Ironically MEA may have made it possible for us to go back to the milky way without having on of the

The only one that would really work is refuse I think. Then we come traipsing back into the Milky Way with our fancy RemTech and finish off the Reapers.

Not necessarily. It is never confirmed that the Quarians go extinct if you side with the Geth. It was suggested that it might be the outcome during the game, but that doesn't actually occur during it. 

It also doesn't make sense. One battle should neither result in the Quarians going extinct or the Geth being destroyed. The Geth were housed on servers spread throughout Quarian space so losing Rannoch should not be catastrophic, particularly considering it was said that they barely even occupied the planet. There also would be no reason why some of the Migrant Fleet couldn't retreat through the relay following a defeat at Rannoch. Multiple fleets were able to do just that in the wake of defeats by the Reapers, an enemy many times more powerful than the Geth. It would make more sense for the Quarians to just be greatly reduced in number, sacrificing ships to buy time for others to flee through the relay.

The bigger issue would be that the Geth should be destroyed entirely if a sequel is based on Destroy. The Catalyst's dialogue in the Extended Cut however provides an opening for a hand wave. He notes that anything destroyed by the Crucible can be rebuilt, and in response to a question about how the device would affect Synthetics. An easy solution would be to have the Geth rebuilt post-Destroy by the more pro-synthetic Quarians (like Koris). To have player choices still matter they could have rebuilt Geth more suspicious of outsiders and isolationist, while Geth that were never destroyed are fully integrated with the Quarians as a single faction sharing planets. All of that could be handled with codex entries and some differences in the occasional bit of dialogue.

It would mean that Rannoch can't be visited, but that's not really an issue.

If they did do that, I would prefer the new combat and crafting system. Maybe something like a reboot like they did with the new Tomb Raider.

Ultimately there is no way to go back to the Milky Way that wouldn't alienate and piss off a large segment of the fan base for reasons established. Something has to be canonized and if it contradicts someone's world state, they'll be up in arms about it for rendering their choices pointless. For all the complaints that were levied against the endings being too similar(different colored beams, reapers fly away or fall down), the world states they leave behind are too incompatible to be made into a single game.


I don't have any delusions about what the reaction to "make refusal canon" would be among the fan base. There would be nuclear heat. It's just my own personal "this is what I would do" fantasy. 

I admire the inventiveness, but is this even worth doing? Having all the choices do the same thing is a very strange way to respect the player's choices. 

Synthesis isn't an automatic immortality thing but the epilogue with the extended cut suggests that with the advances in technology that are now possible with the full scope of Reaper knowledge and organic/synthetic cooperation, that it's an achievable goal.

And Drack said his first war was when he fought in the Krogan Rebellions, under the command of his mother.

I would love to a complete and total remake of the original Mass Effect Trilogy, God knows it breaks it's own lore left and right all the time and the main plot has so many holes and is broken so badly that it just barely holds together, if the characters weren't so damn great the MET would never have succeeded. 

IMHO the only way to fix the endings of ME3 is too fix the broken main plot of all 3 games. In other words BioWare would have to REMAKE (not just do an HD remaster) all 3 games. 

You're right.  You have even said choose destroy a couple of times. I agree with that. 

I mean if they made the control ending canon the Shepard AI would still be alive lol.

Milky Way is over. It's done. The writers would have to be mad to even think of going back.