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[MountainPuncher]

So is anyone else a little put out by the fact that this massive Chekov's Gun never ended up going off?  Haestrom's sun being artificially aged seemed like a huge damn deal at the time, and Tali presented it as such.  There's never any mention of who is causing it, just that it was theoretically caused by Dark Matter.

Yet we never get any answers concerning it.  For a brief instant I thought it would tie into the explanation for the Catalyst or the Reaper's motivation for harvesting advanced civilizations, but nothing ever came of it.  Not even a mention or reference to it, as far as I'm aware.  If there was, I'd love it if someone could correct me.  It just seems like Bioware completely forgot about that plot point in favor of other (and debatably less interesting) explanations.

[Lyriq]

The ending to this game seems like it was hastily tacked on right before the deadline, and this is one of the reasons. There are even several references to Dark Matter throughout Mass Effect 3, and I was definitely expecting SOME reference to it. Just chalk it up to another plot hole by Bioware :/

[RxP4IN]

I tried to avoid spoilers at all cost, but from what I can piece together, the dark energy plot was to be the original premise for the end game. When the beta script was leaked, Bioware publicly stated that they would change the ending. I never read that script, but it could not have been worse than that catalyst plot.

[MountainPuncher]

but it could not have been worse than that catalyst plot.

Agreed.  Last-minute changes are rarely a good thing, and if those changes are what left us with the Catalyst and that annoying little kid, then that's all the worse.

[AquamanOS]

It wasn't in the beta leak either. The beta leak still had the Catalyst and the same endings, though the Normandy part at the end wasn't in the beta.

The dark matter plot must have been scrapped long before then.

[RxP4IN]

AquamanOS wrote...

It wasn't in the beta leak either. The beta leak still had the Catalyst and the same endings, though the Normandy part at the end wasn't in the beta.

The dark matter plot must have been scrapped long before then.

Ah, I see. I can't believe the ending went that far back. To think they had 5 years to come up with a Reaper motivation and that was the best they could do. You could see in ME2 they were trying to buy themselves time to answer questions, you think that would have kicked the writers into action.

[MountainPuncher]

Well that's pretty damn disappointing. I can understand smaller things getting dropped, but a force that actively causes entire stars to age and ultimately die? That's no small thing to scrap.