Forgive my ego, but this is an idea I had and posted about months ago. My solution involved a long lost relay which worked on the principle of sling shots, either to get ships to Andromeda (one way trip), or to get another relay there, to allow for two way, and more accurate travel. As you said, it's possible the Leviathans could have pulled it off. There's also the possibility a race from one of the early cycles did it. We know the Mass relays weren't build in the very first cycle. The Leviathans iirc said they were built "in time", so there were at least a few cycles where a race could possibly have become advanced enough to build such a relay itself before the Reapers wiped out their civilisation. It'd be cool if we found out it was the race we now call the Keepers who did it. Maybe their level of technology impressed the Catalyst enough to keep them around in more than just Reaper form.
A slingshot/catapult-style relay is something I hadn't thought of. Strange, since I have read at least one scifi series where such technology exists.
That's actually a pretty interesting idea. Maybe an ancient precursor to more "modern" mass relays? I imagine it would be horribly inaccurate since it doesn't have a twin to lock on to. I'm not so sure relays could be "flown" , but that could be a way to get people across the galaxy fast to build paired relays while potentially cutting out a lot of travel time. Launch a crew close to where you want to relay built, complete the pair, and let them come home afterwards.
Yeah, if such a relay was built, but no return relay was ever built in Andromeda, that really would solve the one-way trip problem.
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