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I am a huge fan of Mass Effect and was not as upset as others about Mass Effect 3's ending. My disappointment was how it ended Shepherd's story and left nothing to expand upon. I created my forum account just to write this and wanted to know what people's thoughts are on this idea. I'd love to hear feedback from other fans of the franchise or even developers. I hope somebody reads the whole thing as I know this is lengthy lol. Anyways I wrote this for fun.
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Here's my story If I wrote Mass Effect Andromeda:
The events of Andromeda actually begin shortly after the discovery of the Prothean ruins on Mars in 2148 CE. In the data cache they find a large amount of data and technologies that caused technology to jump forward. Through years of research different concepts were decoded and made a reality through gradual understanding of such advanced technology. One concept discovered was one the that the Protheans had finished and tried, but was labeled as a failure. This concept was to escape the Reapers by leaving the galaxy. The Protheans were trying to travel to the Andromeda Galaxy. Time was short and there was no way they could reach their destination in time by means of mass effect technology. They needed to travel by wormhole. The humans did not understand what was meant by escaping the reapers or even what the reapers were, but the idea of traveling to different galaxies intrigued them and peaked their curiosity.
[Space Science, just for an idea but not crucial to the story]
They found that wormholes were very similar in structure to that of a black hole. Black holes fueled by dark matter. Instead of traveling distance creating a hole in space that in a way brings the galaxies closer together. A good visual of this would be the length of an 8' rope. The rope will always remain 8'. If you were able to bring the ends together they would be closer, yet the rope itself would still remain 8'. In the same way the wormhole bends space to where the Andromeda galaxy is very close and they could travel there in seconds rather than years.
[End Space Science]
[Story From the Milky way continued]
It was unknown why the project failed the Protheans all they knew was that their team disappeared, but the science still was worth trying out for humanity. The Alliance researched the technology for years alone, but made leaps forward when peace with council races were made and their participation was welcomed on the project. Through the events of the Mass Effect trilogy and the unknown threat of the Reapers developed an urgency to finish the project. The council formed a small team called ARKCON, a Pathfinder Initiative to pioneer the way into the Andromeda Galaxy. Time was short and they needed to test the technology now. The ARCON team got together on the first wormhole spaceship to embark on their journey. They powered up the dark matter cores and opened the window to the Andromeda galaxy, but when the ship touched the portal there was a massive explosion and a bright light. The ARCON team was gone. Time went on and the Reapers had finally arrived. No contact had came from the ARCON team. Unknown whether or not the team survived the journey the council had to consider them to be dead and the project a dead end. Their last hope was with Shepherd uniting the galaxy and stopping the Reapers himself.
[Story from the ARCON team]
After passing through the Portal there was a blinding light and then an explosion. The entire ship shook as sparks flew. When it passed they were all still alive but the ship was heavily damaged. Long range communications were out and the galaxy nav was down. They could not make any contact. They needed to find more materials to fix the ship, find a safe planet to inhabit and return to the Milky Way to begin preparations for a large migration across galaxies. Upon exploring their first planet they find clues to the whereabouts of the original Prothean team. The weird thing was that the clue seemed just a few years old.
The general game plot is the ARCON team trying to find where the Prothean team ended up and what happened to them, as well as finding a way to fix their ship and return home. Along the way they find the Prothean team and find out that traveling by wormhole not only travels distance, but in bending space you travel through time as well (Which is why the clue was only a few years old and why the Prothean team is still alive thousands of years later from human perspective). Together they discover the remains of an ancient civilization that once stopped the Reapers in the Andromeda galaxy. Blueprints on weapons that proved to be very effective in destroying Reapers. If they defeated the Reapers, why are they all gone? A subspecies had evolved and wiped the civilization out. The old civilization had technology, but the new one had numbers, and their numbers were too great for the ancients to destroy. (This new specie is the one you and your team fight while exploring Andromeda.)
ARCON and the Prothean team find an egg in stasis in one of the ancient labs. They believe this egg is what the new specie came from. They take the egg and eventually fix the ship and head home to the milky way galaxy.
[Here is the part I'm having trouble with. Time travel problems]
ARCON and the Prothean team travel through the wormhole back to the Milky Way galaxy but through time again. They had technically been gone for years even past the end of the Mass Effect 3 game. But when traveling through a wormhole they travel through time as well and end up in the middle of mass effect 3. They bring the blueprints of the new weapons to the council and mass production begins of them. Each ship being equipped with the new weapons.
The ending: your team and the Prothean Team team up with Shepherd and his team and defeat the reapers conventionally. Due to time travel all the events of Mass Effect 3 are undone and the Reapers are defeated. Mass celebration ensues across the galaxy. Later in another scene scientists are analyzing the egg that was brought back from the Andromeda galaxy. There is a similar DNA found in the Milky Way Galaxy on the Drell homeworld, no contact had been made with that world since they had assumed they all killed each other out of hunger. The truth is that the new specie had already began to evolve and rapidly with the new conditions of the Drell homeworld.
-Cue Mass Effect 4-
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I do not know if anyone will take the time to read this story. It is very lengthy, but I hope some do and would love feedback and ideas to expand on this. Let me know what you guys think! Thanks!
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