Re: Arks as Relays...possible?

Well guess there's only 2 ways the story could progress with regards to the milky way, it's either:

1)  Bioware already mentioned that they wanted to make MEA separate from the trilogy, if they hold true to their intentions, then the Quarian Ark would probably be the last thing from the milky way that we will see.  Anything after that Bioware will need to commit to a canon ME ending.

2)  Bioware needs to bring back Milky way elements for whatever reasons(needing to boost sales?  needing to damage control and recover from poorer MEA ratings?), then they will need to sort out a canon ending for the ME trilogy(there are a total of 10 possible endings for ME3, redx3 outcomes(depending on war assets), bluex3outcomes and greenx3outcomes+ shooting the catalyst(cycle continues).  Then possibly one of the ways they can do this is the ark as mass relays theory, Quantum Entanglement etc.

Hmm, I guess I'm not really seeing why the endings would matter anyway because the timeline veers off beforehand. So whatever happens after they left doesn't really matter storywise but lore wise they would probably figure that the reapers came and your ending of choice occurs. Changing the arks into relays could even be an afterthought; sort of a "since we had the technology in the MW, we could do something like that for the Andromeda galaxy to get around". 

Although the risk it would pose bringing such technology along and it got stolen, or even dominated by any unfriendly civilization. It would not be safe for MW either.

True that. Although I guess the same could be said for SAM considering how that turned out. (And I still think something ominous could happen with SAM and the remnant in the next game; especially when the Quarians show up).

personally i think nothing will happen with sam there are enough threats already without making an ai the villian again

I think it's more probable that they will find some kind of remnant tech that allows for faster travel.

Either some kind of relay like thing or faster / better ship drives that they manage to adapt to our ships.

They aren't going to force a canon ME3 ending- it just won't happen. It would create too much of a *-storm for starters which would be more detrimental to the games than anything else they could do to them.

If,  I stress if, because I don’t think it will ever happen. If the milky way is ever revisited, they will either find a way to adapt all possible endings (even the cycle continues - could have been hidden pockets of milkyway species to return after the reapers are gone) or, they will do some kind of alternate universe.

600 years into the future - Sheps dead anyways no matter what ending you picked. The others could have died too for any number of reasons even the long lived species. It'd only take a question to the player about what ending they picked and a line or two of dialogue to sort it.

Our games now tho are andromeda and I expect the further into andromeda we get the more disconnected we will be from the milkyway.

I think so too, Nykara. I wouldn't think they'd want to revisit the blowup that happened after ME:3.

Remnant tech for faster travel for something like relays (or even some Angara tech, even) would be kind of cool though.

Well, the jardaan afforded retreating from the cluster to return later on. It makes us wonder if they have no issues with time or with technology to travel far away, or even break through dimensions. They probably have top-notch mobility.

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@Nykara360 wrote:

I think it's more probable that they will find some kind of remnant tech that allows for faster travel.

Either some kind of relay like thing or faster / better ship drives that they manage to adapt to our ships.

They aren't going to force a canon ME3 ending- it just won't happen. It would create too much of a *-storm for starters which would be more detrimental to the games than anything else they could do to them.

If,  I stress if, because I don’t think it will ever happen. If the milky way is ever revisited, they will either find a way to adapt all possible endings (even the cycle continues - could have been hidden pockets of milkyway species to return after the reapers are gone) or, they will do some kind of alternate universe.

600 years into the future - Sheps dead anyways no matter what ending you picked. The others could have died too for any number of reasons even the long lived species. It'd only take a question to the player about what ending they picked and a line or two of dialogue to sort it.

Our games now tho are andromeda and I expect the further into andromeda we get the more disconnected we will be from the milkyway.

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Not saying it is impossible, just saying that if the Reapers have successfully pulled off annihilation for millennia it will be a little hokey that they didn't spend a little extra time dotting I's and crossing T's this time since they know they missed Leviathan and came so close to not winning the cycle.

The whole point of Andromeda is to pick up enough of the Milky Way and plop it down somewhere else so they don't have to deal with the ending.

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@PandaTar wrote:

Well, the jardaan afforded retreating from the cluster to return later on. It makes us wonder if they have no issues with time or with technology to travel far away, or even break through dimensions. They probably have top-notch mobility.

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Did they leave though? IIRC, all we found out is that the city was sacrificed to save Meridian, and supposedly both are currently Jardaan-free, we assume. They could still be there, elsewhere in the cluster, or the cluster's branch of the race may be dead

This discussion is actually starting to give me a Stargate: Atlantis vibe. Ergo, if we want to get a relay back to the Milky Way we will have to charge up the Zed-PMs disguised as Remnant data cores

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@fudgietroll wrote:

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Did they leave though?

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Dunno. I don't recall the exact things they said. But I do think they said something about 'returning', so they had to go somewhere. Perhaps they used that black-hole to travel somewhere. Or got the flu and died.

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@PandaTar wrote:

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@fudgietroll wrote:

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Did they leave though?

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Dunno. I don't recall the exact things they said. But I do think they said something about 'returning', so they had to go somewhere. Perhaps they used that black-hole to travel somewhere. Or got the flu and died.

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And now we have a major threat for ME:A2

For Quarians, that was ever a major threat. ^_^

No, Quarians are immune to an disease. They're just allergic to the world😉