Forum:Priority: Eden Prime and Weapons Page

For the mission Priority: Eden Prime, is Liara always a required squadmate? If so, then perhaps that should be noted on the wiki page. I would make the edit myself, but I wanted to find if that was the case for everyone else. I usually do this mission right after Priority: Palaven, so my only other choices for squad members are James and Garrus.

Secondly, where in the game's codex does it mention that small arms projectiles are the size of sand grains and only have supersonic velocities? I don't recall seeing that (nonsensical, in my opinion) detail in the ME1 codex entry for Mass Accelerators. But if you think about it, that simply makes no sense.

A projectile that small would need to be at least hypersonic to inflict any meaningful damage. For comparison, a 5.56 x 45mm bullet weighs about 4g and travels at around 900+ m/s (depending on the barrel length). A projectile that weighs less than 1 gram would need to have a much higher velocity if the weapon firing them is to be more dangerous than a sand-blaster, which the weapons throughout the ME series clearly are. --TarquiniusModestus (talk) 18:18, August 11, 2012 (UTC)