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[Sweawm]

Posted in yet another thread pondering the quandary that is the move to a new galaxy. I thought this insight was interesting enough to have a thread. Forgive me if it's a retread of something that's already been discussed. I've heard everyone discussing the Ark Theory, which is about an Ark going to the new galaxy, but I put my personal bet on an Intergalactic Relay. So, this is my theory about Dark Energy making a return. 

 

Why move to another galaxy? I thought really hard about this and I figured it out.

 

RETURN OF THE DARK ENERGY PLOT

 

Basically, remember the original plot/motive behind the actual Mass Effect trilogy that got cut out in the end after Mass Effect 2? All the foreshadowing that went nowhere? That in the original plot for Mass Effect 3, the Reapers were revealed to be created to solve the Dark Energy Crisis, a mysterious byproduct of Mass Effect Relay travel that was causing the lifespan of stars to rapidly accelerate? 

 

It's coming back. The Milky Way's stars have started going out and so all the species wanting out likely rerigged the Citadel Mass Relay (it can also Reapers instantaneous entry into the galaxy from Dark Space, so it's pretty damn powerful. So far, no limitations on just how powerful a Mass Relay can be have been imposed), to shoot them into another galaxy to start again. The drama of the new Mass Effect will center around the original Mass Effect species having to forcibly seize and colonize a place in a neighboring and hostile galaxy to survive. 

 

Because it makes sense. Why go all the way to another galaxy if the Milky Way isn't doomed to be destroyed?  

[Acrylium]

 

 

 Why go all the way to another galaxy if the Milky Way isn't doomed to be destroyed?  

 

 

 

As a ultimate fail safe should the crucible fail. If the Reapers win the war, the organic civilizations will survive at least in another galaxy. It's as simple as that.

[UpUpAway95]

... or the Crucible, which no one in the ME Trilogy was really sure about what it did (dialogue said repeatedly in the games), was actually something other than the weapon everyone thought it was, but was a massive transmitter of a very specific type of dark energy that called the attention of the Andromedans towards the Milky Way Galaxy.  That some as yet un-introduced species in the Andromeda Galaxy predate everything introduced in the Mass Effect Universe and they created it all say by uplifting a Leviathan species who then created the Catalyst who then created the Reapers who then created the Mass Relays, etc.

 

All that is needed really to incorporate the current endings into such a scenario is to view the endings as being symbolic of a pre-death dialogue Shepard has with himself prior to actually dying while trying to sort out with Hackett why the Crucible wasn't APPARENTLY firing (i.e. firing anything that was apparent or detectable by Hackett).  Shepard doesn't have to be indoctrinated or anything like that... just a dying soldier wondering whether the choices he has made to that point were going to matter since he was dying without actually being able to reach that console.

 

Perhaps ME:A just takes us back to that point of the Crucible "not firing" and resolves the whole ending dilemma by finally revealing to us what the Crucible "actually does."