Turbo_J wrote...
Harbinger wants you to think dark energy build up is inconsequential... So does Bioware. It gives them something to write about in ME4
I sincerely hope it
is inconsequential. It's got a colossal flaw. The Milky Way is one galaxy of hundreds of billions in the observable universe. If dark energy was going to rip reality apart, it's going to do it regardless. Fixing the problem in the Milky Way and expecting the universe to keep going is like sticking a wine cork in an iceberg shaped hole and expecting the Titanic to be fine.
The typical response I get to that issue is that they can adjust the story so rather than tearing apart the universe itself, dark energy would just rip apart the galaxy that let it get out of hand. That introduces its own set of problems though. First, it'd be a well known and documented phenomenon that galaxies would occasionally just... poof. It's not. Second, since it's ludicrous to assume that the Reapers have kept the problem in check here for a billion years or more and it hasn't become acute yet in the other hundreds of billions, that means that they've come up with solutions as well. While crossing between galaxies is an insane task for organics with Mass Effect's technology, the Reapers could most certainly have gotten emissaries to many closeby galaxies and asked their denizens how they're solving the dark energy problem. I'm sure someone has come up with something that doesn't rely on incomprehensible amounts of horror and genocide.
Then there's the solution that the other galaxies have their own Reapers. It's impossible for the Reapers as we know them to spread beyond some nearby galaxies. They have neither the tech nor the numbers. Not to mention they
would run into something that makes them look weak and helpless. So the only remotely viable possibility is that each surviving galaxy has ended up doing the Reapers' thing on their own. They each realized it was the only way and went about it with their own methods. But... My God... what a horrible story that would be. It would not just make the Reapers out to be unsung heroes, it would trivialize the entire struggle against the Reapers because in the end, it's all hopeless.
****** on dark energy. I hope they never bring it up again.
byne wrote...
Didnt you listen to the Drill Sergeant in ME2?
This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferris slug, feel the weight. Every five seconds, the main gun of an everest class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3% of light-speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kiloton bomb. That is three times the yield of the city-buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means- Sir Issac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-**** in space.
Our dreadnoughts already have guns that shoot with the same force as a nuke, so nuking them would be pointless.
Though at Palaven they managed to smuggle warp bombs inside Reapers and blow em up, but getting inside a Reaper would be tricky.
Nope. Two reasons. First, Reapers' best defense is their kinetic barrier. It's made to deflect shots from a mass accelerator cannon. Probably part of the reason they left that technology around, so organics would be dependant on something they're well guarded against. Nuclear weapons operate completely differently. A kinetic barrier would be meaningless. Second, the nuke dropped on Hiroshima was nothing compared to high yield thermonuclear bombs. Hiroshima's was a fission bomb. About 15 kiltons. Fission bombs are believed to have a maximum yield of about 500 kiltons. Thermonuclear weapons, which are fusion bombs, are
far more powerful. The most powerful bomb ever detonated by mankind was a Soviet fusion bomb, the Tsar Bomb. It had a yield of 50 megatons. 3,333 times the power of the one dropped on Hiroshima. Keep in mind, that was 1961. No larger bombs were ever built because they serve no practical purpose, but the technology is capable of significantly more than 50 megatons. There's also the theorized "pure" fusion bomb. Current fusion bombs use a smaller fission explosion to set themselves off whereas a pure fusion bomb would not require that. If such a thing is possible, its yield would likely dwarf fusion bombs the way fusion bombs did to fission bombs.
tl'dr version: nukes > reapers. There's a reason that nuclear missile silos were first strike targets for the Reapers. Remember what happened to the mothership in Independence Day? That's a more realistic depiction of the kind of nukes Mass Effect would have than Hiroshima.
Arian Dynas wrote...
<stuff about Planescape: Torment>
Seriously, am I the only person alive that hated that game?
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