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[The One True Nobody]

Two galaxies, both of which probably developed intelligent organic life. One galaxy was being cultivated and harvested by the Reapers until a relatively recent point in time. The other was outside the Reapers' influence, either because they couldn't reach it or weren't inclined to go to the trouble. Now, we know that it was, in fact, the Reapers that kept the denizens of the Milky Way from reaching a point where they could travel to Andromeda...

 

...What may have kept whatever galactic civilizations evolved in Andromeda from travelling to the Milky Way? Did something go wrong, was galactic civilization nipped in the bud, or did it just end up being harder for them to progress without the Reapers' Mass Effect Relay network to lean on as a starter-crutch? Or is there some other fact to consider, such as perhaps another galaxy that was closer to Andromeda than the Milky Way?

 

Discuss.

[dreamgazer]

Fermi paradox.

But yeah, that'll need to be addressed. Maybe the Reapers harvested Andromeda, too.

[Remix-General Aetius]

There's more than the Milky Way & Andromeda in the universe. The possibilities are literally endless.

 

Seeing how it took the Reapers only a couple years at FTL speeds to reach the Milky Way after Sovereign got his candy bum walloped, and seeing how they can last for millennia.......draw your own conclusions.

[The One True Nobody]

Fermi paradox.

But yeah, that'll need to be addressed. Maybe the Reapers harvested Andromeda, too.

 

Doubtful, considering the Reapers were centralized in the Milky Way and were born of a species from that galaxy. Frequently going back and forth would be infeasible even for them. But if Andromeda ended up spawning something similar to the Reapers I'll laugh, both because it proves the Star Kid right and because it underlines how frickin' self-defeating the Star Kid's logic was.

[The One True Nobody]

Seeing how it took the Reapers only a couple years at FTL speeds to reach the Milky Way after Sovereign got his candy bum walloped,

 

From an unspecified distance away.

[The Dystopian Hound]

Two galaxies, both of which probably developed intelligent organic life. One galaxy was being cultivated and harvested by the Reapers until a relatively recent point in time. The other was outside the Reapers' influence, either because they couldn't reach it or weren't inclined to go to the trouble. Now, we know that it was, in fact, the Reapers that kept the denizens of the Milky Way from reaching a point where they could travel to Andromeda...

...What may have kept whatever galactic civilizations evolved in Andromeda from travelling to the Milky Way? Did something go wrong, was galactic civilization nipped in the bud, or did it just end up being harder for them to progress without the Reapers' Mass Effect Relay network to lean on as a starter-crutch? Or is there some other fact to consider, such as perhaps another galaxy that was closer to Andromeda than the Milky Way?

Discuss.

Well obviously we left before reaper because of endings so you can rule that out. That is they don't have canon ending. Probably don't though.

[Remix-General Aetius]

From an unspecified distance away.

 

"Dark space" is the empty region between galaxies, well beyond the Milky Way. So they were definitely not in it.

[dreamgazer]

Seriously, it seems inefficient to waste the rest of those 50k years doing nothing.

And the assumption that the Reapers just hibernate during that time is the equivalent of Prothean fan-fic.

[dreamgazer]

Doubtful, considering the Reapers were centralized in the Milky Way and were born of a species from that galaxy. Frequently going back and forth would be infeasible even for them.

Why? They have all the time in the world and boundless resources at their disposal.

[DMc1001]

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Doubtful, considering the Reapers were centralized in the Milky Way and were born of a species from that galaxy. Frequently going back and forth would be infeasible even for them. But if Andromeda ended up spawning something similar to the Reapers I'll laugh, both because it proves the Star Kid right and because it underlines how frickin' self-defeating the Star Kid's logic was.

Star Kid was wrong.  The geth didn't actually turn against their creators.  They were attacked by their creators.  Until Saren came along, they never bothered anyone. EDI, a unique synthetic, turned herself good (or, I suppose, could have).  That means she wouldn't have rebelled against humanity.

[TBSN]

http://www.gamespot....-/1100-6440719/

 

Several familiar alien species appeared in the video, including what looked like Asari and Krogan characters. Bioware described the game as having "more freedom than we've ever given players in a Bioware game" and featuring a brand new cast. The presentation described the main character as being tasked with travelling "millions of years" into the future, waking up in a new galaxy called Andromeda. A ship named Tempest also appeared, and a driving sequence reminiscent of the Mako was shown.

 

The trailer featured a female protagonist waking up in the ship; a first for a main trailer in the Mass Effect series, although a male main character will also be an option. Mass Effect: Andromeda will be released in early 2017 for Xbox One, PS4, and PC, after being delayed from it's original 2016 release date.

 

Fans of the series may have discovered that the protagonist of Andromeda will be called Rider. A dog-tag in the N7 Day trailer featured the word "RYDER" or "RIDER."

 

It is also speculated the main character could be named after Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. This would fit in with the naming of the original trilogy's protagonist, who was named Shepard after the first American man in space, Alan Shepard.

[dreamgazer]

... millions?

[The Dystopian Hound]

Seriously, it seems inefficient to waste the rest of those 50k years doing nothing.

And the assumption that the Reapers just hibernate during that time is the equivalent of Prothean fan-fic.

No reapers.did not harvest organic species of Andromeda. I wonder if they dealt with their synthetic problems or how.

[Remix-General Aetius]

http://www.gamespot....-/1100-6440719/

 

Several familiar alien species appeared in the video, including what looked like Asari and Krogan characters. Bioware described the game as having "more freedom than we've ever given players in a Bioware game" and featuring a brand new cast. The presentation described the main character as being tasked with travelling "millions of years" into the future, waking up in a new galaxy called Andromeda. A ship named Tempest also appeared, and a driving sequence reminiscent of the Mako was shown.

 

The trailer featured a female protagonist waking up in the ship; a first for a main trailer in the Mass Effect series, although a male main character will also be an option. Mass Effect: Andromeda will be released in early 2017 for Xbox One, PS4, and PC, after being delayed from it's original 2016 release date.

 

Fans of the series may have discovered that the protagonist of Andromeda will be called Rider. A dog-tag in the N7 Day trailer featured the word "RYDER" or "RIDER."

 

It is also speculated the main character could be named after Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. This would fit in with the naming of the original trilogy's protagonist, who was named Shepard after the first American man in space, Alan Shepard.

 

Gamespot are clickbait morons, they missed the Salarian and make up all kinds of junk to fill the article.

[dreamgazer]

No reapers.did not harvest organic species of Andromeda.

How do you know?

[Hanako Ikezawa]

... millions?

I think the writer of that article messed up. Bioware never said millions of years, they said millions of light years. 

[inko1nsiderate]

Well, first off, a bit of IRL astronomy: Andromeda is the closest largest galaxy to us, but at latest count there are (IIRC) a few hundred dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way.  These are far off, but closer than Andromeda (usually), but these places do not have very many stars (comparatively).  Anyway, as you can see in the wikipedia article on the Local Group, there are dwarf galaxies closer than Andromeda.  For instance Sagittarius is actually less than 100,000 Light years away from Earth (compared to ~ 2.5 million for Andromeda).  The Reapers probably hung at some of these dwarf galaxies.  Another possibility is, of course, there's something much worse than Reapers out there, and they were actually protecting us to some extent.

There could also be some nasty coincidences, since we are talking astronomy here.  There could be really nasty intergalactic objects near by places likely to develop habitable planets that really lowers the probability of intelligent live evolving simply from the roll of the dice.  

"This galaxy sucks, all the AGN jets point at the nice goldilocks planets"

[Hanako Ikezawa]

Well, first off, a bit of IRL astronomy: Andromeda is the closest largest galaxy to us, but at latest count there are (IIRC) a few hundred dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way.  These are far off, but closer than Andromeda (usually), but these places do not have very many stars (comparatively).  Anyway, as you can see in the wikipedia article on the Local Group, there are dwarf galaxies closer than Andromeda.  For instance Sagittarius is actually less than 100,000 Light years away from Earth (compared to ~ 2.5 million for Andromeda).  The Reapers probably hung at some of these dwarf galaxies.  Another possibility is, of course, there's something much worse than Reapers out there, and they were actually protecting us to some extent.

Not that many Dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way. There are around a dozen dwarf galaxies and two actual galaxies that orbit the Milky Way. There are 54 galaxies and dwarf galaxies in the Local Galactic Group. 

[LisuPL]

Here is the whole plot of Andromeda, fresh leak.

 

[Fogg]

Two galaxies, both of which probably developed intelligent organic life. One galaxy was being cultivated and harvested by the Reapers until a relatively recent point in time. The other was outside the Reapers' influence, either because they couldn't reach it or weren't inclined to go to the trouble. Now, we know that it was, in fact, the Reapers that kept the denizens of the Milky Way from reaching a point where they could travel to Andromeda...

 

...What may have kept whatever galactic civilizations evolved in Andromeda from travelling to the Milky Way? Did something go wrong, was galactic civilization nipped in the bud, or did it just end up being harder for them to progress without the Reapers' Mass Effect Relay network to lean on as a starter-crutch? Or is there some other fact to consider, such as perhaps another galaxy that was closer to Andromeda than the Milky Way?

 

Discuss.

 

 

Traveling to another galaxy is very uneconomical and probably only possible with reaper tech. The only reason we were able to travel beyond a few solar systems in our own galaxy, was because of the mass relays.