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[Hexxagone]

The Reaper War and the Crucible affected the Milky Way not the entire universe. There's no way for explorers millions of light years away to know what happened back home, communication isn't that advanced. They are in the dark and will most likely not see the Milky Way again for a LONG time, if ever.

 

Since we haven't heard of Galaxy hopping in the original trilogy, we can assume that it was experimental technology that sent them to Andromeda. That kind of tech would need both sides in good shape to work right, think 2 sides of a tunnel, if one entrance collapses then the tunnel is useless. If the explorers left before ME3, the Reapers could have destroyed the tech in the Milky Way, trapping the explorers in Andromeda with no idea why it happened.

 

Even if Andromeda is years after ME3, it still wouldn't be enough time for news to reach Andromeda. You gotta understand that these types of uncharted missions come with the possibility of never seeing your home again. It might not be until ME6 that the main character gets back to the Milky Way or even finds out there was a Reaper War.

[Zekka]

Artistic Integrity

[mickey111]

we all hated ME3s ending, we don't care. 

[GalacticWolf5]

QEC is possible. What if there's one that allows the people in Andromeda to contact people in the Milky Way?

 

It would allow for Bioware to recognize our ending choice without having to base the whole game around it because the people in Andromeda are unaffected by it.

 

A simple converstation via QEC could have someone saying that Shepard now controls the Reapers, or that the Reapers are destroyed or that everyone has be synthesized. Even mention if the Genophage was cured or not, if peace was made between the Geth and Quarians, etc (of course that would depend on when we left the Milky Way)

[GalacticWolf5]

we all hated ME3s ending, we don't care. 

 

Speak for yourself, I loved it and I'm not the only one.

[GalacticWolf5]

Oh and I forgot to mention Refusal in the QEC converstation.

 

Bioware could either say that it's a non-canon ending (like Shepard's death in ME2) and not include it or make it that no one is answering from the Milky Way.

[7twozero]

Because they're fools and should be eaten.

[Oldren Shepard]

The game will be after Mass Effect 3

 

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[Ahglock]

I don't think they will I think its possible they will.

 

There are groups lined up one either side who will be irritated if they do or if they don't and some wont give a crap.  I fall into the not really giving a crap camp.  I'll argue some points about it, but whatever their decision it wont impact my enjoyment of the game.

[ArabianIGoggles]

Speak for yourself, I loved it and I'm not the only one.

Exactly.  The hate for the endings has been so overblown that it's beyond pathetic.  

[Gothfather]

A cannon ending means that they will alienate all the players who picked the 3 other endings. You don't want 3/4 of the endings people picked to be rendered void. A cannon ending does absolutely nothing to heal the issues over the ME3 endings it only exacerbates them. So why do that? The endings in ME3 have multiple mutually exclusive results so no sequel could be made within the Milky way without a canon ending. So they changed setting, allowing players to have the ending they chose and they get a clean slate to tell new stories within the universe of mass effect. And they do so without invalidating anyone ending they don't need to open a scab on the endings that were not popular with a large percent of the community.

 

New Series. New Galaxy.

 

Get over it people.

[Hexxagone]

Everybody and their mom knows that Destroy will be the cannon ending if they ever do one. 80% of all people picked it.

[Felya87]

It's mostly hope, not believe. Many of us who didn't like the ending find it still too lacuster, and hope for more answers. Expecially for the companions on the Nromandy and Shepard a faceless torso in the rubble. Is the only ending with such a terrible cliffhanger, and doesn't help with closing Shep adventures.

[Hjklop]

Because despite everything people still care about the trilogy they spent 100s of hours on, and would like just a little bit of acknowledge meant of them. Just a reference or a word on how life's going for them, same reason for cameo street on illium in Mass Effect 2, it's just nice to get that extra little bit of closure even though you got some measure of it in the original game. 

[spinachdiaper]

Because if there isn't some small level of continuity from ME3 to ME:A, then they might as well name the game Flippity Floppity Floop.

[Chardonney]

I'd prefer if BW didn't acknowledge the abomination called ME3 ending. It was simply that bad.

 

Of course, if I could get a message that Shepard was found in time and is alive and well, then I would be okay with it being mentioned in MEA.  

[AlanC9]

It's mostly hope, not believe. Many of us who didn't like the ending find it still too lacuster, and hope for more answers. Expecially for the companions on the Nromandy and Shepard a faceless torso in the rubble. Is the only ending with such a terrible cliffhanger, and doesn't help with closing Shep adventures.

What answers do you need about the Normandy? It's down and safe (assuming medium or better EMS), and not too far from Earth unless you're adding even more space magic of your own to what Bio showed us.

[themikefest]

How far is the Normandy from Earth? Is there anything suggesting that its not too far from Earth?  What was the purpose of the whatever planet? Why isn't the Normandy in pieces on the planet after having its thrusters ripped from the ship if ems is low enough?

[Faust1979]

we all hated ME3s ending, we don't care. 

 

I didn't hate Me3's endings, speak for yourself

[AlanC9]

How far is the Normandy from Earth? Is there anything suggesting that its not too far from Earth? What was the purpose of the whatever planet? Why isn't the Normandy in pieces on the planet after having its thrusters ripped from the ship if ems is low enough?

The way space travel works in the MEU doesn't give the Normandy any way to get very far from Earth. If they were traveling in standard FTL, any other ship can reach that planet the same way they did. If they were travelling by relay -- the graphics seem to imply this -- there's only one known garden world (Demeter) within range of the Charon Relay (Benning and the world orbiting Alpha Centauri don't have relays.) In any event, the Charon relay can't take a ship anyplace that can't be reached via standard FTL -- secondary relays don't have the range.

The local primaries are in Arcturus. In theory, Normandy could have used the Charon Relay to reach Arcturus, and then used a primary from there. But it's flat-out inconceivable that a garden gateway world one relay transit away from the capital wouldn't have been settled by the Alliance. And any system only a secondary relay transit away from that colony would be within standard FTL range. And so on. And in any event, the fleets were heading to a known rendezvous point.

The appearance of the planet is of no significance. Given known human settlement patterns and the low populations of human colonies, any human colony would look as deserted as the jungle planet does across most of its surface. Hell, you could crash a ship into the USA and get views like that.

(Of course, there's nothing preventing anyone from headcanoning more wacky space magic that somehow warped the Normandy to someplace truly unknown.)

As for the purpose, my bet is that was just for the symbolism. Unfortunately, the sequence was written after the leaked script, so we don't have any way to judge intent unless one of the devs starts talking.

[Han Shot First]

It is possible that the Andromeda colonists will get news of the how the Reaper War ends from QEC, and that the endings might be referenced in that way.

[AlanC9]

Conceivable, but that would require Bio to rule IT out once and for all. I'm not convinced they're ready to pull that trigger.

[Hexxagone]

Right I dont think they will mention it, 4-6 will be in Andromeda and then if they do more ME they will go back to the Milky Way when nobody would care by then what cannon ending they choose.

[Ahglock]

Right I dont think they will mention it, 4-6 will be in Andromeda and then if they do more ME they will go back to the Milky Way when nobody would care by then what cannon ending they choose.

 

So what 1000 years for butt hurt to subside?

[Han Shot First]

Conceivable, but that would require Bio to rule IT out once and for all. I'm not convinced they're ready to pull that trigger.

 

I'd argue they already did that when no DLC was released confirming an IT interpretation of Mass Effect 3. The Extended Cut even seemed to subvert it, since it provided epilogues for all the choices, and neither Synthesis or Control results in mass extinction. In fact only choice that resulted in mass extinction in the Extended Cut, is the one where Shepard refuses to take any of the options presented.

 

Bioware also banned discussion of IT on these forums for awhile, which would be a bizarre reaction if IT was what the writers intended.