Closeup of the N7 image -- How many aliens can you spot?

They missed putting in the best alien of all.... a prothean. Javik the Great was awesome in ME3.

No quarians. While we wouldn't know for sure how quarians look without their helmets, they still have distinct three-fingers hands and digitigrade legs.

All humanoid characters have five fingers and/or very clearly looking human legs.

Too shiny for Omega's Afterlife.

I think it's more new nightclub inspired by Afterlife and Purgatory.

I think so. Helmet resembles a quarians

Wouldn't use Quarians still in their suits as evidence for anything. Remember Tali did say that they might still wear them because of how the suits have become part of their culture.

Now that we're talking about quarians having suits or not, i think there's some without them, on the left where they're standing at the bar.

I can see that. Like either Synthesis or “as centuries past now almost everyone is integrated with machines” or something. Reapers are either dead or left after repairing the galaxy. Geth either alive or had some outside the blast radius. And so on.
Really the harder choices are the ones not in the ending, like the Genophage or the Geth/Quarian War.

Not a huge fan of merging them like that either, but the alternative would almost certainly be Destroy as canon so I’ll take them not making my Shepard commit the largest genocide in our cycle’s history.

They don't *have to* canonize a thing here, theoretically.

Centuries pass and many things happen off-screen. And we only need to meet characters, not whole population clusters. Its an RPG with select experiences from a protagonist perspective.

Geth live but Quarians die - Enough Quarian survivors exist that few remain scattered in the galaxy. Andromeda linking with the Milky Way means the Quarian Ark survivors meet with the MW surviving population and they retain growth numbers. No longer a migrant fleet, they remain a minority of the galaxy.

Quarians live but Geth die - Geth are at least near extinguished in the Milky Way, but both quiet attempts to rebuild them and the linking up with Andromeda means that a new form of Geth develop regardless of choices. Whether distinguished allies of the Reaper War or an AI race the galaxy is growing accustomed to, they remain a minority of the galaxy.

Peace between Quarians and Geth - No problem, they're both here. Perhaps to flatten the possible consequences, Rannoch could stuffer a disaster that keeps a level of sadness and angst no matter the choices made, so the Geth and Quarians are always without a central home, except they're also much more welcome in the Milky Way society. If we don't go to Rannoch, anything can easily be written about what happens there.

In all outcomes, each race at this point in the timeline (I'm really spitballing here) is doing better than during the trilogy. The Geth are in some form that cooperates better with organics (there may be narrative carveouts for more complexity that might allow Geth enemies, if we're really going there again). The Quarians are no longer the roaming scavenging band that is generally unwelcome. They're not willing to just let bygones be bygones, but the environment is one of at least tolerance in the present day of the next game.

Similar matter can happen with Krogan. Their supposed potential mega Krogan Empire post-ME3 can be made rather short lived, but their potential extinction was averted by MEA events. NPCs can be written to reflect a 2-3+ main outcomes, noting any smaller details, and then the game after this one doesn't have to bother with caring about your choices for the most part.


Our choices can have the consequence that in our Milky Way Galaxy, one race or another can have a tougher or nicer go of things, in the span of up to centuries, but other things happen to, and world states centralize into something that a game can be made out of. If you want the Quarians to maximally pay, go get them killed on ME3 Rannoch, acknowledge that some got out in a multispecies Ark to Andromeda (or quit the series here I guess), and understand that ME3 Rannoch events didn't mean that absolutely every Quarian died but that they lost all the population and resources to hope for any kind of resurgence or maybe even longer term survival as a people within say, Tali's lifetime, but there could still be scattered families and then communities that then link up with Andromeda's population. Let time pass and have the Quarians supported by the galactic community and not hellebent on Rannoch, and their population could recover, but not in the same exact culture of ME3's.

Again, obviously, super theoretical.

Some things will have to be canonized. Liara being one. A rejection of the refusal option being another. There'll probably be more.

The Geth vs Quarians, yes you could write your way out of that one, but you need to be extremely clever in doing it, otherwise it'll render the initial choice about as disingenuous as canonizing an outcome would do anyway.

Maybe, but if my Shepard chose control, the reapers would have flown into the sun instead of what you posted.

I'm joking here, but this could be a masked Quarian next to the Angara.

Not the first person I've seen suggesting that....

Does seem a bit mental in retrospect. Of course it might have worked if they''d turned up in a kick ass DLC, but seeing as we never got that.....

The only reasons that I could think of for why the Quarians (seemingly) aren't in the poster, are 1) They're canonizing that the Geth won and the Quarians lost, which I find incredibly unlikely, or 2) It's part of them being coy with where exactly that poster is set (MW or AND) - but weren't the Volus on the same ark as the Quarians? So if it's AND and the Volus are there then so would the Quarians....