ME1 Illos - We find out that the citadel is actually a giant mass relay used by the reapers to ambush the galaxy, the implication here is that there's (at least) another one somewhere else and it's likely possible to travel in two directions and the constant references to "voices from deep space" during the trilogy provide a get out of jail free card, nobody ever said the voices were reapers. Rumours about a possible title 'Mass Effect: Contact' as well as talk of a new region of space and new alien species' got me thinking on the matter. Saren tried to remove the Prothean virus in order to reopen the relay so the reapers could pour through, so we know it's possible to reopen the relay without too much difficulty in a post reaper environment. This would also have the added benefit of avoiding having to detail and deal with the consequences of each players choices at the end of ME3. You could quite literally reduce the ME3 endings to dialogue with a foreign species and simply never have to talk about them ever again. Conveniently this provides the perfect excuse to upgrade the mako into something worth your time and bring exploration back as a feature of the game.
So how would it work? The Alliance/Council decide they want to make sure the reaper threat is actually gone for good so they decide to remove the virus the Protheans introduced in ME1 or upon rebuilding the citadel they find the virus is no longer present in the new systems installed. A small team of spectres is secretly sent through to investigate, this team could contain Hero-X or they could go missing and Hero-X could be sent in after them.
Alternatively we could be contacted through the relay by someone as yet unknown or even upon reactivating the citadel and finding the virus is no longer present, discover dozens of 'citadels' in dozens of galaxies indicating that the Reapers haven't been sitting around in deep space doing nothing at all for 50,000 years. The opportunity to move away from a single galactic community to a much larger community is also presented in this way.
I tend to be more interested in the theories other players come up with and discussing the possible direction a game can go in rather than being excited over every drip of info that slowly comes out about an unreleased title or youtube trailers, so if this seems a little far fetched there's your reason why.
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