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[LineHolder]

The first thing to do after waking up on the Ark is surely to check the QECs? To check for news from the Milky Way.

 

It'd be one hell of sucker punch if they're told that Reapers are now history and the Galaxy has moved on with some swanky new developments and advancement in technologies.

 

I'm predicting a return to the MW in the following games ... after ensuring enough time has passed in the MW (because of journey to Andromeda and return from it) to make retconning the ME3 endings unnecessary. And you return to find no surviving species ... hinting at another Reaper-like force that were reaping while you journeyed. The cycle continues!

[Bowlcuts]

Then Cerberus returns.

[LineHolder]

Then Cerberus returns.

 

Under Miranda's control this time. On our side.

 

One can hope

[themikefest]

I don't have a problem with future games taking place in the Milky Way

[katamuro]

I don't have a problem with future games taking place in the Milky Way

 

I neither but they do have to minimise the impact of the endings. Or at least the blue and green ones, red one is fine. 

[themikefest]

I neither but they do have to minimise the impact of the endings. Or at least the blue and green ones, red one is fine. 

BioWare could always ignore the 3 endings and add a different ending to have another game in the Milky Way. Don't know. Its up to them

[Trvp710]

BioWare could always ignore the 3 endings and add a different ending to have another game in the Milky Way. Don't know. Its up to them

I hope not. Then it will feel like all the decisions I made were pointless. I would prefer Mass Effect stick to either a far away setting, or a prequel. That way, nobodies choices are invalidated.

[Remix-General Aetius]

Just because there's an Ark doesn't mean that the Milky Way becomes uninhabitable. This could easily be an expansion, finding more places for multiple species to live in. This can easily be done with the Destroy ending. They can rebuild, but it will take a long time to recover. In the meantime there's nothing wrong with expanding to neighboring galaxies or whatnot.

[LineHolder]

BioWare could always ignore the 3 endings and add a different ending to have another game in the Milky Way. Don't know. Its up to them

 

That ship has sailed, sadly and one might say literally. Seems like that tactic was reserved exclusively for Shepard to be able to make an appearance in the 3rd game.

[aoibhealfae]

Or they could have made an entire prequel set during the Morning War or Krogan Rebellion or The First Contact War.

[wright1978]

The first thing to do after waking up on the Ark is surely to check the QECs? To check for news from the Milky Way.

 

It'd be one hell of sucker punch if they're told that Reapers are now history and the Galaxy has moved on with some swanky new developments and advancement in technologies.

 

I'm predicting a return to the MW in the following games ... after ensuring enough time has passed in the MW (because of journey to Andromeda and return from it) to make retconning the ME3 endings unnecessary. And you return to find no surviving species ... hinting at another Reaper-like force that were reaping while you journeyed. The cycle continues!

 

If Andromeda is in any way a success i expect them to stay in Andromeda and avoid the stench of having to deal with the ME3 ending trainwreck.

Certainly don't see them going down route of everyone you left behind in MW died anyway.

Don't see Andromeda colonists ever returning even if the stench didn't exist as they'll have a new life in Andromeda and hopefully return is either so difficult/dangerous/costly to be prohibitive or downright impossible.

[katamuro]

Or they could have made an entire prequel set during the Morning War or Krogan Rebellion or The First Contact War.

 

The idea was floated before on BSN and I have to tell you its terrible. We already know how it ends up. 

[ZipZap2000]

Strap a Rachni to your back and let them handle it through mama.

Seriously though I doubt we'll hear anything about MW until they're done with Andromeda. Then we might be lucky enough to get a reboot and people can finally stop asking for a new ending, because they'll have one.

[ZipZap2000]

Or they could have made an entire prequel set during the Morning War or Krogan Rebellion or The First Contact War.

Maybe as a spin off and if we're playing those periods I'd want to be able to play both sides in whichever conflict. We've been doing that in games since the 90s ffs.

[Scarlett]

We already explored the Milky Way during  3 games, I will be more happy to visit a new galaxy for each new trilogy/game than returning on the MW ...

 

To infinity and beyond

[Ahriman]

The first thing to do after waking up on the Ark is surely to check the QECs? To check for news from the Milky Way.

Yeah, that would be a shame if someone put this QEC on Citadel.

 

 

I'm predicting a return to the MW in the following games ... after ensuring enough time has passed in the MW (because of journey to Andromeda and return from it) to make retconning the ME3 endings unnecessary. And you return to find no surviving species ... hinting at another Reaper-like force that were reaping while you journeyed. The cycle continues!

How many millions of years you expect God Shepard to exist?

[Navasha]

Let's be real honest.   They could easily do a trilogy of games in Andromeda.   That would be 6 total Mass Effect games.   How many IPs really survive beyond that many these days?   I doubt we will see a return to the MW during the Mass Effect IP lifecycle and even if we do... we are talking 10 to 15 years from now.

[Guanxii]

The next time we see MW again will be the next reboot attempt IMO. We won't see another reboot anytime soon unless this one's a debacle.

Quantum entanglement surely has a range limit at some point although having said that instantaneous communication between galaxies would be no less silly than the likely explanation for how we get there in the first place.

I'm willing to give Andromeda a chance but that would be easier without the shadow of it's predecessor and controversy looming large over it. I'm worried the worlds will be sparse and underdeveloped I.e lacking memorable locations and constant reminders of the landmarks of home will draw unfavorable comparisons. I don't want to find myself missing the previous setting while I'm forming first impressions of the new one.

[Obliviousmiss]

Intergalactic travel  

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

One-way trip[edit]

As the time needed to go even to the Milky Way's nearest neighboring star is so astronomically high, trips to other galaxies would likely exceed a modern-day human lifespan by extreme orders of magnitude. Any such journey would mean that humans boarding such a spaceship from Earth would not only never be able to return to Earth alive, but would also never live to see the arrival of the spaceship at its destination. One solution could be a generation spaceship, but this idea in itself poses technical (and ethical) problems of its own.

Extreme long-duration voyages[edit]

Voyages to other galaxies at sub-light speeds would require voyage times anywhere from hundreds of thousands to many millions of years. To date only one design such as this has ever been made.^[1]

 

 

 

I hate to be practical, because I rarely am. But unless there's Space Magic Mass Effect-y stuff, (which I'm pretty sure there will be,) The above instances are the only way to get to Andromeda. 

 

It's possible that when someone "wakes up" on the ARK, that it's been millions of years since the Reapers invaded Earth. That's a LOT of history to read. I think the crew should be told before they embark on this one way trip that nothing in the Milky Way matters anymore and to forget it. They're finding a new home for humanity. 

[LineHolder]

Quantum entanglement surely has a range limit at some point

 

The way they were explained in the 2nd game, it seems as if spacetime has no effect on the quantum entanglers. It makes sense, I mean the matter/anti-matter, spin/opposite spin stuff makes for a good premise and might actually be possible one day.

 

One way they could handwave the QECs away is by having them being damaged on the Ark because of some malfunctioning. Indeed, one of the possible ways the game could start is bailing from the Ark into a nearby planet and evacuating as many people as you can.

[shepskisaac]

Intergalactic travel  

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

One-way trip[edit]

As the time needed to go even to the Milky Way's nearest neighboring star is so astronomically high, trips to other galaxies would likely exceed a modern-day human lifespan by extreme orders of magnitude. Any such journey would mean that humans boarding such a spaceship from Earth would not only never be able to return to Earth alive, but would also never live to see the arrival of the spaceship at its destination. One solution could be a generation spaceship, but this idea in itself poses technical (and ethical) problems of its own.

Extreme long-duration voyages[edit]

Voyages to other galaxies at sub-light speeds would require voyage times anywhere from hundreds of thousands to many millions of years. To date only one design such as this has ever been made.^[1]

 

 

 

I hate to be practical, because I rarely am. But unless there's Space Magic Mass Effect-y stuff, (which I'm pretty sure there will be,) The above instances are the only way to get to Andromeda. 

 

It's possible that when someone "wakes up" on the ARK, that it's been millions of years since the Reapers invaded Earth. That's a LOT of history to read. I think the crew should be told before they embark on this one way trip that nothing in the Milky Way matters anymore and to forget it. They're finding a new home for humanity. 

I hate to be practical but Wikipedia =/= Mass Effect lore, read up on it and how long would it take to get to Andromeda. Throw in some bonus cryo-freezing in.

[Kabooooom]

I predicted this awhile ago - they obviously want to divorce themselves from the ME3 endings, but one way to NOT canonize an ending and to also explore the state of the post-war galaxy is to:

Have the ark leave before ME3 ends, and have a QEC on the ark that communicates with the Milky Way. Now, if you want to learn about the MW, you can talk to someone through the QEC. It has all the benefits of exploring the varied states of the galaxy and maintaining player choice, with none of the cons of actually having to implement those choices in setting or gameplay, because the ark peaced out before any of it happened.

[AlanC9]

Yeah, that would be a shame if someone put this QEC on Citadel.

That's exactly what's going to happen.

[shepskisaac]

I predicted this awhile ago - they obviously want to divorce themselves from the ME3 endings, but one way to NOT canonize an ending and to also explore the state of the post-war galaxy is to:

Have the ark leave before ME3 ends, and have a QEC on the ark that communicates with the Milky Way. Now, if you want to learn about the MW, you can talk to someone through the QEC. It has all the benefits of exploring the varied states of the galaxy and maintaining player choice, with none of the cons of actually having to implement those choices in setting or gameplay, because the ark peaced out before any of it happened.

Agree 100%, I've been expecting this solution for a long time. It's quite convinient ain't it? "Ohh look, this is totally green-synthetic NPC from Milky Way you can talk to for 2 mins, but he won't be here so we don't have to actually do anything with sythesis ending hehe!"

 

Although having a faction/group that wants to go back to Milky Way should definitely be one of the 'social' topics in MEA, it's only logical not everyone of the colonists (2nd/3rd generations in particular) would be in agreement about the new way of life.

 

Heck, I already got final ME6 choice - Pathfinder can stay in Andromeda or go back to Milky Way. Milky Way ending will stop the moment Earth shows up on screen, once again avoiding shoing any consequences 'cause this is the end of second trilogy

[AlanC9]

There is a downside to QEC contact, though I'm not sure Bio would care. This would be toxic to some headcanon. Particularly bad for Control, since now Shepard, or rather the Sheplyst, would now be a Bio-controlled character. Bio always gets grief when PCs don't do what the players thought they would do in a sequel It would also finally finish off IT.