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[The Twilight God]

Sareth Cousland wrote...

Is teleportation possible according to the Mass Effect codex?

When I saw Banshees jumping across the battlefield,  I thought "okay, they manipulate their mass" - but when they jumped through walls, this could only have been a bug. Now we have these new N7 classes jumping through walls. Is this due to the rule of cool that Mass Effect is no longer connected to real-world physics, or is there a different reason for all this teleporting?

Thanks to anyone who can shed some light on this.

Anderson and TIM teleported to the Citadel. So yes.

[Zandercode]

Well isn't that basically what the mass relays do? They create a corridor of mass-free space that objects slide through, meaning those objects phase through any objects in their path. Think of the mako teleporting onto the presidium in ME1, or Shepard into the keeper tunnels in ME3. Or even the power charge, which let's you phase through small low objects. So yes, I think so, they're just not as good at it as in Star Trek, very inaccurate and dangerous by comparison.

[luk3us]

Bioitics = Space magic.

[Unfair_Banana]

The Vanguard essentially teleports when he charges. If I had to guess, time slows down and Shep condenses his body into such a dense, tiny lttle particle that it can slip between atoms of walls or other obstacles, then re-expands on the other side when the charge, or other teleportation method, finishes.
But that's all just my theory on how it works.

[Zandercode]

I'm aware of how mass relays work, I never said you could go anywhere with them, I guess our definitions of teleporting are just different. I always considered it the movement from one location to another with no regards to the space or its contents in between.

[Zandercode]

Or lack of movement rather, just disappearing from existence and appearing in another location. May not be technically what the mass relays do but it is essentially the same. Both can move people to another seemingly inaccessible location by normal means, through walls or whatever (again, no where am I saying you don't have to have another mass relay or something similar to catch you)

[onemaster]

Space magic, precisely.

[AlexMBrennan]

Well, no. Wikipedia says that

Teleportation is the transfer of matter from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them

So relays/banshees/vanguard charges are not teleportation.

It's not the Star Trek teleportation either (physical objects are disassembled at the source and reassembled at the destination - i.e. a perfect copy allowing for all kinds of teleporter shenanigans )

[Chemical_Jordan]

As far as I recall, when a banshee "teleports" it is actually a small moment of FTL travel. It never says these are only done in a straight line, so we can assume that what looks like going through a wall is actually going around it.

[vitaro86]

M-8 Avenger and M-3 Predator. Just think about it. So yes.

[Doofe2012]

Unfair_Banana wrote...

The Vanguard essentially teleports when he charges. If I had to guess, time slows down and Shep condenses his body into such a dense, tiny lttle particle that it can slip between atoms of walls or other obstacles, then re-expands on the other side when the charge, or other teleportation method, finishes.
But that's all just my theory on how it works.

All a Vanguard does is use a mass effect field to drastically lower their mass. Then they push off the ground like linemen in American football toward their target. Their lowered mass makes it so the force of the push-off makes them go near light-speed.

[Strelsky]

Sareth Cousland wrote...

Is teleportation possible according to the Mass Effect codex?

When I saw Banshees jumping across the battlefield,  I thought "okay, they manipulate their mass" - but when they jumped through walls, this could only have been a bug. Now we have these new N7 classes jumping through walls. Is this due to the rule of cool that Mass Effect is no longer connected to real-world physics, or is there a different reason for all this teleporting?

Thanks to anyone who can shed some light on this.

Think of it like a needle piercing through skin. Its mass is so miniscule compared to your skin that it goes right through very easily.

As for when there are not object in the way, it is simply FTL travel. It appears to be teleporting because the object is moving faster than light. When an object moves faster than light, it appears to have teleported because light cannot be absored of reflected off of that object at all until it stops moving, or it will be very little and you see a very faint blur.

[Gravisanimi]

The teleporting though walls is simply the game not recognizing the wall due to latency, not akin to the rest of the space magic