About that helmet in the ME trailer:
That’s the N7 armor from ANDROMEDA. Not Shepard’s armor. Plus, we already know Shepard’s helmet’s accounted for (and it didn’t actually have an N7 on it). If you look at the piece Liara picks up, it’s clearly this style of helmet.
Liara’s obviously older: she has crow’s feet and laugh lines. This is a future game—and by the imagery and the galaxies, it’s going to tie the events of the trilogy and of Andromeda together. If I were writing it, I’d probably work on connections between the Reapers and the mysterious beings mentioned in Andromeda. You know, the ones basically messing around and treating the Andromeda galaxy like Bobby’s Science Fair Project (Creepy Aliens Edition).
Remember, Liara knew about the Andromeda project before it left the Milky Way. And also remember: the Arks had to travel over six hundred years to get to Andromeda, so … to tie the two together, Liara’s going to be crows-feet-and-laugh-lines-older. I’m pretty sure Shepard’s resting in peace by then, no matter what ending you chose unless my horrible headcanon is true and the Lazarus rebuild means they age slower and have to deal with the consequences…
I can make out most of the dialogue.
Historian-type voice: We know now that in the earliest years of the 20th century this world was being watched–
Roger. Copy.
Eagle, Houston. You’re GO for landing. Over. (From the Apollo 11 landing)
Woman: Arcturus Station. Unknown vessel approaching. We need first contact protocols. (Presumably First Contact.)
Humanity now stands as a partner in the galaxy. (Presumably upon joining the Citadel races.)
Hackett(?): Ark-6 is away. Godspeed. The quarian Ark (Ark-6) departed later than the other arks because of technical issues (it was carrying several species: quarians, drell, hanar, elcor, batarians, volus). It didn’t make it during the course of the game, though Ryder gets a distress call. Evidently, it was supposed to be DLC; they may have repurposed some of those ideas for this new venture. NO WAIT. Courtesy of @fade-touched-eezo The quarians were Ark-5. WHO IS ARK-6???? (unless they counted the nexus as an ark? but?) Was Liara on Ark-6? What? What is happening???
Voices: What’s that–
Oh my g–
–it’s taking down their dreadnought–
–someone help me–
–the engines are going crazy–
Abandon ship!
*Reaper noise* (Probably the Reaper War of ME3)
Woman: Is anyone receiving this? We’ve lost contact… (My guess would be the missing Ark)
Then there’s this extremely muddy section. A woman’s voice says something like “anomaly readings all ” and what sounds like a computerized voice saying “[?] the station” and a male voice definitely saying the word “over” or something’s over. And space noises. Pretty sure this is like, six tracks on top of each other to make it extra confusing.
So, lots to unpack. But it’s 1:00 AM and time for sleeping.
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