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[Sir Floopy]

So, in the first trilogy, we saw the impact valley on Klendagon, a giant glancing blow from a huge mass accelerator, and its intended target, the derelict Reaper. We the players never found the cannon, but since it was evidently destroyed when fired, that's not what I was curious about. I thought that in Andromeda, maybe we could find its impact site, seeing as the shot went straight through the Reaper and continued. Perhaps some large terrestrial planet, completely deformed and cracked from the force of it, and a giant metal block with traces of Reaper metal melted into it, or something to that effect. I thought it would be an interesting way to expand on already-mysterious lore, and provide a really cool, unique location as well.

 

Thoughts?

[ArabianIGoggles]

The odds of it hitting something aimed at a reaper in Andromeda seems unlikely.

[Element Zero]

Who says the projectile "went straight through the reaper and continued"? I always figured it impacted the reaper, unleashed its considerable energy and was destroyed in the process. Does a codex entry I missed say otherwise?

This isn't a terrible idea, really, but I don't think they're looking for ways to tie the reapers into the new game. I don't think we will see much at all to tie them into the story, beyond any necessary explanation as to how and why we are now in Andromeda and what role, if any, the reapers played in that.

[Hammerstorm]

Would be fun if we find out that the reason that the remnants are destroyed is because the mass accelerator hit their home planet and they assumed it was one of the other races in Andromeda and started a galactic war.

 

MW races, starting war in other galaxies before it was cool. 

[Hanako Ikezawa]

So, in the first trilogy, we saw the impact valley on Klendagon, a giant glancing blow from a huge mass accelerator, and its intended target, the derelict Reaper. We the players never found the cannon, but since it was evidently destroyed when fired, that's not what I was curious about. I thought that in Andromeda, maybe we could find its impact site, seeing as the shot went straight through the Reaper and continued. Perhaps some large terrestrial planet, completely deformed and cracked from the force of it, and a giant metal block with traces of Reaper metal melted into it, or something to that effect. I thought it would be an interesting way to expand on already-mysterious lore, and provide a really cool, unique location as well.

 

Thoughts?

We already know where the impact site is: Klendagon. A glancing blow is a kind of impact. The Illusive Man even refers to it as an impact crater when telling us about it. 

[7twozero]

The odds of it hitting something aimed at a reaper in Andromeda seems unlikely.

Never tell me the odds

[ZipZap2000]

Who in the name of the maker named this planet anyway?

[TheJiveDJ]

Funny idea but too much for my suspension of disbelief.

[Element Zero]

Funny idea but too much for my suspension of disbelief.

Pretty much exactly my thought.

[yolobastien6412]

Isaac Newton is the deadliest sonofabitch in space

[iM3GTR]

Isaac Newton is the deadliest sonofabitch in space

"And that is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not 'eyeball' it! This is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy firing from the hip!"

[78stonewobble]

The odds of it hitting something aimed at a reaper in Andromeda seems unlikely.

 

I think the OP meant that it hit a reaper here... and then continued to Andromeda, but yeah... them odds still. 

[Sir Floopy]

Yeah, I had a feeling people would find it too unrealistic. And of course the odds are low. But then the odds of Shepard surviving as long as they did were also low... As I said, just an idea. And though it's been a while, I believe it was said that the shot went straight through the Reaper. It certainly looks like it. And if the Great Rift really was a glancing blow, I think it's possible that it kept a good bit of kinetic energy and continued to hit something else. And you all have raised a valid point about detaching the story from the Reapers; I hadn't thought about that.

[Jehuty]

Never tell me the odds

Bet you can't stick it.

[yolobastien6412]

The chances of it hitting something else in the Milky Way are much higher than hitting any Andromedan object. But the reason we call space space is because there's so much of it. That's why there will be almost no collisions between stars or planets when Andromeda and the Milky Way collide in many billion years.

[Kelwing]

Pretty sure Illusive man tells Shepard that the weapon had been found by Cerberus but was defunct. How much I believe that there was nothing to be learned from a defunct weapon I never trusted him about.

[Vespervin]

Bet you can't stick it.

You're on!

[LightningPoodle]

What if the shot actually came from Andromeda? It was fired at an enemy in Andromeda space, then travelled all the way to the Milky Way and by pure chance, destroyed a Reaper? I think that holds just as much weight as the reverse.

[KamuiStorm]

Did you know Santa claus is the strongest mutant ever to be recorded?

[KamuiStorm]

I think it would be interesting however it would dissipate before reaching andromeda, I mean &drama is pretty far so I am not sure it'd have enough acceleration or power to maintain such a journey

[xelander]

Never tell me the odds

The odds are one in a million and everybody knows that that happens about 7 out of 8 times...

[warlorejon]

Sort of like a bug always hitting u in the eye when on a bike

[Display Name Owner]

Honestly I wouldn't be able to shut out the voice in my head rambling about how astronomically tiny the odds of that projectile hitting a planet in another galaxy and us happening to find it would be.

[Silvery]

Honestly, I like the idea just take out the whole part involving the Reapers and the original trilogy. If it was some kind of super weapon that scarred a planet from a ancient battle/war in Andromeda that would be fine. Then maybe we could explore, it making for a unique location and instead get some kind of background into a past conflict that happened in Andromeda. 

[nanotm]

it could be that enough of the reaper was chucked off to form a becon (lot of their structure is made from nanaites after all) and the main reason for launching to andromeda is to investigate the reaper signal detected from there, the reaper was killed several million years previous and in theory it would of been possible for the chunk to travel there at near light speeds (generated from the mass effect rail gun used to shoot the reaper) the chunk of reaper could of made planet fall reformed into a working beacon and emitted the signal pulse,

 

that ties in the reason for charging head long with a military unit into an uncharted galaxy (probably on a one way mission) because should the reapers be outside the milkyway they would have to be found and killed ASAP, certainly that would tie the two halves of the franchise together and yet leave them separate enough that MEA could follow a totally different script and still be set several hundred years after the events of ME3 ...

 

but that's more back story than anything else and less important to the game than actually being playable with cool funky moves and jump packs and stuff.... we also would be needing a sleek new ship and cool androids like EDI on hand to help out preferably with a multi race crew and lots of big guns, not to mention a griping storyline for the explorers  to follow and hopefully funky new aliens to meet and make friends with along with of course some serious enemies