Arrival conflicting information?
so i was replaying arrival dlc for me 2 and according to the quest npc destroying a mass relay will wipe out everyone in the system it's located ... wait what every mass relay was destroyed at th...
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No, it doesn't.
What she describes is the consequence of a brute outside force attack that eventually detonates the mass effect core, while the catastrophic events in ME:3 let the Mass Relays 'overload' from within which simply damages renders them inoperative them.
100s of civilisations over the millions of years designing the Crucible might have considered the potential destructive power ...
Exept from what she's saying what destroyed the solar system was the stored energy in a mass relay not the brute attack thus by logic any destruction of a relay would result in the same shockwave destroying every single major race homeworld including earth only colonies located away from the mass relays would survive
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@ViViD_Prime wrote:Exept from what she's saying what destroyed the solar system was the stored energy in a mass relay not the brute attack thus by logic any destruction of a relay would result in the same shockwave destroying every single major race homeworld including earth only colonies located away from the mass relays would survive
The 'stored energy' in a mass relay was used up to destroy Reapers, Geth, EDI and every other Synthetic AI thread (or for merging all organic life with synthetic life). I understand the overload of the relays as a more controlled process than a crude detonation. No problem here for me.
The real writing trickery is that no-one in 500 million years or so should have come up with a similiar idea to accelerate an asteroid ...
There is some poor writing in other parts that bother me more which is less about space physics, whatever mechanics etc.
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