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[Killroy]

In that order, if you're very, very lucky.

You have a weird definition of luck, my friend. Me personally, I don't see the luck in being raped, cannibalized and flayed while I'm still alive.

[Kierro Ren]

They are from the TV series Firefly and the movie Serenity. 

 

I'll have to take a look at that... *record screech* Is it SyFy? If so, da hell with that sheet!!!...

[Innocent Bystander]

You have a weird definition of luck, my friend. Me personally, I don't see the luck in being raped, cannibalized and flayed while I'm still alive.

It was a trap. Entire quote from Serenity (by Zoë Washburne): "If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing – and if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order."

[Hanako Ikezawa]

I'll have to take a look at that... *record screech* Is it SyFy? If so, da hell with that sheet!!!...

No, it's not made by Syfy. Joss Whedon was behind it. 

https://en.wikipedia...fly_(TV_series)

[JoltDealer]

The Reapers dropping by Andromeda is entirely possible, but I doubt that there would be many of them.  Reapers can travel 30 light-years in a 24-hour period.  It would take 228 years of continuous travel for them to even reach the Andromeda Galaxy and an additional 23 years to cross from one side of the galaxy to another.  Plus, another 228 years to get back.  This is assuming that they don't need any time to do literally anything else.  Given how difficult it is to make even just one Reaper, I doubt they'd send more than a few to check out the neighboring galaxy.

 

EDIT:  Accidentally pasted in the wrong number.

[Broganisity]

That said, beyond the fact they've been there in the past doing their thing I wouldn't want them actually showing up.

This is the most important part of your post for me.

It would be very interesting for people to go 'oh ****-' when they find Reaper traces in Andromeda, as it could add to the presumed unknown that is 'do we know what happened back on Earth?'Do those who go to Andromeda know if the Crucible succeeded? If they don't, imagine finding evidence that the thing you are fleeing from. . .is already there. Not there in an instant, but that settling down may not be the best of ideas in the long term.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

This is the most important part of your post for me.

It would be very interesting for people to go 'oh ****-' when they find Reaper traces in Andromeda, as it could add to the presumed unknown that is 'do we know what happened back on Earth?'Do those who go to Andromeda know if the Crucible succeeded? If they don't, imagine finding evidence that the thing you are fleeing from. . .is already there. Not there in an instant, but that settling down may not be the best of ideas in the long term.

Yeah. I can imagine a really interesting scene in terms of the reactions of the characters in the know learning that fact, like maybe by finding in a system the silhouette of a dormant Mass Relay looming in the dark, symbolizing that the thing they were trying to run from have been there, and for all they know will be there again.  

[Hanako Ikezawa]

The Reapers dropping by Andromeda is entirely possible, but I doubt that there would be many of them.  Reapers can travel 30 light-years in a 24-hour period.  It would take 228 years of continuous travel for them to even reach the Andromeda Galaxy and an additional 112,328 years to cross from one side of the galaxy to another.  Plus, another 228 years to get back.  This is assuming that they don't need any time to do literally anything else.  Given how difficult it is to make even just one Reaper, I doubt they'd send more than a few to check out the neighboring galaxy.

Where do you get the 112,328 years? 

[JoltDealer]

Where do you get the 112,328 years? 

 

Whoops.  I pasted the wrong number from my calculator.  It was supposed to say 23 years, not 112,328.  That's one of my numbers from a different equation.  My bad.

 

But the additional time is taken from the amount of time it would take the Reapers to traverse the diameter of the Andromeda Galaxy, which is estimated to be 260,000 light-years across.  The Reapers are believed to be able to travel 30 light-years in a 24-hour period while traveling at FTL speeds.  It would take 23.7 years to cross that, but I rounded down in an attempt to be generous.

[Goatmanwashere]

I'd prefer if the Reapers were limited to the MIlky Way Galaxy. I do not hate them in any way, but giving them a a presence in more than one galaxy opens up to many questions IMO.

 

The Andromeda Galaxy is very far away from the MIlky Way, and just one of billions in the known universe. If the Reapers mandate was to enforce their cycles of extinction in more than one galaxy, then it makes me wonder where the limit goes. Ten galaxies? A hundred? A billion? All of them? Are they lmited to the Local cluster and it's 54 galaxies? More? Less? How do they pick which galaxies to reap? Do they decide depending on the size of the galaxy, the number of sentient species in it or some other criteria? Where are their resources for doing all this? How have they ever managed to build up enough resources for it in the first place? If they had these resources and the advanced technology to travel thoughout galaxy cluster, or even superclusters, why does it take them decades or even centuries to exterminate just one single galaxy? Are there perhaps more than one fleet of Reaoers hiding in dark space, one fleet assigned to each galaxy? Then what's the guarantee the Reapers who's task it was to reap Andromeda are gone? Afterall, how could they ever hope to succed in reaping a so many galaxies if there is just the one fleet we saw in ME3?

 

Simply put, when I think about reapers in other galaxies my mind ties itself into a knot and my eyes cross. I dislike when things are handwaved, so if they put some major (I'd be alright with a minor presence, like a scout ship or such) Reaper presence in the Andromeda without properly explaining things, then I will be annoyed. One of the things I originally liked about Mass Effect was the everything seemed to have a rational explanation that made sense within the series lore - or at least sounded as if it made sense. Granted, they threw some of that out with the ME3 ending (I don't hate it, just want to point that out) and some of the other moments in the series, but overall the series have sounded fairly "believable".

[countofhell]

There is only one evidence for sure :

we don't know anything about the Andromeda Galaxy, Mass Effect Trilogy does not mention anything about Andromeda. But we know that is a lot bigger as the Milky Way and there might be planets similar to our Galaxy, so anything can happen in the future.

[Broganisity]

 

One of the things I originally liked about Mass Effect was the everything seemed to have a rational explanation that made sense within the series lore - or at least sounded as if it made sense.

. . .but the Reapers were never explained in Mass Effect One. It was just this one ship speaking to your with a level of indifference that comes from repetition since time in-memorable. We still don't know when they were first created by the Leviathans, we don't know how many civilizations they have harvested( a **** ton, no doubt, considering the size of the flee seen in ME2 and the existence of Capital Ships made from the prime races of the time and Destroyers from the lesser races.) we don't know the link between them and 'Dark Energy', we don't know how Indoctrination works other than 'because Reaper Tech' (which goes on for other things as well), and there are still more things we don't know about them.

I'm not saying I disagree with you, only that to say that everything was explained in the Shepard Trilogy is. . .suspect.

 

[CuriousArtemis]

No because the Reapers were a Milky Way galaxy problem. I think they were created by an ancient race in order to control life in the Milky Way - not elsewhere. Only way this would make sense is if a few Reapers went rogue, which doesn't seem to be their thing. They're pretty rigidly programmed.

 

EDIT: Also, traveling between galaxies... I'm curious to see how MEA will handle it b/c even in sci-fi it's just such an absurdly astronomical (literally) distance.