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[dreamgazer]

An interview with Aaryn Flynn and Mac Walters over at Glixel yielded this nugget of information:
 

Is it significant that you're alone in the trailer? Should we infer anything from that? Is everyone dead?

Walters: I think you can infer that the voyage and the effort to do this is not a task that anyone would've taken lightly. If you think about a process where you go to sleep and then 600 years later you wake up, but for you no time has passed, the last thing you'd think before you go to sleep is "are we going to make it? Am I going to survive this? Will the ship just implode somewhere along the way? So we actually wanted to capture that moment of "oh my god, we're here!" That's really where this story begins.

[TheJediSaint]

That's pretty good time, considering the distance traversed.

[The Dystopian Hound]

Interesting.

[In Exile]

Can we not have a spoiler in the title? Obviously it's too late for me, and obviously this is comically minor in terms of reveals, but I'd rather not have to start avoiding this forum out of a concern an actual spoiler will be in a thread title...

[Sylvius the Mad]

I wouldn't have jumped to that conclusion. Walters might have been using that number simply for illustrative purposes.

[SmilesJA]

Wow 600 years..... I wonder how the people in the ark will take it?

[Element Zero]

That was the prize nugget (possibly) of a good interview. If the 600 years time frame ends up being true-to-plot, and it seems almost too random to be otherwise, then that all but eliminates the "Reaper tech" theories I keep seeing pop up.

I honestly expect whatever story they come up with to justify the trip to Andromeda to be a bit weak. They're in a bit of a jam, after all. As long as the story is great once we arrive, I'll be happy.

[rapscallioness]

600 years? Wow.

[dreamgazer]

Can we not have a spoiler in the title? Obviously it's too late for me, and obviously this is comically minor in terms of reveals, but I'd rather not have to start avoiding this forum out of a concern an actual spoiler will be in a thread title...

Well, they have already previously confirmed that it was far in the future. This just puts a dollar figure on it, and it did come from an interview.

I'll see what I can do about having the title tweaked, though.

[rapscallioness]

Wow 600 years..... I wonder how the people in the ark will take it?

 

They'll know beforehand, I assume?

[Element Zero]

Wow 600 years..... I wonder how the people in the ark will take it?

They'll take it lying down. Asleep. In their pods.

[The Dystopian Hound]

2785 huh? Oh my!! They'll be in for a surprise.

[KotorEffect3]

wow,  now I am curious about how much the Milky Way has changed

[TheJediSaint]

wow,  now I am curious about how much the Milky Way has changed

From the point of view the Ark? About 2.5 million years younger. Speed of Light and all that.

[samagent]

Can we not have a spoiler in the title? Obviously it's too late for me, and obviously this is comically minor in terms of reveals, but I'd rather not have to start avoiding this forum out of a concern an actual spoiler will be in a thread title...

Why are you reading the forums then?

[Element Zero]

Why are you reading the forums then?

A lot of people go into "Media Blackout Mode" shortly before release. In Exile was basically expressing concern that the time might arrive much sooner than expected, if real spoilers start popping up in thread titles.

[SomethingUsername]

I hope the game dedicates some time to how the characters will feel about suddenly waking up after so much time has passed. It would definitely mess with your head a bit.  

[AlanC9]

Interesting. 600 years is something like the travel time you'd get with an ordinary mass effect drive if you didn't have to worry about fuel and drive discharge, isn't it?

[LightningPoodle]

That might have just been a number he threw out there to support what he's saying. 600 years is a lot, lot longer than 6. Now if it is indeed 600 years in the future, I'm not sure what good that knowledge will be. We aren't going back to see what has changed. It's rather useless to know actually. I'd be happy with a new time setting, accommodating to what the Andromedans use.

[Element Zero]

I hope the game dedicates some time to how the characters will feel about suddenly waking up after so much time has passed. It would definitely mess with your head a bit.

They may. If you read the interview, this was pretty much the context of Mac's "600 years" comment.

[rapscallioness]

I mean, I'm assuming the occupants would know the length of the trip beforehand. But that's also assuming nothing went wrong--that the trip was supposed to take 600 years.

 

What if...this particular Ark went astray, or something for a century, or two. Good lord, I hope everyone else on your Ark isn't dead. However, if something went wrong somehow. Maybe those colony buildings in the trailer have been set up already.  Who knows what you could be walking into. They might have thought you were all dead.

 

Now here you come..a ghost, Ryder.

 

Although, Idk how that would work with your sibling apparently still kicking about. Unless time worked differently for them once they arrived than for you while you were still out and about in space somewhere.

 

/speculation

[rapscallioness]

I hope the game dedicates some time to how the characters will feel about suddenly waking up after so much time has passed. It would definitely mess with your head a bit.  

 

Idk because for them no time has passed, and they have no "markers" to compare before and after. Like if they went to sleep for 600 years and then returned to the MW. It would be overwhelming.

[rapscallioness]

They may. If you read the interview, this was pretty much the context of Mac's "600 years" comment.

 

 

Was it now? I didn't read the interview.

 

Hmm, cool then.

[Element Zero]

I mean, I'm assuming the occupants would know the length of the trip beforehand. But that's also assuming nothing went wrong--that the trip was supposed to take 600 years.
 
What if...this particular Ark went astray, or something for a century, or two. Good lord, I hope everyone else on your Ark isn't dead. However, if something went wrong somehow. Maybe those colony buildings in the trailer have been set up already.  Who knows what you could be walking into. They might have thought you were all dead.
 
Now here you come..a ghost, Ryder.
 
Although, Idk how that would work with your sibling apparently still kicking about. Unless time worked differently for them once they arrived than for you while you were still out and about in space somewhere.
 
/speculation

Interesting ideas. Time dilation is one major issue of FTL travel with which they've never chosen to wrangle (for good reason, to this point).

It is hard to imagine, though, how one Arrk, traveling at FTL speed and presumably guided by some VI, could get so badly off course and ever hope to catch up or "course correct". I suspect we will arrive just fine, more or less, with more than enough drama post-voyage.

[Fogg]

All the Blasto movies they've missed..