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Rewriting the original trilogy for movies/tv/reboot:(s) story idea and tweaks
If you could re-write the original trilogy and roll all your thoughts and expectations back to ME1 what would you do differently story-wise? I really hope that any retelling of the Mass Effect story does things differently. It's a fantastic opportunity to have another crack at it. It's not that I thought ME2 or ME3 were bad games or bad stories.... I just don't think they lived up to the original premise. This starting thread is very sketchy and made up of bullet-points to convey a general vision for a retelling of the ME story. Only meant as starting point - whilst allowing me to vent - hopefully giving you and idea of how I would improve upon the original story in my own mind. I'm sure you'll disagree with me but lets have some fun - go mad. This thread doesn't exactly contain spoilers per say because it's mostly alternate history and therefore non-canon.
ME1 Changes:
1. Finding the conduit really IS the key to bringing back the reapers.
2. Using the citadel as a backdoor is only a desperate last minute back up plan after sovereign fails to track down the real conduit on Ilos
3. The actual conduit artefact is not found on Ilos – has been moved.
4. The Ilos proto-relay is merely backwards engineered from the actual conduit artefact.
5. The last protheans hid the conduit [away from the entire galaxy in a place no-non prothean could reach] after reapers returned to dark space
6. These details might only be inferred rather than stated explicitly
ME2 Changes:
1. The collectors are falsely assumed to be servants of the reapers but are actually guardians of the conduit beyond Omega-4
2. Collectors are protheans who managed to retain some hive mind form of sentience despite capture and reaper modification or rather “ascension”.
3. Jacob Taylor leads the Cerberus expedition to the collector base in the prologue to capture all known Reaper technology to expediate work on sanctuary project.
4. He inadvertently activates the conduit after defeating the collectors and the reapers pour through a supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy
5. The Sanctuary project will be the Illusive Man’s tragic attempt at redemption for dooming the galaxy.
6. Cerberus is behind the missing colonist abductions
7. The Alliance assumes Cerberus are agents of the Reapers
8. Normandy crew track down known Cerberus operatives and associates (ME2 dossier) to stop the reapers abducting/converting people into reaper ground forces.
9. Miranda is the Illusive Man’s daughter and is the key to discovering sanctuary
10. Sanctuary is the worst war crime in recorded history; yet at the cost of bankrupting his gigantic shadow empire the Illusive Man succeeds.
11. Reaper indoctrination has been cracked. It can be blocked and it can be overwritten on a massive scale: organics will be able to pit entire reaper ground forces against each other using Cerberus developed orbital and ground indoctrination signal transmitters backwards engineered from reaper technology. The Reapers have in effect lost their atomic bomb style monopoly and what was a strength becomes an Achilles heel.
12. It is too late for the Illusive Man however; he explains everything to Shepard while he still can and is convinced to commit suicide before succumbing to what Saren described at the end of ME1.
13. Miranda is capture by the Alliance. The alliance privately and discreetly appropriate Cerberus’s research and begin construction on it’s own anti reaper tech project though publically denies the allegations and condemns the actions of Cerberus at sanctuary.
ME3 Changes:
1. The reapers concede that they cannot defeat the organics because as fast as they can indoctrinate the organics can turn indoctrinated forces against them.
2. The reapers goal is not to destroy organics life which is what they must ultimately do to stop the current civilization advancing beyond type II. Given the stalemate after Harbinger’s defeat at Rannoch, Harbinger/Catalyst AI explains the motivation of the reapers, i.e. the metaphysical conflict between organics and synthetics. They submit that perhaps they were wrong about their creators and though thought to have been eradicated might be the only ones who can solve this conflict.
3. [Aboard the Normandy in ME2 legion reveals that the Geth are the shadow broker – they study organics, this is how they influence the galaxy]. After achieving peace between Quarians and the Geth, Legion (revealed and recruited in ME2 on Haelstrom) informs Shepard that the Geth have a lead on the Leviathans.
4. Shepard must travel to the collective to commune with the Geth to learn of the location of the leviathans which is a deeply held secret. The Geth haven’t formed a consensus on whether the Leviathans are a threat or ally – especially to synthetics.
5. Upon discovering the leviathans they inform Shepard that they have been studying organics and synthetics for millennia and over millions of years have finally come to a solution only the apex race could comprehend – in fact the only solution. The crucible/synthesis is in fact their solution but it works differently this time.
6. It would destroy every reaper in the galaxy as an intentional side effect but it’s primary purpose is to modify the DNA structures of all species to widen their genetic frameworks to include organic and inorganic [genetic] compounds which would allow organics for the first time to augment themselves on a fundamental level like a synthetic however they see fit without relying on artificial intelligence. Therefore it’s not forced evolution – we each have a choice about our own destinies.
7. As a result the organic-synthetics would be able to advance socio-technologically theoretically at the same rate as any pure synthetic species could so a singularity would never be possible.
8. The Leviathans however need organics to make this possible and they think we are ready to compete with purely synthetic species should the crucible be deployed and work.
9. The leviathans reject the notion that a machine intelligence will never be able to experience pain or emotion, e.g. love should those become their societal goals. They too must be free to choose their own evolutionary path.
10. Firing the crucible will not destroy artifical intelegence. It’s the organic material inside of the reapers that makes them succeptable.
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