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[Element Zero]

Firstly it doesn't have to be any significant number, in any liberal world minorities are allowed to join the military. Growing/producing/recycling food should be relatively easy with advanced technology. It is already established that Turians are living on places like Omega, if they can get sustainable food there doing so on a garden world would be trivial. It is still a carbon based life.
 
As to your second paragraph, because they live there. Nationality is not determined by ethnicity even now.

Meh. We have ethnicities on Earth, but in ME we are talking about species. A human is a human, regardless of ethnic background. A human, turian and quarian will always be distinct species, no matter what.

I can see what you're saying, and it would definitely be the eventual ideal for the galaxy. In a way, it's the greater fulfillment of what a Paragon Shepard fought to build. I guess I just think that jumping far enough ahead for this to be plausible would ruin part of what makes the setting great. The differences in the various species are part of that. Homogenizing the galaxy at all diminishes the setting, in my opinion. I'm strongly in favor of another human protagonist venturing out into the black to experience alien cultures. I guess it's like a form of fictional space tourism, for me. ME1 strongly had that feel. I miss it.

[Malanek]

I do agree I think it would be better to set the story "soon" after ME3, maybe around 30 years.

 

But I think it would be fine in this period to see the first non-human N7s start to come through.

[MrDbow]

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[chris2365]

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Soon...

[SNascimento]

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This was perfect. 

[ElitePinecone]

I can't really see the point of having "N7" if it doesn't still refer to the highest level of an elite military training program. I can completely see aliens being involved, or having the N7 character involved in exploration missions, or even having the Alliance merge with another entity. But I wouldn't understand why they would take the concept of something and completely reinvent it just for the sake of a brand.

 

To a certain extent the developers themselves might choose to do something only because it looks cool and interesting, even if it doesn't necessarily seem to make sense - never mind that marketing-wise it could even be useful for brand recognition to keep using that symbol. I don't really like it either, especially since I'd hate it if they did it as some kind of cloying tribute to Shepard, but I can understand why they would do it.

 

(For reasons I don't quite understand, the marketing people seemed to love using N7 in the first trilogy, even though it certainly didn't only refer to Shepard and even though there are hundreds or maybe thousands of other N7s running around.)

 

I also have a feeling that for better or worse, one of the consequences of the reaction to ME3's ending will be to practically deify Shepard from this point forward, both inside the game universe but perhaps even more so outside of it. There was a strong rumour that Mike Gamble had asked fans what N7 means to them at a feedback event about a year and a half ago, and I suspect they'll be pushing some sort of "carry on Shepard's legacy" stuff in the NME, where N7 has come to mean "do heroic things, make important decisions". I don't think it's really the correct interpretation of why some people were so dissatisfied with the ending, but "people were grieving for Shepard" is a common theme I've noticed in a few dev statements in the years since. Maybe it's easier to process than "our story made no sense". 

[Iakus]

 

I also have a feeling that for better or worse, one of the consequences of the reaction to ME3's ending will be to practically deify Shepard from this point forward, both inside the game universe but perhaps even more so outside of it. There was a strong rumour that Mike Gamble had asked fans what N7 means to them at a feedback event about a year and a half ago, and I suspect they'll be pushing some sort of "carry on Shepard's legacy" stuff in the NME, where N7 has come to mean "do heroic things, make important decisions". I don't think it's really the correct interpretation of why some people were so dissatisfied with the ending, but "people were grieving for Shepard" is a common theme I've noticed in a few dev statements in the years since. Maybe it's easier to process than "our story made no sense". 

 

Maker, I hope not.  That's one thing that will drive me away for sure.

[SimonTheFrog]

Maker, I hope not.  That's one thing that will drive me away for sure.

 

Indeed.

My feelings are that, as much as i liked my Sheps and her motley crew, this is would be too much.

 

I'd say the best way to go forward would be to make the clean cut and tell a new story where a "Shep" never happened. N7 can stay the program for special ops that is used to be. Everything else very quickly spirals down into the ugly mess that is the lore by the end of the (first) trilogy.

[InterrogationBear]

A tweet, a tweet, a cryptic tweet.

 

Ian S. Frazier @tibermoon

It's kind of ludicrous what this team can accomplish in just a week. o.O #MassEffect

[ElitePinecone]

Jonathan Warner @Bio_Warner

Hello Monday. Let's take another step toward a game that's gonna blow your mind #DreamersOfTheDream

[InterrogationBear]

Jos Hendriks @Sjosz

Witnessing cool things being presented, and presented a cool thing of my own. Game development can be fun. #space

[Bacus]

Ty Interrogation Bear.

 

@Jos: are you getting an awe inspiring space scene this time? the Normandy being destroyed and the Geth Dread blew my mind. I'd love to see a scen such as those agaiN!

[rapscallioness]

 

Jonathan Warner @Bio_Warner

Hello Monday. Let's take another step toward a game that's gonna blow your mind #DreamersOfTheDream

 

 

 

hmm, that dreamersofthedream hash tag might send some fans into speculation overdrive.....

 

uh, late to convo, but i could see the next PC being a smuggler/merc type thing. Maybe working for some crime boss..hunting artifacts, etc. Perhaps a more selfish, money driven pc. one that for whatever reason does not care abt whatever crisis or conflicts are going on. just in it for the money and reputation.

 

they find some n7 armor--it's good armor..hell. but it doesn't mean anything to them personally until they start running into characters that actually mistake them for being n7, or some remnant. other characters to whom the insignia "N7" does mean something. these other characters start looking to the pc for help--cuz they think they're this old idea of n7. and at some point...the pc begins to question themselves and what they're doing. a kinda crisis of conscience.

 

/derailing

[JamieCOTC]

Maker, I hope not.  That's one thing that will drive me away for sure.

 

BioWare loves to overcorrect. With the reaction to the third game so visceral I expect the Shepard trilogy to be mostly ignored as if it never happened.

[von uber]

As to aliens eventually joining Alliance military--why? No matter how long they live among us, they aren't even our species. Until the Alliance, the Primacy, the Asari Republics, the Salarian Union, etc... are all dissolved and replaced by one united government, each species will have its own distinct military. No matter how close the ally, they are not citizens, and won't be found in your military. This is all the more true in the case of the sensitive assignments that an N7 would logically receive.

 

Asari in the Alliance. ME3 canon.

 

[themikefest]

 

Also the gameplay of a Mass Effect game is basically a shooter. You're going to spending a large portion of the game shooting mooks, so it wouldn't really make sense to have a protagonist who has a background with no training or experience in combat.

The same can be said about squadmates. Why would you want one on your squad without any training or experience in combat?

[PCThug]

Asari in the Alliance. ME3 canon.

 

Commander Bailey wore the default Alliance uniform despite being in C-Sec. One of conflicts you can pick a side on around the Citadel involved two C-Sec officers, both wearing this outfit as well. And one of them was an asari.

[dreamgazer]

There are some asari running around Ilium in Normandy SR-2 gear. It happens.

[Barquiel]

Maybe asari can get citizenship of their father's race...and some joined the alliance

[Pearl (rip bioware)]

Asari in the Alliance. ME3 canon.
 

Her arm is going right through that panel. How dare BioWare let this game come out with such a dramatic oversight. Preorder cancelled, false advertisement suit filed.

[dreamgazer]

Pretty sure Pearl's aware of that, EA.

[Geth Supremacy]

******* mako.............

[Element Zero]

A tweet, a tweet, a cryptic tweet.
 
Ian S. Frazier @tibermoon
It's kind of ludicrous what this team can accomplish in just a week. o.O #MassEffect

  

Jos Hendriks @Sjosz
Witnessing cool things being presented, and presented a cool thing of my own. Game development can be fun. #space

Don't these guys know its rude to tease the other children?

I'm more than eager to see what you guys and gals are creating, and better yet to get my hands on the finished product.