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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iKillOrDieTryN, Yes, good point.
But Nexus and Arks are big ships, they need time for accelerate, unfortunately we don't know, how much time they need.
About rocks and planets, which are floating in the Dark Space between Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies: how we can see from "Dark Space Statistic" - 99.6% of space between the galaxies are not objects, so Arks shouldn't have changed its course very often, this means that the speed of 4200 light years per year is quite close to the maximum speed of the Arks. And don't forget that each ark have "Over Powered" AI, It could pre-calculate the path, so If there was loss of speed, It was minimal.
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iKillOrDieTryN, Yes, good point.
But Nexus and Arks are big ships, they need time for accelerate, unfortunately we don't know, how much time they need.
About rocks and planets, which are floating in the Dark Space between Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies: how we can see from "Dark Space Statistic" - 99.6% of space between the galaxies are not objects, so Arks shouldn't have changed its course very often, this means that the speed of 4200 light years per year is quite close to the maximum speed of the Arks. And don't forget that each ark have "Over Powered" AI, It could pre-calculate the path, so If there was loss of speed, It was minimal.
fair enough.
but lets say the ark was in the blast radius how fast do you think the blast itself was traveling after the explosion? from the cut scenes it wasn't very fast. after the blast started it took about 1 1/2 mins for earth to be covered. a beam of light shot at the nearest mass relay. from there it took 10-20 seconds to overload and redirect the beam to the next relay. from there the blast of the relay should have taken quite a while to reach the max radius. even if the cut scene shows the blast moving much faster i feel this was just for the sake of time skipping and not the real speed of travel. meaning very well the arks are far beyond the blast radius by the time the blast reached its max area of effect.
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plus as we seen in the game the tempest was able to detect the archon ships before they crashed into them as well as make a full stop. no doubt the arks could detect objects if any in dark space. and as we seen in the game as well.... the salarian ark jumped pretty quickly to escape the kett ship. so no doubt they could do it again. of course this wouldn't mean they reached their top speed in that time. buts its not impossible to do it.
