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[katamuro]

So we all have seen/heard the N7 day MEA trailer where female commander Shepard speaks. 

I don't know if this theory already been posted or not but I have just arrived it after watching the trailer for the second time.

 

So here I go.

The reason why we hear Shepard sending off the ship is because it either happens during the ME3 and as the humanity's greatest hero Shepard would probably be asked to say a few words. Or because this is after the Reaper War and Shepard is in position of authority(admiral or something) and is sending off the player to Andromeda as part of possibly human led Council effort to explore I guess. Or maybe they got some kind of information from reaper remains that there is something in that galaxy worth investigating. 

[Fiery Phoenix]

If we must contextualize the N7 Day speech, I think no explanation other than it having happened during ME3's timeframe makes sense, for reasons that have already been outlined countless times.

[Guanxii]

One last pay day for Jennifer Hale before ME:A i think. I don't expect it to be an extract from the game just filling time along with the stock footage. I imagine her going rate is cheaper than licencing music.

 

In the event that this is an extract from the game imo I believe that this would have to be recorded pre harbinger-beam due to the continuity issues related to RGB.

[Ahriman]

 Or because this is after the Reaper War and Shepard is in position of authority

Well, that's certainly not an option since Shepard after Reaper War is Green Dust/Reapers God/Under Wreckage. While it would be quite inspiring to hear encouragement from Green Reaper God, I doubt Bioware were aiming for that.

I suppose it's just symbolic baton pass from one PC to another.

[katamuro]

One last pay day for Jennifer Hale before ME:A i think. I don't expect it to be an extract from the game just filling time along with the stock footage. I imagine her going rate is cheaper than licencing music.

 

In the event that this is an extract from the game imo I believe that this would have to be recorded pre harbinger-beam due to the continuity issues related to RGB.

 

I still think that they are probably going to end up canonizing the destroy ending. As I said they just might be vague enough about it, Something like X amount of years ago we were sent with this message to this galaxy. It is our mandate here. 

[themikefest]

I say the ship leaves before the events of ME3. Earth looks to be ok as the ship is leaving.

[BennyORWO]

I don't think they will canonize any ending...because...they send the Ark before the ultimate fight with the Reapers on Earth...meaning the people on Andromeda wouldn't know what happen on Earth.

[Eleonora]

The reason why we hear Shepard sending off the ship is because it either happens during the ME3 and as the humanity's greatest hero Shepard would probably be asked to say a few words. Or because this is after the Reaper War and Shepard is in position of authority(admiral or something) and is sending off the player to Andromeda as part of possibly human led Council effort to explore I guess.

Shep's last quote in the trailer/teaser is: "This is commander Shepard, signing off." Unless Shepard stays just a commander after the war (seems unlikely to me), I'd say this happened during ME3.

[Heimdall]

I don't think the speech should be taken as a real in setting event, though I do think the departure will be early in ME3's timeframe.

[katamuro]

I missed the commander part. I guess I am so accustomed to it that I just tuned it out. Yeah I guess then it would make more sense if it happens before ME3. Heck I would say even before ME2(because Shep was working "with" Cerberus) so could be at the height of Shep's popularity in Alliance, just after the ME1 but before the death.

[Guanxii]

I still think that they are probably going to end up canonizing the destroy ending. As I said they just might be vague enough about it, Something like X amount of years ago we were sent with this message to this galaxy. It is our mandate here. 

 

I agree. Definitely would personally prefer this expedition to be post ending because the plot convenience of building a giant intergalactic shape-ship ark during the reaper war highly suspect. It would feel much less contrived if this expedition is billed as humanities next step rather than it just being a 22nd century life raft.

[wright1978]

It's probably just a fun goodbye to Shep from the team rather than anything that's supposed to be integrated into the story.

I highly doubt they are going to go back on their word and canonise an ending.

I also personally hope they don't retcon it so that Shep was aware of this ark, despite the player not being.

Feels like the sort of contingency you'd rightfully keep from front line leader of fight against reapers who's been numerous times put at risk of indocrination.

[katamuro]

It's probably just a fun goodbye to Shep from the team rather than anything that's supposed to be integrated into the story.

I highly doubt they are going to go back on their word and canonise an ending.

I also personally hope they don't retcon it so that Shep was aware of this ark, despite the player not being.

Feels like the sort of contingency you'd rightfully keep from front line leader of fight against reapers who's been numerous times put at risk of indocrination.

 

See I think that it was not supposed to be an Ark, it was just an exploration mission, one of those long term long reach things that governments with thousands of years of history would do. Or at least if the whole Shepard thing is actually in-game and not something else. Then it would make sense that it would have started out just before ME2. 

[Balsam Beige]

They are setting the game in another galaxy to get away from Shepard.

Personally, I hope they don't even mention Shepard, the Reapers or anything else related to the trilogy.
I didn't need the fan service either.

Shepard had a good ride.

[katamuro]

They are setting the game in another galaxy to get away from Shepard.

Personally, I hope they don't even mention Shepard, the Reapers or anything else related to the trilogy.
I didn't need the fan service either.

Shepard had a good ride.

 

They have to connect the Milky way galaxy(because that is where humans are from) and the Andromeda galaxy somehow. Hence they need to mention it and since humanity didn't have the level of galactic technology for long. 

[wright1978]

See I think that it was not supposed to be an Ark, it was just an exploration mission, one of those long term long reach things that governments with thousands of years of history would do. Or at least if the whole Shepard thing is actually in-game and not something else. Then it would make sense that it would have started out just before ME2. 

 

Personally i hope its not that. I hope its a desperate contingency because  i think its a more satisfying explanation and one that makes more sense both in terms of the danger of such an operation and maintaining the secrecy during the trilogy.

[katamuro]

Personally i hope its not that. I hope its a desperate contingency because  i think its a more satisfying explanation and one that makes more sense both in terms of the danger of such an operation and maintaining the secrecy during the trilogy.

 

It doesn't make sense. When the whole galaxy was scrambling for ships and materials to either defend something or send to the Crucible building such a huge project that would divert funds, people and materials would be just a bit silly. Especially since they needed every person out there fighting.

[themikefest]

It doesn't make sense. When the whole galaxy was scrambling for ships and materials to either defend something or send to the Crucible building such a huge project that would divert funds, people and materials would be just a bit silly. Especially since they needed every person out there fighting.

Its possible the ship was built before the events of ME3. After the reapers invade and the galaxy is using whatever resources for the crucible, the ship leaves for Andromeda

[Osena109]

It doesn't make sense. When the whole galaxy was scrambling for ships and materials to either defend something or send to the Crucible building such a huge project that would divert funds, people and materials would be just a bit silly. Especially since they needed every person out there fighting.

Agreed the reapers would chase after the Normandy and we barley got away. and that lesser ship would be space debris.

[wright1978]

It doesn't make sense. When the whole galaxy was scrambling for ships and materials to either defend something or send to the Crucible building such a huge project that would divert funds, people and materials would be just a bit silly. Especially since they needed every person out there fighting.

 

Much of the funds and materials could have been diverted since end of ME1 as part of a ultra secret contingency plan to see if it was possible to build an ark. Then you'd only need final preparations to be made once its clear milky way is up the creek without a paddle.There were heavy hints in ME3 that there was an awareness that Sovereign was more than was let on so there seems to be some scope for showing the council as less idiotic than they seemed. That seems far more workable than some suicidal but completely secret exploration mission being in ME2 timeframe but with no reaper premise behind it.

[Wulfram]

It doesn't make sense. When the whole galaxy was scrambling for ships and materials to either defend something or send to the Crucible building such a huge project that would divert funds, people and materials would be just a bit silly. Especially since they needed every person out there fighting.

Depends how huge a project it is. Which mostly depends on how we're making the trip.

I don't think, say, taking a cargo ship, converting it for an extended trip, sticking in 20,000 stasis pods and a bunch of colonisation equipment and sending it on its way is necessarily unreasonable. On a galactic scale, that's basically nothing.

[katamuro]

Much of the funds and materials could have been diverted since end of ME1 as part of a ultra secret contingency plan to see if it was possible to build an ark. Then you'd only need final preparations to be made once its clear milky way is up the creek without a paddle.There were heavy hints in ME3 that there was an awareness that Sovereign was more than was let on so there seems to be some scope for showing the council as less idiotic than they seemed. That seems far more workable than some suicidal but completely secret exploration mission being in ME2 timeframe but with no reaper premise behind it.

 

Can't remember where I had the idea, but one thing that explains why the council was so stupid is that the Citadel was indoctrinating them slowly. Over a couple of years, it didn't make them into complete reaper subjects but it influenced their decisions enough so that they were slow to act against them and make stupid decisions. 

[prosthetic soul]

I too have a theory as to why Shepard narrated the recent trailer.  It's because

 

Spoiler

Bioware likes pouring salt into open wounds

[Heimdall]

Can't remember where I had the idea, but one thing that explains why the council was so stupid is that the Citadel was indoctrinating them slowly. Over a couple of years, it didn't make them into complete reaper subjects but it influenced their decisions enough so that they were slow to act against them and make stupid decisions.

The Citadel has been inhabited for 2000 years, if it was having an effect on people's behavior, someone would notice.

[NM_Che56]

Seeing as how Shepard can die and the cycle can continue, the speech had to occur before Priority: London.  Seeing as how we controlled Shepard's moves in every game, there is very little chance that Shepard recorded some inspirational message for a monumental event such as leaving the Milky Way.  

 

I imagine that this speech could have been recorded in the gap between Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2.  Not between Mass Effect 2 and 3 since we open with Shepard being detained and grounded in ME 3 because working with Cerberus.