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[Larry-3]

When the Normandy crashes it becomes heavily damaged, if your EMS is below 3000. How come your crew could not make use of the Kodiak and fly back to Earth? It is capable of faster-than-light travel. I know what some people might say, it cannot fly across the galaxy. I know that. But when the Normandy was flying away from the big green explosion it did not use the Mass Relay. Even if it wanted to it could not because the rings spun really fast and swung out of the Relay. That leaves me to believe that the Normandy is still in the Local Cluster, and Earth is in the Local Cluster. Everyone seemed to fit into the Kodiak in Mass Effect 2. I am certain EDI could come along, too. She uploaded herself into a body then became half alive. Are we just supposed to believe that everyone on the Normandy forgot about the shuttle in the... well the shuttle bay? Should I just write this off as a plot hole?

[Iakus]

There you go, with that "thinking" again

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

Did the Normandy land on Earth 10,000 years ago in the original ending?

 

No, because we'd have asari.

 

But then it could be a different time line.

[themikefest]

We don't know why and there's not enough time to explain it.

[Vazgen]

When the Normandy crashes it becomes heavily damaged, if your EMS is below 3000. How come your crew could not make use the Kodiak and fly back to Earth? It is capable of faster-than-light travel. I know what some people might say, it cannot fly across the galaxy. I know that. But when the Normandy was flying away from the big green explosion it did not use the Mass Relay. Even if it wanted to it could not because the rings spun really fast and swung out of the Relay. That leaves me to believe that the Normandy is still in the Local Cluster, and Earth is in the Local Cluster. Everyone seemed to fit into the Kodiak in Mass Effect 2. I am certain EDI could come along, too. She uploaded herself into a body then became half alive. Are we just supposed to believe that everyone on the Normandy forgot about the shuttle in the... well the shuttle bay? Should I just write this off as a plot hole?

I haven't heard about planets with jungles like that in Local Cluster. Other than that, nice theory

[essarr71]

I wouldn't worry much.  It's just an old man's story.

[Larry-3]

What if the post-credits cut-scene was the moon of that world and the guy talking was the last of the original Normandy crew members? He did say some of the details were lost due to time. I should probably stop over thinking it, huh?

[CaIIisto]

Because:

 

1) Not artistic

2) Too videogamey

3) We don't deserve good things

[themikefest]

What the post-credits cut-scene was the moon of that world and the guy talking was the last of the original Normandy crew members? He did say some of the details were lost due to time. I should probably stop over thinking it, huh?

I would like to hear the story from the person that told the story to one that was telling the story to the kid

[Steelcan]

reasons

[ZipZap2000]

It would've reminded people they had a spare shuttle and they didn't use it to go get Shepard when they had the chance.

[SilJeff]

Maybe this was the one time Steeeeeeeeve forgot to get gas

[Excella Gionne]

I've had EMS of 2,739 and still got all the possible best endings. :-/ 

 

I believe the Normandy did take the Mass Relay, because the energy blast is in a straight line and it's simply chasing them. Since the Mass Relays are shooting the energy from relay to relay, I would say that the Normandy used the Mass Relay to try and get away. 

[Excella Gionne]

The energy blast spreads at FTL speeds, but it spreads so fast that upon relay contact, it envelops the entire system in less than a second as you can see during the EC where each relay shoots the energy from relay to relay.

[ZipZap2000]

it seems to go beyond each system there's barely anything left untouched by the individual blasts from each relay. They only show about 15-16 (8-10 in the original) explosions in the EC but that ends up covering the entire bottom half of the galaxy map.

[General TSAR]

I wouldn't worry much.  It's just an old man's story.

Filled with Xenophilia.

[themikefest]

I've had EMS of 2,739 and still got all the possible best endings. :-/ 

Did you use the gibbed thing to get all endings?

[Excella Gionne]

Did you use the gibbed thing to get all endings?

This was on PS3 a long time ago... well not too far in the past but last year.

[KaiserShep]

Filled with Xenophilia.

 

Stargeezer: You see, my sweet, Shepard loved to traipse about the galaxy, having carnal relations with every alien he came across. The asari, the turian, the krogan, the hanar. She did them all.

 

Kid: Grampa, I thought you said he.

 

Stargeezer: Silence! *backhand*

[themikefest]

When the Normandy crashes it becomes heavily damaged, if your EMS is below 3000. How come your crew could not make use the Kodiak and fly back to Earth? It is capable of faster-than-light travel. I know what some people might say, it cannot fly across the galaxy. I know that. But when the Normandy was flying away from the big green explosion it did not use the Mass Relay. Even if it wanted to it could not because the rings spun really fast and swung out of the Relay. That leaves me to believe that the Normandy is still in the Local Cluster, and Earth is in the Local Cluster. Everyone seemed to fit into the Kodiak in Mass Effect 2. I am certain EDI could come along, too. She uploaded herself into a body then became half alive. Are we just supposed to believe that everyone on the Normandy forgot about the shuttle in the... well the shuttle bay? Should I just write this off as a plot hole?

Because the Normandy is lying on its belly preventing the ramp door from opening for the shuttle to leave

[Sifr]

Since the Normandy seems to get enveloped by the blast mid-transit (either unharmed or damaged) between Relays and the only Relay connecting directly to the Solar System ends in Arcturus, they probably ended up in the Arcturus Stream?

 

It is however a little confusing how exactly outside interference can affect Relay travel.

 

In Arrival the destruction of the Alpha Relay had no discernible effect on the Normandy's transit from Bahak System, suggesting that the "corridor" of space-time the Relays create between each other remains active even if the sending Relay is destroyed. This further seems to be reinforced as we're told that the Alpha Relay is remote enough from other Relays that the Reapers will be forced to use conventional FTL to travel to the nearest one, which would delay them by several months (despite the Reaper's FTL being twice as face as everyone else's). This suggests that the Normandy wasn't forced to drop out into normal space when the Alpha Relay was destroyed, as otherwise it would have taken them a very long time to reach another working Relay.

 

However, since the RGB blast travelled via the Relays, it's possible that it could have had enough of an effect to knock the Normandy back into normal space, leaving them somewhere between Earth and Arcturus? In that scene, Joker seems to be trying to keep the Normandy ahead of the space-time corridor rapidly collapsing behind them, suggesting that this isn't something that normally happens during transit?

 

So... yeah, I suspect they either ended up safely in Arcturus (which might make the planet they landed on somewhere uninhabited on Benning), or in some system in the 36 light-years between Arcturus and Earth?

[von uber]

There was bugger all reason for the Normandy to crash given that no other ship appears to.

[Iakus]

There was bugger all reason for the Normandy to crash given that no other ship appears to.

There was a reason.

 

They needed the Adam-and-Eve-In-The-Garden-Of-Eden scene with Joker and EDI.

 

It's very important to have that.  Whether it fits or not.

[DeinonSlayer]

The only habitable planet established in lore that they could have landed on (assuming they're paying attention to their own lore, which is admittedly a big "if") is in the Alpha Centauri system. Search "Manswell Expedition" on Cerberus Daily News. Via conventional FTL, they're only a couple hours away from Earth.

Really, though, Iakus hit it on the nose.

[ImaginaryMatter]

There was bugger all reason for the Normandy to crash given that no other ship appears to.

 

That was one of the things going against the EC from the very beginning. A lot of the ending scenes couldn't be fixed through 'clarification' because they were flawed at the core. I guess the EC did a remarkable job for the limits imposed on it had but the basic questions about logic and events still linger.