I say Yes to Elephant Canon. The Elephant Canon, sweeps the elephant in the room (Starchild and the three endings) under the rug and pretends it was never there. This is very important.Canon ending is Refuse, but the Quarians blow up the reapers and save the current cycle from annihilation. Shepard and Anderson survive. The final 20 minutes of ME3 are never mentioned again. There is no save game import.The race that didn't go full retard: They were ignored by the writers. The logic here is there are some Quarians on the Citadel doing their pilgrimage during Saren's attack. Sovereign gets destroyed. These Quarians salvage pieces of Sovereign and take them back to the flotilla. The Quarians develop an ultra top secret superweapon which they tell no one about because they're considered militaristic unclean outcasts by 99% of the galaxy. They equip all their ships with it, but are careful not to use it unless given authority by the admiralty board.
So during the battle against the reapers at Earth, when the Sword fleet attacks and all that, after all the Hammer team stuff get shredded and everything, and Shepard makes the choice on the Crucible and tells Starbrat to go shove it by picking "I may die, but at least I will die free." and Starbrat says "Let the harvest continue." The reapers start shredding the Turian and Earth fleet, but something happens.
The Quarian Fleet lets loose. Hackett just says these words as reapers just start dropping dead. "What the f*** was that?" coming from the Quarian flotilla. And the Quarians just mop the floor with the reapers. The battle is over. And soon all the reapers in the galaxy are dead. Shepard and Anderson are found still alive.
This sets up ME4: with Commander Shepard. Anderson is alive -- we must have Keith David because Mass Effect needs Keith David. You get two familiar squad members: probably Liara and James, and a bunch of brand new faces. Shepard gets some completely new task like establishing peaceful relations with the Yahg (who ate the last group who tried to establish relations) or stamping out racism or other next to impossible task.
What gets stated in the Codex about the reaper war: During the Battle for Earth, Commander Shepard and Admiral Anderson made it into the Citadel and did battle with The Illusive Man. Shepard killed the Illusive Man and opened the Citadel arms. The Crucible docked with the Citadel, but the Crucible didn't work. The Allied fleet battled the reapers, and the reapers were ripping through the front lines of the fleet. The Quarians who had been holding back made their move and unleashed a barrage never before seen in galactic history on the reapers. Reaper vessels began exploding throughout the solar system, and soon the Quarians took their fleet to every system in the galaxy that had a mass relay and wiped the galaxy clean of reaper ships. And on the Citadel, deep within a previously unexplored section an electrical fire broke out and later it was determined that it was the AI that controlled the reapers that completely burned up. As of 2186 the reapers are no more. The Quarians now hold a leadership seat on the Citadel Council.
Pros: Almost no one gets what they want because 80% dislike the Quarians and 99% chose something other than refuse. It also goes against any of the three possible canons BioWare would select from Starbrat's choices. And because it stars Shepard and Anderson it will sell.
Cons: There really aren't any.
It is full of win.
This originally was Conniving_Eagle's idea, but somehow my link got linked back to this post I had to flesh it out here. So here it is.
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