User blog comment:Ralok/The Future of the Franchise (mass effect 3 spoilers)/@comment-165.155.208.114-20120309154749/@comment-50.4.251.133-20120310043006

just listen to the codex entry on FTL travel, they have one seperate of the mass efffect codex.

the only problem is that FTL takes too long to get to the vast distances, galactic society will rebuild just on a much smaller scale, and like its pointed out. ALL of the races ALL OF THEM were part of this force against the reapers, and thus they are all in one little corner of the galaxy within range of each other.

their homeworlds too distant for even FTL travel to carry them within their lifetime.

so society will rebuild, all of the races building new societies within each other. ..

science will be pushed in the direct of wanting to create better FTL or perhaps new mass relays

Imagine a new mass effect series opening with this

in 22043, the combined scientific might of the fourteen worlds under the protectorate council banded together to create the greatest scientific advancement of their time, the great phase gates were forged and launched into the galaxy. . . the scientists called it a triumph, the citizens of the protectorate called it

MASS EFFECT