Who do you think will be the protagonist in ME5?

The Vaults are terraforming the worlds to be golden again, so within a short amount of time they will be.
Some discussions in the past talk about how it’s hinted we might know how to build them, like Aethyta’s comments or studying the Conduit to the AI having that as a mission before they leave (plus perhaps the Benefactor knows how and gave that info). Plus their connection to the Milky Way so if the MW knows they can tell them.
Agree it will still take years. Just saying it wouldn’t take decades so Ryder can still be alive and active when completed.

I don't think so.  They are going more hard limited sci fi with star field. I'll play it, I'll likely love it but it wont scratch a mass effect itch as it wont have space magic, it wont have crazy tech, it may not even have aliens. I know there are fans for that genre of sci fi, but im not sure they cross over with mass effect fans in a way that one would be competing for the audience of the other. It will be like star trek and star wars, some people will like both but the people who only like one of them wouldn't like the other even if the one they liked did not exist.

Liara Clone Army, that would be cool!

There will also be Rogue Trader to contend with. Personally, I feel Rogue Trader already more appealing.

Still going to take many years and it would still take many years to build a mass effect relay which is probably the same size or larger than all the Arks combined.

*in EDI voice* That was a joke. 

LOL'd. It was actually Lexi Clone Army. (Presumably she was the first asari created for the game.)

Well Cerberus has always been for bleed edge technologies and I am sure that T.I.M. has several Cerberus bio labs hidden thru out the galaxy.   It would be interesting if Liara(any alignment) vs a protagonist(any faction any alignment) in a race to find and capture all Cerberus Labs thru out the galaxy. I am interested if anyone would play that game if expanded properly.


Keep in mind any protagonist can be worked into that plot but a sensible one is a Cerberus Agent or an N7 Officer would have an interest in those labs.

I'd prefer a new character entirely. Like a political envoy on a mission to help unify the galaxy during reconstruction after the war. I hope the stakes are smaller than the original trilogy and relegating Shepard to that role feels like a back step for their arc.

I guess I mean envoy in terms of the actions they take in the story, not their actual job description. Military attaché might be more accurate. And although I don't need them to be military, they should definitely have more experience than Ryder.

That said, Ryder's was a flaw of execution more than anything.

I emphasize the political side to leave room for world building. Plus the council was inept in the trilogy. It'd be cool to rub elbows with representatives that are competent (or even malicious), on the macro and micro level. Especially if there's a complex reputation system or factions that are in conflict where you have to choose sides.

Your point about the Terminus Systems is spot on.

Irregardless is a meaningless word.

Regardless is what you're looking for.

Never in your life have you irregarded anything. You regard something, or you disregard. "ir-" is a negative prefix, but is not the correct negative prefix. If you are using a negative prefix, you cannot also use a negative suffix ("-less"), otherwise you break one of the cardinal rules of English, the double-negative.

When you say irregardless, most people know what you mean. Some people think you might be poorly educated, while others will disregard you for life based on that one silly word. Why?

Irregardless means regard. Ir cancels less.

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