The Mass Effect ending support group

Yes. Which is why Shepard would be tasked with getting Garrus out, in a non official capacity. Which is why, in the event of his discovery, the council would have to declare that Shepard was not working at their behest.


Garrus has the benefit of being a very good soldier, even as he is not affiliated with a specific faction. It is not out of the realm of possibilities that Garrus could be employed to help train new recruits, that would help protect the very vulnerable fortifications of the remnant colonies of the Hegemony. Garrus would be a very good candidate for a very experienced soldier, very skilled and very available to help train them. Considering that Garrus may have run in with Balak, or helped Shepard blow up a three hundred thousand population colony full of Batarians, the Batarians would not find it that hard to believe that Garrus would have found this as an opportunity to further decimate the now endangered species' for whatever hatred he may have towards them.

And now you'll ask me why they would consider someone like Garrus, a Batarian hater, to train their troops and give access to their facilities. And the answer would be that they wouldn't consider him a Batarian hater at the time. What incidents had happened, they would have considered them under Shepard's command and held him responsible, while also knowing that Shepard was right about the Reapers all along. Knowing what Indoctrination did to Kar'Shan, it would have cast reasonable doubt and enough justification even among Batarians that those actions where to the preservation of the Milky Way and not a hate crime against the Hegemony. Which is why Garrus would be considered trustworthy.

And again, this is simply one way you could go about it. It doesn't mean it has to, it doesn't mean I would. This is just the thing that came to mind, within a spur's notice. I am sure a better idea could come up.

Still, again, going the "new protagonist route", I don't see it achieving feasibly anything that the EC didn't. A simply "they were fine" explanation about what happened to our old crew is nothing new and does little to reassure or dissuade our doubts about that. The old crew wouldn't interact with the new protagonist and even so, not in a meaningful way, like they would with Shepard, because there is simply no bond and no connection between them. At that point, it is better not to mention them at all. Which does effectively noting to fix the problems of the past. In addition to being someone that neither the Ryder crowd, nor the Shepard crowd want. At least, if you're not going to return to Shepard, make a return to Ryder. Let someone get something out of it.