BioWare Blog - N7 Day 2022

I hope so but it seems like they are really pressing ahead with the combine the galaxy thing.

Came back to this thread specifically to respond to this comment. Maybe it's the graduate student haze, maybe it's my wishful thinking - but I listened to the transmission three times and I agree, that line was delivered by someone else other than Liara, and it sure as hell does sound like FShep. As a woman with a deeper voice as well I really loved Hale as Shephard and I know it pretty well - so it's probably my wishful thinking. 

She seems to be talking to a Geth, so we can summarize that BioWare decided to go with their version of a ME3 ending instead of supporting every possibilities.

Hmmmmm? makes me think and wonder what the Geth said about the stealth ship and wonder what happened when Liara said how did I/we miss this and that the council will be furious and to never underestimate the humans something must have happened in my mind after the ending of the Reapers.     

To be fair, Jenniffer Hale is everywhere nowadays, as was Mark Meer on the other games with Vorcha/Hanar and other NPCs. Personally, that's just me not wanting Shepard back, because there is no more story to tell and it actually blocks what's intersting on a RPG: playing other characters. Plus, it would be basically dropping everything from Andromeda and say "well, that didn't work out, so let's go back to Shepard because it's a right-o with the fans". 

I mean, people kind of assume that we don't have a canon version, but we do have discarded versions. For example, Shepard can die in the Suicide Mission on ME2, Liara can be the last recruited squadmate, but yet she goes on a personal quest to bring you back from the dead, the refusal ending is there just because and the story feels somewhat incomplete without certain squadmates, like the Citadel DLC and Wrex, which leads to the Genophage being cured at least.

Thing is, if we move forward with the story, they have the option to go the Dragon Age route, where everything is somewhat tied with previous choices, pick a default state for the galaxy or write around the endings and make a conversation to explain what happened after the Reaper War.

Finally. This is a necessary step to move the story forward.

If they did retcon her death, then why didn't they change "Priority: Earth" mission in MELE so that she didn't die?, did they think we won't notice or the writers forgot about it?, which is why I lean towards it being set between ME2-3 or Liara being a clone if it is set after ME3.

"Somehow Liara returned."

Why? Maybe to have her steal someone else's armor to put on display as a trophy. If you believe the game might take place between 2-3, then what explanation is used to explain the reapers on the planet seen in the teaser? t'soni being a clone? Possible since the character's voice in the audio clip sounds robotic. 

What's interesting is even though ems has to be low for Harbinger to vaporize the asari, the memorial wall scene still happens with her name on it and the galaxy is rebuilt. If she is in the next ME game, Bioware made that playthrough invalid. It will be interesting to see/hear what other stuff they made invalid. 

That has a piece of N7 armor on it.