8 years ago
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...
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.
@mcsupersport wrote:
@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......
Also as a side note to the ships drive....we don't actually know HOW their drive works, and they may actually use some sort of Folding of space system that requires them to run for a bit, pause then run again until they reach their destination if said destination is past what a single jump allows. This would mean they may run REAL fast for a few years, then more slowly as the system cycles and then run fast again.....so the first year, they may have covered MUCH farther than just a steady rate, more a sprint then rest the sprint again type of movement.