What I was led to believe from the start of the Mass Effect Series was to have an ending like this :
(Version 1.01b Paragon Shepard Dies)
Been thinking about the ending a bit more and about that first one I came up with. And thought it was pretty weak. so here’s another attempt, though this time Shepard dies.
*note : Most people Should get this ending. I do have a “Paragon Shepard Lives” ending scenario floating up in my noggin but that will be done another day, maybe.
Also my version of events scraps everything right after the combined Galactic fleet enters Earth space, assumes the player has completed all side quests and has at least 3300 EMS.
Why only 3300?
I feel that “forcing” players to play Multi-player just to get the “best” possible ending is rubbish. Higher EMS just skews a slightly different cut scene of your ground troops.Higher EMS = more varied troops based on which races you have recruited to the cause.
The trigger on what causes Shepard to live or die however I’ll post later.
This ending also assumes you have saved every companion in ME2 (just mentally edit them out if you got yourskilled) and Assumes that certain paths are followed in ME3. Again you can mentally edit those characters out of the cut scenes if yours are absent or dead.
Liara assumed to be LI and Shepard to be male. (just switch him for her if your Shepard is female) Also this is an entire “re-write” of events in London.
So no, I don’t follow the Shepard was indoctrinated” school of thought. Sorry shep-zombie fans.
And no Star Child crap either. Sorry Bioware.
Scenario:
Cut Scene
Combined Galactic ground forces consisting of all the forces and assets Shepard has gathered. Krogan on Keiosaur mounts charging, Geth and Quarian engineers setting up hack proof auto turrets, mercs fighting dirty in hand to hand, pistol shot to the face combat, Turian and Human infantry and armor supported by Asari commandoes and Grissom Academy (Jack!) Biotics form a linked shield system and together they all carve a path and finally take down the Guardian at the Conduit.
Shepard and team go in, and it’s a race find the master control and open the Citadel Arms so that that Crucible can dock.
Shepard and team fights way to Citadel central command room which EDI helps to pin point. Within the Citadel itself Shepard faces a combined force of indoctrinated Cerberus forces and reaper forces.
Midpoint :
Cut Scene.
Harbinger’s holo appears and in the course of talking to it. Player learns that the Citadel is not only a huge mass relay, it is also the Reaper’s command and control centre from which the reapers direct their systematic “cycles” and that means it’s also one big galactic broadcasting device and that some ancient race finally figured this out and came up with the Crucible which is essentially one big “signal booster” .
This old race figured out that you can send a kill switch from the Citadel but such a signal would only effects its local space for the kill switch to work, the signal needs to be sent simultaneously across the galaxy using the Mass Relays as piggy back signal towers.
Shepard also learns that the Reapers were once AI meant to protect a race, created at a time when there was another war of organics and Synthetics.
The AI’s primary directive was to Protect and dictate the race’s war efforts. In the course of time the AI decided that to win the war against Synthetics, organics had to become Synthetics themselves and thus the Reapers and Cycles came about.
Harbinger shows nothing but disdain for Shepard, for all organics. It demands that Shepard submit as it is the only way to salvation that it is the only logical outcome.
Shepard tells it to go to hell.
Harbinger then tells Shepard that Organic life in this Cycle had become too much of a problem, that order was disrupted when Sovereign was destroyed and later the planned entry point in Batarian space blocked.
That it has decided that the best solution for the current situation now, is for the galaxy to reboot itself and life and the Cycle can start anew.
Shepard is confused by what it meant till Admiral Hackett communicates that reports are coming in that EVERY Mass Relay is powering up, gathering Charge at a rate that would when would make each relay go critical and cause Ultra Super Novas in every system that holds a Mass Relay.
Everyone is shocked and horrified by the implications.
Harbinger gloats that order will be restored and the Cycle can start anew again.
Shepard Speech.Chooses final Squad members and assigns the rest to rear guard to cover his back and come up behind when they can.
Player fights to last checkpoint.
Meets Illusive man who holds the final key to unlocking the Citadel. Illusive man tries takes control of Shepard’s implants.
Illusive Man Makes Shepard shoots both squad members and they are out of combat (not dead)
If Love interest is in squad however, Shepard finds strength to resist after he shoots the first squad member and the illusive man tries to make Shepard shoot his LI. (Love has to count for something ya?)
Boss Fight.
One on One Shepard vs Illusive man or two vs one if Shepard is with LI
Shepard wins, Illusive Man slumps to the ground.
Cut Scene.
Harbinger arrives too late at the Conduit but starts blasting at ground troops. (poor EMS = more die, not just nameless troops but Jack, Grunt, Wrex and any other non-squad companions from previous games at the scene, we will however assume high EMS for this cutscene)
More Reaper Destroyers land with Harbinger and starts blasting as well.
Jack plays mother hen and orders Asari commandoes around to help bolster the linked shields so that ground forces can hold ground. She refuses to leave but realise her shields cannot withstand a direct hit from a Reaper canon. Reluctantly leaves when Miranda tells her, “Shepard will find a way, he always does.”
Meanwhile on the Citadel, Shepard with EDI’s help shuts down the Relay Nova sequence and finds the kill switch.Harbinger’s Avatar appears one last time, but this time it shows fear. It knows death is imminent and it doesn’t want to die. Harbinger admits that perhaps its assessment is wrong and gives Shepard a choice, instead of killing every reaper, Shackle them.
Each Reaper would then beHumanity’s tool and weapon against anything or anyone, organic or synthetic. Through them, Humanity would achieve power unimaginable and through humanity’s control of the reapers, order be imposed on all organic life. (Renegade Choice of course)
Shepard refuses.
Takes the Paragon path and triggers the kill switch.
THE CITADEL DOES NOT BLOW UP, BREAK APART OR GETS DESTROYED.
The signal goes off and Every Reaper in Earth Space flatlines, including Harbinger. Now that the Earth space is safe and cleared of Reapers, the Crucible goes through its docking sequence shedding its protective armor anddocks. (I ALWAYS hated that part in the original Ending. WHAT Military Genius decides to try and dock a “soft” target in the middle of a fire fight while your “air space” isn’t clear of bogies and hostiles? You still have REAERS around the Citadel firing Reaper beams left and right and you want to advertise “hey guys over here …SHOOT ME!!!”)
(Final moments / epilouges)
Garrus : “So Shepard, do the honours?”
Shepard: “I thought you’d do it, I mean, isn’t that why you calibrate stuff so much?”
Garrus : “The guns. Are. On. The. Normandy Shepard.” ”But now that you mentioned it, why not? I could never resist pushing big red buttons... Uhhh There is a big red button right?”
EDI. : “No Garrus. Just your standard VI overlay”
Garrus : “Pity. Well Palaven isn’t free of Reapers yet while we stand here talking.” *reaches up and touches controls*
Signal beam goes out to the Charon Relay, Relay pulses then shoots out beam to other Relays.
”RELAYS ARE NOT DESTROYED.*
Pretty colour signal rings Galactic map display depicting each relay receiving and sending the kill switch out. Reapers across the Galaxy flatlines. Cheers from groundtroops in Palaven, Asari on Thessia, everywhere, troops emerge bloodied but not beaten.
*Everyone in room cheers*
Ashley : “We did it! We finally did it! Its all because of you Shepard, I am sorry I doubted ….”
*Rapid auto gun fire. Shepard’s Shields flare then in slow motion, HEAD SHOT*
Liara : “Goddess! Noooooooo…”
*everyone turns to see a shakily Illusive man standing with a modified machine pistol in hand .. Everyone unloads their weapons into Illusive man. All except Liara who is cradling Shepard and crying.
*Fade to black.*
*scene opens 5 years later. We see a small Asari child playing in the grass on Thessia laughing and giggling with another Asari child. She turns when she hears someone approaches and it is Liara and Matriarch Aethyta. One of the girls run up to Liara.*
Child : “Mother, Aria here says that everyone is nice to me only because my father is famous. Why do you never talk of him?
Liara : “Oh Hannah, *breathes in deeply* your father was the most important man in the galaxy. He is why we still have Thessia, our home.”
Hannah : “Aria says he’s human. Aria’s mother says humans are at best centuary flings. I don’t understand….*looks up and sees Liara in tears* I am sorry mommy. I didn’t mean to make you cry. *stays silent for a few seconds* What was he like, my father?”
Liara : “He was …he was….*breaks down and cries*
Aethyta : “ He was a man. Had a quad on him for sure but he had heart, he….."
*scene cuts to Garrus at SPECTRE Academy*
Garrus : “ … was not just a SPECTRE, he was THE SPECTRE. I was there when he took down Saren, when at the time we Turians still thought all humans were only good as canon fodder."
Spectre trainee: “But sir, surely he was JUST a human....”
Garrus : "Son, on Rannoch, Shepard played tag with a reaper, on foot. He won. *touches side of his face* You see this, got this from a Gunship’s rocket in Omega. Shepard took it down, with small arms and saved my life. No, I learned from the best and that was Shepard. I learned that no matter how good you are, nothing is better than a true friend guarding your back and Shepard was …”
*scene cuts to Wrex and Grunt*
Wrex : “….an Honorary Krogan because I made him so! Arrrhharrhahhaaa!”
Grunt : “Bah, I knew that before you. You were there, he fought beside me on my Rites of Passage and at the time he said he was “my krant” *does finger air quotes* …huh. When that Thresher Maw popped up and he didn’t flinch, just stared down that big ass rifle of his and shot, I knew then, that he’s no one’s Krant. That I was lucky to be in his.”
Krogan : “Clan Utnev says The Shepard is human and they spit on humans.”
Wrex Grunt : “SHEPARD IS URDNOT! Shepard is why our women are whole again!
Grunt : "WHO IS SHEPARD?!!"
Krogans :" URDNOT!!"
Grunt : "AND WHAT WILL MAKE THEM SAY WHEN WE STOP ON UTNEV'S BONES??!"
Krogans : "SHEPARD IS ....."
*scene cuts to Tali. ALL Qurians have their helmets off*
Tali : “ ….the most compassionate man I know.”
Quarian girl : "What is it like travelling with the humans? With Shepard?
Tali: “Trying. Often you just want to shoot them. *she grins* sometimes I don’t get them but when I see Shepard I see the best humanity has to offer. Let me tell you of a story about a Quarian named Lia’Vael nar Ulnay a young quarian girl on her pilgrimage. She went to the citadel but before long, her money was stolen, she was beaten and people spat on her. All because she was Quarian. We met her while a Csec officer and a Volus had her held for questioning and NO ONE wanted to help. Shepard did. He cared. He didn’t see us as Quarians or aliens but as people. As someone of worth and Lia was someone worth helping. I asked him afterwards, why did he helped. He just said “Its what I do.” *Tali falls silent for a bit, eyes with a far away look, wishful*
Quarian girl : “Was he dreamy? *giggles*
Tali : *flushed* “Uhhh.... what? …Shepard was …”
*scene cuts to Aethyta*
Aethyta : “…. Many things to many people. But most of all he was hope. He never stopped trying. They took away his ship, they took away his command they took everything that he was but they could not take away his spirit. Your mother loves him very much because of that spirit. Hell, if she had not already claimed him, I would have been tempted to myself! Bet I can teach him a thing or two…”
Liara : “Aethyta!”
*Hannah climbs into Liara’s lap*
Hannah : “He sounds wonderful. I wish he was here.”
Liara : *wraps arms around Hannah and hugs her tightly* “We all do, little dove, we all do.”
*FADE TO BLACK*
END CREDIT ROLL.
(Only did those few companions, would have Samara, Jack, Miranda, everyone who is still alive retelling Shepard as they saw him..... Different "memories if Shepard was Renegade and of course a VERY diffent one if Shepard Lives)
BUT ... instead, we got this :
Modifié par Archonsg, 17 mars 2012 - 04:40 .
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