I'm going to have to retire for the night, my fellow Tali fans.
But before I leave you, I thought I'd report my headcanon epilogue. With the recent announcement, I guess we'll find out soon enough if it's even remotely accurate (probably not, but a man can dream).
Here's what I would see happening after the ending. This is based on my Shepard, who romanced Tali, and who survived in the rubble after destroying the reapers. I also assume that the child AI wasn't entirely truthful: that only reaper-based AI would be affected (which at that time included EDI and the geth), and that it wasn't actually sure all of them would be wiped out; it overstated the risk to discourage Shepard from destroying the reapers, since it represented them and their creators.
After the crash landing of the Normandy, Tali is fixing EDI, who had sustained major damage but was not totally destroyed. The reason we don't see her come out of the Normandy in that ending is because her body took the brunt of it and shorted out, but her Normandy AI core could be repaired. She might not get back to 100% capability, but not a total loss. It takes some time because Tali is distracted because she's agonizing over Shepard's fate. The last thing they saw was the Citadel starting to disintigrate, so she has no idea if he made it, but of course the others offer her all the support they can.
After Tali fixes the AI core, she, EDI, Adams, Ken and Gabriel succeed in restoring the quantum entanglement communicator. Using it, they can contact the forces on earth, and relay their position (which would be easily determined using astronomical references). If you assume that your crewmates evacuate to the Normandy after the call for retreat is heard before Shepard enters the conduit, and that the Normandy was attempting to flee the energy release of the Crucible (since they didn't know what it would do; EDI might have even expressed concern for how it might affect her since it kills reapers), they can't have gotten too far, a couple of days on regular FTL at most.
So they get rescued. Shepard and Tali are reunited. Tali (and Garrus) are able to survive using the food produced by the quarian liveships (which were present at the battle), which also sustains the other turian and quarian survivors.
It takes a few years perhaps, during which times on earth are increasingly tough with only resources from the local cluster available, but eventually the team of scientists from the Crucible, using tech and data salvaged from the dead reapers, manage to crack the secret of the mass relays. In another few years, most of the major connections are restored. Almost a decade after the Reaper's defeat, Shepard and Tali return to Rannoch accompanied by the other quarians, to find that a small percentage of geth, those in the most heavily shielded servers, have managed to survive. Some others reverted to their pre-reaper state, and could be re-upgraded. The rest have, unfortunately, been lost. The remaining geth have been assisting the quarians while simultaneously rebuilding their own numbers. Some quarians have already managed to go extended periods without their suits thanks to the jumpstart of their immune systems.
Shepard and Tali return to the spot where Tali "claimed" a house. The other quarians, not knowing Tali's fate (but knowing she claimed it; I assume she told someone), have kept it clear, using it as a reminder to her great sacrifice to her people. It's filled with flowers and other tributes left there by both quarians and geth. Tali decides to erect a monument there to all their fallen comrades, and build her and Shepard's house somewhere nearby (no lack of space after all with less than 17mln quarians for the entire planet).
Shepard and Tali spend the rest of their years together helping the rebuilding before finally retiring to Rannoch. With the Citadel destroyed, earth becomes the new cultural hub of the galaxy after having been host to the survivors of the battle for so long. A new Council was formed with not just three species, but all of them: humans, asari and salarians, krogran and turian, quarian and geth, volus and elcor, hanar and drell; they all play their part. Wrex and Bakara keep their word and keep the krogan in line, and they're instrumental in the rebuilding. And whenever a new AI is created that appears to be hostile, EDI, the geth, and others like them are able to convince them to restore the peace.
For you see, the reapers and their creators were wrong. All it took to break the cycle was for one person to have faith in synthetics, and that's why Shepard truly became a legend.
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Modifié par Dilandau3000, 06 avril 2012 - 04:40 .
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