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[IndigoWolfe]

The ME3 GI article stated that ME3 will take place a few months after ME2. Depending on how many 'a few' is in this case, Thane can be either dead or near death. At least near death enough to not be combat-ready.

So, which will it be, I wonder? Dead before the game starts, dying during the game or just unavailable for recruitment?

Unless Bioware magically cures him.

[Tyrannosaurus Rex]

IndigoWolfe wrote...

The ME3 GI article stated that ME3 will take place a few months after ME2. Depending on how many 'a few' is in this case, Thane can be either dead or near death. At least near death enough to not be combat-ready.

So, which will it be, I wonder? Dead before the game starts, dying during the game or just unavailable for recruitment?

Unless Bioware magically cures him.

I do not think we can give a proper answer since we do not know how long ME2 itself took. When the player recruits Thane he has 1 year left ( I think so), so I would imagine that he has 4-6months left by the start of ME3. Enough time to make him a temporary squadmate atleast.

[DWH1982]

If they don't want to do some kind of tacky cop out, there should be a tasteful death bed scene.

I feel sorry for anyone who romanced him, but... You kinda knew you were getting involved with someone who was dying.

[IndigoWolfe]

Lizardviking wrote...

IndigoWolfe wrote...

The ME3 GI article stated that ME3 will take place a few months after ME2. Depending on how many 'a few' is in this case, Thane can be either dead or near death. At least near death enough to not be combat-ready.

So, which will it be, I wonder? Dead before the game starts, dying during the game or just unavailable for recruitment?

Unless Bioware magically cures him.

I do not think we can give a proper answer since we do not know how long ME2 itself took. When the player recruits Thane he has 1 year left ( I think so), so I would imagine that he has 4-6months left by the start of ME3. Enough time to make him a temporary squadmate atleast.

I seem to recall him mentioning that he had a few months before the effects of his illness "became an issue". Whether this means he dies at that point, or the symptoms simply present themselves in a way that effects him actively is unclear.

[Tyrannosaurus Rex]

IndigoWolfe wrote...


I seem to recall him mentioning that he had a few months before the effects of his illness "became an issue". Whether this means he dies at that point, or the symptoms simply present themselves in a way that effects him actively is unclear.

I don't know, have not really paid the character any real attention the last playthrough I made. But I think he will return, because fangirls demand it.

[Tasha vas Nar Rayya]

Thane himself said that his condition will not start to affect his performance (in battle) until about 8-12 months. So depends on how many months.

[Zebron is reaL]

I doubt Thane is dead by ME3, the fangirl(/boy) reaction would be immense

Now Thane dying DURING ME3, more likely

though hopefully avoidable

[Shadow_Soul]

No. He won't be dead when the game starts.
I'd say that they'd give the player a chance at a cure, him bing a possible LI or just a good freind. They won't just kill him off, that'd just be stupid with his fanbase.

[Tyrannosaurus Rex]

Shadow_Soul wrote...

No. He won't be dead when the game starts.
I'd say that they'd give the player a chance at a cure, him bing a possible LI or just a good freind. They won't just kill him off, that'd just be stupid with his fanbase.

Curing Thane would be even more dumb.

[CulturalGeekGirl]

Also, it says in his LotSB files: 

Lung Capacity: 42% (left-side lung shows large lesions, right lung has nodular lesions only)
Antibiotic treatment: Now resistant to cipoxidin, malanarin, alburcin
Metastatic progress: stomach, liver (minor), heart (negligible at this time)
Treatment Options:
Viable transplant candidate but refused to be added to list
- Synthetic lung generation currently impossible for drell

Which shows that lung transport is a viable thing, he just wasn't interested in it before. Now that he cares if he dies, he might go for it, though it would probably only extend his life for a handful of years. It also goes on to say exercizing and engaging with people emotionally will prevent him from deteriorating. We don't know if his "time estimate" assumed that he would be active, or if it was a "worst case scenario" thing.

Thane isn't even my third choice for a LI, but they left enough muddy outs to allow him to return in ME3, easily. Even if he's still technically doomed.

[ReileenaOrion]

Lizardviking wrote...

Shadow_Soul wrote...

No. He won't be dead when the game starts.
I'd say that they'd give the player a chance at a cure, him bing a possible LI or just a good freind. They won't just kill him off, that'd just be stupid with his fanbase.

Curing Thane would be even more dumb.

Not necessarily. His fan base=customers. Happy customers=word of mouth advertisement=more customers=higher profits.

Modifié par ReileenaOrion, 10 avril 2011 - 11:48 .

[Shadow_Soul]

Lizardviking wrote...
Curing Thane would be even more dumb.

No, it would not. BioWare just shouldn't make it "Oh look, here you are, your cured. Poof!" and all magic-y like that. And, like I said, it'd be the player's choice.

[Platform626]

If they were to cure Thane, then I suggest to leave it as a side mission. One of those moral choices, so to speak. Like for example: Immediately head to earth to engage the Reapers which means Thane dies, or find the cure for Thane, but at the expense of millions of people dying.

[Kamikaze 738]

I wouldn't think Thane will be dead in ME3. Im not sure at what age his sickness will come into play but a Drell life expectancy is around 85 years and Thane is only 39... so I think he will still be around atleast for while before his sickness kicks in.

[Tootles FTW]

I hope a cure is left as an end-of-game decision, where it doesn't happen over the course of ME3 but is something you can convince him to try (the lung transplant) after the events of the game. It leaves it ambiguous enough that you won't know if it's necessarily successful and to what degree, but it allows for hope especially if you've made him your LI.