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[PinkysPain]

Is there some lore that reapers can maintain FTL without energy input and/or have a free energy source?

[Kabooooom]

Is there some lore that reapers can maintain FTL without energy input and/or have a free energy source?

Unknown, but it probably wouldn't be consistent with mass effects fictional physics - you still need energy input. All that is known is that the Reapers dont have to discharge and can travel twice as fast.

That said, the derelict reaper seemed to be able to passively maintain a mass effect bubble around it, despite being dead, and its core still worked. More than likely, Reapers just utilize incredibly efficient energy tech - like thermodynamically perfect.

[Iakus]

Unknown, but it probably wouldn't be consistent with mass effects fictional physics - you still need energy input. All that is known is that the Reapers dont have to discharge and can travel twice as fast.

That said, the derelict reaper seemed to be able to passively maintain a mass effect bubble around it, despite being dead, and its core still worked. More than likely, Reapers just utilize incredibly efficient energy tech - like thermodynamically perfect.

 

Reapers don';t need to discharge their core to keep functioning, but the codex notes Reapers seen wreathed in electricity as a result of not discharging for a good long time. 

 

That can't be healthy for any occupants

[Drone223]

Yeah you're off on this a little bit. The current state of galactic FTL tech is roughly 12 ly per day. The Reapers can travel at least twice that, with one in game statement being 30 ly per day. And they dont have to discharge. Ever. So, presumably they actually COULD travel between galaxies solely because of that fact alone. But it would take forever. Roughly 250 years to Andromeda if I ballpark it without actually calculating. Which is nothing for a Reaper, of course.

Except the reapers don't bother to travel to another galaxy they only use ftl to reach the galaxy if they could've traveled to another galaxy then they would have done so.

[Sion1138]

Sci-fi writers always kick themselves in the balls with space-travel.

[Mcfly616]

Sci-fi writers always kick themselves in the balls with space-travel.

You should check out Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space novels. Space travel is very well done.

[JeffZero]

You should check out Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space novels. Space travel is very well done.

 

Seconding this.

[Kabooooom]

Except the reapers don't bother to travel to another galaxy they only use ftl to reach the galaxy if they could've traveled to another galaxy then they would have done so.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. That's a logical fallacy. Bioware can do whatever they want in the next game provided it doesn't violate existing lore...which that doesn't.

Also, that the Reapers DO travel to other galaxies wasn't my argument, so your misrepresentation is irrelevant in the first place. You asked for someone to point out specifically why you were wrong. And I did. But, as is typical with your posts, you construct a straw-man or move the goal posts so that you can attempt some sort of a counterargument.

[Drone223]

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. That's a logical fallacy. Bioware can do whatever they want in the next game provided it doesn't violate existing lore...which that doesn't.
Also, that the Reapers DO travel to other galaxies wasn't my argument, so your misrepresentation is irrelevant in the first place. You asked for someone to point out specifically why you were wrong. And I did. But, as is typical with your posts, you construct a straw-man or move the goal posts so that you can attempt some sort of a counterargument.

If it does exist then it should at least be develop the concept first insetad of introducing it so suddenly e.g. Intergalactic travel, because if there is no build up or development it's going to feel contrived. The lazarus project is a good example of a contrived plot point in the trilogy since having Shepard in a coma for two years would have achieved the exact same thing.

P.S the thing that I ask to be corrected on was the reapers FTL speed nothing else.