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[Hexi-decimal]

I was thinking of different way we could get to Andromeda and I was having a hard time coming to terms with anything I thought up, but these are the two most likely I think.  Please feel free to weigh in!  

 

New tech entirely.  Either involving something we made or a new discovery, like a worm hole.  The trailer certainly had something that was very wormholey.

 

A relay not part of the galactic network?  Ok this one I am less sure of.  It seemed that all the relays Had A to B or C points.  You couldn't just jump from one relay to whatever relay you wanted, there was a determined path right?  I honestly don't remember that well.  So I was wondering if it was perhaps possible to have another citadel sized relay somewhere else in the galaxy that we never discovered that simply connected to Andromeda, and was not destroyed since it wasn't connected to our relay network.

 

 

[GalacticWolf5]

There's already countless threads about this subject

[Hexi-decimal]

There's already countless threads about this subject

Yeah I just found a few, sorry for the repeat.

[FKA_Servo]

I think mass relays are possible, and I honestly wouldn't have a huge problem with it. People were so gutted about the relay network being destroyed in ME3 that I could see them establishing the mass relay network as thing that isn't unique to the milky way... and then maybe we learn more about them, too.

[ArabianIGoggles]

I'd like to see the dark space relay that's linked to the citadel.  Just passing by it on the way to Andromeda would work.

[DextroDNA]

I'd like to see the dark space relay that's linked to the citadel.  Just passing by it on the way to Andromeda would work.

How would that get us into Andromeda though? It would have to be linked to something there.

[In Exile]

I think mass relays are possible, and I honestly wouldn't have a huge problem with it. People were so gutted about the relay network being destroyed in ME3 that I could see them establishing the mass relay network as thing that isn't unique to the milky way... and then maybe we learn more about them, too.

 

Really, you could just have different mass relays. A different precursor race builds a very different type of relay totally separate from the reaper network, and the ME:A colony group just stumbles on it. 

[ArabianIGoggles]

How would that get us into Andromeda though? It would have to be linked to something there.

True.  I just want to see it.  I guess I always pictured it being some extravagant reaper operations center.  

[Hexi-decimal]

I'd like to see the dark space relay that's linked to the citadel.  Just passing by it on the way to Andromeda would work.

I've often wondered if the dark space relay was actually a relay in another galaxy somewhere.  I mean we don't know for sure since no one ever actually used the citadel as a relay.  I don't specifically remember any exposition from a reaper that confirmed that it was in dark space, buuuut I have a terrible memory.  But this sort of thing would really help to flesh the world out!  Just paying attention to detail.

[ArabianIGoggles]

I've often wondered if the dark space relay was actually a relay in another galaxy somewhere.  I mean we don't know for sure since no one ever actually used the citadel as a relay.  I don't specifically remember any exposition from a reaper that confirmed that it was in dark space, buuuut I have a terrible memory.  But this sort of thing would really help to flesh the world out!  Just paying attention to detail.

The closest I remember it being explained was Vigil, so no certainties.  Now that I think of it, I also wonder what the citadel looks like when the relay portion is active.

[DextroDNA]

I've often wondered if the dark space relay was actually a relay in another galaxy somewhere.  I mean we don't know for sure since no one ever actually used the citadel as a relay.  I don't specifically remember any exposition from a reaper that confirmed that it was in dark space, buuuut I have a terrible memory.  But this sort of thing would really help to flesh the world out!  Just paying attention to detail.

Pretty sure Vigil talks about it in ME1, he talks about how the Reapers wait in dark space for the Citadel Relay to open up. But that's not coming from a Reaper. Though they did manage to get to the Milky Way in 2 years, so I doubt they were travelling from Andromeda.

[Hexi-decimal]

Pretty sure Vigil talks about it in ME1, he talks about how the Reapers wait in dark space for the Citadel Relay to open up. But that's not coming from a Reaper. Though they did manage to get to the Milky Way in 2 years, so I doubt they were travelling from Andromeda.

Oh yeah that is true.  

[Heimdall]

If the leaked survey is real, then we'll only be traveling within a single star cluster in Andromeda.  There won't be a need for Mass Relays.

 

As to getting to Andromeda, I favor the theory that some possibly Council funded group has been studying Sovereign's drive core ever since the first game and constructed an Ark filled with thousands of stasis pods.  Then, after Thessia was attacked, they launched the ship and woke up in Andromeda 230 years later.

[Hexi-decimal]

If the leaked survey is real, then we'll only be traveling within a single star cluster in Andromeda.  There won't be a need for Mass Relays.

 

As to getting to Andromeda, I favor the theory that some possibly Council funded group has been studying Sovereign's drive core ever since the first game and constructed an Ark filled with thousands of stasis pods.  Then, after Thessia was attacked, they launched the ship and woke up in Andromeda 230 years later.

I could go for this.  This would also explain why we have seen some of the old races in other things.  One small star cluster is sad, but it does open up possibilities for future installments.  Mayhap that is one of the main goals in the new game, creating  a new galactic network. 

 

Also, I could go for more fully realized planetary exploration.

[ArabianIGoggles]

If the leaked survey is real, then we'll only be traveling within a single star cluster in Andromeda.  There won't be a need for Mass Relays.

 

As to getting to Andromeda, I favor the theory that some possibly Council funded group has been studying Sovereign's drive core ever since the first game and constructed an Ark filled with thousands of stasis pods.  Then, after Thessia was attacked, they launched the ship and woke up in Andromeda 230 years later.

Hopefully it's one big ass star system then.  

[Heimdall]

One star cluster, many star systems

[MisterJB]

If there are no Mass Relays in Andromeda, should we still call the series "Mass Effect"?

[FKA_Servo]

If there are no Mass Relays in Andromeda, should we still call the series "Mass Effect"?

 

As long as Andromeda obeys the same in-universe physical laws as the Milky Way, I don't see why not.

[Hexi-decimal]

If the leaked survey is real, then we'll only be traveling within a single star cluster in Andromeda.  There won't be a need for Mass Relays.

 

As to getting to Andromeda, I favor the theory that some possibly Council funded group has been studying Sovereign's drive core ever since the first game and constructed an Ark filled with thousands of stasis pods.  Then, after Thessia was attacked, they launched the ship and woke up in Andromeda 230 years later.

Not sure if can discuss the leak here or not but that stuff is really compelling.  Gets my hype engines moving.  

[MisterJB]

As long as Andromeda obeys the same in-universe physical laws as the Milky Way, I don't see why not.

 

Well, without Mass Relays, it can be used to travel from system to system (but not from cluster to cluster) which either confines us to one Cluster or we'll need to either use entirely different technology or much more advanced eezo cores. For guns and colonization purpose, the Mass Effect can still be used but that would be it. Do we even know if there is Eezo in Andromeda?

 

Plus, there is the fact that the series was named Mass Effect due it being the technology used to build galactic civilization which was, itself, a trap set up by the Reapers who have controlled the Milky Way for billions of years and whose defeat was the ultimate goal of the franchise which is no longer true.

[Hexi-decimal]

Well, without Mass Relays, it can be used to travel from system to system (but not from cluster to cluster) which either confines us to one Cluster or we'll need to either use entirely different technology or much more advanced eezo cores. For guns and colonization purpose, the Mass Effect can still be used but that would be it. Do we even know if there is Eezo in Andromeda?

 

Plus, there is the fact that the series was named Mass Effect due it being the technology used to build galactic civilization which was, itself, a trap set up by the Reapers who have controlled the Milky Way for billions of years and whose defeat was the ultimate goal of the franchise which is no longer true.

Firstly.  Mass Effect was more than just for travel.  Biotics were all Mass Effect.    Secondly, so what?  At the fourth game they are simply going to call it Mass Effect for it's names sake a lone.  It's name recognition.  Third.  The first three games still happened and gave rise to the need for us to go to Andromeda, the whole idea of "Mass Effect" is still central to how the story plays out, even, and in some ways especially  since we have to find a way to function without it. So the name still remains appropriate.  It's like making a movie about an oil shortage and calling it "Oil".  It still works.

[FKA_Servo]

^Beat me to it.

 

I'd be disappointed if all my biotic buddies were just reduced to dudes with guns in the absence of mass effect fields.

[FKA_Servo]

One star cluster, many star systems

 

100-200 planets, if the leak is to be believed. Not gonna risk linking here (or saying anything else) but I found it all easily enough.

[Tela_Vasir]

Do we even know if there is Eezo in Andromeda?

 

 

I would be surprised if there is no Eezo in Andromeda. It's only a (rare) material generated when a solid matter (like a planet) is affected by the energy of a star going supernova. That kind of thing doesn't happen only in the Milky Way, but everywhere. 

[Drone223]

 

As to getting to Andromeda, I favor the theory that some possibly Council funded group has been studying Sovereign's drive core ever since the first game and constructed an Ark filled with thousands of stasis pods.  Then, after Thessia was attacked, they launched the ship and woke up in Andromeda 230 years later.

There is no way the council could reverse engineer a reaper drive core in two years, since its quite obvious that it defies the knows laws of physics and there is also the risk of indoctrination as well. The scale project would would also mean that there is no way it can stay secret for long especially from the shadow broker, STG and cerberus.

 

Not to mention spending two years building an ark ship instead of trying to find a way to stop the reapers shows that the council are nothing more than defeatist since building the whole ark because to them the galaxy isn't worth saving. Not to mention by the time Thessia falls the reaper war reaches its climax and everyone has already committed themselves to the crucible. Oh the asari beacon on Thessia also has information on the reaper's. If the asari government were competent enough share it instead of trying to be top dog in the galaxy then perhaps the war would have been shorter and more lives saved.