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[Fredward]

So what's running the ships during this time? Cuz 600 years is a lot of wear and tear. There would have to be farms for the time period between finding a workable planet and establishing crops on it. Complex VI with Asari custodians? Adapted EDI AI?

[Fogg]

So what's running the ships during this time? Cuz 600 years is a lot of wear and tear. There would have to be farms for the time period between finding a workable planet and establishing crops on it. Complex VI with Asari custodians? Adapted EDI AI?

 

Virtual Intelligence?

[Wulfram]

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.

It'd be pretty hard to get lost on the voyage to andromeda, since you're basically go straight through an empty void.

But you could easily have a minor fault in your engines knock a little off your acceleration, or force you to stop and fix it

[Wulfram]

So what's running the ships during this time? Cuz 600 years is a lot of wear and tear. There would have to be farms for the time period between finding a workable planet and establishing crops on it. Complex VI with Asari custodians? Adapted EDI AI?

You could always have some people who'll wake up every 10 years for a week or so to check on things and carry out maintenance. And they could be woken up to deal with emergencies too.

[Fredward]

Virtual Intelligence?

 

Yeah.

[shepskisaac]

If it's indeed 600 years then it's pretty much confirmed they're going at standard 12 ly/day speed, no Reaper/Collector tech involved.

 

Distance to Andromeda - 2.54 million light years

time to travel at 12 ly/day - 579.9 years

[Fredward]

You could always have some people who'll wake up every 10 years for a week or so to check on things and carry out maintenance. And they could be woken up to deal with emergencies too.

 

Yeah, that'd work too. Reminds me of the Silo series.
 

[Fogg]

Some Asari could've stayed awake to keep an eye on things. Would be a waste of half their lifes, but still.

[shepskisaac]

Some Asari could've stayed awake to keep an eye on things. Would be a waste of half their lifes, but still.

It's definitely possible some personell might have been routinely woken up to check up on all the systems, VIs etc. But continuously awake is problematic and would require packing tons of food, water etc

[Fogg]

It's definitely possible some personell might have been routinely woken up to check up on all the systems, VIs etc. But continuously awake is problematic and would require packing tons of food, water etc

 

They'd be awake to tend to the farms and water supplies in the Ark

[shepskisaac]

They'd be awake to tend to the farms and water supplies in the Ark

I guess. Could make for an interesting backstory for some characters who had to live for those 600 years while others were just chilling and felt like 5 seconds journey

[Fogg]

I guess. Could make for an interesting backstory for some characters who had to live for those 600 years while others were just chilling and felt like 5 seconds journey

 

In Star Trek and Interstellar you have a scene of someone being alive for years, while the main crew was somewhere where that same time only felt like minutes/hours/days. They always go crazy.

[Norhik Krios]

In an interview with playstation access, a developer was asked for the time in the future, he said he can't tell, the interviewer asked "maybeee 400 years?" and the developer said something along the lines of "that's pretty good, not a bad guess", so I'd say 500 years seem realistic.

Edit: At around 2:00 ->

[Ahriman]

Some Asari could've stayed awake to keep an eye on things. Would be a waste of half their lifes, but still.

Problem with asari is that if you lock a dozen of them together, there will be two dozens in the end of the journey.

Still considering their lifespan they'd be best candidates for 24/7 maintenance during such trip. Krogans would make things brake more, not less.

[Stormy]

And, on a positive note... Oh, my head-canon begins!  Can't wait to get started... unless their back-story is better than my Imagination!  LOL

[Probe Away]

Damn, I read the title and thought you'd heard something about 'when' the ark left the Milky Way.

I think they had already said that the trip would take hundreds of years so the 600 year figure isn't a shock.

[NRieh]

 

If it's indeed 600 years then it's pretty much confirmed they're going at standard 12 ly/day speed, no Reaper/Collector tech involved.

Fuel, discharging the hull and overall durability are still questionable. We know that some quarian ships were really old, but going on for 600 years?..

[laudable11]

Hmm, 600 years. If that's the case Liara and Grunt are alive. I like knowing that.

[Iakus]

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

"I have to pee SO BAD!!!"

[DextroDNA]

So the year is 2783-2786?

 

Even though it's not really relevant, I wonder how much society and technology would have developed in the Milky Way 600 years after the end of the Reaper War...

[DextroDNA]

So what's running the ships during this time? Cuz 600 years is a lot of wear and tear. There would have to be farms for the time period between finding a workable planet and establishing crops on it. Complex VI with Asari custodians? Adapted EDI AI?

A copy of the Shepard VI installed on every ARK ship! Or Avina, at least

[Element Zero]

It'd be pretty hard to get lost on the voyage to andromeda, since you're basically go straight through an empty void.But you could easily have a minor fault in your engines knock a little off your acceleration, or force you to stop and fix it

Exactly my thought process. I think an complications on the way there would be needless plot clutter.

The real story happens in Andromeda. We will fall asleep, wake up, and the real story will begin.

[Majestic Jazz]

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...

You should be good for now. The real meat and potatoes will not come until sometime this fall, most likely November. That would be the time and jump ship to avoid these forums. I thought I might have had to do that during E3 2016, but Bioware remains silent on MEA which I am all for.

[Kabooooom]

I posted this earlier in another thread, said I didn't think it warranted its own thread, lol. It also proves they aren't using Reaper tech to get there. 600 years is 11.4 ly/day, about the canon FTL speed for your average ship.

[Monk]

A copy of the Shepard VI installed on every ARK ship! Or Avina, at least

 

"Finally, you're up! We have a galaxy to save." 'Did she really sound like that?'