User blog comment:Ralok/The Future of the Franchise (mass effect 3 spoilers)/@comment-165.155.208.114-20120309154749/@comment-160529-20120309165831

there IS faster than light travel without the mass relays, but the homeworlds of each race are hopelessly seperated from each other.

the mass relays arent the only method of faster than light travel, I find it hard to understand that you havent picked up on this.

you see, the mass relays are for easy transit beetween clusters, within the cluster faster than light travel is used to travel beetween the stars.

the mass relays used mass effect technology, but they werent responsible for mass effect physics!