Speculation as to the nature of the E3 trailer "rings".

Hmm, I think they may be some kind of construction platforms, as you mentioned. A way station type of thing for supplies and people.

I wish I could speculate about how the writers are getting us to Andromeda, but we don't really have enough info to work with.

Some have speculated an artificial wormhole may be created. Maybe residual energy from the Crucible blast, although we don't know when we're leaving..preciely.

If we're leaving before ME3, or there abouts, people have wondered where we got the tech and knowledge to travel to Andromeda? When the heck did we build these Vaults Arks?

These rings, however, I think are platforms; fuel lines; stealth tech/shield to keep them hidden until launch.

There' has been alot of spec on how we travel to Andromeda. Some good old fashioned debate. Perhaps when we get more info in general, we'll have a better idea of the how it happened.

It seems as though the passengers may be volunteers..explorers for different reasons. "Curiosity. Running to something...running away from something." So. it does not seems like an emergency situation that's making us leave the MW. At least not initially. The project may be repurposed for escape reasons later.

...the main issue people are having is how did we get this huge complicated project going with what the MW people knew and the tech they had at that point.

Maybe some shady corporation has been working on this for years and we just did not know about it. Some scavenged Reaper tech, reverse engineered. Or maybe we figured it out on our own, but it was kept hush hush. Corps. on Noveria, Ilium they get up to all sorts of skulduggery.

Perhaps these Arks were initially created to travel through the MW at large. Far corners of our galaxy because Andromeda is very far even for money interests when we have not explored more of the MW first.  But they found out Reapers were coming and repurposed the Arks ...on a wing and a prayer to go to Andromeda.

Or maybe the ones that created these Arks were real crafty and did not tell the volunteers/passengers that it was a one way trip.

I hope it's interesting, whatever the case may be. I hope the opening of MEA is interesting and not just us waking up in Andromeda, and the how and why of how we got there is hand waved as "reasons". That would not bode well.

Personally, I believe that they are bi-directional mass relays, without all of the extra stuff to : 1, turn them on. 2, gather information from the ships. 3, check and see if that information is good (like the friend/foe thing from ME2).

These are like dumb mass relays. They'll let anything pass, as long as it fits through the opening. That's my theory at least.

Here's a quick theory.

The rings are made of mined materials, held in storage on the ark. Some sort of space magic occurs where when a "relay" is needed, the ark has a materializing Star Trek-type transportation device that 3d prints the material instantly, for one use. The heat of the relay's effect destroys the ring.

Therefore, each planet must be mined.

They can't be Mass Relays. Mass Relays only work in tandem, meaning there has to be one where we are heading.

Unless there are Mass Relays in Andromeda(one can hope) but that means the Reapers have been there so if we knew that and we are leaving to escape why would we go there?

How would the first Ark get there then, if the others have to rely on the first being there? If they are all connected to each other, then they can only get to the Milky Way since that is where they all are at the beginning. 

I suggest you go and sit in the corner and think about what you have said.  When you have done that you can come back and apologise.

What a great idea. Make sure the Reapers can get to Andromeda too!

It's true we know we will be traveling in the ARKs for a long time to Andromeda.  But we could start off that journey with some kind of "push" from a modified Mass Relay or through a wormhole that takes us just outside of the Milky Way and out of harm of the Reapers.  It doesn't have to get us the whole way there, but shaving a few centuries off of the trip would be worth it.

I think they are probably construction platforms, but it would be kind of neat for them to have some bigger purpose to get us out of the Milky Way.  And until we get more info, speculation is all we have! 

I was thinking that too. Some sort of mass relay drive thing maybe.


I know you are joking, but even if the Reapers could do it, it doesn't necessary mean they would. Their programming could be restricted to the milky way only.

I'm pretty sure the Reaper mandate was not to preserve life in the Milky Way at all costs.

But regardless, "their programming could be restricted..."? It's not a chance I'd be willing to take.

Especially if the move to Andromeda is motivated by the (imminent) Reaper invasion.

It would be a crazy risk. I think we can safely discount the possibility that it's an open relay of sorts. It'd be ... well, utterly stupid.

Right, but the arks could be like battleships. Battleships can cruise when they're on open water and they decide to open the engines up. But when they see a fleet of 7 battleships and 3 air craft carriers and they know the enemy's hostile, they know that they're fucked.

So, the best thing for them to do is to not be seen at all. Or at least together.

About the mass relays, asari already know how to construct them as far back as ME2.



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