Bladewinger also contributed this link: Endings discussion.
Now, lets say the Endings are indeed hallucinations of Shepard's mind. S/he's dying after getting blasted by Harby's beam, so his/her last moments are just a dream of some sort.
Remember the Normandy? Somehow she's near the Charon Relay and for whatever reasons jumping out of Sol. I dunno why Joker is doing that stunt, it doesn't matter. Lets do some math here - I can "prove", Shepard is dreaming at this point. Or better: I can prove the Normandy's fate -CAN'T- be the one we saw in the Endings.
What do we have? The Normandy is in transit and gets pulled out by that shockwave. Right before it got hit, you clearly can see it's engines ripped apart, so you can assume the ship is unable to do any kind of travel anymore: the Normandy can't limp to the next star system or even the next planet anymore in case it ends in one already.
Normandy ends in a star system with planets: 1 : 1,000,000,000
The chances she'll end in a star system are already really bad. Space is pretty much empty and reallife science says, star systems like Sol are pretty much rare.
The Normandy however HAS to end in a star system with a star that's not too different from our Sun. And it has to have planets too.
The star system has a Garden World: 1 : 1,000
Maybe this is the only point where I can work with a real number. Lets say the Normandy stranded in a star system with planets, only one out of thousand may have a Garden World that's in the "green zone" of the star so water is a fluid and neither solid nor gaseous.
Garden World meets human requirements: 1 : 100
Right. The series shows ANY world supporting sapient life is a Garden World, that also includes extreme worlds like Irune or Dekuuna (spelling?). Those worlds are simply not suitable for human life, but they're still called "Garden Worlds".
However, the world we see in the end looks pretty much like earthlike.
The Normandy ends right in the orbit of said world: 1 : 1,000,000
And I'm sure that number is still too low. What do you think, how high are the chances the Normandy does NOT hit the planet at incredible speed? How high are the chances the Normandy respawned in orbit of said planet and not in its core?
As I said, the ship got no engines anymore, so it HAS to end in the orbit of a planet. And it has to be the Garden World in that system. That's -very- unlikely.
The Normandy survives the crash: 1 : 1,000
Now ... you got it. The Normandy lost her engines and might fall of the sky like a brick. And survives the crash. And so does the crew.
Now multiply the numbers and you get an idea how unlikely the fate of the Normandy truly is.
It's this number: 1 : 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
And I'm not even working with real numbers here. It's most likely that number gets additional zeros ... but that doesn't matter. It's just that: the fate of the Normandy is almost as unlikely as the existence of our universe. However, our universe exists (otherwise, we couldn't argue about ME3's endings) - but given the fact the universe doesn't play by the rules since it MADE the rules, I can say it's very, very, very unlikely the Normandy ends on a Garden World intact after getting pulled out of transit while losing engines at the same time.
It's THAT unlikely.
So I can say it's very likely Shepard's last thoughts are with the Normandy. S/he simply wants to believe the Normandy made it out alive somehow. That's why Shepard's final squad gets "beamed up" and step out of the hatch - because Shepard wants to believe that. It's comforting him/her in the dying moment.
Forgive any grammar issues ...
Modifié par CptData, 14 mars 2012 - 12:06 .
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