Quote Originally Posted by Eumerin View Post
No idea how small the chunks would need to be. But I would imagine that this is a scenario that's been examined quite a bit by all of the races. After all, if someone attacks one of your inhabited worlds, then you need to know how much the atmosphere will deal with (which is going to vary based on the specific atmosphere involved...) and how much you need to deal with yourself. Logic would dictate that there are calculations that can be performed using resources available onboard the warships themselves in case one of those warships ends up dealing with just this situation over a friendly colony world.



Presumably the Reapers had the Citadel in some sort of stable orbit. So the question is, how much damage did the Citadel take as a result of ghost boy's nonsense, how much was the Citadel's orbit affected by said nonsense, and which direction did the Citadel get moved in as a result of same said nonsense? After all, it's entirely possible that the damage to the Citadel actually pushed the bulk of it out of orbit.

That last bit is pure speculation, of course, and it's entirely possible that the Citadel's orbit did in fact start to degrade. But there are a lot of ships present. And if the Citadel is indeed slipping downward, the anti-Reaper fleets presumably have more than just an hour or two before the Citadel enters a non-recoverable descent.


Besides, as we learned in "Bring Down the Sky", all you really need to do in order to stop a massive object from reentering is to turn off the thrusters.

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Your right really, it does not really matter how it is prevented from hitting earth, but it will be thanks to the magic of writing and plot armour... Though If you have seen the very low EMS destroy ending I would suggest that is the way to "fail". You do destroy the reapers but earth is scorched bare by the explosion, and since no one exits the Normandy that seems to imply everyone is dead...


And large orbital impacts do seem to be a real threat, given that the Turians have even made the actual size and distance of their moon highly classified so people (I.e the krogan!) don't try to crash it into them.