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[ZoliCs]

This makes me wonder...    What if humanity was kicked off of the council and out of the Citadel?

If anyone were kicked out of the Council it would be the Asari.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

 

Why, because of a need to repopulate? Unpack that, and explain why you're opposed to it.

I added as a need to repopulate right before you replied. 

 

Personal preferences. I'd rather be able to have the option to self-insert as well as roleplay. I wasn't able to do that with Shepard, and if this is a stressed point I get the feeling I won't be able to do that with this new character either. 

[ZoliCs]

Grow up and help repopulate. 

They could do the same with adults, and even skip the grow up part. Not to mention they can actually pick what kind of person they want. A scientist? A mechanic? A diplomat?

Who knows what a child turns out to be? Half of them could be lazy idiots for all they know

[Altair_ShepardN7]

Council ship FTL is clocking around 5,000x the speed of light. Reaper is 11k.

If what you say is true, then the trip should take around 500 years, which is more than plausible. 

[Paridave]

I personally don't think there will be an Ark of any sort, Your Character is named Pathfinder for a reason meaning their ship(tempest) were meant to go first and find the way.

 

I think it will be done through a wormhole - pathfinder enters and the wormhole collapses before anything else goes though leaving the Tempest and it's small crew all alone in Andromeda.

I agree.  More like an exploratory mission going through a wormhole, some time after the war has started in order to get the Krogans on board, and when they get to Andromeda the wormhole closes.   It wouldn't have to be a big ship, maybe 200 or 300, that's enough to colonize.  

[shepskisaac]

No, it can't be reflected. The amount of the energy the ship encounters is going to be tiny unless it's very close to a star or some other source, and in any case energy doesn't work like that. You can't just scoop energy out of the air and put it in your space gas tank and be on your way.

Free-drifting planets/stars thrown out of galaxies could help with power-sources excuses here. Clunky explanation but not completly bollocks

[Hanako Ikezawa]

They could do the same with adults, and even skip the grow up part. Not to mention they can actually pick what kind of person they want. A scientist? A mechanic? A diplomat?

Who knows what a child turns out to be? Half of them could be lazy idiots for all they know

Well, I'd assume any children they bring would be those who have the signs of being a prodigy at something that would be useful. Like a kid who can already do calculations better than most adults. 

[dreamgazer]

I added as a need to repopulate right before you replied. 
 
Personal preferences. I'd rather be able to have the option to self-insert as well as roleplay. I wasn't able to do that with Shepard, and if this is a stressed point I get the feeling I won't be able to do that with this new character either.

I doubt this scenario will force the PC to produce a child or engage in sexual activity, and there are other ways (especially in the future) of producing children. Even so, I think the debate between whether to have children or not in such a high-pressure atmosphere could be an interesting talking point, similar to religious belief in Inquisition.

Wouldn't worry about that.

[Malanek]

If what you say is true, then the trip should take around 500 years, which is more than plausible. 

But that is constantly using the Mass Effect drive which builds up static electricity and frequently needs to be discharged on a large body.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

 

Free-drifting planets/stars thrown out of galaxies could help with power-sources excuses here. Clunky explanation but not completly bollocks

I'm just imagining a bread crumb trail of Jovian planets between the Milky Way and Andromeda. 

[Iakus]

 

 

Oh no, I think I just thought of something else I'm not going to like. This new culture is going to really encourage casual sex to increase population, isn't it? 

 

I'd think such a society would encourage strict population control.  Limited resources and all.  I imagine there'd be a lot of lab-grown kids to ensure lack of genetic flaws and such.

[shepskisaac]

 

 

I'm just imagining a bread crumb trail of Jovian planets between the Milky Way and Andromeda. 

 

Even 1 on the path would help with such long journey (regardless if 500 or 250 years)

[laudable11]

Free-drifting planets/stars thrown out of galaxies could help with power-sources excuses here. Clunky explanation but not completly bollocks

Wouldn't it be cool to land on one of those planets? Oh, how about one that was populated with a doomed species completely frozen over and forgotten by time?

Just thinking out loud again

[ZoliCs]

If what you say is true, then the trip should take around 500 years, which is more than plausible. 

 

Probably less.

• Andromeda is 2.5m lightyears aways from Earth.
• They could use the Citadel Relay to go to Dark Space, shortening the distance. 
• They could upgrade FTL to more than 5k, but less then 11k.

 

Counting with 2.3m lightyears and 7,500x speed of light they could get there in 300 years.

[BabyPuncher]

But that is constantly using the Mass Effect drive which builds up static electricity and frequently needs to be discharged on a large body.

 

I really wish the developers had not included that bit in the lore...

 

It really doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

[Vortex13]

Wouldn't it be cool to land on one of those planets? Oh, how about one that was populated with a doomed species completely frozen over and forgotten by time?

Just thinking out loud again

 

 

I actually hoped that something like an intergalactic star was the Reapers' 'homeworld' tbh.

[Iakus]

 

Yes, the races from the Milky Way have nowhere else to go, but they are essentially an alien invasion of the Andromeda galaxy. The information on the survey (if true) has the player going out to hundreds of worlds to establish colonies, mining operations, and other pieces of infrastructure. That doesn't sound like a refugee camp to me, more like the beginnings of an empire. Now that in and of itself is not bad, but if you consider that we might be pushing into other native aliens' territory and we are essentially taking their stuff, it doesn't exactly paint us as the beacons of heroism either.

 

Conflict is inevitable in such a scenario, but I would like it to be more than a just a simple good vs. evil story. I mean if the situation were reversed, and some alien civilization was colonizing worlds in Alliance space, humans would do something about it. There should be shades of black and white on both sides.

Like I said earlier, it turns all the races into the quarians.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

I doubt this scenario will force the PC to produce a child or engage in sexual activity, and there are other ways (especially in the future) of producing children. Even so, I think the debate between whether to have children or not in such a high-pressure atmosphere could be an interesting talking point, similar to religious belief in Inquisition.

Wouldn't worry about that.

I suppose you're right. After all Bioware will have the option to let the player be in a homosexual relationship, which wouldn't generate any progeny. 

 

 

I'd think such a society would encourage strict population control.  Limited resources and all.  I imagine there'd be a lot of lab-grown kids to ensure lack of genetic flaws and such.

Perhaps. 

[Hanako Ikezawa]

Wouldn't it be cool to land on one of those planets? Oh, how about one that was populated with a doomed species completely frozen over and forgotten by time?

Just thinking out loud again

If they did, it would have to include a galaxyrise or galaxyset. 

 

[shepskisaac]

If they did, it would have to include a galaxyrise or galaxyset. 

 

This is so beautiful!

[CronoDragoon]

I'd think such a society would encourage strict population control. Limited resources and all. I imagine there'd be a lot of lab-grown kids to ensure lack of genetic flaws and such.

Aaryn Flynn actually mentions in that post how important the right genes are to reproduction in a low population so yeah, I'm thinking sex would be heavily regulated, if anything.

[BabyPuncher]

BioWare is not going to write Brave New World or some dystopian nonsense where sex is either locked down or made mandatory or something stupid like that.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

This is so beautiful!

Yeah, it was probably one of, if not the, favorite visual from that entire series. And as an Astronomy lover, that series had a lot of beautiful visuals so that is saying something.

[ZoliCs]

But that is constantly using the Mass Effect drive which builds up static electricity and frequently needs to be discharged on a large body.

 

I'm not sure how feasible it would be, but I was thinking about that issue:

 

 

The safe method involves discharging into a planet's magnetic field (for large ships, incapable of planetary landings) or actual surface contact (in the case of smaller vessels). Space stations and similar structures which are not located near planets are usually equipped with their own discharging facilities; the Citadel has dozens of these.

 

What if the Ark has numerous discharging facilities like that, and once they are used up it gets detached like the rocket boosters of real life space shuttles.

[shepskisaac]

Yeah, it was probably one of, if not the, favorite visual from that entire series. And as an Astronomy lover, that series had a lot of beautiful visuals so that is saying something.

Andromeda's collision with Milky Way can't come soon enough, just thinking about the view