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[cap and gown]

You know, the galaxy is a rather large place. (ahem) As Liara says to Shepard, it would be easy to just get lost out there. So why build a stasis bunker hoping to ride out the storm? It makes no sense. It doesn't move so it can eventually be found. Set up an Ark, OTOH, tell them to take off and never communicate with anyone again so they can't be traced, and to decide on their own where to go, maybe even using a RNG, and it would be easy to ge lost out there.

[Steelcan]

because issues would invariably arise

-power and fuel in addition to food, water etc...
-potential collisions
-low probability of finding a suitable world

[Br3admax]

How is this any different than From Ashes? It won't work, even if it logically could, which I have doubts of, there will always be LOLindoctrination.

[dreamgazer]

Yeah, let's just turn Shepard into Space Jesus and Space Noah.

[Steelcan]

dreamgazer wrote...

Yeah, let's just turn Shepard into Space Jesus and Space Noah.

na, lets put in some good mythical heroes in there.

Space Odysseus:wizard:

[AlexMBrennan]

As Liara says to Shepard, it would be easy to just get lost out there

Wrong - Liara said that it would be easy for *one ship* to get lost... enough ships for every. last. human are a completely different matter.

OTOH, tell them to take off and never communicate with anyone again so they can't be traced

I seriously doubt that this would be possible - if you are hoping to save people, then some indoctrinated agents will inevitably make it onto the arks.

What might work is sending colony ships just large enough to maintain a viable population off into space with the goal of returning after the Reapers leave to give the next cycle a head start but I don't think that that's what you had in mind.

[Chashan]

knucks360 wrote...

More than likely past civilizations have tried this,and It's safe to assume it didn't work out so well for them,as a result of what Steelcan pointed out.

Or got so thoroughly lost they have no bearing on the galaxy's affairs any longer, nor any idea how to make it back on their own.

dreamgazer wrote...

Yeah, let's just turn Shepard into Space Jesus and Space Noah.

Noone said anything about the Commander taking that ride.

Some sizable colony making that decision for themselves, fleeing the Reaper invasion, though...hm...doesn't sound too bad.

[Adrian Shepherd]

Steelcan wrote...

dreamgazer wrote...

Yeah, let's just turn Shepard into Space Jesus and Space Noah.

na, lets put in some good mythical heroes in there.

Space Odysseus:wizard:

Ulysses 31!!!

[trenq]

yeah build an ark and take a couple of asari, quarian and human women with you
enjoy

[cap and gown]

AlexMBrennan wrote...


What might work is sending colony ships just large enough to maintain a viable population off into space with the goal of returning after the Reapers leave to give the next cycle a head start but I don't think that that's what you had in mind.

Yes, it is. I am not suggesting everyone be saved. (Heck, Noah didn't even save enough for a viable population.) Just enough to provide for "continuity of civilization." And not just one ship, but many, each heading off on its own, not knowing where any of the others are.

Modifié par cap and gown, 14 novembre 2013 - 04:46 .

[JamesFaith]

cap and gown wrote...

Set up an Ark, OTOH, tell them to take off and never communicate with anyone again so they can't be traced, and to decide on their own where to go, maybe even using a RNG, and it would be easy to ge lost out there.

This part is the biggest problem of such solution.

We are speaking here about 50 000 years long period which means, even with lifespan similar to asari, dozens of generations. When first three, four generations would know Reapers from first hand or from stories of eye witnesses, for other it would be just history. And how long it would take before someone start claiming, that Reapers powers were exaggerated, that Reapers are long gone or that it is all just one big lie and tool of goverment to control masses through fear?

Then you would need just one wrong signal and Sovereign on one of his regular sentry-go.

[Wulfram]

I assume things like this are why the Reapers take centuries. They need to stick around to make sure there aren't people hiding on arks and things.

Though a technophobic civilisation of Protheans (or other) living secretly on planets far removed from the relays, carefully avoiding anything that might bring the Reapers down on them could be an interesting thing to encounter.

[Whitering]

Well, let's say this was all real, except humans hadn't arrived on the scene yet, the Reapers would still show up here because we've been sending radio signals all over space, and I am not talking about Seti projects and the like, but just watching TV.

So, unless we all went Amish very quickly, I think any tech society could be tracked by the Reapers eventually. I don't know what kind of power reserves they had on Illos but it seems to me that waiting it out just doesn't work too well, and Illos is a very fertile world.

[KaiserShep]

knucks360 wrote...

trenq wrote...

yeah build an ark and take a couple of asari, quarian and human women with you
enjoy

And Vorcha

Gotta have cheap labor somewhere. Vorcha reproduce asexually so you won't have much fun with them.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

Underground security vaults where you and your family can wait out the horrors of the harvest.

[Darks1d3]

Yeah, instead of dealing with star brat, I'll go to vault 112 and "play" with Dr Braun. Whats the worst that can happen?

[Reorte]

If you can make something that'll last and manage to keep its emissions low enough then hang around a few light years away from anything in interplanetary space and the odds of getting discovered are phenomenally remote. If you can get to a few dozen light years outside the galactic disc you're even safer.

[Darks1d3]

Reorte wrote...

If you can make something that'll last and manage to keep its emissions low enough then hang around a few light years away from anything in interplanetary space and the odds of getting discovered are phenomenally remote. If you can get to a few dozen light years outside the galactic disc you're even safer.

But again, unless you have some means of producing food, water, and other necessities on said "arc", you're still screwed.

[ruggly]

dreamgazer wrote...

Yeah, let's just turn Shepard into Space Jesus and Space Noah.

Throw in some Space Moses while we're at it

[General TSAR]

trenq wrote...

yeah build an ark and take a couple of asari, quarian and human women with you
enjoy

Ohhh Yeah....

[Obadiah]

The Reapers harvest for centuries. Do you think that at a certain point they just send out FTL probes in systematic patterns from previously inhabited systems looking for things like fleeing arks?

If Leviathan can hide, then perhaps so can arks.

Modifié par Obadiah, 14 novembre 2013 - 11:32 .