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[CosmicGnosis]

Because if it doesn't, things are going to get interesting very quickly. How many sentient species are there? Is there an indisputable "most advanced" species that can easily dominate or destroy the others? Without an extinction cycle, multiple species can arise and evolve at different times and rates, which means that they're not on an equal playing field. So then how advanced is the technology? How destructive are the existing weapons of mass destruction? Can these weapons affect the entire galaxy? The lack of an artificial extinction cycle means that technology can become too advanced too quickly, and could cause catastrophic damage to the galaxy. Foolish organics could accidentally destroy themselves and countless other species. And what is the synthetic situation? It's entirely possible that Andromeda is dominated by a synthetic species, just like its galactic neighbor once experienced. But if this is the case, what does this synthetic species plan to do with Andromeda? It could literally be anything. 

 

Without something to keep all of this in check, it practically is the Wild West.

[CptFalconPunch]

Because if it doesn't, things are going to get interesting very quickly. How many sentient species are there? Is there an indisputable "most advanced" species that can easily dominate or destroy the others? Without an extinction cycle, multiple species can arise and evolve at different times and rates, which means that they're not on an equal playing field. So then how advanced is the technology? How destructive are the existing weapons of mass destruction? Can these weapons affect the entire galaxy? The lack of an artificial extinction cycle means that technology can become too advanced too quickly, and could cause catastrophic damage to the galaxy. Foolish organics could accidentally destroy themselves and countless other species. And what is the synthetic situation? It's entirely possible that Andromeda is dominated by a synthetic species, just like its galactic neighbor once experienced. But if this is the case, what does this synthetic species plan to do with Andromeda? 

 

We don't know ****.

[CosmicGnosis]

We don't know ****.

Whoa there, cowboy. These are just questions that we should think about before we get more info about the setting. It's possible that Andromeda could serve as an example of what happens when you don't have something like the Reapers. 

[AresKeith]

It probably doesn't

[Jeremiah12LGeek]

It's all good.

 

 

Galactus keeps them in check.

[dreamgazer]

It's certainly possible, and would answer the questions as to how we'd get around Andromeda and why civilizations aren't advanced entirely out of proportion.

[Massa FX]

There's no data to indicate yea or nae.

 

Insufficient data.

 

Shutting down.

[CosmicGnosis]

I think it would be cool if BioWare used this new story to explore the ending choices without actually exploring the ending choices. Basically, we could see what happens when a galaxy is the Wild West and lacks any kind of large-scale and impersonal galactic police. Or maybe this galaxy is controlled by a synthetic species that is completely unlike the Reapers. And there might even be the occasional organic-synthetic symbiosis.

[Iakus]

Because if it doesn't, things are going to get interesting very quickly. How many sentient species are there? Is there an indisputable "most advanced" species that can easily dominate or destroy the others? Without an extinction cycle, multiple species can arise and evolve at different times and rates, which means that they're not on an equal playing field. So then how advanced is the technology? How destructive are the existing weapons of mass destruction? Can these weapons affect the entire galaxy? The lack of an artificial extinction cycle means that technology can become too advanced too quickly, and could cause catastrophic damage to the galaxy. Foolish organics could accidentally destroy themselves and countless other species. And what is the synthetic situation? It's entirely possible that Andromeda is dominated by a synthetic species, just like its galactic neighbor once experienced. But if this is the case, what does this synthetic species plan to do with Andromeda? It could literally be anything. 

 

Without something to keep all of this in check, it practically is the Wild West.

If Andromeda doesn't have an extinction cycle, then humans are less than cave men with pointy sticks invading the WIld West.

 

But that doesn't matter, because this is, of course, a great place to start.

[Gwydden]

You have to account for the natives not being able to disintegrate the settlers with a thought.

So my guess is, there's one.

[alienatedflea]

Well there is nothing to suggest it but maybe since there might not be an artificial extinction cycle that sentient species follow the Apex Theory(or whatever it is called) where civilizations basically follow a lifespan...rise and fall. where the civilization is in decline for some reason like for example Nuclear Arms might be the end of Humanity as we know it.  Nothing really tells us that other civilizations/aliens might behave like that but then again nothing tells us that they wouldn't either. 

[AlanC9]

Another model is that sentient races evolve past having much to do with having much in common with lesser races. So the advanced races are right there but don't care that humans have shown up.

[CptFalconPunch]

Whoa there, cowboy. These are just questions that we should think about before we get more info about the setting. It's possible that Andromeda could serve as an example of what happens when you don't have something like the Reapers. 

 

Have your fun, just remember, you know nothing cosmic Gnosis.

[SardaukarElite]

Do we know that the Reapers only stuck to one galaxy? I mean, if you've got 49,000 years to kill...

 

Otherwise, seems like a good question to hang plot things on.

[CrutchCricket]

Or... how about we forget that bullshit and come up with something new?

 

Isn't that the point of all this?

[Xen]

They have to find some way to circumvent the organic-synthetic coexistence problem that they created as well, unless we just want a galaxy full of robots and software drawing resources from planets with evidence of extinct civilizations on them.

Unless they are willing to acknowledge that it was a bullshit dichotomy or introduce some "not-Reapers" for the Andromeda setting.

[CrutchCricket]

Unless they are willing to acknowledge that it was a bullshit dichotomy

One can dream...

[CptFalconPunch]

They have to find some way to circumvent the organic-synthetic coexistence problem that they created as well, unless we just want a galaxy full of robots and software drawing resources from planets with evidence of extinct civilizations on them.

Unless they are willing to acknowledge that it was a bullshit dichotomy or introduce some "not-Reapers" for the Andromeda setting.

 

 

One can dream...

 

That would be cool, it would indicate they have grown as writers. What would be even cooler though, if they managed to merge it into the story without it being the only way, that would make the new games surpass the older ones in scale, without actually enveloping a bigger threat.

[CrutchCricket]

Walters is still trusted creatively.

 

I'm not hopeful.