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Yes I'm on huge copium/hopium when talking about ME5 but this is a VERY interesting video:
Mass Effect has always been great at planting subtle seeds across multiple games, and what's interesting with all of this is it's taking precise points from previous games that's been sprinkled here and there and build on them on an interesting way. Typically the very curious Benefactor with BioWare explicitly saiyng it ties into the bigger "metastory."
In short:
- Major choices from the original trilogy will matter! Yes you read that right.
- There is an AI based on Shepard's data, controlled by Cerberus which has taken over the Alliance (remember that Shepard is alive at the end of ME3 in the "Destroy" ending, which is now canon):
Shepard's AI
- This AI's mission is to protect the construction of a new relay and has orders to eliminate Liara because she knows too much
- Time duality/wormhole travel to Andromeda (2190 in the Milky Way vs 2819 elsewhere)
- The Benefactor of the Andromeda Initiative is very likely the new leader of Cerberus
- The Cerberus symbol (three dots in a circle, same as the Illusive Man's jacket) appears on the new N7's helmet and on the armor of the Krogan in the 2025 N7 Day civil war artwork. This strongly suggests Cerberus is arming and influencing one side of the conflict:
TIM in the ME Trilogy // Krogan Civil War Teaser for ME5 and Devs Video Update: they all have the same 3 dots
- The N7 AI is shown delivering glowing red Cerberus gear to a Krogan, helping fuel or prepare the Krogan civil war on Tuchanka (set shortly after the Reaper War)
- Strong return of indoctrination and heavy Cerberus involvement in galactic conflicts: lingering Reaper tech = indoctrination risks?
- Cerberus (through the Benefactor) is pulling the strings in the Milky Way
- This new relay is likely meant for wormhole travel to Andromeda
Maybe Michael Gamble can pull this out? He said "Everything you've seen (from all N7 days) will connect". A story dealing with the messy aftermath of the Reaper War, Krogan politics and old factions rising again sounds like classic Mass Effect.
Mass Effect has always been great at planting subtle seeds across multiple games, and what's interesting with all of this is it's taking precise points from previous games that's been sprinkled here and there and build on them on an interesting way. Typically the very curious Benefactor with BioWare explicitly saiyng it ties into the bigger "metastory."
In short:
- Major choices from the original trilogy will matter! Yes you read that right.
- There is an AI based on Shepard's data, controlled by Cerberus which has taken over the Alliance (remember that Shepard is alive at the end of ME3 in the "Destroy" ending, which is now canon):
Shepard's AI
- This AI's mission is to protect the construction of a new relay and has orders to eliminate Liara because she knows too much
- Time duality/wormhole travel to Andromeda (2190 in the Milky Way vs 2819 elsewhere)
- The Benefactor of the Andromeda Initiative is very likely the new leader of Cerberus
- The Cerberus symbol (three dots in a circle, same as the Illusive Man's jacket) appears on the new N7's helmet and on the armor of the Krogan in the 2025 N7 Day civil war artwork. This strongly suggests Cerberus is arming and influencing one side of the conflict:
TIM in the ME Trilogy // Krogan Civil War Teaser for ME5 and Devs Video Update: they all have the same 3 dots
- The N7 AI is shown delivering glowing red Cerberus gear to a Krogan, helping fuel or prepare the Krogan civil war on Tuchanka (set shortly after the Reaper War)
- Strong return of indoctrination and heavy Cerberus involvement in galactic conflicts: lingering Reaper tech = indoctrination risks?
- Cerberus (through the Benefactor) is pulling the strings in the Milky Way
- This new relay is likely meant for wormhole travel to Andromeda
Maybe Michael Gamble can pull this out? He said "Everything you've seen (from all N7 days) will connect". A story dealing with the messy aftermath of the Reaper War, Krogan politics and old factions rising again sounds like classic Mass Effect.
