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[Hrulj]

What is the background on those towers that we can see on Eden Prime?

 

 

And why do they seem to appear in the scene in ME:A trailer?

 

 

Could that give any info on the storyline? 

[DaemionMoadrin]

Nope. Different towers built by a different species with different technology in a different galaxy.

[Feybrad]

Could be Standard Issue Human Colony Towers. Which would obviously appear on most new human Colonies.

 

Or what Daemion said.

[Ahriman]

Type "sci-fi tower" in google and you'll get dozen of similar things. Pretty much generic.

[Chealec]

It's not a tower, it's a nostril hair of a super-reaper that lives at the centre of many worlds across the universe :\

[Sartoz]

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Could be the same artist ran out of ideas and re-used an old library from a previous franchise.

 

Could be that an optimal design is optimal for many alien races as well.

 

Could be that Tower building is quicker and cheaper with automated construction machinery.

 

OR

 

Could be that one man's tower is another race's ruins.

 

Could be

 

[Han Shot First]

O/T but I always thought the towers were out of place on Eden Prime, which was supposed to be a largely agrarian colony. The towers would have made more sense in a more urbanized colony. We build high rise apartments and skyscrapers only because space comes at a premium in congested urban areas. The only room to build is up. 

 

They looked a little odd in a rural setting with no nearby buildings.

[caradoc2000]

Those are actually Towers of New Hanoi.

[timebean]

I thought those towers were some sort of atmospheric air purifier like the shroud. Can anyone make out the lettering on the side? (I can't)

 

But I do agree with folks that say it is likely nothing more than a "commonplace" futurisitc tower design.  We'll see..

[DaemionMoadrin]

O/T but I always thought the towers were out of place on Eden Prime, which was supposed to be a largely agrarian colony. The towers would have made more sense in a more urbanized colony. We build high rise apartments and skyscrapers only because space comes at a premium in congested urban areas. The only room to build is up. 

 

They looked a little odd in a rural setting with no nearby buildings.

 

Communication towers need to be high no matter where you build them.

[MrFob]

O/T but I always thought the towers were out of place on Eden Prime, which was supposed to be a largely agrarian colony. The towers would have made more sense in a more urbanized colony. We build high rise apartments and skyscrapers only because space comes at a premium in congested urban areas. The only room to build is up. 
 
They looked a little odd in a rural setting with no nearby buildings.

 
I think that was the point, to make t look unfamiliar because they used a very different developmental strategy here than they do on Earth.. It looks pretty much exactly like the codex description:
 

Today Eden Prime is a model of sustainable, organized development. The population is housed in space-efficient arcologies that tower over thousands of kilometers of green fields and orchards.

[Kabooooom]

O/T but I always thought the towers were out of place on Eden Prime, which was supposed to be a largely agrarian colony. The towers would have made more sense in a more urbanized colony. We build high rise apartments and skyscrapers only because space comes at a premium in congested urban areas. The only room to build is up.

They looked a little odd in a rural setting with no nearby buildings.

The towers, as far as I understand them, were primarily living quarters (a tower is an extremely efficient means of creating livable area without destroying valuable farmland).

From the codex:

Today Eden Prime is a model of sustainable, organized development. The population is housed in space-efficient arcologies that tower over thousands of kilometers of green fields and orchards.

Also, no OP...they are completely different planets, appearances, and most importantly - galaxies.

[Sartoz]

O/T but I always thought the towers were out of place on Eden Prime, which was supposed to be a largely agrarian colony. The towers would have made more sense in a more urbanized colony. We build high rise apartments and skyscrapers only because space comes at a premium in congested urban areas. The only room to build is up. 

 

They looked a little odd in a rural setting with no nearby buildings.

 

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Good point. And come to think of it, I didn't understand the towers either.... at the time I played the game. Though the Codex entry gives us a hint

[Ashevajak]

It tells us the shocking truth....that Bioware really, really likes to use reskinned assets.

[Kabooooom]

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Good point. And come to think of it, I didn't understand the towers either.... at the time I played the game. Though the Codex entry gives us a hint

They aren't out of place at all, in my opinion. To understand why, you have to understand what the human civilization was like when Eden Prime was founded.

During that time, Earth was massively overpopulated. Resources and farmland were strained. Among the first few inhabitable worlds discovered beyond the Arcturus hub were Terra Nova and Eden Prime. Terra Nova was inhabitable, but the temperature limited its utility as an agrarian colony. But Eden Prime was absolutely perfect.

And so, it became an agrarian world. Farmland was invaluable, as it didn't really exist on Earth anymore, at least not to the same degree. And so, they built skywards - as towers are the most efficient means to house a population on a single square region of land. This preserved every possible kilometer of farmland. This became especially important as colonists flooded from Earth in an exodus. Soon, millions of people inhabited Eden Prime and Terra Nova.

As human colonies expanded, eventually outwards into the galaxy at large after the First Contact War, the importance of a single agrarian world would have obviously diminished. But it didn't, because Eden Prime had already been set up at that time as the major supplier of agricultural products for the entire Alliance. This did not change as human colonies expanded.

And so, in my opinion, the towers make perfect sense. You wouldn't want your most valuable colonies' fields choked out by millions of prefab houses like on Benning.

[Enigmatick]

It tells us the shocking truth....that Bioware really, really likes to use reskinned assets.

Not sure if you're joking but those obviously aren't the same assests.

[Andrew Lucas]

Not sure if you're joking but those obviously aren't the same assests.

You can't take Deadpool seriously, man.

[In Exile]

O/T but I always thought the towers were out of place on Eden Prime, which was supposed to be a largely agrarian colony. The towers would have made more sense in a more urbanized colony. We build high rise apartments and skyscrapers only because space comes at a premium in congested urban areas. The only room to build is up.

They looked a little odd in a rural setting with no nearby buildings.

That's not necessarily true. Just look at Canada: a very small (by global standards) population in an absurdly large landmass. Instead of seeing very spread out population you see enclaves. The major cities -- especially Toronto - are metropolises. Eden Prime has a few hundred million people right?

[themikefest]

Eden Prime has 4.2 million people before reaper invasion