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[Broganisity]

Bigger Jaws.

 

And here I was all excited to post this...

[Torgette]

That's going to be one just one of the major issues facing a setting shift like this.


Either the races of Andromeda are intellectually incompetent, and despite having millions/billions of years to develop free of Reaper interference they still are less advanced than us.

Or the Reapers (or their 'Not-Reaper' counterpart) will have subjected Andromeda to the same cycles as the Milky Way.


Those are really the only two logical reasons why the species of Andromeda wouldn't be exponentially more advanced than us, and wouldn't just fry us with their mind bullets as soon as we tried to colonize one of their planets.

 

Just a guess but maybe they bombed eachother back into the stone age?

[SolNebula]

I have my delusion they will come with a better and fresher idea rather than organics vs synthetics all over again.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

I have my delusion they will come with a better and fresher idea rather than organics vs synthetics all over again.

Like organics vs organics? Or synthetics vs synthetics? The Shepard Trilogy had those covered too. 

[CrutchCricket]

I think it'd be amusing if the Remnants ended up being Protheans who made the journey last cycle, and who have imposed their tyrannical rule over Andromeda.

 

"Foolish primitives. If the galaxy gives you lemons you find a new galaxy."

 

Actually that would be interesting. Us vs a new Prothean Empire in Andromeda. Do we oppose them? Without their tech and guidance we'd have been doomed. But at the same time we won't be their slaves. Difficult morality! Intrigue!

[Nitrocuban]

well, we never heard about that prothean scientists that reprogrammed the keepers, did we?

[Han Shot First]

Hopefully nothing.

 

I'd rather the series not try to outdo itself with each chapter having bigger and badder baddies. Villains don't necessarily have to be more threatening than villains in previous chapters to be just as or more interesting. Hopefully whatever antagonists end up in ME:Next will have different goals than destroying all sapient life. 

[Arcian]

Somebody who makes stars collapse via black energy would be pretty scary.

The politically correct term is african-american energy.

[Nitrocuban]

I liked Maya Brooks.

Sad thing Shepard couldn't f**** her.

[Nitrocuban]

Oh, didn't know she was done with a RL girl as template.

 

And the longer I think about it the more I get the feeling a Renegade Shepard should have had the chance to.

At first it would be "OMG Shepard how dare you!" and at the end he's the one who got tricked by her.

 

And now I gonna have a closer look on this actress's pics ...

[SolNebula]

It's why I liked Maya Brooks. I don't need big baddies. Just some intrigue.

 

Same could go for Dragon Age. I don't care for most of their villains except Loghain.

 

I admit shooting her down was very satisfying. In my book this means she was a good villain.

[Oldren Shepard]

Somebody who makes stars collapse via black energy would be pretty scary.

they would not be the reapers, but they were trying to find a solution to that problem, more terrifying than the solution seems to us, would have involved the desicion that was taken at the end of the second.

[Arl Raylen]

You guys need to read some Alastair Reynolds. I'm almost certain Bioware copies his work. They'll likely just be a deadlier version of the Reapers, maybe one with no "noble" goal in mind. Bioware will probably say the Reapers kept this force at bay, but with their extinction we opened the door to more Universal predators. So maybe the Milky Way is invaded by this hyper advanced race of (most likely synthetics), and we're forced to head to Andromeda to regroup (we'll probably be given a clue that something there can help us). Since intergalactic travel is really out of range of ME tech as we know it, it's likely we'll get help from some deus ex machina to get us there. Read enough sci fi and you'll know it's all been done before...

[Degrees1991]

Do we need another genocidal super race again. I like a more grounded story personally. I liked all the loyalty missions in Mass Effect 2 and at least half of them can be made into nearly a full game.

[Nitrocuban]

Too small scale for Bioware.

[SwobyJ]

What could be worse than the Reapers?

 

The trilogy is in one galaxy. And only a fraction of that galaxy is actually covered by the story (the rest just assumed as also being under Reaper authority).

 

One.

 

Out of potentially infinite. Out of scales of superclusters of galaxies. Out of all the potential layers of reality and dimensions and space and time.

 

Even 'worse' has to be defined here. Worse in terms of firepower? Of mind control? Or what about in the manipulations of the workings of reality? What about actually being NOT in your face (as Reapers are during the reaping), but so insidious that they have created most/all of reality as we understand it as humans? Or what about an enemy that rises from within - running off a legacy of a 'good' organization from the trilogy but tainting it entirely, using technology of another ancient species in order to achieve a sympathetic goal that nonetheless will ruin us? 

 

I'm just tossing stuff out there, but I just want to remind that the Reapers, while multidimensional in how it struck humanity/organics in the Milky Way (War/Indoctrination/Harvest), everything could still be boiled down to a synthetic race forcing itself on organics, as its theme. There's many, many, many other scifi themes that could happen, and they don't need to be as nearly in-your-face to be technically 'worse' for our protagonist and allies.

 

There doesn't even need to be (as central of a thing) as genocide again. There are worse things than death, and while the Reaper concept somewhat explored that, it still boiled down to (literally) fight-or-die. There can be threats more complicated, scary, and interesting than that.

[Vazgen]

What could be worse than the Reapers? More Reapers

[Torgette]

What could be worse than the Reapers? More Reapers

 

A really really really big invisible reaper, that shoots sharknados, and plays this constantly.

[Vazgen]

A really really really big invisible reaper, that shoots sharknados, and plays this constantly.

Or this 

[Humakt83]

Where comes the assumption that Reapers' wouldn't harvest other galaxies?

[Guanxii]

Where comes the assumption that Reapers' wouldn't harvest other galaxies?

Could be the fate of the Remnant. Remember when Sovereign said they were infinite, no beginning, no middle, no end? We all thought it was a veiled threat, it's possible this is what it meant.

The Reaper Relay network could go on forever... every galaxy could have it's own Relay network connected via the citadels/conduits/catalysts. That wouldn't necessarily mean that the entire universe would be within our reach - only where life has triggered the relays and found their citadels.

We assumed that they hibernated, maybe they just reap and construct more relays and reapers in the off season and check in back home every 50k years. Perhaps we've only seen the tip of the iceberg.