I'm basically unspoiled on MEA but if they don't refer to the fact that all the arks are built like Reapers I will be annoyed
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
There's no reason the Reaper Cycle should've played out exactly the same way in Andromeda but Deep Time remains a question
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It's an issue with any SF setting like this -- what was happening for millions of years before the present
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A civilization can start at any time so why aren't there any million-year-old civilizations now
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There was an article abt how Star Trek is actually a pessimistic setting bc it strongly implies all spacefaring civs die out
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The Federation gets to be the new growing civilization bc anything more than a little more advanced than them is dead
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They're always stumbling on planets w super advanced technology but it's always ruins where everyone is dead
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Anyway probably the most "hard SF" thing about ME was inventing the Reaper Cycle to specifically explain this
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But that makes the lack of explanation in Andromeda stick out
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I mean the Catalyst thinks some kind of big final victory in organics vs machines would be inevitable without him
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Even though he's a racist shit the guy who wrote blindsight got it pretty well I think
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