Mass Relay Network
Item from Mass Effect by BioWare
The galaxy-spanning transit network that makes interstellar civilization possible — and the Reapers' first infrastructure, built to concentrate and control spacefaring species.
Also known as: Mass Relays, Mass Relay, Relay Network
What They Know
- Enable FTL travel by generating mass effect fields along corridor-routes between star systems; travel is effectively instantaneous from the ship's perspective
- Built by the Reapers, not the Protheans — each cycle of civilizations discovers, adopts, and builds around them without realizing the infrastructure was designed for the harvest
- The Omega 4 Relay is the one relay no ship successfully transited and returned from, until Joker flew the Normandy SR-2 through it during the Suicide Mission
- Destroying a mass relay causes a star system-scale explosion; the Arrival DLC forces Shepard to destroy the Alpha Relay to stop an advance Reaper, killing 300,000 batarian colonists
- The Catalyst — the Reaper managing intelligence — is built into the Citadel's primary relay
Connections
- located_in — the_citadel
- contains — the_citadel
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