Dresden867 wrote...
Mr.House wrote...
Persephone wrote...
Depends. In Arrival, you tossed an ASTEROID into a Relay. Not the same.
I don't care what we did to it, the relay exploded, it destoryed a whole system. All relays blow up at the end of ME3 and we see the shockwaves. Nothing explains why the star systems with a relay survives except for space magic.
.. except that this clearly cannot have happened, or the "Shepard Lives" Destroy ending would be flatly impossible.
Your 'irrefutable' logic is actively refuted by existing content.
Just because Walters and Hudson don't understand basic physics doesn't mean that star systems survive: energy does not simply disappear just because someone wants it to.
Mass relays are the most powerful FTL engines in the galaxy. The fact that the Reapers who have been around for at least 1 billion years proves that the mass relays are just as old as well, and that they've been operating at maximum capacity for all that time. This provides an outlook on the amount of energy they had and still have - either basically unlimited - unlikely - or still enough to last for many more millions, if not billions, or trillions of years. Now, when a relay is abruptly destroyed somehow, all that energy it still had will be unleashed in one cataclysmic shockwave - just like it was shown in Arrival. No matter how the relay is destroyed - unless it is pulled in and consumed by a black hole - its destruction will lead to the release of all its remaining energy. At the end of ME3, that's exactly what happens. The space magic brings about a series of chain reactions in that gigantic eezo core, the relay still shoots out the space magic signal to the next/neighbouring one(s), and then explodes in a supernova. This is continued by the "epic" sequence of an overlook of the Milky Way (someone about 50,000 years later is going to see the whole firework going down right before his/her eyes if he or she is at a spot with a great view of the disc of the Milky Way) from where we can see all relays blowing up.
Yes, Shepard's breath and the survival of the crew do imply that this "explosion was different," but alas, that can only be explained through space magic, which in turn rips a singularity in the fabric of ME lore. Conclusion: the destruction of the relays is a terrible part of the ending... one of the countless other issues.
Modifié par Thalador, 05 avril 2012 - 11:11 .