VAULTS | Their real purpose. Your thoughts?
I was mulling over this idea – surely, most likely wasting my time with it – of the purpose of a Vault.
The story we have is:
Long range scanners identified potential worlds, 600 years back. ...
Forum Discussion
@ensiform wrote:
Has nobody hypothesized that maybe just maybe the scans were wrong all along? I mean we did get the scan data from Geth tech or some Geth thing, right?
The whole concept of the long range scans hurts my brain deeply, I know there was one npc that talked about it, but I'm drawing a blank at the moment. Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away, unless there is some means of scanning that manages to gather information at Faster than Light speeds, it just doesn't make sense.
I do understand the concept of faster than light travel, the ship itself distorts space around it, but that represents a piece of hardware actually going somewhere, you can't just distort a window across that much space to take a peek, and just for the sake of arguement that they could, they wouldn't be able to start gathering infomation until their sensing ability travelled the distance to Andromeda, and then pinged back to the sensor unit. If the FTL sensors could sense as fast as nexus could travel, they still would have needed 1200 years before the sensors picked anything up.
I'm still scratching my head about the whole "When we looked at it just 600 years ago" part, whatever information they were receiving "the old fashion way" via light (and every other form of electromagnetic wave length) back in the milkyway was 2.5 million years old.
@Pixeldance wrote:
@ensiform wrote:
Has nobody hypothesized that maybe just maybe the scans were wrong all along? I mean we did get the scan data from Geth tech or some Geth thing, right?
The whole concept of the long range scans hurts my brain deeply, I know there was one npc that talked about it, but I'm drawing a blank at the moment. Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away, unless there is some means of scanning that manages to gather information at Faster than Light speeds, it just doesn't make sense.I do understand the concept of faster than light travel, the ship itself distorts space around it, but that represents a piece of hardware actually going somewhere, you can't just distort a window across that much space to take a peek, and just for the sake of arguement that they could, they wouldn't be able to start gathering infomation until their sensing ability travelled the distance to Andromeda, and then pinged back to the sensor unit. If the FTL sensors could sense as fast as nexus could travel, they still would have needed 1200 years before the sensors picked anything up.
I'm still scratching my head about the whole "When we looked at it just 600 years ago" part, whatever information they were receiving "the old fashion way" via light (and every other form of electromagnetic wave length) back in the milkyway was 2.5 million years old.
The Geth made their longe range scanner from a converted Mass Relay, althoug they never say how it works or how the scanner actually works or how the Initiative actually got the scans from the Geth in the first place. Seeing as the Perseus Veil blocks all scans, meaning that someone would have had to go through the Veil and take the the scan results from whatever Geth server they are on..
Not to mention the people who stole the Andromeda scans from the Geth would have needed some sort of ship stealth system and if the cannon hasn't been retconned, the Normandy is the first ship to use stealth systems (but the Normandy wasn't finished until 2183 and the push to Andromeda started in 2176)
