[Hmmmmmmmmmm. Shepard mentally sorts through the possibilities before settling on one.]
This one's gonna take some explaining. Weirdest wasn't really where, but how. Long-distance FTL travel where I'm from involves mass relays, these giant machines out on the edges of solar systems. You fly up, send a signal, and they toss you across the galaxy. They link to this giant space station, the Citadel, which serves as the seat of galactic government. We didn't built any of it, mind you. We just tripped over it and started using it. When the first species got to the Citadel a couple thousand years ago, they found what they thought was a sculpture of a mass relay, so they set it up on a pedestal as a public art installation right in front of the Council Chambers and wrote academic papers about it for centuries.
Turns out all the papers were completely wrong and it's actually a working experimental mass relay. My crew and I found the other end of it while exploring a planet that had been lost for 50,000 years. We needed to get back to the Citadel in a hurry...so I drove an IFV in one side and we came flying out the other and crashed a 20-ton tank onto a chunk of the most exclusive real estate in the galaxy.
[And no one but the chirpy tourist VI saw them, dammit.]
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This one's gonna take some explaining. Weirdest wasn't really where, but how. Long-distance FTL travel where I'm from involves mass relays, these giant machines out on the edges of solar systems. You fly up, send a signal, and they toss you across the galaxy. They link to this giant space station, the Citadel, which serves as the seat of galactic government. We didn't built any of it, mind you. We just tripped over it and started using it. When the first species got to the Citadel a couple thousand years ago, they found what they thought was a sculpture of a mass relay, so they set it up on a pedestal as a public art installation right in front of the Council Chambers and wrote academic papers about it for centuries.
Turns out all the papers were completely wrong and it's actually a working experimental mass relay. My crew and I found the other end of it while exploring a planet that had been lost for 50,000 years. We needed to get back to the Citadel in a hurry...so I drove an IFV in one side and we came flying out the other and crashed a 20-ton tank onto a chunk of the most exclusive real estate in the galaxy.
[And no one but the chirpy tourist VI saw them, dammit.]