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Post by DextroDNA on Jan 31, 2017 18:55:17 GMT
So the franchise is named after the Mass Effect phenomenon and all the technology that exists as a result of it. In the Milky Way most, if not all, mass effect-related technology was discovered after being left behind by previous cycles, going all the way back to the Reapers.
As far as we know, the Reapers have had no influence in Andromeda. Do you think this will have an impact on the technological status of the species in Andromeda? Will they have discovered the mass effect and how to use it for space travel and everything else by themselves, or could they too have discovered it after being left behind by an ancient race (the Remnant?). We know that the khett, angara and any other species in Helius are restricted to the cluster due to a lack of Mass Relays or a similar technology. Could this lack of advanced mass effect technology have affected/restricted them in any other way? Might we actually be far more advanced than these new species?
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Post by Fogg on Jan 31, 2017 18:58:22 GMT
I hope the locals didn't explore far beyond their cluster yet. It would leave a lot of unexplored territory for future games.
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Post by DextroDNA on Jan 31, 2017 19:03:20 GMT
I hope the locals didn't explore far beyond their cluster yet. It would leave a lot of unexplored territory for future games. I can't imagine they would have been able to; conventional FTL isn't fast enough to allow convenient travel between clusters - journeys could take decades or centuries. But perhaps they are working on building something similar to a Mass Relay to help them travel beyond the Helius Cluster?
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Post by ravenous on Jan 31, 2017 19:05:38 GMT
the only race that I think who would have even explored beyond the local cluster would be The Remnant
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Post by Fogg on Jan 31, 2017 19:16:11 GMT
I hope the locals didn't explore far beyond their cluster yet. It would leave a lot of unexplored territory for future games. I can't imagine they would have been able to; conventional FTL isn't fast enough to allow convenient travel between clusters - journeys could take decades or centuries. But perhaps they are working on building something similar to a Mass Relay to help them travel beyond the Helius Cluster? Who knows, the MW species followed the relay path because it was there already. Perhaps a civilization in a different galaxy spends thousands of years to develop warp travel, or some other ftl method that allows to travel great distances. We might have to ask them for their technology. Everything is still possible.
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Post by MrR40 on Jan 31, 2017 19:27:15 GMT
Perhaps the Remnants have had access to technology similar to Mass Relays or some other method in order for them to travel beyond local clusters and/or even the Andromeda galaxy.
I'd like to think that any Remnant tech we find helps the Initiative find a way to explore the rest of Andromeda. Thus create a setting for any sequel games.
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Post by lastpawn on Feb 1, 2017 13:15:53 GMT
Something I'm interested in is the idea that, in Milky Way, no civilization was allowed to use FTL for more than 50,000 years.
In Andromeda we may encounter a civilization that's had space travel for a million years. What are they like? Powerful beyond comprehension? Perhaps diplomatic like asari? Maybe their race turned away from advanced technology at some point, perhaps after a major civil war?
And so on. An interesting space of possibilities.
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Post by Thrombin on Feb 1, 2017 13:58:02 GMT
Something I'm interested in is the idea that, in Milky Way, no civilization was allowed to use FTL for more than 50,000 years. In Andromeda we may encounter a civilization that's had space travel for a million years. What are they like? Powerful beyond comprehension? Perhaps diplomatic like asari? Maybe their race turned away from advanced technology at some point, perhaps after a major civil war? And so on. An interesting space of possibilities. Yes, my initial thoughts about the technology levels in Andromeda was that, without the Reaper harvests every 50,000 years they ought to be far more advanced than we are. Having said that, it's possible that the mutually assured destruction caused by the whole Creator vs Synthetic conflict that the Reapers were trying to put an end to could have resulted in similar cycles in civilization levels even without the Reapers involvement.
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Post by CrutchCricket on Feb 1, 2017 14:47:42 GMT
It could be literally anything because there's nothing stopping an Andromeda race from being there for millions of years to being born relatively yesterday. How long they've been around also would have less bearing on their tech level than you might think. Some races advance faster than others.
In a way that's one of the more exciting things about the possibilities of Andromeda and beyond. No more asinine restrictions by way of Reaper cycles.
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Frankly, I believe Bio is wary of developing tech in Andromeda (story plot wise) that allows the locals inter-cluster travel. Galaxy wide cataclysms is something they want to avoid at all costs.
There seems to be plenty of species in Helios for story purposes and the cluster itself is quite big. This new "Scourge" material in the cluster also provides additional plot material for the writers. In, imo, we will not find any revolutionary tech but the writers will give us additional hints of more dangers to come when we will explore outside the cluster.
Personally, Mass Relays belong in the trilogy and ought to stay there.
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Post by sgtreed24 on Feb 1, 2017 16:45:48 GMT
What if they are far more advanced than the MW and developed a different method of traveling than the "mass effect"?
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Post by sjsharp2010 on Feb 1, 2017 17:10:16 GMT
Something I'm interested in is the idea that, in Milky Way, no civilization was allowed to use FTL for more than 50,000 years. In Andromeda we may encounter a civilization that's had space travel for a million years. What are they like? Powerful beyond comprehension? Perhaps diplomatic like asari? Maybe their race turned away from advanced technology at some point, perhaps after a major civil war? And so on. An interesting space of possibilities. Yes, my initial thoughts about the technology levels in Andromeda was that, without the Reaper harvests every 50,000 years they ought to be far more advanced than we are. Having said that, it's possible that the mutually assured destruction caused by the whole Creator vs Synthetic conflict that the Reapers were trying to put an end to could have resulted in similar cycles in civilization levels even without the Reapers involvement. Indeed it might be even that these Remnant things could be the Andromeda equivalent of the reapers. Doubt it but it's all possible
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Post by dmc1001 on Feb 1, 2017 17:47:13 GMT
I hope the locals didn't explore far beyond their cluster yet. It would leave a lot of unexplored territory for future games. I can't imagine they would have been able to; conventional FTL isn't fast enough to allow convenient travel between clusters - journeys could take decades or centuries. But perhaps they are working on building something similar to a Mass Relay to help them travel beyond the Helius Cluster? Maybe. Elon Musk believes it's possible to get us to travel coast to coast in the US in 30 minutes, 30 days to Mars and 20 years to Alpha Centauri. If the Andromedans are near our technological level (above, but not by much) they could easily have colonized other clusters. If they're say 100 years ahead of us technologically, who can even guess how far they could go? It's pretty well known that advances in the 20th Century are greater than all of human history combined. That rate appears to be increasing and I would guess that we really don't have any idea of what is possible. In the Milky Way Galaxy, races were actually held back by having technology handed to them. As Matriarch Aethyta pointed out, people don't even want to bother to understand what they have, let along replicate or exceed it. It's probably a big reason why so much of the MW remains unexplored or why asari never explored outward. They couldn't be bothered to extend their reach. The Andromedans may not be hamstrung but a ton of tech handed to them...or not. We just can't assume how far they've explored. OTOH, with the Khet out there, they could be containing others.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2017 12:17:09 GMT
I would honestly prefer for the new galaxy to be less advanced than the Milky Way. I know the Remnant are around, and that's gonna have all sorts of Sci-Fi spectacle tied to it, but I really don't want Andromeda to just be a new Milky Way. That would unbelievably contrived.
In fact, how cool would it be if we went to a system that had an alien race that was in the same state technologically as we real world humans are? To where they haven't met other species, and don't even know they exist, only for the humans from the Ai to touch down and bust space exploration wide open?
That would be awesome. It would essentially be the Ai playing the role of the Protheans, allowing more primitive species to advance because of them.
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