*Shepard rides the shuttle back to the Normandy after a harrowing mission planet-side which takes a few hours time*
"What in the god damn? Ashley? What happened to you? Jesus....you and the rest of the crew have been waiting here for 22 years due to time relativity? ....Wait....oh no....oh NO. Mordin....is Mordin....? ****!"
I still wonder if I'm the only person on the planet that got the massive Babylon 5 headnod in that movie.
When was the last time we landed on a planet next to a black hole? I can't recall...
Yeah, but Mass Effect let me navigate a space ship.
That's ok, you were never at risk of hurting yourself. Miranda's hmm hmm offers plenty of padding, as evidenced here.
Yeah, but Mass Effect let me navigate a space ship.
Just what I was thinking when flying around the other day... 
EDI, if you disconnect the inertial dampeners one more time without warning for fun I swear I am going to install windows-ME on you...
Time dilation near the black hole is exceptionally exaggerated in that movie.
When was the last time we landed on a planet next to a black hole? I can't recall...
Oh wait, time dilation was only due to the black hole and not due to the size of the planets? Man I got to rewatch that movie. My astrophysics needs work.
Time dilation near the black hole is exceptionally exaggerated in that movie.
Time dilation near the black hole is exceptionally exaggerated in that movie.
Time dilation might actually be a cool thing to explore in a Mass Effect game at some point.
Its obviously not a thing with FTL travel, but it could set up an interesting story if the first mission of a game had the protagonist confront the game's archvillain near a black hole where time dilation is an issue. The archvillain scores an early victory and is able to delay the protagonist there, and when the hero and his or her crew finally escape from the surface of the planet or asteroid or what have you, they emerge into a galaxy where years have passed during the days they spent stuck near the black hole, and all the archvillain's plans have succeeded.
Of course for that sort of game the villain's plans would have to be more mundane than the Reaper's, like seizing power instead of annihilating all life. Also being a space rebel could be fun. 
Wasn't the explanation that the Mass Effect negates time dilatation in some way because of the ''make the ship have 0 mass'' thing? I have no knowledge about this but I think I remember that being said somewhere.
I don't really see how time dilatation would work anyway, save as some sort of timeskip plot point. A lot of science-fiction in space asks you to forget about the concept or the story would hardly be coherent if you advance dramatically in time with each planet you visit or something.
Wasn't the explanation that the Mass Effect negates time dilatation in some way because of the ''make the ship have 0 mass'' thing? I have no knowledge about this but I think I remember that being said somewhere.
I don't really see how time dilatation would work anyway, save as some sort of timeskip plot point. A lot of science-fiction in space asks you to forget about the concept or the story would hardly be coherent if you advance dramatically in time with each planet you visit or something.
The method of FTL travel in the ME universe avoids issues with time dilation, so if a Mass Effect game were to use time dilation as part of the story they'd have to do something similar to Interstellar. Basically by putting the characters on the surface of a planet or asteroid that is closely orbiting a black hole.
This was the setup for the TV series Andromeda. Worked fine, although the series went almost as incoherent as EFC by the end.Its obviously not a thing with FTL travel, but it could set up an interesting story if the first mission of a game had the protagonist confront the game's archvillain near a black hole where time dilation is an issue. The archvillain scores an early victory and is able to delay the protagonist there, and when the hero and his or her crew finally escape from the surface of the planet or asteroid or what have you, they emerge into a galaxy where years have passed during the days they spent stuck near the black hole, and all the archvillain's plans have succeeded.
The method of FTL travel in the ME universe avoids issues with time dilation, so if a Mass Effect game were to use time dilation as part of the story they'd have to do something similar to Interstellar. Basically by putting the characters on the surface of a planet or asteroid that is closely orbiting a black hole.
I wish that the collector base had actually had dilation effects upon it and I said this back in 2011. In fact I sort of wanted the second you 'defeated' the collectors the station would lose its orbit in the debris field and begin drifting into the course of a exploding sun or black hole. I mean seriously, you are placing the damn thing in a area of space where it is theorized there is literally only exploding stars, black holes and waves of traveling radiation and NONE of that comes into play.
This was the setup for the TV series Andromeda. Worked fine, although the series went almost as incoherent as EFC by the end.
I never saw it. Is it worth checking out, or did the incoherent end completely ruin it?
This was the setup for the TV series Andromeda. Worked fine, although the series went almost as incoherent as EFC by the end.
I think they switched writers midway through? I liked the initial pitch, which seemed to be a deconstruction of the whole federation idea.
I never saw it. Is it worth checking out, or did the incoherent end completely ruin it?
I'd watch the first two seasons, and then just pretend the show got cancelled.
I'd watch the first two seasons, and then just pretend the show got cancelled.
I might do that.
I'm kind of in the mood for a Sci Fi fix. After the Expanse I might try to catch up on some of the older series I missed.
I might do that.
I'm kind of in the mood for a Sci Fi fix. After the Expanse I might try to catch up on some of the older series I missed.
What a groundbreaking flash of insight, almost 4 years after release of the last ME game.
Yeah, but Mass Effect let me navigate a space ship.
I find this illogical. There is no gravity in space
Time dilates when listening to too much Hans Zimmer.
Wasn't the explanation that the Mass Effect negates time dilatation in some way because of the ''make the ship have 0 mass'' thing? I have no knowledge about this but I think I remember that being said somewhere.
I don't really see how time dilatation would work anyway, save as some sort of timeskip plot point. A lot of science-fiction in space asks you to forget about the concept or the story would hardly be coherent if you advance dramatically in time with each planet you visit or something.
The book The Forever War dealt with it in a cool way, but it definitely requires a very particular kind of story.
The book The Forever War dealt with it in a cool way, but it definitely requires a very particular kind of story.
I liked that book, read it as a kid although I didn't particularly care for its sense escapism in regards to the military(modern complaint with the book). Overall 8/10 very solid read.
I watched the Interstellar. To me it was just kinda meh movie and definitely didn't affect my view of ME in any way.
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