Scott Ryder Now The Older Sibling

That's... actually, a very good point. 
But that's assuming they both got into cryo at the same time, and not hours apart.
They most likely did, so there should be a dialogue option for this. 

Good point.

They probably should adjust everyone's DOB to account for the time spent in stasis.

The opening screen says Day 0, Hour 0 - so maybe they're starting their timekeeping in Andromeda at 0 instead of continuing with Milky Way time.

No way is combaboy older.

You can't change the day you were born. People are born in a specific year, in a specific month, on a specific day, at a specific hour, at a specific minute, and at a specific second. Going into cryo doesn't change those times.

It changes the person's effective age. Meaning that if that they were 5 years from going into menopause, they'd still be 5 years from going into menopause. Because that's an an effect of aging. It happens after we've aged for so long. Cryo halts the aging process.


They will likely just work off of effective age for those who were born in the Milky Way.

So Sara is still technically the older twin no matter who gets revived first, but effectively it's Scott if he's revived first if you believe their effective ages going into cryo had Sara at one minute older.

Your date of birth is not determined by a law. I can't give you what doesn't exist. Depending on the location the date of birth may be recorded differently according to that place's calendar, but it doesn't change your date of birth. But if Shepard had gone with the intiative is DOB would still be noted as April 11, 2154 CE. Because that's when Shepard was born. It doesn't magically become April 11, 2754 just because he got into a cryo pod. It wouldn't make much logical sense to say Shepard was born in 2754, but was helping with the Eden Prime War which occurred in 2183. Or did that war suddenly happen in 2783? The day someone is born is an event just as much as the start or end of the Eden Prime War was.

They will likely just say that the day the Nexus crew came out of cryo is January 1, 0 AI, where AI is Andromeda Initiative or some other letter combination that works to distinguish between discussing pre and post cryo.

They will likely just use the Milky Way documentation on medical records and the day you went into cryo. Except for maybe the Salarians, being off on "effective" age isn't that huge of a deal as long as it's not ridiculously long. Life styles will change effective ages. Because certain habits extend and others reduce expected life span. And even then, aging doesn't happen on specific schedules - it's why anything age related is typically given by a range.

But the way that information is recorded, reported, etc. is determined by law.

You brought legalities into the discussion in your initial response to me:


And no, you can't change the actual date that something occurred, but you can adjust how it is recorded.  We have no pertinent information on how any applicable law treats periods of stasis.



Or they might have established Day 1 as the date the Nexus left the Milky Way. And they might not use months as we know them in their calendars at all.



People are coming out of cryo at different times, and I would guess they did not all go into cryo at the same time.  Some go in and out of cryo.  Thus, their effective ages should be individually adjusted to reflect the amount of time they individually spent in cryo.

If Scott spends less time in cryo than Sara, his effective age could show him as the elder of the two.

Yeah, I'm not interested in the lifestyle effective age stuff.  I'm more interested in age as determined by the passage of time (chronological age), and the notion that even though the twins were born 656 years ago, the cryo preserved their bodies in (approximately?) the same state as they entered it 634 years ago, thus for all intents and purposes, they are 22.

Kinda depends on which Ryder twin you play, yeah?

Well - Sara will always be chronologically older.

The whole cryo thing isn't easy to discuss - lol. You're technically still alive, but your bodily processes have been slowed tremendously.

I don't actually care which twin is older - I just find it interesting to ponder this stuff.

This topic... Reminds me of exchange you can hear on Hyperion