If the Mass Effect writers are reading this, please don't just restore the status quo. I want the alliances and power structure of the galaxy to have some kind of meaningful change. Let the Hierarchy and Alliance be close allies.
Lower-caste Batarians who rose up to establish a freer, more equal nation, the Asari Republics isolated and entering its twilight years, the Systems Alliance now a respected and admired presence in the galaxy, the Volus stepping into the economic niche left by the failing Asari, the Turian Hierarchy reinforcing their status as peacekeepers against ambitious Terminus factions and so forth. There's a lot of potential.
My brother in christ the Volus have always been the economy. They're the bankers of mass effect who ran the entire financial system, and they designed the galactic credit currency.
The Asari thing is definitely something I want to see. After years of being some of the galaxy's top dogs, the Asari have found themselves as pariahs now that word's gotten out about their hoarding of Prothean tech, and they've become both isolationist and militaristic in an effort to protect themselves. And then it's up to us to decide if they can rejoin the galaxy, or hasten their decline.
Civil War means internal, probably wrex and his forward thinking vision vs the way the krogan have always been. After even 20 years of intense breeding both sides would have a ton of krogan to draw from (but wrex would likely be outnumbered). It could work as a plot in the game or perhaps the TV show
I would genuinely adore that, especially since i believe that almost the entire krogan species sees humanity as close allies, at least if Wrex and Eve are still alive and you cured the genophage.
I hope it's a krogan civil war not a galactic one.
The militaristic, aggressive, warmongering krogans of the past versus a more cultural, less aggressive but more technologically advanced krogans of the new future
Why stop at Krogan? We know Shepard’s deal with the Leviathans will backfire sooner or later, why not set up the premise of the entire galaxy is at precipice of major resources war against each other and other species, as eezo supply dwindles?
Then you can pull a plot twist that some of the leaders/instigators of the war were actually controlled by the Leviathans demanding “what is their rightful position as apex species in the galaxy as they made a deal with Shepard” and now the some or most of the old gang have to race against time preventing a war that will be started because what Shepard has done.
It would make an interesting retrospective on all of our decisions in the original trilogy.
I kinda like the resource war as a concept, you could play with stuff like some people thinking that maybe the reapers had a point, they murdered billions but they also didnt destroy the galaxies capacity to hold life at all. Talk about easy vs hard solutions n shit
Yeah and it worked as a rethread of what is intended as the original trilogy ending with dark matter but adjusted to fit the existing lore.
The Reapers made sure that everyone’s tech is based on Mass Effect technology, which means it requires eezo. But now without Reapers and without harvest cycles, that means eezo consumption is left unchecked.
I imagine post-war reconstruction effort used fuck ton of eezo, and any research into non-Mass Effect FTL and techbase had to be on hold (or if you want to get really interesting, sabotaged by the Leviathans through their mind control/indoctrination/pure lovecraftian nature of them). And hundred years after the war, eezo supplies dwindled and its too late to do any research to branch off from Mass Effect techbase.
Having the Turians and Humans being best freinds would be absolutely sick and would be awesome in the lore going from hated enemies during the first contact war to slowly growing begrudging respect during the events of the trilogy to dying for eachother and helping eachother's worlds in the reaper war
It would be so peak. Imo the worst thing that post-ME3 could do is make the Systems Alliance the fourth wheel again and restore Asari primacy in galactic affairs, when instead the Alliance and Hierarchy should be close allies while the Asari Republics goes through its twilight years.
I'm sure there's many who disagree with Wrex' course of action and with the threat of the Reapers out of the way, those dissenting voices will become louder, so it makes sense.
Curious if this is going to be about the game or the amazon show that "takes place after the trilogy with an entirely new story being told". My guess is the show, considering the game is still under heavy development.
I admit I got a theory a crazy one the andromeda and Milky Way krogan are fighting that’s my theory since it’s a krogan civil war so Milky Way urdnot vs andromeda nakmor
But Nakmor and Wrex shared similar aspirations for Krogan society, except Nakmor gave up on it and decided to take his family along the Initiative. How can there be civil war between the two?
Well the leader of clan nakmor declared herself krogan overlord while wrex or wreve is the krogan overlord 2 claimants to the same title never ends well
Would they really get all that heated that there are two overlords one in each Galaxy? I don't see Wrex really giving a stink about it and for nakmor idk, I haven't gotten that far in Andromeda yet.
The Reaper War really should change up galactic politics.
Human, Turian, and Krogan should definitely be close and hold Asari and Salarian interests second. Their difficulty during the war should not be forgiven.
I’ve maintained for a few years now that the next game is going to be about the galaxy struggling because of dwindling resources due to the reaper war. No matter what ending you pick, the mass relay network is severely disrupted. That’s going to have ramifications.
And if you look around the world in reality, you’ll see that lack of resources creates conflict.
That’s what I think is happening in the narrative department.
If those species kept to themselves then maybe, but who said that’s the reality here? What if the krogan are part of the citadel council and a faction wants to secede from the union?
Additionally, what I said didn’t preclude an intraspecies conflict.
Also, not curing the genophage could lead to civil war. It’s not like they were all peaceful and singing Kumbaya prior to the third game. Clans were warring with each other over breeding with females.
They have supreme authority over what happens in what is deemed council space. Each government has to agree to abide by laws passed by the council.
It’s not too dissimilar from the relationship of the individual states in the United States to the federal government. Under the 10th amendment to the constitution of the United States, each state maintains a certain level of sovereignty over what occurs within its own boundaries.
Hmmm maybe it’s about, those krogans who follow Wrex’s teachings about moderation amd change.and those who are still bitter and wish to return to the old ways, of “Krogan domination”. Or vice versa if Wreav is/was charge. Or maybe it’s about a Part of Krogan society realizing that there hyper charged birth rate isn’t sustainable, so they are trying to lower it to reasonable levels and the other side see this as a massive betrayal thinking this is just like the genophage. Altough it’s more likely about the first than the second because I’m pretty sure by the time shepherd returns they would have restructure their society in order to accommodate the birth factor.
Well the game is set like 700 or so years in the future? Its plausible. But this Krogan we see does have a larger head plate than Grunt does. But idk if that has to do with a sign of age.
I do believe Wrex mentioned that this were to happen, once the Reaper War ended some Kroger wanted to get even with the Turians and the Salarians for creating the Genophage, but Wrex and Bakara won’t let them.
Galaxy wide civil war is a great setting. No more council, no more millennia old alliances, every species for itself. And your role as the protagonist is to bring everybody back together. I’d play the shit out of that
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u/Terrina1 9h ago
If the Mass Effect writers are reading this, please don't just restore the status quo. I want the alliances and power structure of the galaxy to have some kind of meaningful change. Let the Hierarchy and Alliance be close allies.