Mass Effect Fans Scramble To Decipher Next Game’s New Teaser
Fans got their first taste of the next Mass Effect from a teaser trailer shown at The Game Awards 2020. In it, Liara from the original trilogy canvases a snowy planet with destroyed Reapers in the background and comes across a piece of armour that appears to have belonged to series’ protagonist Commander Shepard. It also included a shot of both the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, which Gamble said was an intentional reference, implying the new game might be a sequel to both Mass Effect 3 and Andromeda. That and subsequent teases have spurred on fan theories about everything from time travel (Andromeda takes place hundreds of years later) to Shepard still being alive. So what have fans found so far in the latest video? Well, for starters this isn’t the first time we’ve seen this mass relay. It was originally revealed in a 2020 BioWare artbook which included other pieces of concept art teasing plans for the next Mass Effect. “MR7” implies this is the seventh mass relay under construction, and colour of the paint points to human-supremacist group Cerberus as the builders. A ship hovers in the lower right corner of the screen. Is it the Normandy from the original series, or possibly the Tempest from Andromeda? Or maybe it’s the “Mud Skipper” ship shown in last year’s tease investigating the remains of a Geth. You can also make out a blur moving across the screen at around the six second mark. Some fans speculate that THAT is the Normandy since it was the only ship known to have cloaking technology. Then there are the numbers at the bottom of the screen: 11_07_90_000_1000-2013313. One interpretation is that this footage is from the year 2190, which would put it only four years after the Reapers were destroyed at the end of the original trilogy. 314, meanwhile, could be a reference to relay 314, the discovery of which kicked off the First Contact Wars prior to the events of Mass Effect 1, and lead to the creation of Cerberus. The title of the file also indicates that the footage was intercepted, implying it might be surveillance by Systems Alliance, the galactic governing body from the original trilogy. One fan attempted to clean up the audio in the clip and arrived at a recording of what appears to be Liara saying, “Exactly, the Council will be furious. Although they should know by now not to underestimate…” The conversation continues, seemingly interspersed with Geth sounds, but the rest is hard to make out. Still, it seems to indicate that the Council, the Systems Alliance governing body, is still intact, and thus the fallout from the Reaper invasion didn’t send the galaxy into some sort of new dark age.Happy #N7Day from across the stars! We found this interesting footage you may want to a bit more closely.
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