Contagion is my favorite side quest but.....

A broken shuttle.

Not just fuel.

It's like

The ships in Mass Effect have to have HUGE DEDICATED DRIVE CORES TO GO FTL BETWEEN STARS.

Like maybe I could believe you could take a Kodiak shuttle from Earth to Mars if you stock up real good. The Kodiak has Mass Effect drives, I know, but. Fuck. Even Pluto would seem like a stretch, if departing from the Earth.

It's basically like the huge drive cores in Mass Effect's ships aren't even necessary anymore? Because Ruth could drive between multiple star systems like she's driving to a grocery store in the dead of night with munchies?

I hated that side quest. Mostly the whole 'virus that jumps between species thing'.

As Shepard said in ME2, Turians and salarians can't even eat the same food. :/

But her skipping between star systems like nothing is idiotic and ridiculous.

Killing her wasn't even a hard choice for me. One life for millions of others.

I hope her nephew was punished for making such an idiotic decision.

You're not actually killing her the Angara does that. You kill him afterwards.

The choice is actually to kill him and stop his imperfect plan or let him go and save her.

Kodiak class shuttles all have FTL. I mean the one in ME3 even had a Tantalus drive core, did it not?

All Kodiak shuttles are capable of limited FTL, and you have to remember, we are in a cluster of Star Systems this time around, not the entire galaxy like in the original trilogy. So it is not unreasonable that Ruth can fly around like she did. Though it is very convenient she seems to find herself in a fully fueled shuttle.

What?

I thought the Lazarus Project and Cronos Station would've been within the same star system, and if not, they didn't show the shuttle travelling 100% of the way between those two points. I assumed they transferred to a ship in between if need be.

When the ship is disabled during the reaper IFF, I thought the game assumed that the ship is parked relatively close to your mission destination - within the same star system. I know you select the mission from wherever, but the implication is that at the time EDI announces the shuttle just be taken, the Normandy had moved closer to whatever mission area you'd chosen.

Viruses can jump between species now why wouldn't they be able to in the future?

I just think it's ridiculous. It takes light 4 years to travel from our closest star. I would imagine the higher FTL speeds (many times the speed of light) would require a Tantalus core.

I saw the Kodiak zip off but you'd need to go faster than the speed of sound at least just to travel from our inner solar system to Jupiter. Watching it zip off, "looking like FTL" could just be regular FTL (1Xlightspeed)

I really don't like this quest, but arguably too-impressive shuttles is not why. At least, not precisely why.

My dislikes:
- Final choice between letting a terrorist run off with his weapon of mass destruction (laughing, as he finds your stupidity highly amusing), or watching a woman's head blown to pieces. Thanks guys, quality entertainment, much satisfying.
- Several quests that take you star system-hopping or planet-hopping feel like they're just purposely wasting your time (very flimsy justifications for where you're going).
- She takes her sweet time figuring out what's wrong with her, and then gets captured. Didn't make me feel more for her, it was just irritating.
- Ridiculousness of a "med-tech" or whatever the job title was, being so absurdly irresponsible.
- Unbelievable disease (Omega plague was at least engineered, this sounds like it's supposed to be 'natural').
- The feeling that BioWare thought the quest so darn good that players ought to be pressured to do it. So you get the email, but even if you don't acknowledge it, Dunn will radio you when you visit the Nexus. I can see someone arguing that of course there is 'pressure', it's an emergency. Well, typically emails are checked at receiver's convenience, not sender's, so it's a very poor way to request help with an emergency. To be fair, I probably wouldn't have appreciated a vidcon or an audio message received from Suvi either. I dislike the quest too much.

Where did they say that? I thought the Tantalus core was the huge globe thing in the engine room. Doesn't seem like it'd fit.