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[FluffyScarf]

There are Reapers in other galaxies. It's mentioned in the Codex. Sovereign even mentioned it in M1.

Modifié par FluffyScarf, 28 juin 2011 - 04:08 .

[GreenDragon37]

It'd be a waste. The distances are too vast.

[Kileyan]

Reapers are bigger than us, but that doesn't mean that are so big that they have their claws/tentacles into every galaxy or every bit of existance. There is no reason to believe they are directing the evolution of every galaxy.

If they were that wide spread, that all knowing, that coordinated.............I can't imagine ME3 will end well. Well not to mention, if whatever created the Reapers is doing the same thing across the entire universe, that would entail the ability to gather the information from all thier experiments. At the very least be able to send information across all these vast distances. I just can't see it, if that was possible, they had that kind of knowledge, this ME3 battle is over before it started, not even a Hollywood ending could surmount the advantage the Reapers would have.

Modifié par Kileyan, 28 juin 2011 - 05:21 .

[Son of Illusive Man]

1. Bioware is just using the two interchangeably.
2. There is no life in the other galaxies, or the Reapers have the same plan for them.

If there was life in the other galaxy, they'd eventually develop to the point of being able to travel between galaxies, and would threaten the reapers.  The reapers aren't just going to let this happen.

3. Maybe the other galaxies populations are still living with pre-space technology

[Ianamus]

The Milky Way galaxy is about 100'000 light years in diameter, and the Reapers appear to rely on the Relay system to travel across it. The nearest galaxy, Andromeda, is 2.5 million light years away.

The Reapers almost definitely originated in the Milky way, and I don't think that they could reach the nearest galaxies even if they wanted to.

Edit: Makes more sense now. The grammar/spelling in the original was abysmal

Modifié par EJ107, 28 juin 2011 - 03:35 .

[marshalleck]

EJ107 wrote...

The Milky Way galaxy is about 100'000 light years in diameter, and the Reapers appear rely the Relay system to travel across it. The nearest galaxy, Andromeda, is 2.5 million light years away.

The Reapers almost definitely originated in the Milkay way, and I don't think that they could reach the nearest galaxies even if they wanted to.

To be fair to some of the people in this thread, the human mind and human experience in general lacks the faculties and context for understanding size and distance on a galactic and intergalactic scale. When the numbers get big enough they seem to become unreal and arbitrary, and the mind conceives ways to reduce them and make them more manageable on a conceptual level.

The region of space known to the current species in Mass Effect accessible by relay is less than 1% of the Milky Way, according to the codex. There is really no reason we need to expand the story to encompass other galaxies; whatever you're trying to achieve with that could be done by setting the development within the Milky Way, which is preferable since it keeps the internal logic of ME intact. 

And to the other guy saying my numbers can't be correct...go play Mass Effect again, and this time pay attention to all the "talky bits" instead of button mashing through them. 

Modifié par marshalleck, 28 juin 2011 - 03:23 .

[Welsh Inferno]

Yes that's probably the reality of it, i'm not ruling it out though for the simple fact that the Reapers do have at least one massive mass relay in dark space to link straight to the citadel. Pure speculation here but what if  that relay that links to the Citadel links the other way to another massive relay, with links to another and another and another and then Andromeda. In the ME universe that's entirely possible. The Reapers have been around for billions of years after all.

Do i think this will actually be revealed in ME3? Nope. Due to the fact that we've explored less than 1% of the Milky Way. But it's cool to think about and maybe its a way to have a, even if you beat the Reapers, they're not gone from the ME universe completely ending scenario.

Modifié par Welsh Inferno, 28 juin 2011 - 03:50 .

[The Spamming Troll]

GreenDragon37 wrote...

It'd be a waste. The distances are too vast.

time has no meaning to a reaper.

well i guess 50,000 years is the only measurement of time they care about.