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Topic Started: Mar 24 2016, 04:26 AM (16 Views)
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ELEMENT ZERO, BIOTICS, AND FTL TRAVEL

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Element Zero ("Eezo") is a substance that, when exposed to an electrical charge, releases Dark Energy and generates a mass effect field, allowing for amazing technology. Humankind first discovered Element Zero in Prothean ruins on Mars in 2148. This also caused us to find the Charon Mass relay sitting frozen in orbit beyond Pluto.

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Mass Relays allow for quick travel between star systems: they generate a corridor of mass-free space that a craft can fly along, allowing for travel from one star cluster to another in a matter of hours. Baller, right? We activated the Charon Relay and designed spaceships with FTL engines derived from Element Zero cores and began exploring.

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An important thing to understand is the difference between traveling via FTL-capable ship and traveling via relay. A ship can be fast enough to take you from one star system to the next in, say, part or most of a day. A Mass Relay will get you from one entire star cluster to another in less then an hour. Feasably, you could, by jumping from relay to relay, cross the milky way in a bit over a day or so. Trying to do so by ship? Would take years.

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You must remember how important Mass Relays are to the Galaxy.

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In 2150, a huge shipment of Element Zero in Singapore was subject to a gigantic industrial accident, and eezo dust was scattered for hundreds of miles downwind. A few years later, some babies born in the affected zone started to show signs of cancerous growths. Eezo exposure in-utero can lead to such devastating mutations, OR it can lead to becoming a biotic. What is a biotic, you ask? Well, that's a stupid question since I'm obviously about to tell you.

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Biotics are people who grow nodes in their bodies that generate their own dark energy and mass effect fields, and by connecting to the nervous systems, allow the host control of these fields. A biotic can, by mental control, alter mass of objects or volumes of space, and move them around at will. So it's telekinesis. How fucking dope.

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Biotics also face discrimination... for some reason. Honestly, that's never really explained, and it's very weird.
Edited by Deadpool, Mar 29 2016, 08:44 AM.
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