian fleet are made up of junk frigates doesn't mean their shields and armaments are also junk. Tali retrofitted the Normandy's shields with Cyclonic Barrier Tech, afterall.

This, the quarians are geniuses at taking utter crap and making it work very well. I'm sure they have some complete lemons but a lot of their ships look pretty damn good.

[atheelogos]

Bocks wrote...

Did you see what one Quarian ship did to that ground Reaper in the gameplay demo?

Yeah not much. They couldn't take out one small Reaper with a direct hit.

Oh and whoever asked for the link here ya go www.youtube.com/watch

Modifié par atheelogos, 25 juin 2011 - 10:39 .

[FrozenShadow]

gunswordfist wrote...

I am guessing that the only way the Quarians won't get damn near extincted is if they team up with the Geth

And that they have moved back to Rannoch, so they can "safely" use the fleet.

[atheelogos]

rumination888 wrote...

Just because the quarian fleet are made up of junk frigates doesn't mean their shields and armaments are also junk.

Compared to Reaper tech even our new ships are junk.

[VegasVance]

atheelogos wrote...
Compared to Reaper tech even our new ships are junk.

Not entirely, we've got an EDI, and Thanix cannons.  Those will make quite the difference come battle time.