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[Gold Dragon]

Reapers WOULD, in fact, harvest a species that is unknown to the Citadel races.

One of the codex entries mentions that the Reapers freely used the unmapped relays, something the council prohibitted.

[Dean_the_Young]

I'm not particularly interested in going outside the Milky Way, but I do believe it has merits in considering. There's a significant question lingering out there, after all-

What did the Reapers/Catalyst plan to do about Synthetics in other galaxies?

I've always wondered if the Reapers set up a cycle-system in other galaxies as well, trying to prevent the rise of Synthetic Singularity in those places as well. I could see the Citadel Relay to Dark Space being the first link in a chain to other galaxies... and, at the same time, see other galaxies having already fought off/defeated 'their' Reaper menace.

Imagine if in this galaxy here, we see organics who successfully threw back the Reapers, while over there the synthetic menace that the Reapers feared successfully destroyed them?

[Armass81]

If you read the codex it says that less than 1 % of the solar systems in the galaxy has been mapped or explored by Citadel aligned races. Volume of the galaxy is huge even with Mass Relay travel and that is why majority of it is still unknown to us. There could be multiple pockets of civilizations that never got to the Citadel yet, because of unknown reasons.

[KaiserShep]

Well, presumably, there would be plenty of pre-space flight civilizations out there, some of which could even be living next to a dormant relay like humanity was.

[ImaginaryMatter]

The problem I see that might come up with keeping everything contained inside the Milky Way is a marketing problem. It seems BioWare/EA is catering to a larger audience, an audience who might not be familiar with all the nuances of the vastness of space and familiarity of the in game universe. Because of that it might be easier to just have a extra-galactic threat instead of explaining how little of the galaxy has actually been explored because of how vast and open space is.

[Arcian]

David7204 wrote...

It would be a very easy, althrough incredibly mediocre way to introduce a new antagonist.

Open the relay. Killer aliens pour through.

There are no relays linking to space outside the Milky Way.

[CroGamer002]

Arcian wrote...

David7204 wrote...

It would be a very easy, althrough incredibly mediocre way to introduce a new antagonist.

Open the relay. Killer aliens pour through.

There are no relays linking to space outside the Milky Way.

That's assuming there won't be cheap plot twist, that there are relays that link outside Milky Way

[KaiserShep]

Wouldn't the Citadel relay technically connect to a position just beyond the galactic horizon?

[Yougotcarved1]

KaiserShep wrote...

Wouldn't the Citadel relay technically connect to a position just beyond the galactic horizon?

Yeah but that's like saying satellites are on another planet because they're just beyond Earth's atmosphere

DeinonSlayer wrote...
Besides, given that the space between galaxies is actually heated to millions of degrees (recent discovery)

Where did you get that from lol, that's totally not true

A Golden Dragon wrote...

Reapers WOULD, in fact, harvest a species that is unknown to the Citadel races.

One of the codex entries mentions that the Reapers freely used the unmapped relays, something the council prohibitted.

Nope, they would have been known to the Citadel
races. Just not the ones in our cycle. Every "unmapped relay" was built
based on Reapers foreknowledge through whatever Citadel race was there
at the time of there being life in that system.

Dean_the_Young wrote...

I'm not particularly interested in
going outside the Milky Way, but I do believe it has merits in
considering. There's a significant question lingering out there, after
all-

What did the Reapers/Catalyst plan to do about Synthetics in other galaxies?

Why do they have to plan to do anything? That's like asking "hmm I wonder what Hitler's plans were to conquer life on other planets"

[Dean_the_Young]

For the same reason that the Catalyst's cycle required all sufficiently advanced life across the galaxy be destroyed, rather than only Reaping certain sectors at a time- the Catalyst's objective fails if a synthetic singularity rises anywhere. There's no geographical limit to the Catalyst's mandate or goal- keeping a synthetic singularity from arrising in the Milky Way is pointless if one arises in the very next galaxy. Then there's the prospect of Reaper refugees trying to sleeper-ship their way to the next galaxy to rebuilt and foil the Catalyst's plans.

Rather than Godwin Law 'why would Hitler care about other planets', a better Godwin would have been 'I wonder what Hitler's plans for other continents were.' Which, well, he had ambitions for once he could conquer Eurasia. Unlike Hitler, however, the Catalyst gets 50,000 year rest breaks over millions of years to do something about it.

[ImaginaryMatter]

DeinonSlayer wrote...

Less than one percent of the Milky Way has been explored according to the Codex. There's plenty to do in our own galaxy.

Besides, given that the space between galaxies is actually heated to millions of degrees (recent discovery) and spans distances of millions of light years, it begs the question of how anything could cross that void to begin with.

Where did you get that temperature stat? For the most part things should be around 2.7 K due to the CMB.

[Nitrocuban]

New galaxy = endings do not matter

[Vortex13]

Nitrocuban wrote...

New galaxy = endings do not matter

They would though, if any of the current inhabitients of the ME universe were to make their way over to the new galaxy.

Unless you are saying that the next game should be completly seperated from the characters of ME by taking place in a galaxy trillions apon tillions of light years away, in which that case you might as well start up a new IP.

[Reorte]

ImaginaryMatter wrote...

DeinonSlayer wrote...

Less than one percent of the Milky Way has been explored according to the Codex. There's plenty to do in our own galaxy.

Besides, given that the space between galaxies is actually heated to millions of degrees (recent discovery) and spans distances of millions of light years, it begs the question of how anything could cross that void to begin with.

Where did you get that temperature stat? For the most part things should be around 2.7 K due to the CMB.

That'll be the general radiation background as opposed to a measure of the energy of the few particles in intergalactic space. Those very few particles may indeed be moving very fast for all I know, hence the high temperature, but there are so few of them that it's irrelevent as far as passing through goes (too few to contain much heat no matter what their temperature).

[Reorte]

Nitrocuban wrote...

New galaxy = endings do not matter

New galaxy = ditching so much you may as well create a new franchise.

[KaiserShep]

Reorte wrote...

Nitrocuban wrote...

New galaxy = endings do not matter

New galaxy = ditching so much you may as well create a new franchise.

Pretty much. I don't know why anyone would entertain this idea. The milky way is the entire foundation of the franchise, leaving it is essentially leaving Mass Effect as we know it.

[SilJeff]

Considering how we've only explored 1% of the milky way, I highly doubt mass effect would ever take place outside the milky way