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[Larry-3]

What would happen if a Mass Relay used a Mass Relay? Which one would be slingshotted? Would they electrocute each other?

You recall watching the Nirmandy fly up to a Relay? There is some dramatic electrical particles, and crazy noises, followed by a... woosh. Picture a Relay flying up instead. I picture both of their rings going crazy, then they both get thrown in opposite directions.

[Valmar]

Something like this:

 

[Vazgen]

Relayception?

[SilJeff]

Well, it did happen in Mass Effect 3. The Citadel had to get to Earth somehow, and we all know what the Citadel itself really is.

 

 

I guess that rules out my "the galaxy will implode" theory

[Valmar]

Well, it did happen in Mass Effect 3. The Citadel had to get to Earth somehow, and we all know what the Citadel itself really is.

 

 

I guess that rules out my "the galaxy will implode" theory

 

Not necessarily. The Citadel is a dormant relay.

[Farangbaa]

Something like this:
 

Where's this awesome gif from?

[ImaginaryMatter]

Where's this awesome gif from?

 

It's from an energy drink add:

 

[Larry-3]

Watching this many of times prompted the question...

 

[themikefest]

I like the ME2 version the best

[Swan Killer]

I like the ME2 version the best

 

+1

 

The ME3 hurts my brain through my ears, I don't know what the sound engineers smoked, when they tweaked the sound effects' volume.

[Swan Killer]

I'm still curious how the Citadel got to Sol, I assume it would take several thousand Capital Ships and a few months to tow a space station size like that a few hundred lightyears away...

[JasonShepard]

I'm still curious how the Citadel got to Sol, I assume it would take several thousand Capital Ships and a few months to tow a space station size like that a few hundred lightyears away...

 

It's never made clear how the Mass Effect works with conservation of energy. Getting the Citadel to move at an appreciable velocity (especially getting it to move between Widow and Earth - even with a Mass Relay shortcut) should take a ridiculous amount of energy... Except apparently momentum works differently now that you can switch mass off with some eezo.

 

Maybe the Reapers just switched on the Citadel's eezo core, brought its mass down to zero, and gave it a little push? That really feels like it should break physics somehow...

[Iakus]

I'm still curious how the Citadel got to Sol, I assume it would take several thousand Capital Ships and a few months to tow a space station size like that a few hundred lightyears away...

Same way the Lazarus Project worked.  

 

"Resources" 

[Larry-3]

Does the Citadel possess engines?

[The Devlish Redhead]

And what are all those lights on the Mass Relays are they windows? Do they need a crew?

[MegaIllusiveMan]

Damn, this talk about the Citadel makes my head hurt even more now...

 

Maybe the Citadel used itself as a Mass Relay?

 

Wait, what? How would that work?

[Obadiah]

Very likely, the Relays were build in a manufacturing facility (or several) and then transported to their destination. Once enough Relays in the network were in place, the network itself would have been used to help transfer Relays to their new location.

[Vazgen]

I don't think the Reapers built the station out there in the first place. It was probably built close to some resource-rich planet (eezo, probably) and then moved to the Serpent Nebula.

Even if it doesn't have engines, Reapers can easily move it like an asteroid, using their own ship drives. Considering that it has a quite large eezo reactor, it can travel via mass relays and moving it is quite easy. That's what mass effect is all about - lowering the mass of an object. 

Consider also, that the Citadel is an inactive relay.

[Valmar]

Do you suppose relays can move themselves with their own relay-powers?

[Vazgen]

Do you suppose relays can move themselves with their own relay-powers?

I think an active one can move an inactive one. Don't think they can move active relays, although you never know... 

[JasonShepard]

I think an active one can move an inactive one. Don't think they can move active relays, although you never know... 

 

Great. Now you've got me imagining an active relay being fired through an active relay, and I'm actively resisting making a 'Yo Dawg' joke...

[Valmar]

I think an active one can move an inactive one. Don't think they can move active relays, although you never know... 

 

I agree with that completely, though that isn't what I was suggesting. I meant do you suppose an active relay can move ITSELF using its own... relay. A ship doesn't need another ship to go into FTL because it has a drive core. A relay might not need another relay because it has its own relay. You know?

[Vazgen]

I agree with that completely, though that isn't what I was suggesting. I meant do you suppose an active relay can move ITSELF using its own... relay. A ship doesn't need another ship to go into FTL because it has a drive core. A relay might not need another relay because it has its own relay. You know?

Based on what we know about the relays, they need the ship pilot to tell them the weight of the ship. They don't have the pilot to give them that information and, frankly, I don't think they can open a corridor with a moving end

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

I thought the Citadel was a giant mass relay. That it was larger than normal mass relays. Things that make you say "ass pull." Or is it "plot hole." But now suddenly it's smaller than the mass relays. It had to be giant so that all those thousands of reapers could pour through and conquer the galaxy.

 

I agree with that completely, though that isn't what I was suggesting. I meant do you suppose an active relay can move ITSELF using its own... relay. A ship doesn't need another ship to go into FTL because it has a drive core. A relay might not need another relay because it has its own relay. You know?

 

This question is like asking this: At the exact center of the Earth there is over 3 million atmospheres. In space there is a vacuum. If you built a pipe to outer space, and were successful in drilling a hole connecting pipe made out of some special material that wouldn't melt to the exact center of the Earth what would happen?

 

Seriously, I think that the Citadel got moved by the reapers using their new Space Magic ^TM drive that Mac Walters gave them after they decided to make our choices matter with "Arrival." Reapers don't need mass relays anymore.

[Swan Killer]

Damn, this talk about the Citadel makes my head hurt even more now...

 

Maybe the Citadel used itself as a Mass Relay?

 

Wait, what? How would that work?

 

Basically it's like when you f*** yourself