Mass Effect Trailer Thoughts
I wrote an unhinged disorganized post before… now I’ll attempt breaking things down in a much more logical way. :D
1) It’s basically confirmed that this is both the Milky Way and Andromeda in the same shot.
2) The audio is some actual and I think some fictional mix of communications –
“We know now that in the early years of the 20th century, this world was being watched” is from War of the Worlds
“Eagle Houston, you are go for landing, over” is from the moon landing.
“Arcturus Station, uknown vessel approaching, we need first contact protocols” would probably be new dialog from the First Contact War.
“Humanity now stands as partners in the galaxy” is likely new dialog from after the end of the FC war when humanity was accepted as a Citadel species.
“Ark Six is away, godspeed” is new dialog, likely a reference to the Andromeda Initiative. There were six arks in the initiative.
3) This system isn’t in any of the first three games as far as I can tell – and I logged into ME3 with the EGM mod wherein literally every system in all three games is used as extra content and looked at them all. Anyone recognize it?
4) This is anyone’s guess but… possibly… what’s through the Omega relay? the rings seem… very densely packed.
5)Two moons and a gas giant looking planet. I don’t even want to hazard a guess. The planet itself could look like Jupiter, but Jupiter has a lot more moons.
6) Then of course, we have the destroyed mass relay.
This comes with the dialog about taking down a dreadnaught, and (sensors?) are going crazy, and abandoning the ship, and then the REAPER SOUND.
Then “Is anyone receiving this? We’ve lost contact.”
So all of this felt like traveling through time, and here we finish Mass Effect 3.
7) Then comes this image… which again, does not really look like any system recognizable in any of the games.
An indistinguishable female voice says something about Humanity (something like “Humanity is all the problems its faced”? Maybe?) and a male voice… which sounds a little like Clancy Brown (Alec Ryder) to me, but… maybe I need to play through the Andromeda prologue again.
The slight break in the action there may be accounting for the 600 years passing before Andromeda.
The break in the action could also mean it’s something in the future of what we’ve seen, something new.
8) Now, we come to this planet.
There are THREE MOONS… and Alchera has three moons. Maybe this is a coincidence. Or maybe this is Alchera. It seems oddly specific for them to show the three moons in sequence if there wasn’t a reason for it.
9) It’s confirmed that Liara is walking up a reaper here. There ALSO appears to be a SECOND reaper in the background (look just above the sun, you can see reaper-like wires and follow that outline to see the other reaper’s legs.)
10) There appears to be more stuff, maybe N7 striped stuff, than just the fragment Liara picks up buried in the snow here.
11) This may be a part of an N7 helmet, but it can’t be Shepard’s N7 helmet.
You get the helmet as a reward for finishing the Alchera DLC in ME2 (so basically, Shepard brings it along after planting the monument), and although the part is similar on the side here, it’s definitely not the same. This is Shepard’s helmet on the SR-2 in ME2, loaded it up and took the pics with flycam just to confirm.
14) That’s definitely a Salarian on the left and probably a Krogan on the right. Guesses for the center person… Human? Turian? Angaran? (Comedy answer: Javik? Though we don’t know how long Protheans lifespans are so… hey! Anything’s possible!)
13) Liara has crow’s feet and laugh lines – she’s most likely much older in this trailer than we saw her last in ME3. Perhaps… 600 - 700 years older? Grunt would likely be the only other ME/2/3 companion still alive. (Wrex was alive to fight in the end of the Krogan Rebellion in 700 CE, if this is post-Andromeda that would place him at over 2000 years old, I don’t think Krogan lifespans are that long. Drack is considered an old man at 1400. But it could be possible.)
So my best theory right now aligns with what I’ve seen other people guess – this game will take place sometime after Andromeda and serve to bridge the two galaxies, but how that happens and why Liara is retrieving a piece of broken N7 armor is anyone’s guess. I have a few wildly unhinged theories myself. :D
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