In my ending, After Shepard and the Normandy linked up with the rest of the fleet at the rendevous, a massive cleanup effort started.
While Earth and the Citadel were recovered, the Crucible teams, headed by asari researchers examined teh Charon Relay and figured out how to repair it. From there the fleets went from relay to relay, repairing the ones leading to their homewords. The quarians and their liveships had to escort the turians back to Palaven first, of course. But the geth fleet, not needing the supplies that organics required, forged on ahead to pave the route for the quarians when the time came for them to go home. They also ended up repairing many of the more remote sections of the relay network.
There would be some tension during the reclaiming of the Citadel and repair of Earth. But with Commander Shepard, the human who assembled this alliance coordinating, the peace held. The shot of a krogan handing a human child over to a salarian medic with an asari biotically lifting a piece of debris away made for a great photo-op.
And batarians proved incredibly adept at finding trapped survivors. The skills formerly used to hunt down colonists and capture slaves went to a far more productive purpose.
The Citdel stayed in Earth orbit, in part because it would be too difficult to move, but also to commemorate the galaxy's darkest hour, and greatest triumph. Where everyone working together fought things out of deepest nightmares and triumphed. It was not inhabited again until it had been
thoroughly examined by the best operatives of the Spectres, STG and EDI of course. When it was reopened for use, the first order of business was to restore the embassies of the quarians and batarians, and to offer an embassy to the geth.
It took decades for any sense of normalcy to set in, and things never really went back to the way they were, but within a century or two, what was lost had been totally reclaimed.
Edit: And Shepard? Shepard retires from the Alliance and pursues a brief career as a diplomat. Once the Citadel is online again and a basic relay network is back up, he retires to a colony with a certain Lieutenant Commander...
Modifié par iakus, 28 mai 2013 - 11:46 .