Cobra5 wrote...
Solving the problem of rebuilding and living without the relay network seems trivial compared to uniting the entire galaxy under a single banner, building the crucible in such a short period of time, and defeating an ancient monolithic race that couldn't be described as anyhting other then apocalyptic. Not to mention the pan-species team of the best engineers and scientists that have ever lived being assembled together in a system with a prothean archive full of deus-ex machines.
But sure i mean if you want to say "Nah they're all just gonna roll over and die" then I guess that's cool too.
Except that:
1. No one actually knows how the Mass Relays work, evne the Protheans were just cracking the technology in Ilos, and they only managed to build one relay. For the Crucible they had plans, they knew how to build it. For the relays they have nothing, they don't know what they're supposed to do.
2. Trivial? Are you even thinking what this means? The entire galactic economy is completley destroyed. Companies will die because they cna't contact their subdivisions, billions will lose their jobs leading to a galctic depression. Trading will completley die because travel times become far too long. Colonies will die out without new supplies, families will be broken. The entire galaxy will be thrown into an era of chaos and unrest, the council has no way to council anything without the relay network, their seat of galctic government has been destroyed, majority of all military forces are out on earth making all the races vulnerable to say a Batarian attack or terrorist strikes.
Even if the galactic superteam knows how to build relays, building a relay and then dragging another through the galaxy, then building a third, dragging it through the galaxy, building a fourth, dragging it through the galaxy and so on. Is going to take possibly hundreds of thousands of years until the network could even be rebuilt. This is assuming they know the Relay technology. If they don't know it could easily takes several thousand years before they can evne think about rebuilding the network. Most of the scientists will die without ever seeing their families again.
We also have thousands of starships orbiting earth. Carrying hundreds of thousands or even million of troops. Some of the unable to live on Earth or eat our food, overpopulation and lack of resources for these species may very well lead into several conflicts or even a full blown war. Especially f you have the Krogans unboard with their inherently violent and short tempered nature.
How the hell do you call this minor?
3. Full of deus-ex machinas? What? Since when? Where is this archive? Point me to the dialogue in game that says the Mars outpost is full of deus-ex machinas? From what I know the only thing they found was the crucible, nothing else. And throughout the entire game they kept sayin "We have no idea what this thing does" meaning they really didn't know what the hell they were building. The entire pan-team of scientists couldn't figure out what the Crucible does. And how would these deus ex machinas help us? We have no indication that there's anything that could help galactic travel in these archives.