Does anyone know any accurate mass effect relay map online as they are hard to find. Also was there only one mass relay where the citadel is or was there multiple?

Haven't played the game in a very long while

Commander Shepard to be born on April 11, 2154, just a mere 130 years away.

I guess it’s a celebration in the Alliance Systems, but not necessarily in the Batarian Hegemony worlds.

How are relays named? We see several examples of relays given names using serval different naming conventions, Relays 314 (first contact war), Shanxi Theta (me3 liara’s room), and Omega 4 (me2). One uses only numbers, another uses location name and Greek letter, and another uses Greek letter and number (could be location considering it’s in the omega nebula, but with the Shanxi Theta relay named for a planet, it would still be different). Is there any explanation for this?

If humans didn't exist then which race would colonise human space? Different scenarios:

1. Base timeline. The citadel is as uninterested in opening relays as cannon. Does anyone get to human space before the reapers show up? If so who?
2. The citadel is much more free in it's relay opening policy. Who gets the worlds? Do they find the Eden prime beacon in time for the reapers?
3. Base time line but the reapers don't show up until the Eden prime becon is found. How long does it take for them to find it?
4. Same as 3 but with the open relay policy.

The Kodiak is the UT-47 Kodiak. What does the UT mean in the designation (best answer I have come up with is Ultralight Transport)

Trying to know if this is implied or there's official confirmation (Ignore the Quarians heading to Andromeda )

The Alliance Fighters are designated tridents (as far as I know), but the older one (from what little I can find) is called the F61, while the newer one appears to be the SX3.

I’m a bit confused about the different designation systems. The first appears to be similar to the use designation system used by the US (each different type of craft is given a one or more letter designation based on its use), while the second one is either some type designation I cannot seem to decipher (closest I can think of is Strike eXperimental), or a manufacturer based system like with the MiGs.

Any idea what is up with this? Most logical idea I can come up with is that the F designation is the Alliance designation, while the SX designation is used by the manufacturer for non-alliance sale.

I was replaying ME1 (legendary edition), when a saw the codex entry on fighters. He seemed to act like disruptor torpedos were a new thing, something that changed the battlefield.

I began to think about it and had an idea: did humanity invent the disruptor torpedo? If the answer was yes, it would explain some things.

It would explain how humanity was the first race to use carriers, before their disruptor, such a ship would be practically useless as the ability of fighters to harm larger ships would not exist.

It would also (if incompletely) give an explanation on how the Alliance got so powerful compared to militaries millennia older than it. Before the disruptor made fighters viable, there was relatively minimal need for Guardian Lasers, ships would have them, but not in the numbers required to withstand a fighter assault. Every ship in the alien fleets would have to be upgraded with more Guardian Lasers, giving the Alliance breathing room to build up while the other races’ shipyards were upgrading their ships.

It’s not a full explanation, but couple it with a half dozen other partial answers, and it could drop ME from Extreme Human Wanking to only very human wanking.

So, is there any evidence contradicting this in codex or games?

When was the Berlin class introduced? Most things I find say it was a pre FCW design (usually 2152 or 2153), but that does not make much sense to me considering it was still the mainline warship of the Alliance 39 years later (though it was replaced with the York in only a few years, so maybe it wakes sense). Something built only 4 or 5 years after mass effect was discovered competing when newer ships would be helped by both advances made in tech from further study of the mars ruins, but also alien tech and even alien technical advisement from races who have been making cruisers from millennia or even individuals who have been designing ships for centuries (upgrades can only take something so far)

As far as I can tell, while this time keeps coming up, I can’t find an actual source for it. To me the Berlin always seemed like a response to the first contact war, a Cruiser made with new tech obtained from aliens and oversized to allow it to fight other Cruisers even with the tech gap. Something built in the early 2160s that was rapidly (a little over 20 years) replaced due to increased understanding of alien tech and human advanced making it obsolete.

Does anyone have a source for the Berlin being pre FCW

What ranks are the commanding officers of certain types of ships? I know that the CO of a Dreadnoughts is a Captain due to the mention of the CO of one of the Alliances Dreadnoughts being a Captain, but what of other classes (Cruisers, Frigates, Corvettes, Carriers)?

Hi all,

I have just started playing Mass Effect Legendary Edition and wondering which other media would be the best introduction to the universe. No doubt I could pick up a book or perhaps an audiobook (less interested in comics but could dabble) - what would you suggest as a first foray?

Obviously keen to avoid spoilers. I am not familiar with the different alien species or back stories yet. Already intrigued by the discovery of ancient artifacts, from a quick first play where there has been discovery of a second beacon...

Looking forward to delving in to the rich lore!

Title says it all for the question. I'm trying to put together some things for running a Mass Effect TTRPG for friends and I'm brushing up on lore. One thing I need to know that I can't really find info on would be how restricted mechs would be on the Citadel.

Would you argue it's just something that needs a proper permit as long as the mech is unarmed, or would it be altogether illegal for the wider safety of the Citadel? Thanks for any information

So this is gonna sound really disturbing and I don't know how to feel having thought of it but...

In ME1, after you rescue Liara from Therum, she mentions that asari can live up to 1000 years old and, at 106, she's still considered young.

So can we compare that to human years in any way? Humans live up to 100.

Does that mean that for every 100 asari years, that equates to 10 Human years? And if so, then Liara is Aged 10-13 human years old in the timeline, right?

What's the in game or in lore explanation for most alien species being bipedal ?

Asari Krogan Turian Sararian Quarian Batarian Volus Drell Yahg

They are all upright bipedal and have exactly 4 limbs

Compare that to earth 99% of earth species are not bipedal and they are doing just fine for billions of years.

I can't imagine why evolution of so many alien world favor upright bipeds.

Did the Turians realize they were dealing with a new unknown species before attacking the Alliance ships trying to activate a dormant Mass Relay ?

So in me2 we see the human reaper being created by the collectors at their base.

It is quite small for a reaper and later on its stated that it is a reaper larva that is supposed to go inside a common reaper shell that is what all reapers look like.

So if it was to be put inside the actual shell then why did it have moving parts and weapons on it?

Why waste resources on giving it motors and joints to move fingers and arms its always going to be encased in a standard reaper shell? Even a moving spine

Not even going to start about the weapons it has.

I was looking for a bit of explanation about the Human Reaper at the Collector Base at the end of Mass Effect 2. Was that a normal process in the cycle to make a reaper based on a new technologically advanced species? Are there other reapers that look like giant robot versions of other species?

Ive played through the entire trilogy including all dlc back in the day but I've been doing a second play through and found the human reaper a bit odd.

Which of the types of civilizations on the Kardashev scale do the Reapers belong to? 2 or 3? Also, what type of civilizations do their creators, the Leviathans, belong to? Which type of civilization is capable of coming up with a Catalyst?

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Discuss.

I'm honest, I'm not a fan of the Council. I recently played Mass Effect, and although I initially understood them, I realized, upon reading the books, that they were the worst. They justify punishments that can lead entire races to extinction, deny colonization permits to Quarians, continue to impose punishments on the Krogan for an incident that happened 1000 years ago, and are more than willing to allow all sorts of atrocities, like defending the Batarians' slavery for cultural reasons. And for some reason, they seem to support discrimination in their society. I believe that if humanity had lost the First Contact War, they would have done the same, supporting the Turian's rights over humaity as another race client Turian. What's worse is that in Mass Effect 3, they come off badly because the Turians had a weapon of mass destruction on Tuchanka, which had already been declared illegal, the Asari with a beacon that could save everyone, or the Salarians, even though they could offer very little help.

Furthermore, even looking at the Republic in star wars, however corrupt it may have been, at least it didn't support the segregation of entire races. Am I the only one who thinks that if the Council returns, there will have to be significant changes?

The Terminus Armor is my is my main armor in the games is the any more lore on it. I notice the N7 destroyer also were them.

Hi, I’m new to the universe of Mass Effect and I have the doubt of how is the cannon romance whit Shepard?

So I was working on the end of a fan fic and hit a wall. In some of the endings for ME3 (primarily the destroy ending) the mass relays are damaged and unusable for some time. That being said would a ship using conventional FTL and not a mass relay be able to get to Arcturus from the SOL system? I know there's a limit to speed and you have to discharge cores so you can't just go forever but is that distance unreasonable? I started really thinking of the immediate aftermath of the destroy ending and damn it really seems bleak if everyone is stuck in SOL.

Currently playing the 3rd part again after a long time and I'm on the mission where I have to retrieve the asari artifact.

A lot of the artifacts can be activated and the other group member and shep making notes about the asari gods similarity to the proteans.

Liara is behaving a little surprised while also holding back. Also Liara studied proteans her whole life, even met one of them for real now and is the shadowbroker with all infos at hand she could imagine and now be like: "What, they look like proteans? Naaaaaah, can not beee. Are you sure?"

Am I missing something or is this part of the story just badly written?