BioWare Blog - N7 Day 2022

Regarding Liara's tone of voice: since they are still in pre-production, they probably cannot give the voice actor much context so she just gives her own interpretation of what Liara's mindset might be based on those few lines.

And voice actors don't always hit the right note either - remember how rude Liara sounded in ME3 when she had no further dialogue when you visited her room and she just said "Ready for the next mission?" in a tone suggesting she was super angry with Shep.

Operation: Out of the frying pan….? 😂

So there might be be something else with the video. And while there is the "cloaked" ripple, the time in the blackbox also skip a few seconds once in a while. Also, I think the "ripple" might actually be an image spliced into the frames and not something actually cloaked over the relay, but I don't know how you can extract that.

On the right side, you can see the start of a blurry Solar Electronics sign which you can see clearly if you play ME2 and go to Omega.

Didn't her voice in MEA sound robotic as well?

It's possible. That's what ME4 can be about. Shepard, squadmates and crew head to darkspace to make sure the reapers are no longer a threat, and if possible destroy any that might be still around.

Or they're used as target practice when training new recruits joining the military.

My guess is that the three endings could be canon, if some compromise is made:

Destroy, but not all Geth are wiped out. Some could've uploaded themselves as programs inside the Arks and escaped the Endings.
Synthesis, but it was not eternal or people found a way to get rid of the green eyes
Control, but Reapers are long gone now, because the galaxy needs to evolve by itself after quite some time reconstructing.

Either way, we get dead Reapers, as seen in the teasers.

Also, also, it's worth noting that the date with the year 90 could be 2190, but my guess would be 2790, 5 years after ME: Andromeda events and +600 years after the Reaper War. It could explains the older Liara, ties in the games and it if theories are correct that the image is a Mass Relay, makes the galaxy crack the Relay Tech and replicate it.

2 Guesses:

MR-7 would be the 7th Mass Relay built, and each relay would take around 100 years due to the complexity of the technology and the sheer size of it, since no Relay is like another and leads to many different paths. (Which leads us to the 2790 that the Relay is nearly complete)

It could be the 7th Mass Relay built, BUT they cracked the tech after the Reaper War and they're building it. The problem is the Geth and Liara's apparent aging on the teasers. So, in this theory, we would have a major time skip. Say, the prologue deals with that, fast forward 600 years later and the galaxy is still suffering consequences from whatever humanity has done (which leads us to the next cataclysm event: maybe the natural collision of the Milky Way and Andromeda - also as teased by Gamble on his Twitter - has been sped up and people are now finding a way to revert this process)

I agree the tech looks similar to what we see in MET. But I suppose it could be like Star Wars, where tech improvements aren't that drastic for thousands of years. Or due to the need to rebuild so much, it set back improvements. 

aesthetics and functionality =/= technical advancements

The nasal helmet design was used from the late 9th century to around the middle of 13th century. That's ~300 years. Fabrications methods and materials probably changed thought.

There is usually big leap early when something new is invented (planes, cars, computers), but overtime the curve flatten and both design and functionalities become fixed to what is the most efficient.

Its an Intergalactic Mass Effect Slingshot. Its meant to accelerate a spaceship as normal Mass Relays do but since there is no matching Relay in Andromeda a spaceship using it has to decelerate on its own. For this reason the Slingshot will be different to normal Relay and spaceships must be purpose built for such deceleration.

Interesting idea.

I dunno if anyone saw my theory in the speculation post but here's what I think is going on.

Each race is tasked to rebuild the galaxy in different way, humanity are tasked with building relays (or at least this one). Rather than building a standard relay humanity build a relay ship/ark to send to Andromeda the idea being in 600 years the people of Andromeda can return to the milky way and help.

The relay would have to be a primary relay (we know they can be moved and still lock on to their partner) but I guess it would be enhanced some how with Reaper tech.

If the relay was sent in 2190 it would arrive 5 years after the initiative give us a little time jump but our cast will all sill be there (just a little grown up).

I think the clip we heard was Liara, the shadow broker, learning what humanity was planning and deciding whether to tell the council or not.

This way we get both galaxies but it's all tied together neatly and who knows what big bads could use the new super relay.

Yeah, I'm expecting juicy concrete details on ME5 to come sometime in 2024.

Fat chance of anything but Dreadwolf next month.