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[Dubozz]

Well, at least it's not a Cerberus logo.

[SNascimento]

It's important not to read too much into a few concept images.

[Farangbaa]

It's important not to read too much into a few concept images.

 

This is where disappointment starts.

[JoltDealer]

N7 is a rank and is no way exclusive to Shepard, but it is iconic.  Fans like myself and my girlfriend take pride in our N7 apparel.  That being said, not every member of the Alliance is a soldier.  Cortez was a pilot and Jacob was a Corsair.  Although it has never been properly expanded upon, it has been shown that there are several roles aside from pure infantry.  Maybe the new Mass Effect Protagonist is an Alliance Explorer, charged with venturing into new, unknown space?  It's hard to say, but I don't think it's safe to assume that much from such little information.

[spinachdiaper]

It's guaranteed that the next ME main character won't be Shepard but it will be another character copied to be exactly like Shepard

[JamesFaith]

Shepard was only N7 marine how long? Just Eden Prime and few missions on Citadel.

 

He was more defined as Specter, Cerberus associate and man rallying galaxy.

[ntrisley]

N7 is a rank and is no way exclusive to Shepard, but it is iconic.  Fans like myself and my girlfriend take pride in our N7 apparel.  That being said, not every member of the Alliance is a soldier.  Cortez was a pilot and Jacob was a Corsair.  Although it has never been properly expanded upon, it has been shown that there are several roles aside from pure infantry.  Maybe the new Mass Effect Protagonist is an Alliance Explorer, charged with venturing into new, unknown space?  It's hard to say, but I don't think it's safe to assume that much from such little information.

Cortez was a pilot but started his career flying Tridents(meaning he was a fighter pilot before being reassigned to commanding a flight deck).

Jacob was a Corsair, but also a Marine. Corsairs were essentially units organized for plausible deniability. They were autonomous Marine units placed on independent starships to conduct operations outside of Alliance space.

 

When you start getting into future warfare, pretty much everyone has to train as infantry.

[Heimdall]

N7 could mean something different in the far future (And possibly different galaxy) ME:N is likely to take place in.  With all their talk of discovery, I'm imagining that all those informal N7 units  (ME3 Multiplayer) have evolved into a sort of semi-autonomous galactic rangers, focused on exploration, lawmen of the frontier so to speak.

[ntrisley]

N7 could mean something different in the far future (And possibly different galaxy) ME:N is likely to take place in.  With all their talk of discovery, I'm imagining that all those informal N7 units  (ME3 Multiplayer) have evolved into a sort of semi-autonomous galactic rangers, focused on exploration, lawmen of the frontier so to speak.

I think that's reading a bit much into it...at least at the start.

 

N7 were (and still really are) Alliance Special Forces. The Multiplayer characters were, per the email we got from Hackett, informally being nicknamed "N7" by the Alliance rank and file.

 

Now, it is worth mentioning that the "N7 characters" that we got were specifically said to be training other species and depending on the timeframe of the new game(let's ballpark it at 200 years) there is always the option of the "Systems Alliance" as an entity no longer existing and rather "Alliance forces" refers to the Citadel races as a whole.

 

I can imagine that Spectres would still be around and it would not be beyond belief for "N7" to become a requirement for up and coming Spectres.

[Heimdall]

I think that's reading a bit much into it...at least at the start.

 

N7 were (and still really are) Alliance Special Forces. The Multiplayer characters were, per the email we got from Hackett, informally being nicknamed "N7" by the Alliance rank and file.

 

Now, it is worth mentioning that the "N7 characters" that we got were specifically said to be training other species and depending on the timeframe of the new game(let's ballpark it at 200 years) there is always the option of the "Systems Alliance" as an entity no longer existing and rather "Alliance forces" refers to the Citadel races as a whole.

 

I can imagine that Spectres would still be around and it would not be beyond belief for "N7" to become a requirement for up and coming Spectres.

Well, I'm sort of imagining the service of those characters and perhaps some idolization of Shepard (If they have a headquarters, I fully expect a twenty foot statue of Shepard in N7 armor in the lobby) leading to N7 becoming a wider Citadel special forces designation, or some sort of elite Citadel force in and of itself.  Heck, maybe an independant paramilitary organization, that would certainly be different.  Mostly the frontier lawmen part came from what we've been told about the new character not being another space marine type and the focus on discovering new things.

[ntrisley]

I think the idea of a "frontier lawman" is a bit too Firefly for Mass Effect.

[Heimdall]

I think the idea of a "frontier lawman" is a bit too Firefly for Mass Effect.

Well, maybe those weren't the best terms.  I was just going for the general idea of them exploring recently colonized and not yet colonized otherwise 'wild' space.  I like the 'frontier' idea anyway.

[Iakus]

I think the idea of a "frontier lawman" is a bit too Firefly for Mass Effect.

 

If it's set in the time after the war and before the relays are up and running again, a frontier setting would be very much appropriate, imo.

[ntrisley]

If it's set in the time after the war and before the relays are up and running again, a frontier setting would be very much appropriate, imo.

Loss of the relays wouldn't mean that civilizations would collapse and descend into anarchy.

[General TSAR]

Not the first time BioWare contradicted itself but I'm hopeful we won't play another Jarhead Marty Sue. 

 

It's important not to read too much into a few concept images.

Yep, but then again we haven't heard anything else from the Mass Effect team.

[Iakus]

Loss of the relays wouldn't mean that civilizations would collapse and descend into anarchy.

 

Depends on how long the relays were down.

 

And in any case, if the relays are down for any protracted period of time you could very well see the breakup of the current galactic landscape.  Citadel space could split into numerous smaller polities like the Terminus.  And some could decend into anarchy, depending on how frakked up things were there to begin with. 

[JoltDealer]

Cortez was a pilot but started his career flying Tridents(meaning he was a fighter pilot before being reassigned to commanding a flight deck).

Jacob was a Corsair, but also a Marine. Corsairs were essentially units organized for plausible deniability. They were autonomous Marine units placed on independent starships to conduct operations outside of Alliance space.

 

When you start getting into future warfare, pretty much everyone has to train as infantry.

 

Fair point.  In the present day marines, even the marine marching band are trained as riflemen first and foremost.  Still, they may be trained as infantry, but they all went on to fulfill other roles inside the Alliance.  Even though they are all trained as soldiers, I'm saying that they may not necessarily be soldiers in practice.

 

Besides, as others have pointed out, N7 may mean something else in the aftermath of Shepard and the Reaper War.

[ntrisley]

That's assuming that it is set in the immediate aftermath of Shepard and the Reaper War.

 

If we're at something like 200-300 years post Shepard, then N7 and the blood stripe might just be mandatory for special forces.

[Heimdall]

That's assuming that it is set in the immediate aftermath of Shepard and the Reaper War.

 

If we're at something like 200-300 years post Shepard, then N7 and the blood stripe might just be mandatory for special forces.

Could be.  Really it could have become anything at that point.

[ntrisley]

At this point, I'm imagining that the next Mass Effect game details the exploits of Shepard's disappointing descendent who is an intergalactic pizza delivery person who gets lost en route and kicks off a civil war over pizza toppings on an alien planet.

 

You're welcome BioWare.

[Sion1138]

Well then skip Shepard 2 and move right on to Shepard 3.

[squidney2k1]

You will be a soldier. Duh. There's going to be combat.

Plus we don't know that that's the player character.
Also, there could be tons of N7s after the Reaper War as they're needed.
And, humanity is at the top of their game and savior after ME3, which would justify and increase in N7 operatives.

[KaiserShep]

Loss of the relays wouldn't mean that civilizations would collapse and descend into anarchy.

 

In high EMS Destroy, Council Space would probably be fairly OK years after, but the Terminus is already a fairly unstable place even before the war. After that, with many of them being cut off from the rest of the galaxy, who knows what they'll end up doing. They won't be able to traverse as far as they used to to raid supply ships or find resources. I doubt very much that they'd get the relays out there up and running anytime soon.

[spinachdiaper]

Indoctrination of Bioware employees by EA means Shepard 2 is 100% guaranteed

[MattFini]

Well then skip Shepard 2 and move right on to Shepard 3.

 

I read this in Rust Cohle's voice and it was incredible.