If I could...

Honestly I sometimes want them to go all-out on the MW connections. Like in shocking ways. The feeling being a continuation from the Kett/Remnant/Outlaw problems in MEA of "Well we're in over our heads." instead of MET's "Impending death".

The next game becomes like part 1 of a 2 parter, with MEA itself being like a prologue or setup. It ends on a relatively dour note (almost as bad, or worse than DA2?), but it won't have lost all hope and the game after will be more optimistic.



-Cora is related to Cerberus (and TIM to an extent); she doesn't know this, and it really changes her when and how she finds out; she may have a destiny of sorts that she thinks is bullshit yet she keeps drifting towards it. She ends up not resolved about her leadership issues, and 

-Vetra is the daughter of Saren; she may have had negative suspicions of the man, but events really affect her; she takes actions that are more and more ruthless by necessity, but the knowledge of her father destroys her sense that she's really doing the right thing

-Peebee has a family secret that she actually knows about; her mother mated exclusively with asari but that changed with an elcor? could be just a fun conversation, could be a backstoryyyy, and considering her talents, I like to think its some idea of an asari supremacist parent that learned such dark things about the asari that she tried to be the opposite as before, and PB just wants away from it all

-Liam may actually have a fine family; his issue is that while the crush of Andromeda's events had him teetering on breakdown, information re:Milky Way mixed with other stresses has him actually breaking down, his idealism shattered. Perhaps there can be a family disappointment here too, ha!

-Drack is the crusher; he loves everyone by the end of MEA, pretty much, but he will die(!) losing faith in the Tempest/Initiative/Ryder and the effects of the death will severely harm the group. They lose their 'dad'.

-Jaal becomes disturbing. His awe at the Jaardan becomes fixation, the reality of the Jaardan being not exclusively benevolent. His 'parents' in a sense are a very bad influence when not handled maturely. He could range from being a problematic party member, to villainizing. Tragic.

-Ryder mom wakes but she actually warns them about dad! This wasn't the happy awakening the twins were hoping for. He has a plan and his death wasn't a death. Setup for antagonist (not necessarily villain, at least mostly).

-Ryder twin is good, but various factors have them moving apart from Ryder. Not quite antagonist, but gradually rival and continues the sense of the family splitting apart from cracks set centuries ago.

-Archon is 'alive'! He's actually in the Remnant code! He is reconstituted, as an even more 'postorganic/synthorganic' than the angara, and may even join the ship. Much more character texture and able to give insights on the Kett, perhaps to the point of a Milky Way connection. His voice actor was chosen for this role, not the muffled villainous voice of MEA Archon.

-SAM's truths are revealed. What it knows, what it may not know it knew, what Alec fully wants from it, and what it may be becoming. Ryder has to learn more about how to exist without it, as they also become 'more' (transhuman transformation of brain; hinted by the Remnant access in MEA late game).

-Quarian ark arrives, with many in essentially refugee state that strains resources. Nexus and Helius attacked like a larger ME2 Collector intro, and Ryder is strained not just by the disaster, but by everyone essentially losing their minds in all the realistic ways. You may have stabilized the arks, but the cluster itself is adrift. You'll need help from outside, and ultimately from the Milky Way itself. MEA was silly in its attempts at warmth, because the point was to make us miss it in the next game.


MEA2's turn will be darker than the dark turn of ME2, but on the other hand may have various lights of hope throughout it. Resistance amongst the Kett. Peaceful synthetic society? Some Initiative members/leaders either standing up, redeeming, or heroically sacrificing themselves. But Ryder has tougher choices with bigger impact. What we/he chooses may not mean exactly the supposed extinction or a species or something, but it'll determine the makeup of much of the galaxy. He cannot only pathfind new colonies, but both the direction of a new galactic society and the way to a better place for all of his family and newfound friends. And as often on new journeys, this path may lead back home, in expected and surprising ways.