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[TBSN]

I wanted to make a topic like this since a few days ago, and decided to finally do this.

 

So what is this about? Well, I keep seeing people posting all kinds of different ideas and theories about how we could have reached Andromeda, who we are, etc. Some are really good while others are hilarious. In this topic, you can post your theory or idea that explains how we got to Andromeda. This is mostly for fun and is not supposed to be taken seriously.

 

Rules:

- It can be as serious and scientifically accurate as you want.

- It can be as ridiculous, silly and stupid as you want. 

 * Or it can be a mix of both. 

- You can't explain something? Just say that a Space Wizard did it. 

- You can also theorize who is the main character, who are the enemies, why are we fighting them, etc. 

- Have fun!

 

So I'll begin. 

Spoiler

A couple of hundred years had passed since Shepard destroyed the Reapers and the Citadel and the Relays had been rebuilt. The Citadel was still orbiting Earth and all of its inhabitants were tired of the same view of the Earth, so they wanted to move the Citadel to a new location. But to where? That was the question.

 

They had learned how to drive the Citadel and started visiting many different solar systems, but none of them was what they were looking for. Eventually they arrived to the Omega Nebula where Omega was located - but it was the worst location they had ever seen. So they'll just go through the Relay to a new location just as they had done tens of times before, nothing could go wrong, right?

 

Well, the male Turian and the female human who piloted the Citadel got sick (she ate the turian's sushi and the turian ate the human's sushi, both got sick) and some noob had to replace them. He only had basic training and had never flown the damned thing, but no one else could do it. The Council told him "Go through the relay!" but since he was such a noob he went through the Omega Relay (which somehow survived) - since the Normandy SR-2 was a museum located in the Presidium, the relay detected the IFF and allowed safe passage. 

 

But the Citadel was so big that they appeared really close to the event horizon of a black hole, and funny things happen to spacetime when it is subjected to such gravity. Not even their Mass Effect fields and ezoo could save them from the gravity and time dilation caused by the black hole. For an entire month they fought against the black hole until they managed to escape from it. But remember, time was dilated! One month had passed in the Citadel - but outside the event horizon several billion years had passed. 

 

The Galaxy was completely different - Andromeda and the Milky Way had finally collided!! There were countless new star systems and planets, while many old stars and planets had disappeared! They met met new alien species and tech, and learned of the existence of the Reapers v2, who had been created by Leviathan v2! And they were coming to harvest the entire galaxy. That is when us, Shepard v2, come into play. We must save the Milky n' Dromeda or whatever the new galaxy is called. 

 

So, what is your theory?

 

i prefer this way :

 

Don't know what happen in Milky Way galaxy,suddenly lost contacts.We were on our own for survival.

 

 

i mean,

just don't care what happen in Milky Way galaxy,just "Don't know what happen in Milky Way",& we do our own in Andromeda galaxy.

just forget about earth,& we have to search a new home for humanity.

[Ahriman]

I find it funny when people try to find a reasonable way to start Andromeda "expedition" (let's call it this way) after ME3 ending, when the sole purpose of setting change is precisely not to.

[Drone223]

Its most likely going to involve contrived writing and lots of hand waving.

[Suron]

We hitchhiked across the Galaxy.

but did we have the guide?

[Suron]

I find it funny when people try to find a reasonable way to start Andromeda "expedition" (let's call it this way) after ME3 ending, when the sole purpose of setting change is precisely not to.

Yeah, the entire purpose is BioWare taking the lazy way out so they don't have to deal with the endings.  If our going to Andromeda has anything to do with the Reapers then it was a "plan b" of sorts.  But I'd be almost willing to bet however we got to Andromeda we left well before the end of ME3

[Chealec]

It's set long after the events of the Mass Effect trilogy apparently so my money's on Pogo Stick!

[Vapaa]

If we wave hands really fast, we'll be there in a jiffy.

 

Surely.

[Frikipolleces]

Since apparently this game takes place centuries after ME3, I'm betting we are part of an expedition that set off at some point during the previous trilogy, or even before. Meaning the Alliance and the N7 system etc. don't necessarily exist anymore, which is super-convenient.

 

The game can take place even in that alternate dimension where Shepard refused to make a decision and the Reapers killed everyone 

[satunnainen]

Well, if it was easy, plenty of races would have done it during the billion or something (10^9) years the reapers have done their cycles, and more importantly would have come back to kick the reapers read end after gathering enough strength.  So its either a freak accident like a wormhole or it is technically possible but something else prevents any explorer coming back. 

[President of Boom]

The game can take place even in that alternate dimension where Shepard refused to make a decision and the Reapers killed everyone 

...through the magic of hot tub space-time machine:

[Sion1138]

Alliance just stumbled on a wormhole at some point.

 

It won't have anything to do with Reapers, they probably will have sent ships before ME1.

 

That's what it's going to be.

[Fade9wayz]

Here's what we're riding to get there:

[timebean]

Some secret relay that connects MW and Andromeda  galaxies...also, humans have known about it for a long time, having stumbled upon it soon after the First Contact War.  They kept it secret, used it for travel, and even found some cool tech in this other galaxy, which is how they were able to rise in the  political ladder so quickly. Then, all the relays get destroyed, trapping a few of our explorer groups in that other galaxy.  This is why they are N7. 

 

And...on the latest mission, there were some aliens involved too.  Maybe underhanded folks looking to make money and advance their own races as well (just my desire to have volus on there!!!).  All hush-hush...but could make for a cool rag-tag group of outlaws and adventurers who have to find a new home now that they are trapped.  Or the descendents of said adventurers.  Either way...maybe...

 

Or space magic...

[dfjdejulio]

So, what is your theory?

 

My theory is that the trip takes literally hundreds or thousands of years, maybe more, and we only survive because of stasis pods.  No fancy new magic "get to Andromeda in a reasonable time frame" technology is involved, and there's no further contact with the Milky Way, nor any expectation of it.

[Altair_ShepardN7]

I find it funny when people try to find a reasonable way to start Andromeda "expedition" (let's call it this way) after ME3 ending, when the sole purpose of setting change is precisely not to.

As stated in the OP, this is just for fun. I just want to see what silly or serious theories people have made in order to explain the trip. 

 

Well, if it was easy, plenty of races would have done it during the billion or something (10^9) years the reapers have done their cycles, and more importantly would have come back to kick the reapers read end after gathering enough strength.  So its either a freak accident like a wormhole or it is technically possible but something else prevents any explorer coming back. 

Unless Andromeda is an utopic paradise so awesome that it makes everyone forget about that stupid and boring Milky Way? Why knows. 

[xAmilli0n]

Through years of analyzing the reapers and the relays post ME3, we have come to discover how they traveled through dark space so quickly.  We design a new relay system, and decide its time to stretch our intergalactic legs.  And so off we go on the most epic road trip in history.

[Torgette]

 

^Imagine some ropes attached dragging the Ark

[bauzabauza]

[TopTrog]

Maybe they will just go the sub-lightspeed "relativistic rocket" route, which should have a subjective arrival time on the order of a few decades from Milky Way to Andromeda. Millions of years would have passed back here, so "long after ME3" would certainly fit. 

[enayasoul]

Here's a thought... maybe we're playing the colonists that left long ago in one of those old "space ship."   Remember the Cerberus logs they had for the entire year back in the day? (After ME2 ended)  Those colonists were recently discovered and were being relocated back to Earth to be slaughtered in the Reaper war? That's my theory on Andromeda.  Not everyone wanted to go back to the Milkway... all of there parents or relatives were long dead.  Time travel. 

[Altair_ShepardN7]

Maybe they will just go the sub-lightspeed "relativistic rocket" route, which should have a subjective arrival time on the order of a few decades from Milky Way to Andromeda. Millions of years would have passed back here, so "long after ME3" would certainly fit. 

If they went at 99.99999...% the speed of light it could also work. Once they reach that speed they will not need to fire their engines (maybe once in a while due to dust or stuff) and will save a lot of energy. Time Dilation would also kick in, but I really have no idea how much time is slowed at 99.99% the speed of light. Still, if 2.5 million years are turned into 100k or 50k due to dilation (maybe it's too much), it should be okay. Gotta read up something about the Twins Paradox to refresh a little bit

 

Here's a thought... maybe we're playing the colonists that left long ago in one of those old "space ship."   Remember the Cerberus logs they had for the entire year back in the day? (After ME2 ended)  Those colonists were recently discovered and were being relocated back to Earth to be slaughtered in the Reaper war? That's my theory on Andromeda.  Not everyone wanted to go back to the Milkway... all of there parents or relatives were long dead.  Time travel. 

You mean the missing colony in Alpha Centauri?  Had completely forgotten about that thing. And there is also that ship that had the consciousness of an old alien race. 

[enayasoul]

You mean the missing colony in Alpha Centauri?  Had completely forgotten about that thing. And there is also that ship that had the consciousness of an old alien race. 

 Yep! That's the one that came to my mind.  

[OhNoWhyHow]

 It can be as ridiculous, silly and stupid as you want. 

 

Okay, then, I vote this:

 

 

[Kabooooom]

If they went at 99.99999...% the speed of light it could also work. Once they reach that speed they will not need to fire their engines (maybe once in a while due to dust or stuff) and will save a lot of energy. Time Dilation would also kick in, but I really have no idea how much time is slowed at 99.99% the speed of light. Still, if 2.5 million years are turned into 100k or 50k due to dilation (maybe it's too much), it should be okay. Gotta read up something about the Twins Paradox to refresh a little bit

You mean the missing colony in Alpha Centauri? Had completely forgotten about that thing. And there is also that ship that had the consciousness of an old alien race.

A "relativistic rocket" is exactly what you just described. I think you misunderstood his post.

I just ran the numbers, and a trip to Andromeda would take a minimum of 270 years from the perspective of the crew, at 0.99999999996% c, and over 2.54 million years would have passed on Earth.

That is an extreme example of time dilation right there. It requires the ship to accelerate constantly for half of the trip towards Andromeda, and decelerate for the other half away from Andromeda.

If you push the boundary even closer to the speed of light, you could make the trip in 50 years due to the exponential effect of time dilation as you approach the speed of light (t approaches 0, while energy required to accelerate approaches infinity). But that is literally like pushing the limit of what relativity allows.

***"Side note: The energy required would be astronomically enormous, literally. Which is why relativistic travel will probably never be feasible in real life. It is definitely cool that nature allows this, but it is just extremely impractical. It probably is more feasible to find a way to create and stabilize a wormhole than to accelerate a vessel to relativistic speeds. Carrying any kind of fuel would become prohibitive before reaching significant relativistic speeds, even with fusion. The ONLY way I see this ever becoming a reality is if propellantless spacecraft become a reality, perhaps utilizing something like this:

https://en.m.wikiped...plasma_thruster

[Feybrad]

Some Time during Reaper-mageddon some People put themselves on a very big Ship, froze themselves and told that Ship to fly to Andromeda, thawing them upon Arrival. The Time Frame isn't even of Concern, because there's no Way to go back to the milky Way. And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how it's going to happen.