One thing I really liked from the Mass effect universe is that everything was believable.
The way the technology worked,how humanity found intergalactic travel, and the way the galaxtic society was organized were all very realisticly portrait.
Hyperspeed or even lightspeed make no sense on a galactic scale,and its impossible to see planet destroying lightbeams traveling trough the galaxy,it would take billion of years for an energybeam to even reach other planets and it makes no sense that you could see both the beam and the explosion within years,let alone minutes,my imersion was broken😜.
Mass effect made a lot more sense,and the story told was very good as well,I even enjoyed the games😜.
I do hope Andromeda continues on the same level where Sheppards story ended,if it did end that is.......
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Edited by Ogma: Destroyer of Worlds: 1/11/2016 2:00:49 PMI never really had an issue with that. Arthur C. Clarke once said: "Any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic." If we were to show human beings from just 1000 years ago how we access information from anywhere in the world on a pocket sized device that shows pictures of it, it would be unbelievable to them. The Catalyst and its Reapers are approximately a billion years old. They've observed and taken the knowledge of countless civilizations over that amount of time. I don't find it hard to believe that it would be capable of something that we wouldn't be able to explain from our 50,000 year old perspective of how things in the galaxy work. They would be FAR more advanced than us.
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Yes that was what I ment,mass travel across the galaxy is much more likely then lightspeed,the example I was refering to was StarWars:-p. The theory behind it(sort of) is that you negate the space between 2 destinations,making travel near instant on both a large scale with the relays,and on a small scale with a mass core,making spacetravel possible. It made the universe of that game believable.
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Edited by Ogma: Destroyer of Worlds: 1/11/2016 6:52:16 PMAh ok. I guess some people suspend more belief than others. It seemed like a legitimate explanation for the technology to me.