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[Iakus]

Wrt to Ilos, they did what they could with the resources at hand in the midst of a reaper invasion. They seemed to have some inkling that the available power might be inadequate, as they left Vigil with the programming to manage power utilization. But Javik's pod supplied adequate power for 50K years, so the technology was available.
 

 

But in Javik's case it was a power supply meant to keep a million Protheans in stasis for an unknown length of time.  And he was still the only survivor after the timer done broke.

 

 

The quarians' delicate immune systems would eliminate a lot of planets suitable for other species.

 

Yeah, but the Council was blocking them from settling on any planet in their sphere of influence

 

Either a few hundred years of stasis or wormhole. The latter is definitely scientifically plausible but raises question in my mind of why didn't the Reapers us such if it was technologically doable.

 

After doing a little poking around about wormholes I think it could possibly work as a story vehicle.  I don't pretend to understand any of the science, but given gravity and dark matter seem to come up, I think a series with eezo and mass effect fields could incorporate it into the already existing space magic in a way that isn't totally contrived.  Certainly in a way that's better than teh lazarus Project.

 

But yes, why the Reapers can't do it too is still a question.

[KaiserShep]

The Caretaker threw us there. There I solved it. We can all log off.

[Iakus]

The Caretaker threw us there. There I solved it. We can all log off.

And here I was hoping for an eighth chevron on a relay...

[Wayning_Star]

come to think of it this is science fiction to a point, there is little point in thinking that everything needs to actual/proven. There could of been an influence by unknown races, tinkering with the current flock of/in existence? The mind is actually a wonderful thing to waste...lol

[sjsharp2011]

in fairness to the Protheans those plans were discovered ultimately by the Reapers and that was probably the main reason why plus they didn't have enough energy on Ilos to make it work properly. It's quite possible they may have used sleeper ships. Either way it's likely they'll explain how we got to where we are in the opening levels and that of the game.

[Valkyrja]

Space magic.

 

[The Sauce of Awesome]

A space wizard did it.

 

*looks at the above post* Damn it! >_<

[CronoDragoon]

Precursor alien technology. It's not that hard. It's almost certainly not going to be about fleeing the Reapers. It'll be some random colonization mission starting just before ME3 that trips on some technology that catapults a regular colony ship to Andromeda. 

 

A random colonization mission with diverse species? That we know krogan are in Andromeda is interesting, because as far as we can tell they are outcasts in the galactic community until Tuchanka in ME3.

 

My personal theory is that this will take place so far into the future of humans in Andromeda that the move will have passed on to myth, with details obscured and competing myths confirming no "true" backstory. That'd be a very ME and DA way of handling history.

[Golden_Persona]

I think people are making too much out of nothing. We don't know how they get there, and assuming that technology "far and away into the future" is the same as it was in the original trilogy is silly. There's literally nothing to complain about, except the fact it's not in the milky way. There's no evidence to back up complaining, but there is a reason to at least wait and see what happens.

[Medhia_Nox]

@CronoDragoon:  Weren't Krogan on Earth during the events of ME 3 however?  I think that might help tie into the idea that they're on the trip. 

 

I'm so seriously hoping some of the races didn't make it (looking at you Asari)

[CronoDragoon]

@CronoDragoon:  Weren't Krogan on Earth during the events of ME 3 however?  I think that might help tie into the idea that they're on the trip. 

 

I'm so seriously hoping some of the races didn't make it (looking at you Asari)

 

Right, but In Exile said a colonization mission before ME3. It's only after Tuchanka in ME3 that I think other races would allow a krogan contingent on a joint colonization mission.

[Sifr]

We use both the Milky Way and Andromeda's nearby satellite galaxies as pitstops to refuel and resupply along the way to the Andromeda itself.

 

Spoiler

 

(As Stargate Universe so nicely shows with the map of Destiny's own several million year flight-plan)

[Nitrocuban]

Sad thing SGU only got 2 or 3 seasons.

[Undead Han]

I think an ark with the crew in cryosleep for the journey would make the most sense.

 

The Reapers already possess the ability to get to Andromeda in just over 200 years. They also don't need to drive discharge or refuel, which are really the only obstacles to the Council species getting there even if they can't match the Reapers' speed. If the Council species could replicate the tech that allows the Reapers to do that, Andromeda is entirely within reach.

 

Reverse engineering some technology from Sovereign or Reapers destroyed during the war is also less far-fetched than the Lazarus Project or humans reverse engineering Prothean tech abandoned on Mars for 50,000 years.

[Iakus]

@CronoDragoon:  Weren't Krogan on Earth during the events of ME 3 however?  I think that might help tie into the idea that they're on the trip. 

 

Not if the Tuchanka bomb went off, or you sabotaged the cure and Wrex finds out.

 

Unless we're getting to canonizing stuff.  

 

On that thought, the genophage makes krogan colonists...problematic.

[Steppenwolf]

 

My personal theory is that this will take place so far into the future of humans in Andromeda that the move will have passed on to myth, with details obscured and competing myths confirming no "true" backstory. That'd be a very ME and DA way of handling history.

 

Unless there was some kind of cataclysmic event that wiped out technology and we had to rebuild from scratch that wouldn't make any sense whatsoever. Recorded history is just that: recorded. And even then it wouldn't make any sense because we see an N7 with a Carnifax pistol in the teaser.

[Sifr]

Could be interesting if we discovered some of the alien races in Andromeda aren't native either, but instead are the descendants of a previous Cycle's attempt to escape the Reapers by sending an expedition out of the galaxy?

[Wayning_Star]

oh I don't wanna rebuild from scratch....

[CronoDragoon]

Unless there was some kind of cataclysmic event that wiped out technology and we had to rebuild from scratch that wouldn't make any sense whatsoever. Recorded history is just that: recorded.

 

Recorded history can lie or be wrong. To the degree where it obfuscates something major like an intergalactic pilgrimage would probably suggest the former or, as you say, something cataclysmic.

[Cheviot]

How are we getting to Andromeda?  Possibly through this:

[Steppenwolf]

Recorded history can lie or be wrong. To the degree where it obfuscates something major like an intergalactic pilgrimage would probably suggest the former or, as you say, something cataclysmic.

 

In the case of Mass Effect history is literally recorded. There is no room for such mythical interpretations of recorded events. Even now we can figure exactly what happened at specific points hundreds and even thousands of years ago. It's not like we forgot what happened during WWII or the American Revolution.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

I want better than par for the course.  

 

I know.... This is a Walters plot.

 

1) The reapers invaded the galaxy.

 

2) As a backup plan in case everything failed, Cerberus was able to gather technology from the Collector base, and from the Derelict Reaper that allowed them to build drives that can use hyper-FTL over vast distances of millions of light years without requiring a discharge. Plus they're extremely fuel efficient! Each ship would be equipped with an AI like EDI given Cerberus' affinity for artificial intelligence.

 

3) The Illusive Man shared this technology with the Asari matriarchs he was banging on weekly basis throughout the war - you wouldn't expect that to stop would you?

 

4) Since Earth was pretty much fubared and Hackett was building the Crucible, and Shepard was working to destroy the reapers, The Illusive Man talked the Asari matriarchs into building a fleet of Arks using this new drive and select the best minds and best soldiers among each of the races (this of course leaves out the volus, hanar, elcor, drell, geth, batarians, vorcha and quarians because our choices matter) but does include the humans, turians, salarians, krogan, and asari.

 

5) The fleet was built on Nevos, a world that was never attacked by the reapers - check the wikia - there is no "pre-invasion" population listed. It was never attacked. We know that was an oversight by the writers of ME3, but it can now make for the perfect site of the ass pull.

 

6) During the war, and just after the invasion of Thessia, right after the asari councilor says "I never thought this day would happen. We must make plans for continuity of civilization" is when everyone entered the ships and they took off for Andromeda bidding farewell to the Milky Way.

 

7) They were in FTL and perhaps 30,000 LY away by the time the Crucible fired, thus not their drives, AIs nor passengers were never affected by the wave no matter which one was chosen by our Milky Way hero.

 

8) This covers two things: a] how our races get to Andromeda in about 600 years; and b] how Cerberus gets to Andromeda so that we can have human mooks to kill and not feel bad about it.

 

OR

 

1) The entire fleet went through a wormhole.

 

Basically pick your ass pull.

[NuclearTech76]

Well - didn't the Protheons have statis chambers? 

 

Just plop a few hundred thousand people into a giant "Ark" with stasis chambers... chill at -1 billion degrees ludicrous - let sit for 300 years.

 

And presto!  Giant ship filled with people's just waiting to get their greedy little paws on pristine Eden planets to destroy and rape them.

Collectors did. 

[Wayning_Star]

all you have to do is jump between black holes gravity wells. Gotta know where/when to stop of course...

 

ship latches onto a mass gravity, pulls them through space at/or above light speed, end up in/near the center of the target galaxy. Everyone does it...

[CronoDragoon]

In the case of Mass Effect history is literally recorded. There is no room for such mythical interpretations of recorded events. Even now we can figure exactly what happened at specific points hundreds and even thousands of years ago. It's not like we forgot what happened during WWII or the American Revolution.

 

Just like the Council literally recorded Sovereign being a geth ship, right?