drunken pyromaniac wrote...
Nivenus wrote...
How would that work exactly? Mines are detectable and therefore easily destructible. Besides, the seismic force which is the main cause of death from bombs wouldn't work in space, where there's no atmosphere.
Besides, just going through the relay was the suicide mission. Actually boarding the Collector base is pretty much taking it up to 11.
This is a sci-fi setting. They have spaceships that can cross the galaxy and magic (however much they insist it's not). I imagine they could come up with mines that work in space. Plus, if all else fails you could simply blow up the relay itself and strand the collectors in their safe pocket within the galactic core.
Oh,
come on. In spite of some serious lapses in the cinematics and the obvious exception for element zero and mass effect fields, BioWare has made a concerted effort to make the physics of Mass Effect pretty believable. The Codex (and in-game dialogue) even pretty much makes the no atmosphere rule a pretty big deal in regards to combat.
The latter point also misses the fact that the collectors could easily build a new relay given that they work for the Reapers.
Wiping them out's the only way to be sure.
Either way, it'd still be a suicide mission.