A freelancer flying into a shaper storm
Shaper storms are violent reality distorting cataclysms that affect the Coda. They have been going on for centuries. "Cataclysm" is a common vernacular used to describe these events, and no scientific attempt has ever been made to explain them.[1]
Game Effect
The cataclysm is a large-scale world event which happens dynamically when Freelancers embark on expeditions beyond Fort Tarsis. Freelancers can fly into these spacetime storms and appear on the "other side" upon doing so.[2]
Trivia
It has been indicated that the Cataclysm may be pocket universes of sorts. It has been joked that the Mass Effect setting could fit inside one of them.[1]
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