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[cap and gown]

Back in the Milky Way anything you wanted could be built over-night and nothing required resources. Want to build a humongous skyline on a planet you have known about for at most 30 years? No problem. Just look at Beckenstein. Want to build a navy as large as that of the Alliance and field an army as large as that of the Krogan? No problem. In just 6 months Cerberus went from having the Normandy as their most expensive project to having a fleet to rival the Alliance and enough resources to equip an endless stream recruits. Angry about some wrong you had suffered in the past? Hire a band of mercenaries to help you out. Money is not a problem for anyone in the Milky Way. Just ask Corporal Toombs, or Aresh Aghdashloo.

 

Will we be re-entering a universe that actually resembles our own where things take time and resources when we make it to Andromeda? Or will if follow the same fantastical rules of the Milky Way?

[AlanC9]

Don't forget humans going from discovering mass effect technology to having a respectable space fleet in nine years.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

Don't forget humans going from discovering mass effect technology to having a respectable space fleet in nine years.

To be fair, we did have a space fleet before discovering mass effect technology. So they just had to upgrade existing ships.

[Laughing_Man]

To be fair, we did have a space fleet before discovering mass effect technology. So they just had to upgrade existing ships.

 

Probably closer to a complete overhaul, and the timeline still makes no sense.

 

The only good explanation is the conspiracy explanation: The humans actually discovered the ruins on mars much earlier, and told the general public only

when a breakthrough was in sight.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

Probably closer to a complete overhaul, and the timeline still makes no sense.

 

The only good explanation is the conspiracy explanation: The humans actually discovered the ruins on mars much earlier, and told the general public only

when a breakthrough was in sight.

Oh, I agree the timeline makes no sense. I was just saying that humanity already had a fleet of ships before the discovery, rather than they discovered it and then started building a fleet. 

[Oldren Shepard]

For resources probably, time i don't think so but only time will tell.

[sjsharp2011]

I think that depends on exactly when our adventuer in Andromeda begins. Have we already been there a few years and already got some resources and factories set up? Or have we just arrived in Andromeda and will have to think on our feet a bit and scrounge for what we need and build it?By that I mean kind of like what Shepard has to do in ME2 in order to upgrade the ship for the trip through the Omega 4 relay when you had to mine for resources using probes you purchase.

[AlanC9]

Oh, I agree the timeline makes no sense. I was just saying that humanity already had a fleet of ships before the discovery, rather than they discovered it and then started building a fleet. 

 

Warships?

[MrObnoxiousUK]

I think you will find the real only limiter of progress is bureaucratic red tape, get rid of that and you can build alot of things very quickly.

[BabyPuncher]

Back in the Milky Way anything you wanted could be built over-night and nothing required resources. Want to build a humongous skyline on a planet you have known about for at most 30 years? No problem. Just look at Beckenstein. Want to build a navy as large as that of the Alliance and field an army as large as that of the Krogan? No problem. In just 6 months Cerberus went from having the Normandy as their most expensive project to having a fleet to rival the Alliance and enough resources to equip an endless stream recruits. Angry about some wrong you had suffered in the past? Hire a band of mercenaries to help you out. Money is not a problem for anyone in the Milky Way. Just ask Corporal Toombs, or Aresh Aghdashloo.

 

Will we be re-entering a universe that actually resembles our own where things take time and resources when we make it to Andromeda? Or will if follow the same fantastical rules of the Milky Way?

 

Cerberus is a very legitimate criticism.

 

But building a skyline of skyscrapers in several decades should really not be a concern at all. Haven't parts of Asia and the Middle East literally done just that with lame old modern technology?

 

If you want to criticize Bekenstein, criticize it being a temperate planet right next to the Citadel that nobody bothered to colonize for thousands of years until humans came along for some reason. That's a much bigger problem.

[BabyPuncher]

Also, pretty much every science fiction story out there plays fast and loose with the absolute insane expense a starship would almost certainly necessitate. I'm obviously not particularly fond of that, but it's pretty much something you have to do to get your characters into spaceships. Unless your characters are all military or extremely well funded scientists or something of the sort.

 

That goes even further for video games where the player is expected to participate in buying items and whatnot. I've made several long posts about why 'realistic' prices in video games are a very stupid idea. I could probably go poke around and dig one out.

[Dean_the_Young]

We can also laugh at Bioware's habit of not having any idea of the scale of numbers they want to deal with. Korlus, the Grunt recruitment planet, has a population of 3.8 billion. And yet it's treated as pretty much an irrelevant backwater- even though it outweighs all the Alliance colonies put together over a hundredfold.
 ME2 also had the frequently amusing 'no idea how many Humans have actually been abducted'- in which which hundreds, millions, and tens of thousands of colonists are projected... and not in ascending order either. And that's not even touching on how Bioware treated the threat of demographic explosions from fast-breeding species like the Krogan and Rachni.