Very important question
Andromeda Initiative launched in late 2185, and Mass Effect 3 ended around the middle\late 2186. As far as we know, almost all endings includes the explode of relays. If we assume that the time inter...
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You're making three dangerous assumptions:
1: That the Crucible managed to get constructed at all.
2: That Shepard survived long enough to activate it.
3: That SAM is based on Reaper code.
You'll note that ME:A has no option for importing a ME3 save, right? In previous ME games where you don't import a save, the game starts from a position of implied incompetence on Shepard's part: ME2 assumes no speech checks in ME1 were passed and no sidequests were completed, so Wrex is dead, for instance. The Rachni Queen is dead, the Asari taken by the Thorian is dead, the Council died on the Destiny Ascension, etc. ME3 assumes the same for ME2. No loyalty missions completed. Kasumi and Zaeed not recruited, Grunt never woken up, Tali exiled from the Migrant Fleet, Samara and Thane dead, etc.
It's reasonable to assume that Bioware's approach for the canonical ending is either a low EMS destroy ending, provided Shepard survived, or that Shepard died and the Crucible was never activated.
#3 specifically addresses the Destroy ending canonically killing EDI and the Geth. It wasn't simply that they were synthetic life, it was that both EDI and the Geth, by that point, were using Reaper code. There's nothing in ME:A that suggests that SAM also uses Reaper code.
Pyrion, you are not right about "Destoy ending". This ending destroys all Reapers and all AI in Milky Way, the dialogue with the Catalyst made this thing absolutly clear.
- @farrago
If it killed ALL AI then how did energy wave tell the difference between a ships main computer and an AI? How did it kill the Geth, which were software and if chosen right able to operate inside Quarian biosuites? Sorry, destroy went after Reaper hardware which is why reapers, Edi, and somehow Geth died, but all the ships and computers required to run them were ok.
As far as energy wave goes, physics states it will travel speed of light, unless you handwave magic waves somehow going faster.... Everywhere getting hit is easily explained by unknown locked relays and still maintains a semi science base. But hey if you want to handwave faster than light energy waves then just handwave the Arcs outrunning them because and let it go.
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@farrago
If it killed ALL AI then how did energy wave tell the difference between a ships main computer and an AI? How did it kill the Geth, which were software and if chosen right able to operate inside Quarian biosuites? Sorry, destroy went after Reaper hardware which is why reapers, Edi, and somehow Geth died, but all the ships and computers required to run them were ok.
As far as energy wave goes, physics states it will travel speed of light, unless you handwave magic waves somehow going faster.... Everywhere getting hit is easily explained by unknown locked relays and still maintains a semi science base. But hey if you want to handwave faster than light energy waves then just handwave the Arcs outrunning them because and let it go.*cough*, magnetic fields, gravity, something else I forgot, *cough*
I was disappointed that there's nobody in the Milky way we can chat with in real time to test the QE speed as truly instantaneous... or not.
mcsupersport, "If it killed ALL AI then how did energy wave tell the difference between a ships main computer and an AI? How did it kill the Geth, which were software and if chosen right able to operate inside Quarian biosuites?".
If these "energy waves" in one of the endings can synthesize new DNA, so of course this "energy waves" can see difference between simple "program software" and Artificial Intelligence, don't you think?
"As far as energy wave goes, physics states it will travel speed of light, unless you handwave magic waves somehow going faster"
Watch the cutscene as the "energy wave" quickly covers a large area, It was clearly moving faster than the light speed. If this "energy wave" was moving at the light speed (300000 km/sec), It would take several thousand years to cover the star system, where was located Mass Relay, that created this "energy wave"...@Farrago96 " If these "energy waves" in one of the endings can synthesize new DNA, so of course this "energy waves" can see difference between simple "program software" and Artificial Intelligence, don't you think? "
Which is ONE of the BIGGEST issues I have for ME3 ending.....we went from SciFi to magic in the space of 10 minutes or so. Supposedly, depending on your ending choice, you have magic light waves moving faster than the speed of light, able to create either DNA or Synthetic diversity/or choose between a program to run a ship and the AI who lives on the ship, using some form of energy directed by some form of intelligence that is able to manipulate said energy from a central point......yeah, magic hand wave, which turns my stomach in SciFi. How does using Shepard DNA allow for Turian's DNA to be altered?? How does a wave of energy manage to figure out what a plant on the far side of the Milky Way which acts nothing like anything on Earth side need to be fully functional with synthetic componets????And where does it get those components?? Hey....I got it...just wave your hands and POOF.....
Actually if you figure in unknown locked relays that we haven't discovered, it would be easy to say, yeah the whole galaxy is covered within reasonable time, and NOT require massive physics rewrite. But hey, if you want ANOTHER plothole, go for it, light blast travels faster than light and somehow misses the arks in a huge plothole.
OK, enough ME3 rant...wrong place for it, and it just PmO......
