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[xAngelicSniperx]

I was just listening to Tali's soundtrack song and looking through the comments when I saw an interesting comment. Someone suggested that the the Dholen's interior is changing so fast is because the Reaper's are changing it. I did some digging and began formulating some crazy ideas. 

Okay for starters Eezo, or element zero, is needed to produce faster-then-light space travel. Eezo is generated when solid matter is affected by the energy of a star going supernova. Alright now think of this, Shepard stopped Sovereign from opening the Citadel for the other Reapers. Because of that, the Citadel can no longer be used as a portal for Reapers coming from dark space. What if the Reapers are somehow manipulating Dholen to go supernova and release massive amounts of Eezo opening a corridor to dark space? With the massive amount of eezo released, a large enough mass effect field with low enough mass, like what a relay allows, could allow the Reapers to come through. This could also possibly explain the large amount of Geth platforms being built on Haestrom. There the Heretics Legion speaks of, who are following the Reapers and who specifically followed Sovereign, could be massing to assist the Reapers when they come through the corridor. 

If your questioning my reasoning just go look up everything in the Mass Effect wiki. I probably didn't do a amazing job of explaining it so to sum it up, the Reapers are going to create a mass effect field, the kind relays produce, by blowing up Dholen! I can't believe it but this seriously sound reasonable. Think of the multiple times the game referenced dark energy and Dholen. It may be Bioware's way of hinting at what's going to happen. 


Comments are welcome. Oh and this was my first topic post so tell me if I should add or change stuff!

[binaryemperor]

I think this was theorized before. You've explained it better than I can remember, but I think this was the gist of most of the theories.

[DeathByWoodchipper]

I don't think a mass relay can be emulated simply by releasing a large amount of Eezo. Plus, supernovae occur every day and you don't see the Reapers manipulating them.

[Jedi Sensei]

The star has been prematurely dying for over 300 years. If it is a 'back-up' to the Citadel plan, Sovereign would have had to have known of the Keeper's failure three centuries before ME1....a possibility, but a remote one.



Alternatively, the Reapers are constantly killing stars "just in case"...again, possible but far-fetched.

[xAngelicSniperx]

Not necessarily making another mass relay, but opening a direct channel to Dark space. All the relays are are channels with extremely low mass, thus making travel light years faster, FTL. The reason they are using it is because the Citadel, which was their way of coming and going before, was screwed up by Shepard so they can't use it. They need another way.

[Jon Phoenix]

Only for that to work they would need to do it at both ends. So unless they are in another galaxy (rather than dark space) doing the same thing there they won't be able to initiate the process. Mass Relays are all point to point.

[xAngelicSniperx]

The Geth on Haestrom.

[Jedi Sensei]

xAngelicSniperx wrote...
The reason they are using it is because the Citadel, which was their way of coming and going before, was screwed up by Shepard so they can't use it. They need another way.

But, as I pointed out above, the Reapers could not have CAUSED Dholen to go supernova as a RESPONSE to Shepard's victory for the simple fact that Dholen was going supernova at least three centuries before Shepard was even born.

"Before the geth revolt 300 years ago, the quarians colonized Haestrom to study the mysterious instability of its sun, which threatened premature eruption into a red giant." [In-game Codex exceprt]
http://masseffect.wi...m/wiki/Haestrom

However, the Reapers' Citadel trap didn't fail because of Shepard: it failed because of the Protheans who altered the Keepers.  It is possible, therefore, that Sovereign attempted to start-up the Citadel Relay loooong before the events of ME1 and discovered that the Keepers were not responding.  Sovereign may have then started-up the Dholen 'back-up' plan "just in case" he couldn't get to the bottom of the failure and open the Relay sometime in the next few thousand years....but that seems like a real stretch, don't you think?

Modifié par Jedi Sensei, 17 mars 2010 - 07:27 .

[philiposophy]

Jedi Sensei wrote...
It is possible, therefore, that Sovereign attempted to start-up the Citadel Relay loooong before the events of ME1 and discovered that the Keepers were not responding.  Sovereign may have then started-up the Dholen 'back-up' plan "just in case" he couldn't get to the bottom of the failure and open the Relay sometime in the next few thousand years....but that seems like a real stretch, don't you think?

For what it's worth, Sovereign is a real planner. ME2 confirmed that the Rachni wars were Sovereign's doing, which were, what, 2000 years before the events of the game? Meaning that Sovereign spent a few thousand years setting events in motion to let his pals through, using different strategies (Saren and the Conduit are far more subtle than the Rachni). Given how he (it?) likes to control things from behind the scenes and plan in advance (the attack on the Citadel in the manner it took place was Sovereign's last throw of the dice, because Shepard was on Saren's trail), it isn't too much of a stretch that Sovereign would have set up another contingency. ME3 will tell all...