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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