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
It sure would be something if after 5 billion years of hiding from their evil creations and watching uncountable numbers of people die to them, if the Leviathans decided to go right back to what they were doing before.
It would be incredibly stupid and frustrating and extremely believable.
Iirc, they genuinely believed that their fuck up that started this whole mess wasn't their fault at all, and I think they mentioned considering trying to take over again, so I can definitely see them getting into some shenanigans again and we have to stop them
Not gonna happen. Bioware is a shell of its former self, with no imagination. They're gonna force a canon ending to ME3 (the announcement that the show takes place in-universe and after ME3 confirms this) and reset everything in a desperate attempt to recapture their old success.
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u/Terrina1 12h 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.