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[ffejita]

ME3 ended with space magic, so ME:A will begin with space magic

[The Night Haunter]

I doubt it will be another piece of Prothean tech coming to save the day. I think the 'Ark' will just be an ad-hoc emergency initiative initiated by survivors of a Reaper assault who desperately flee.

[MrFob]

I doubt it will be another piece of Prothean tech coming to save the day. I think the 'Ark' will just be an ad-hoc emergency initiative initiated by survivors of a Reaper assault who desperately flee.

 

And in the process they casualty achieve the greatest technological feat since the invention of the mass relays? Really?

 

I mean, I am not fond at all of the whole "saved by ancient artifact" or "saved by fluke wormhole" ideas but I am not sure that this idea is more believable either. Unfortunately, I think the most likely scenario is ffejita's.

[The Night Haunter]

Or they go the low tech route. Suspended animation and a 2k year trip to Andromeda. They did say it took place long after ME after ME3 lol.

 

Alternately maybe Cerberus (a splinter group of it that didn't go bat crap crazy) started devoting research to this idea (several years worth, plus advances from Collectors and Reaper tech), and once they realized TIM had gone off the reservation they abandoned ship, got in contact with the survivors of a Reaper attack and used the tech they'd developed to escape to Andromeda.

Now that I think about that I'd actually love that path. It adds a lot of tension to the group (Cerberus was very pro-human, even the reasonable members of it, so how would they interact with the aliens that come along for the ride), has a semi-reasonable explanation for how we come up with this tech and is fun

 

 

Or maybe Bioware came up with an even better reason, cause you know, they have professional writers spending 40hrs a week (or more) on these problems. And I'm sure their ideas > mine.

[Drone223]

Your argument is basically "well they've made some super inconsequential choices canon, therefore I think they should canonize an ending in which the entire galaxy is irreversibly and deeply affected".

And yet, I've noticed, you dont actually come out and say that you want an ending canonized.

If you dont - then you don't want an ending canonized and you don't want the game to take place in Andromeda. So you want the game to take place nowhere, as not canonizing an ending rules out the Milky Way.

And if you DO want an ending canonized, then why not just come out and say it? Make your argument "I think Bioware should make x ending canon and set the game in the Milky Way" rather than "I think setting it in Andromeda is stupid for x,y,z reasons and I offer no alternative as far as what I would actually like".

It would make debate on the matter more productive.

tbh I just want Bioware to address the issues of the endings one way or the other be it making a certain ending canon or something else entirely, because sooner or later they'll have to.

[MrFob]

Or maybe Bioware came up with an even better reason, cause you know, they have professional writers spending 40hrs a week (or more) on these problems. And I'm sure their ideas > mine.

Well, I hope they do. Just saying, their track record with such matters is not that great.
 
As for suspended animation, it's not the worst idea. After all, they might have studied prothean stasis tubes since they found them on Illos (or potentially even sooner somewhere else). These tubes can suspend people for at least 50.000 years (see Javik). Of course, they couldn't fly FTL (need to discharge the drive core is a problem in dark space) and Andromeda is 2.5 billion ly away from the Milky Way so they'd better hope these stasis pods hold WAY longer than Javik's.
Also, I wasn't only talking about speed. Just charting a proper course wold be amazing.
 
Having the entire next ME game is built on the foundation of another crazy Cerberus project on the other hand ... if that happens, I am just going to despair outright.

[The Night Haunter]

tbh I just want Bioware to address the issues of the endings one way or the other be it making a certain ending canon or something else entirely. Because sooner or later they'll have to eventually.

Why? LOST never came in and said what happened after the ending. There have been hundreds (thousands even) of works of fiction that purposely leave endings open ended, to encourage reader/viewer/gamer imagination. Sadly recent trends have been to crush imagination because people can't seem to use it anymore. But ME doesn't need anything else, if they hadn't been making MEA then ME3 is a perfectly reasonable ending for the franchise (now that all the DLC is out to actually give us an ending that isnt pick your color and suck it).

 

If they go back to ME3 and 'cannonize' an ending or do anything to bring clarity like that, it will only be bad for them. It will ****** off many people, so the best thing Bioware can do is leave it alone, and let fans create their own post-ending fiction.

[The Night Haunter]

Well, I hope they do. Just saying, their track record with such matters is not that great.
 
As for suspended animation, it's not the worst idea. After all, they might have studied prothean stasis tubes since they found them on Illos (or potentially even sooner somewhere else). These tubes can suspend people for at least 50.000 years (see Javik). Of course, they couldn't fly FTL (need to discharge the drive core is a problem in dark space) and Andromeda is 2.5 billion ly away from the Milky Way so they'd better hope these stasis pods hold WAY longer than Javik's.
Also, I wasn't only talking about speed. Just charting a proper course wold be amazing.
 
Having the entire next ME game built on the foundation of Cerberus on the other hand ... if that happens, I am just going to despair outright.

Well, to be fair it would be the part of Cerberus that Donnely and Daniels were a part of! The good-part, not the crazy Reaper tech ingesting TIM stuff.

 

Of course it could be Salarians or Asari instead of Cerberus. The Salarians are eminently practical after all, I don't see why at least some of the wouldn't have believed Shep and prepared something.

[LinksOcarina]

Why? LOST never came in and said what happened after the ending. There have been hundreds (thousands even) of works of fiction that purposely leave endings open ended, to encourage reader/viewer/gamer imagination. Sadly recent trends have been to crush imagination because people can't seem to use it anymore. But ME doesn't need anything else, if they hadn't been making MEA then ME3 is a perfectly reasonable ending for the franchise (now that all the DLC is out to actually give us an ending that isnt pick your color and suck it).

 

If they go back to ME3 and 'cannonize' an ending or do anything to bring clarity like that, it will only be bad for them. It will ****** off many people, so the best thing Bioware can do is leave it alone, and let fans create their own post-ending fiction.

 

While I agree that is the best move in the end for BioWare...to be honest, if this entire scouting mission to Andromeda is not during the time of the Reapers, as the timeline is predicting here, then they will have to do so when they jump into the future.