The Angry One wrote...
The Grey Nayr wrote...
lillitheris wrote...
The Grey Nayr wrote...
I find it funny that people are bashing EC when we've seen only ONE betatest shot that actually answers a question we were all wondering about.
If you haven’t been paying attention (you haven’t), we’re bashing that screenshot that doesn’t answer the question in any manner resembling logical, sane, or even far-fetched but plausible.
How is that not logical? Hackett, Anderson, and Liara had all been wondering if the Crucible would kill them along with the Reapers for like half the game. I find the fact that they had an escape plan just in case to be very reasonable.
Because they also know that the Crucible is going to affect the GALAXY.
HOW are you going to run away from the GALAXY?
This is like planting a bomb in a building then trying to escape the blast by hiding in a room down the hall.
Moreover, stuff like rendezvous points and planned retreats is something you discuss at breifings BEFORE the battle.
I actually don’t have a problem with that…I could accept it as a narrative device (I use similar in my fic, after all).
What I
do have a problem with:
0. You don’t go into FTL inside a system. The risk of hitting something is too great, unless you have absolutely no other choice.
1. It takes ~5
hours to get to the termination shock (edge of solar system) at relativistic speeds.
2. The nearest
possibly habitable planet to Earth is 10 ly away. This is 12+
hours of FTL travel.
3. Relay jumps are instantaneous (or microsecond scale).
4.
If we, despite all logic, decide that the Normandy was hit in the middle of a relay jump the chances of ending up not dead near a habitable planet are, optimistically, something like 1:10^17
5. Lethal Cherenkov radiation for any abrupt FTL exit
6. Chances of surviving re-entry onto a planet with clearly a breathable atmosphere in an uncontrollable, damaged ship are…low.
I think I have some others, but let’s solve those first.
(If someone is interested, the first few chapters of
“Unity” have my take on a scenario that takes all these factors into account…although the whole picture isn’t revealed until later.)
Modifié par lillitheris, 22 juin 2012 - 09:23 .