Mass Effect Ending Spoiler Thread

[Neil]

Interesting.  Would Earth then be populated with the survivors of the fleet until the development of Mass Relay technology? There would presumably be a lot of empty spaces to fill on earth.

No, because they could just go home.  Sur'Kesh is fairly close, and Tuchanka and Palaven not that much further.  Thessia is a ways, and Rannoch is almost as far as a world can be though.

[Queequeg]

That's a pretty huge chunk of the fleet if you manage to patch things up between the Quarians and the Geth, though.  The entire military arm of the Quarian fleet-and possibly a lot of militarized civilian ships.  You are looking at a substantial % of the total Quarian population on the exact opposite side of the galaxy as Rannoch.

  I think the Geth and the Rachni wouldn't really give a shit about what planets they were allowed to inhabit, though.

[Neil]

That's a pretty huge chunk of the fleet if you manage to patch things up between the Quarians and the Geth, though.  The entire military arm of the Quarian fleet-and possibly a lot of militarized civilian ships.  You are looking at a substantial % of the total Quarian population on the exact opposite side of the galaxy as Rannoch.

  I think the Geth and the Rachni wouldn't really give a shit about what planets they were allowed to inhabit, though.

The geth and the rachni don't care at all (in fact, the geth aren't really that interested in planetary systems much at all).  As for the quarians, Earth is still fatal to them.  The only planet that really matters to them is Rannoch, and they're pretty familiar with long-term space travel.  What's a year or two against the lifetime they've already spent in space?

[Queequeg]

A year or two?  How fast past the speed of light are we talking?

[Neil]

A year or two?  How fast past the speed of light are we talking?

They never quantify it.  I'm just basing travel times on the Reapers coming in from dark space.

[Queequeg]

I presumed they used the Relay system. You murder a lot of Batarians on that assumption.

[Neil]

I presumed they used the Relay system. You murder a lot of Batarians on that assumption.

Once they get to a relay, sure.  Remember though that the whole point of Mass Effect 1 was to prevent Sovereign from activating the relay from Dark Space, of which our end is the Citadel.  I think that they reentered the galaxy under standard FTL.

[garbon]

I presumed they used the Relay system. You murder a lot of Batarians on that assumption.

Once they get to a relay, sure.  Remember though that the whole point of Mass Effect 1 was to prevent Sovereign from activating the relay from Dark Space, of which our end is the Citadel.  I think that they reentered the galaxy under standard FTL.

If that was the case than ME1 looks pretty silly. Shepard's crew just dicked around saying nothing when in a few years they knew the Reapers would show up?

[Neil]

I presumed they used the Relay system. You murder a lot of Batarians on that assumption.

Once they get to a relay, sure.  Remember though that the whole point of Mass Effect 1 was to prevent Sovereign from activating the relay from Dark Space, of which our end is the Citadel.  I think that they reentered the galaxy under standard FTL.

If that was the case than ME1 looks pretty silly. Shepard's crew just dicked around saying nothing when in a few years they knew the Reapers would show up?

Actually, they were dismissed by most people as raving lunatics.  How much attention do people get in the US when they call for everyone to prepare for the Rapture?

[garbon]

I presumed they used the Relay system. You murder a lot of Batarians on that assumption.

Once they get to a relay, sure.  Remember though that the whole point of Mass Effect 1 was to prevent Sovereign from activating the relay from Dark Space, of which our end is the Citadel.  I think that they reentered the galaxy under standard FTL.

If that was the case than ME1 looks pretty silly. Shepard's crew just dicked around saying nothing when in a few years they knew the Reapers would show up?

Actually, they were dismissed by most people as raving lunatics.  How much attention do people get in the US when they call for everyone to prepare for the Rapture?

And yet somehow Shepard is unique and can get powerful individuals of different stripes to believe.

[Neil]

I presumed they used the Relay system. You murder a lot of Batarians on that assumption.

Once they get to a relay, sure.  Remember though that the whole point of Mass Effect 1 was to prevent Sovereign from activating the relay from Dark Space, of which our end is the Citadel.  I think that they reentered the galaxy under standard FTL.

If that was the case than ME1 looks pretty silly. Shepard's crew just dicked around saying nothing when in a few years they knew the Reapers would show up?

Actually, they were dismissed by most people as raving lunatics.  How much attention do people get in the US when they call for everyone to prepare for the Rapture?

And yet somehow Shepard is unique and can get powerful individuals of different stripes to believe.

Actually, pretty much nobody of any real importance believes him until the Reapers actually show up.  Shepard gets props for stopping Saren and the Collectors, but he doesn't have the evidence to support his claims until they show up and start cutting the batarians to pieces.

[Queequeg]

I think most people were on board around the time the Collectors were destroyed.  Palaven was building defenses, and it looked like Shepard was in some kind of mixed detention/preparation for invasion. 

[Neil]

I think most people were on board around the time the Collectors were destroyed.  Palaven was building defenses, and it looked like Shepard was in some kind of mixed detention/preparation for invasion.

Palaven is always building defences.  That's what happens when the state and the army are the same thing.  The asari and the salarians remained unmoved.  I will say that Shepard did have two important and powerful allies outside his squadmates:  Anderson and Hackett.

[viper37]

If that was the case than ME1 looks pretty silly. Shepard's crew just dicked around saying nothing when in a few years they knew the Reapers would show up?

Remember ME2 when you visit the council... they dismiss you saying it was just a Geth ship and the file is closed.

[garbon]

If that was the case than ME1 looks pretty silly. Shepard's crew just dicked around saying nothing when in a few years they knew the Reapers would show up?

Remember ME2 when you visit the council... they dismiss you saying it was just a Geth ship and the file is closed.

Yes and then Shepard alone is able to get the Illusive Man to finance an expedition. The Illusive Man points out that such is why he brought Shepard back to life because of his unique ability to get the job done.  Far-fetched that Shepard is so uniquely charismatic...although I guess I can understand why the dithering Kaidan was ineffectual.