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[xPez]

I'm betting on some kind of hand-wavey wormhole, maybe caused by the inhabitants of Andromeda using Remnant tech to call for help against the new big bad? I don't really like the idea of FTL travel or even anything close to it as the time dilation means that everything we've left in the MW would be gone.

[Chealec]

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

 

Aaaah, but...

 

[The Heretic of Time]

I think ME:A might continue the plot of dark energy and eezo damaging our stars. The game will be set in the far future, the species of the galaxy have noticed that the stars that their worlds orbit are slowly starting to collapse and they can't find any answers or solutions in the galaxy, so they decide to send a convoy of massive space ships to the nearest neighboring spiral galaxy.

 

Another idea which I prefer is the idea that during the war against the reapers they build an ark and send that ark to Andromeda. I think this idea is cooler but makes less sense. I mean it's one thing to collectively build an Crucible in a matter of weeks/months, it's another thing to also build a massive ark that is capable of intergalactic travel and then collect a ton of individuals to inhabit the ark in the same time-frame. That just doesn't seem plausible to me.

 

The third idea that I like is the idea that we send an ark of convoy to Andromeda out of sheer ambition and curiosity. It seems like the logical next step in human evolution. Curiosity and ambition is what got us to cross the Atlantic Ocean and reach America. Curiosity and ambition is what got us on the moon. Curiosity is what will get us on Mars and curiosity is what will get us to Andromeda.

[themikefest]

How we get there?

 

Everyone stands around with their eyes close and tap their heels 3 times and say "There's no place like Andromeda. There's no place like Andromeda. There's no place like Andromeda". Open your eyes and you're in Andromeda

[Anacronian Stryx]

The Milky-Way and Andromeda had a fight and the result was that The Milky-Way was kicked out and Andromeda took over all of the Milky Ways **** like the possessive ****** she is.

[alienatedflea]

We are actually Shepard's son...This will be established at the very beginning as we are walking out of a nursing home.  Shepard will mention that the original trilogy was the ramblings of a mad man and people who are either workers at the nursing home or other residents at the home will be people we knew from the original trilogy.  We never were in the Milky Way.

 

As your CO calls you into service, it is your job to establish colonies as humanity continues to grow. 

 

 

Thats my theory of how the game will be. 

[timebean]

Maybe the crew are survivors from an old reaper.  Ie, a reaper who filled his belly with those creepy space pods full of humans and volus and all the others...and then shunted of to Andromeda to rest while his buddies continued reaping and fighting Shepherd. Maybe Andromeda had a reaper base where they worked on the whole "preservation of the history of the reaped-out beings" thing and that place is where those folks were destined to go to be turned into juices and memories.

 

  Once in Andromeda, the reaper either malfunctions or some prisoners get loose and shut it down.  Everyone gets freed from their pods, uses the reaper to build a wicked ship, and starts looking for a new home in Andromeda cause they can never get back to Milky Way.

 

Later on, there is a splinter group of religious fanatics who believe their kind was birthed from the dead reaper and worship it as a space mommy.

[Stormy]

My same reason for explaining why "anything" in DA:I:  Because Magic!     

[Altair_ShepardN7]

Maybe the crew are survivors from an old reaper.  Ie, a reaper who filled his belly with those creepy space pods full of humans and volus and all the others...and then shunted of to Andromeda to rest while his buddies continued reaping and fighting Shepherd. Maybe Andromeda had a reaper base where they worked on the whole "preservation of the history of the reaped-out beings" thing and that place is where those folks were destined to go to be turned into juices and memories.

 

  Once in Andromeda, the reaper either malfunctions or some prisoners get loose and shut it down.  Everyone gets freed from their pods, uses the reaper to build a wicked ship, and starts looking for a new home in Andromeda cause they can never get back to Milky Way.

 

Later on, there is a splinter group of religious fanatics who believe their kind was birthed from the dead reaper and worship it as a space mommy.

Do you imagine if they have some kind of zoo planet filled with all the species they harvested? Goddess.

[timebean]

Do you imagine if they have some kind of zoo planet filled with all the species they harvested? Goddess.

Yup...Thank you Star Trek pilot episode!!!    Even Spock smiled!!!

 

[sjsharp2011]

Everyone is in pods and ejected from a large ship aiming them towards Andromeda. They catch a good breeze and soon are in Andromeda

 

 

My theory isn't too far from this tbh.

 

My guess is the council and the various council worlds as a Plan B in case the crucible plan failed to destroy the Reapers they put a plan in motion to send somse ships out to preserve their civilizations. As it's quite often repeated throughout the story of ME3 they don't know what the crucible will do or how much damage to other tech it might cause. So they decided to send an Ark or a small fleet of ships with people in sleeper chambers to Andromeda much like what the Protheans tried except the Protheans only failed because they tried to stay put and wait out the storm. Which ultimately resulted in them being wiped out. Whereas this fleet would stay constantly on the move until it got to Andromeda. Not sure how long it would take for a FTL ship to make the trip from our galaxy to Andromeda. But I wouldn't imagine it would be a 50,000 year trip so won't need to be in stasis as long as the Protheans tried anyway. So for me that would be mine.

 

Chances are we'll get an explanation at the start of the game. Probably as part of the opening levels 

[Kabooooom]

My theory isn't too far from this tbh.

My guess is the council and the various council worlds as a Plan B in case the crucible plan failed to destroy the Reapers they put a plan in motion to send somse ships out to preserve their civilizations. As it's quite often repeated throughout the story of ME3 they don't know what the crucible will do or how much damage to other tech it might cause. So they decided to send an Ark or a small fleet of ships with people in sleeper chambers to Andromeda much like what the Protheans tried except the Protheans only failed because they tried to stay put and wait out the storm. Which ultimately resulted in them being wiped out. Whereas this fleet would stay constantly on the move until it got to Andromeda. Not sure how long it would take for a FTL ship to make the trip from our galaxy to Andromeda. But I wouldn't imagine it would be a 50,000 year trip so won't need to be in stasis as long as the Protheans tried anyway. So for me that would be mine.

Chances are we'll get an explanation at the start of the game. Probably as part of the opening levels

It would take 230 years, to be relatively exact, at Reaper FTL speeds and over 500 years at the stated FTL speeds of the council races.

But the time isn't the issue. Drive discharge is. They would fry long before they reached Andromeda, unless they somehow found a way to reverse engineer reaper tech and negate drive discharge.

[DarthSliver]

It would take 230 years, to be relatively exact, at Reaper FTL speeds and over 500 years at the stated FTL speeds of the council races.

But the time isn't the issue. Drive discharge is. They would fry long before they reached Andromeda, unless they somehow found a way to reverse engineer reaper tech and negate drive discharge.

 

i keep saying this but why can't they just shoot off the discharges like through a weapon lol

[Kabooooom]

i keep saying this but why can't they just shoot off the discharges like through a weapon lol

Well, others have proposed "grounding" the charge similar to how the Citadel does. It is unclear to me exactly how this works, unless the Citadel somehow converts it into usable energy. Which would actually be a brilliant solution to the problem, and possibly the best bet.

Personally, they are probably going to go the wormhole route, but I think that's too convenient. Come up with a cool, lore friendly engineering solution instead Biowarw.

[zac211]

In the books the quarians were traveling to deep space for a couple years at a time looking for a home planet. I think they'll use this as a way to say they found some sort of enormous mass relay that the reapers were using to harvest multiple galaxies and the quarians told the council. Then they pulled their resources and sent some kind of ark like ship with a few of each species and a lot of asari since they can breed with everyone. This all makes no sense but I do think it will be some sort of massive super relay to try to keep the universe consistent in travel methods.

[DarthSliver]

Well, others have proposed "grounding" the charge similar to how the Citadel does. It is unclear to me exactly how this works, unless the Citadel somehow converts it into usable energy. Which would actually be a brilliant solution to the problem, and possibly the best bet.

Personally, they are probably going to go the wormhole route, but I think that's too convenient. Come up with a cool, lore friendly engineering solution instead Biowarw.

 

They could do something like Star Trek and convert it to usable energy to used else where like you stated lol. But my idea of shooting it off through a weapon would be to just discharging it kinda thing so they wouldn't need to special find a planet or whatever to release it. Only time the ship would need to go to a planet was when it reached its destination or needed fuel type thing. 

[Kabooooom]

Sometimes I think that they actually haven't come up with a solution yet, and simply predictably moved the story to Andromeda (and probably via ark) to escape the corner they wrote themselves in...and they are using us to datamine a solution to the problem of HOW to get there, lol.

[DarthSliver]

Sometimes I think that they actually haven't come up with a solution yet, and simply predictably moved the story to Andromeda (and probably via ark) to escape the corner they wrote themselves in...and they are using us to datamine a solution to the problem of HOW to get there, lol.

 

we are going to be on a generation ship and the story of how we left the Milky Way will be vague with different people using the theories on here to tell our character how we actually ended up in Andromeda lol. 

[Kabooooom]

In the books the quarians were traveling to deep space for a couple years at a time looking for a home planet. I think they'll use this as a way to say they found some sort of enormous mass relay that the reapers were using to harvest multiple galaxies and the quarians told the council. Then they pulled their resources and sent some kind of ark like ship with a few of each species and a lot of asari since they can breed with everyone. This all makes no sense but I do think it will be some sort of massive super relay to try to keep the universe consistent in travel methods.

Alternatively, one of the concept art designs resembles a strange alien relay...maybe they find something analogous to a relay, but not designed by the Reapers, which takes them to its counterpart in Andromeda and subsequently malfunctions. Maybe part of the plot could be discovering similar structures which connect to other, expansive clusters in Andromeda (but only a few to keep the more localized story consistent).

Then you are left to discover who built them, and why.

[Kabooooom]

we are going to be on a generation ship and the story of how we left the Milky Way will be vague with different people using the theories on here to tell our character how we actually ended up in Andromeda lol.

I have always loved the generation ship concept. It's just so cool. And plausible too.

[DarthSliver]

I have always loved the generation ship concept. It's just so cool. And plausible too.

 generation ship concept is connected one of the many Ark theories, mainly the one that has us traveling from Milky Way to Andromeda. 

[shodiswe]

Two theories:

Another much older and at once far more advanced and powerful Mass Relay network is discovered while repairs are being done on the previously discovered network. This second network predates even the Leviathons and connect to relays in dark space that lead to Andromeda.

Or:

Quantum entanglement along with the mass effect is used to simply transport us there.

That would be irony on a new level. Even the Leviathans and Reapers advanced Tech would turn out to be salvaged from the Remnants.

I'm betting on slow travel while in Cryostasis, they started Before the Reaper invasion or during it, maybe once Thessia fell. That could be when the Asari councilor finaly gives that N7 guy the mission to go to Andromeda. Seems less space magicy, and deffinately more likely than Random Wormholes that have never existed in the ME lore.
You are one of the crew.
Soon after arrival that N7 Noah finds a promissing arid planet for initial settlement. As they land however they find out they arn't alone and come under attack, the at that point unknown enemy activates their gigantic Planet to Space anti ship defences that rise out of the ground and start tearing the collonial fleet apart, N7 Noah dies on the planet, the fleet is in dissaray and everyone scrambles for random escape vectors and hides out there.

You and Cora make it back to the scoutship and manages to get out of there severely damaged. After which the expedition becommes your responsibility more and more.... Either you got hit by a Remnant pylon something or other and got a cither down loaded or a glowy magical hand......... (To explain why you suddenly gained your prominence)

Enjoy the same old story in a new wrapping! You are the last hope for your people! Save the World yada yada. Throw in some exploration.

[zac211]

Alternatively, one of the concept art designs resembles a strange alien relay...maybe they find something analogous to a relay, but not designed by the Reapers, which takes them to its counterpart in Andromeda and subsequently malfunctions. Maybe part of the plot could be discovering similar structures which connect to other, expansive clusters in Andromeda (but only a few to keep the more localized story consistent).
Then you are left to discover who built them, and why.

I could see that but I wonder if they'd be hesitant to have essentially the same plot again with a godlike species controlling everything.

[The Heretic of Time]

Not sure how long it would take for a FTL ship to make the trip from our galaxy to Andromeda. But I wouldn't imagine it would be a 50,000 year trip so won't need to be in stasis as long as the Protheans tried anyway.

 

Actually, it would take considerably more than 50.000 years to reach Andromeda. I'm not sure how fast FTL in Mass Effect is exactly, but Andromeda is 2,5 million light years away from the Milky Way, so yeah, go figure.

[Altair_ShepardN7]

Actually, it would take considerably more than 50.000 years to reach Andromeda. I'm not sure how fast FTL in Mass Effect is exactly, but Andromeda is 2,5 million light years away from the Milky Way, so yeah, go figure.

Reapers travel 11,000 times the speed of light, while Council ship travel at half that speed. It would take Reaper a little bit more than 200 years, while Council ships would take a little less than 600 years.