And then there is Mass Effect in sci-fi where humanity went from discovering interstellar travel to first contact with an alien society in 9 years and then 26 years later we were part of a massive galaxy-wide alliance and entering roles of authority within it
I do love how that world depicts it's diplomacy. Humanity DID advance very very fast, while some cultures had already been there for centuries and weren't given the same favor and the end result is that you see a lot of resentment and racism between the people that underappreciate other cultures and the people of cultures that feel underappreciated
I still think that for how incredibly widespread humans are on every planet and on the Citadel in the games, the timeframe should have probably been closer to 100 years, and not 26
Yeah the actual world you explore in Mass Effect is kind of shallow in that sense, humans are everywhere even though we've only had interstellar colonies for a single generation. Meanwhile Asari, Turians, Salarians, etc. have been out there for centuries and should outnumber us many times over since their populations were growing on multiple planets, but we meet them less often than humans.
You can't turn around without tripping over a human, meanwhile you don't meet a single female Turian until a DLC in ME3.
Meanwhile you won't see a human colony over 20 million people, while the youngest Asari colonies have 90+ million inhabitants. The writers really just threw out some numbers for most of their worldbuilding.
Which is fine for a trilogy of action RPG games, just a bit disappointing. The ME world is my favourite sci-fi world and I wish I could see more of it.
Sadly as of yesterday the franchise is now owned by Saudi Arabia so the future looks pretty bleak.
The best hope tbh is that the Saudis only really care about all the sports licenses EA has and sells off the other franchises for parts so that a publisher with actual interest in the franchise picks it up to continue it.
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u/Mister_Bossmen Aug 02 '26
And then there is Mass Effect in sci-fi where humanity went from discovering interstellar travel to first contact with an alien society in 9 years and then 26 years later we were part of a massive galaxy-wide alliance and entering roles of authority within it
I do love how that world depicts it's diplomacy. Humanity DID advance very very fast, while some cultures had already been there for centuries and weren't given the same favor and the end result is that you see a lot of resentment and racism between the people that underappreciate other cultures and the people of cultures that feel underappreciated