If you had the job to write the next MEA, how would you ....... ?

*cracks nuckles*

MEA 2: Even more Mass Effect (working title obviously)
(Note the examples I use are pretty much with my canon Ryder in mind but a lot of the obvious things could be considered choices based on what you did in MEA)
Premise: After five years of exploring, fighting Kett hold outs, and building the Heleus Cluster is more or less secure. Its been a boring yet productive five years for the Ryder twins and the rest of the Pathfinders as they are reveling in their success and with little to Pathfind they can actually relax.

Liam has moved on from his post and with the matruity he has found a new position as the head of Nexus security replacing Sloane Kelly finally in the job.

Drack has moved onto take care of the Krogan colony and continue its development and to pass on what he has learned.

Vetra has decided to stay with the Pathfinder and continue their mission of peaceful discovery, though she makes frequent stops home to be with Sid.

Cora, as always, remains by the Pathfinder's side as his second in command. Committed to protecting him and seeing them through.

Jaal believes he has found his place in the Galaxy and continues to serve in it, as he enjoys the Patfhinder's crew and company.

Peebee continues to want to see the unknown.

Gil has decided to stay with Jill and raise a family so the Tempest needs a chief engineer.

Otherwise all the crew decides to stay on to the Pathfinder.

Act 1: A massive Kett invasion is launched in Heleus, much larger then the first one, led by the Primus (now the new Archon). The Iniative Government believes that they are vulnerable and cannot hold for long so they order Ryder and the other Pathfinders to look for allies, resources, technology to fight them and the best place to look for those is beyond Heleus. But first they need the tech.

They manage to follow a lead and hunt down the Benefactor. The Benefactor has technology, advanced, that will let the Tempest travel much more quickly to other clusters. But she does not want to give it up for her own reasons. A firefight breaks out and she manges to escape, but Ryder and co manages to secure the FTL drive and incorporate it into the Tempest's systems. However she is the only ship that can successfully integrate it for reasons.

So they head out into the Greater Andromeda Galaxy looking for allies.

Act 2: Ryder and co stumble across a planet in the middle of a new cluster with a sentient race on it. This race has suffered greatly at the hands of the Kett. They do not want to get involved however but point the Tempest and their crew in the direction of a planet that they believe can help them.

When the Tempest jumps into the system though they find out its the Kett home system. The Tempest is quickly surrounded and captured by the Kett and brought to the planet surface. There they confront the Archon who tells them of their plan to exalt the crew. However because of SAM it makes it impossible to exalt Ryder, so he will just have to wach as they exalt one member of their crew after another. They start with Suvi and Cora, as they are both humans.

Eventually Cora and Ryder reconnect though and she talks about her experiences with the Kett, how she believes she is starting to break, and bits of her skin even look bony and calcified. But while Ryder is being moved to a new facility they are attacked by a group of other Kett who manages to break him out.

They explain that the Kett exaltation was a tragic accident. A group of scientists long ago was trying to perfect and advance the race using bilogical technology they had found, but it got out and infected the entire species, it sterilized them. This divided Kett society as some saw it as their duty to bring this 'gift' to the rest of the Galaxy while others merely viewed exalation as a neccessary evil trying to find the right combination of genes that could save their people and restore their ability to reproduce.

Ryder acknowledes that and the rebels say they can get him off the Kett homeworld. He refuses saying that he is not leaving without his crew or the Tempest. They say this is suicide and Ryder has an idea, to send a distress beacon to the Iniative asking for help.

It comes in the from of Drack and a bunch of Krogan who manages to break the crew out of their just as Cora is about to be exalted. They manage to get them to the Tempest and off planet but now Drack is captured.

The Kett leader of the resistance has to flee with them and she becomes a new member of the crew,albeit quite resentful.

Little later on they discover Drack has become exalted himself and is now one of the principle agents of the Kett.

The Kettwoman points them to the direction, one last piece of desperate intelligence to where they believe might be the Jaardan homeworld. A place forbidden for all Kett to go.

Ryder, fearing another trap, sets a course because it is desperate, the situation in Heleus is growing truly unstable as the Kett almost captured both the Nexus and Aya leaving several people dead.

Act 3:

Ryder goes to the Jaardan homeworld and finds the scourge everywhere, but also a dead and decrepit city. Suvi swears she discovers life signs below the planet surface so they land. Ryder manages to wake up the Jaardan and pleads for their help. Instead the Jaardan thanks them for pointing the way to Heleus, that they will begin their purge of all uknown threats. They leave them alone though considering the Tempest is slow and unknown. Their ships rise from the ground and head off towards Heleus, a war fleet that will destroy both the Kett and the Iniative.

The Tempest leaves after them, racing to stop them. They arrive just in time to see the Jardaan absolutley going through a fleet of Iniative and kett warships.

They have to board one of the Kett flagships where they fight both Drack and the Archon, killing both and liberating part of the fleet, beginning to coordinate their actions against the Jaardan. But, the Jaardan prove to be too much for them.

In short order the Tempest is destroyed, Kallo is killed at the helm, the Nexus and Aya are captured and things look very bad as literally everything comes crashing down around Ryder's ears.

Which is where the game ends...to be continued in MEA 3.