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[-Area51-Silent]

who's to say what tech could not be created? I think the fact that they do exist and are a lot of unknowns leaves a lot of development. New species, civilizations, enemies, dangers etc... would be a great way to expand on the universe!



I like to think that the devs could come up with somthing creative, say 100 years later from the Mass Effect Trilogy (ok so Liara, Grunt, possibly Wrex, and Samara arn't dead) with a fresh cast of characters? no takers?

[Skarwael]

CatatonicMan wrote...

Why bother traveling to another galaxy? Just wait for one to come to you.

Yeah, the Andromeda galaxy is going to collide with the Milky Way at some point in the distant future...

... thus rendering all human endeavour ultimately pointless.

[Lucazius]

Well, travel to other galaxies is WAY ahead of the technology available in the ME universe (at least to the organic species). Travel through the Milky Way is only possible thanks to the Mass Relays which are Reaper tech and no other species understand this tech well enough to expand their use (eg: building other mass relays).



Maybe the Reapers can travel to other galaxies, but I think there's a lot to be discovered in the Milky Way yet before thinking about a far far away galaxy.

[adam_grif]

If there was life in other galaxies, unless every galaxy has its own brand of reaper, they should have been here long ago. Even without FTL travel.

[marshalleck]

-Area51-Silent wrote...

who's to say what tech could not be created? I think the fact that they do exist and are a lot of unknowns leaves a lot of development. New species, civilizations, enemies, dangers etc... would be a great way to expand on the universe!

I like to think that the devs could come up with somthing creative, say 100 years later from the Mass Effect Trilogy (ok so Liara, Grunt, possibly Wrex, and Samara arn't dead) with a fresh cast of characters? no takers?

Of course the writers could just hand-wave something into existence. The question is would it be believable? 

There are billions of stars and trillions of people in the Milky Way. I hardly think it's lacking in possible avenues for adventure.

[Mondo_]

Mass Effect 4 should tackle this.

[Archilochos]

Computron2000 wrote...

How many people can comprehend a scope involving multiple galaxies. Not to mention when multi galactic races are involved, the technology might was well be magic as we would have no way of comprehending it. Galactic FTL is already mixing real science with much scientific placeholders.

*Raises hand*
I can.  It isn't really so hard; all you need to do is think of one galaxy, and add in the concept of "more." 

A multiple galaxy scope actually makes a lot of sense in ME.  The Reapers are already hanging out between galaxies, and have been around for at least 37 million years.  I would pretty much just assume they're operating in other galaxies as well, by now.  Shep + Co. traveling to and/or making contact with another galaxy seems very unlikely, but discovering evidence of/references to Reaper activity in other galaxies?  Sure, why not?  Multiple galaxy Reapers might also explain some of the (from the player's perspective) odd moves the Reapers have made.  They might see the "Milky Way problem" as a minor local resistance, not the potential all-out uprising players assume Shep is building up to.

[marshalleck]

Shepard defeats the Reapers for good, or forces them to disappear forever into some dark recess of the universe, leaving the relay network linking star systems and galaxies for organic species. Most importantly, this sets the stage for Galaxies of Mass Effect MMO <_<

Modifié par marshalleck, 22 février 2010 - 02:22 .

[-Area51-Silent]

It would and wouldn't. The reaper confrontation will bring out a ton of new ideas and information as to the technology that the reapers have. Perhaps the technologies and the ideas will takes hundreds if not thousands of years to understand.



Now, I am not saying unlock all the galaxies and allow players to go running all over the universe, I mean like one, the closest one to be exact. Perhaps the technology to do so exists within the reapers themselves, but maybe not, it is possible through better understanding of the universe that the species of the Milky Way are able to advance and explore the next galaxy over?



The other idea would be to have the contact between the Galaxies occur from the other galaxy, an exchange of some techonlogy perhaps?.



As far as an MMO is concerned I just don't think it would happen, or atleast not any time soon considering they are already going to release one. It wouldn't make sense for them to divide the people playing the MMO into two groups and kind of create a competition with themselves.

[Highdragonslayer]

I can imagine it, after the reaper threat is vanquished Shepard and his crew decide to travel to another galaxy with the salvaged reaper tech. They are succesful but then they crash land on a planet and are stranded. This planet doesn't show any signs of soverign life from what they have seen.



After a few years of living on this planet they surprisingly find another civilization. However this civilization doesn't have the technolodgy that Shepard does, but they can amazingly shoot the elements from their hands. So they ask the locals where the are, but the locals are freightened by the aliens in the crew calling them "darkspawn". Eventually they find out that these "darkspawn" are consuming the world and are compelled to help.



Mordin figures out through biologic expertise that the only way to defeat they're leader is to have a beacon target for that leader's contiousness to go to, however this destroys both the leader, and the killer. Shepard who is very old at this point volunteers, in order to save this galaxy from a much smaller threat than his last one. Out of respect his crew create the grey wardens to safegaurd this new galaxies civilization, to the beasts that would destroy it.

[XX55XX]

Highdragonslayer wrote...

I can imagine it, after the reaper threat is vanquished Shepard and his crew decide to travel to another galaxy with the salvaged reaper tech. They are succesful but then they crash land on a planet and are stranded. This planet doesn't show any signs of soverign life from what they have seen.

After a few years of living on this planet they surprisingly find another civilization. However this civilization doesn't have the technolodgy that Shepard does, but they can amazingly shoot the elements from their hands. So they ask the locals where the are, but the locals are freightened by the aliens in the crew calling them "darkspawn". Eventually they find out that these "darkspawn" are consuming the world and are compelled to help.

Mordin figures out through biologic expertise that the only way to defeat they're leader is to have a beacon target for that leader's contiousness to go to, however this destroys both the leader, and the killer. Shepard who is very old at this point volunteers, in order to save this galaxy from a much smaller threat than his last one. Out of respect his crew create the grey wardens to safegaurd this new galaxies civilization, to the beasts that would destroy it.

That sounds like a great tie-in.

[Cakebatyr]

Highdragonslayer wrote...

I can imagine it, after the reaper threat is vanquished Shepard and his crew decide to travel to another galaxy with the salvaged reaper tech. They are succesful but then they crash land on a planet and are stranded. This planet doesn't show any signs of soverign life from what they have seen.

After a few years of living on this planet they surprisingly find another civilization. However this civilization doesn't have the technolodgy that Shepard does, but they can amazingly shoot the elements from their hands. So they ask the locals where the are, but the locals are freightened by the aliens in the crew calling them "darkspawn". Eventually they find out that these "darkspawn" are consuming the world and are compelled to help.

Mordin figures out through biologic expertise that the only way to defeat they're leader is to have a beacon target for that leader's contiousness to go to, however this destroys both the leader, and the killer. Shepard who is very old at this point volunteers, in order to save this galaxy from a much smaller threat than his last one. Out of respect his crew create the grey wardens to safegaurd this new galaxies civilization, to the beasts that would destroy it.

Wouldn't Mordin be dead by the time this happened.?

[Highdragonslayer]

[/quote]Wouldn't Mordin be dead by the time this happened.?[/quote]

Reaper tech increased the galactic races lifespawn to infinite, however Shepard had a deadly disease administered to him as a last act of defiance from the reapers so he can't benefit from their tech. So now Shepard's old crew toghether safe gaurd Thedas from the darkspawn.

Modifié par Highdragonslayer, 22 février 2010 - 02:52 .

[Skarwael]

Highdragonslayer wrote...

I can imagine it, after the reaper threat is vanquished Shepard and his crew decide to travel to another galaxy with the salvaged reaper tech. They are succesful but then they crash land on a planet and are stranded. This planet doesn't show any signs of soverign life from what they have seen.

After a few years of living on this planet they surprisingly find another civilization. However this civilization doesn't have the technolodgy that Shepard does, but they can amazingly shoot the elements from their hands. So they ask the locals where the are, but the locals are freightened by the aliens in the crew calling them "darkspawn". Eventually they find out that these "darkspawn" are consuming the world and are compelled to help.

Mordin figures out through biologic expertise that the only way to defeat they're leader is to have a beacon target for that leader's contiousness to go to, however this destroys both the leader, and the killer. Shepard who is very old at this point volunteers, in order to save this galaxy from a much smaller threat than his last one. Out of respect his crew create the grey wardens to safegaurd this new galaxies civilization, to the beasts that would destroy it.

Does not compute.

Error. Error.

*Head explodes*

[Archilochos]

XX55XX wrote...

Highdragonslayer wrote...

I can imagine it, after the reaper threat is vanquished Shepard and his crew decide to travel to another galaxy with the salvaged reaper tech. They are succesful but then they crash land on a planet and are stranded. This planet doesn't show any signs of soverign life from what they have seen.

After a few years of living on this planet they surprisingly find another civilization. However this civilization doesn't have the technolodgy that Shepard does, but they can amazingly shoot the elements from their hands. So they ask the locals where the are, but the locals are freightened by the aliens in the crew calling them "darkspawn". Eventually they find out that these "darkspawn" are consuming the world and are compelled to help.

Mordin figures out through biologic expertise that the only way to defeat they're leader is to have a beacon target for that leader's contiousness to go to, however this destroys both the leader, and the killer. Shepard who is very old at this point volunteers, in order to save this galaxy from a much smaller threat than his last one. Out of respect his crew create the grey wardens to safegaurd this new galaxies civilization, to the beasts that would destroy it.

That sounds like a great tie-in.

Don't.  Tempt.  Fate.

[Skarwael]

Duncan's last name is Shepard.

[Highdragonslayer]

Skarwael wrote...

Duncan's last name is Shepard.

Yea he's a long line of descandents of shepard and miranda. Genetically perfect and awesome come toghether.

[XX55XX]

Honestly, I think that a tie-in between Mass Effect and Dragon Age is an excellent idea. Imagine the possibilities...

[ladyshara]

I wondered about this during the final scene of the game. The reapers are just floating around out there with all those other galaxies. Wondered if the milky way is the first/only one they've messed with.



Might be neat to explore it. Or might just be waaaay too big.

[Zhijn]

They outta curl a bunch of asari's onto a cruiser and just ship it off to another galaxy!. =d

[cutthecameras]

I had a dream about this just last night. My girlfriend was playing ME2 and she discovered a way to land on any planet, like there was an option for a "non-N7 landing" or something ridiculous like that. Also she figured out how to travel to other galaxies.



I was so angry with her for discovering all this without me...then I woke up.

[Highdragonslayer]

XX55XX wrote...

Honestly, I think that a tie-in between Mass Effect and Dragon Age is an excellent idea. Imagine the possibilities...

/wadeon Think of the possibilities! /wadeoff

[Saberwolf116]

This will never happen, for several reasons:



First, the Prothean Mass Relay technology is what makes FTL speed possible. As the Protheans never incorporated other galaxies into their civilization, there would be no discharge points between galaxies, and thus, no way to travel between them.



Second, there is no need to. As galactic species have only discovered 1% of the galaxy, there's no shortage of resources, and the amount of time it would take to discover the entire galaxy is massive.



Finally, it would take thousands of years (if not more) to build Mass Relays to link to other galaxies.

[Computron2000]

Archilochos wrote...
*Raises hand*
I can.  It isn't really so hard; all you need to do is think of one galaxy, and add in the concept of "more." 

That is a solution if you're not at ME2's level of star systems and planets, ie, star systems=ME2's planets and galaxies = ME2's star systems

Given the milky way has ~200 billion stars and lets say a very low ratio of 1% have planets = 2 billion stars with planets. Lets say 1% of those are within the habitable zone (not too hot, cold, etc) = 20 million  inhabitable star systems. Lets say 1% of those are inhabitable with minimal terraforming (got water, air, etc) = 200, 0000 star systems you can colonize. Then we add in the other bilion galaxies so we get about 200 trillion star systems you can colonize. Kind of out of our of current capabilities

Then there's the distance involved. Any tech capable of bridging galactic distances would make intra galactic travel trival. Mindsets would change. The other end of the galaxy would probably be equal to a short plane ride. The next star system would be the equivalent of a 3 minute walk. Travel on planet would be equal to instantaneous teleportation. Information would be instantaneous. Everything would most like be done by AI as organics cannot process user queries, phone calls, etc at sufficient speed. Alternately, everyone would be a cyborg. Shortages/disasters would not happen since you can teleport to the other side of the planet or spend a few minutes getting food/water/energy from the star system 3 stars down the block. Many other things would change so much that we would not be able to identify with it.

At this stage we would be a class 3 civilization on the Kardashev scale possibly even be living in Dyson spheres (which would look bloody wierd to us now)

Modifié par Computron2000, 22 février 2010 - 03:33 .

[PARAGON87]

In a couple billion years, the Milky Way and Andromeda are set to collide, so there's your extragalactic colonization right there!