Art thread, for the next ME

Well, it's pretty much given that environmental damage will play a role in the story of the next ME in some way:



The most interesting part in the picture above seems to be that the whole area is inside a huge cavern.

I am definitely onboard with the theme of how survivors will try to survive in such conditions and what kind of technological marvels and horrors tied to the aftermath of Reaper War we might encounter ingame. A couple of ideas:

On planets with athmosphere being toxic as a result of orbital bombardment - gigantic buildings, towering high over clouds and toxic fumes, harbouring the survivors:






Something like huge air purifiers, filtering out dust and anything harmful, a desperate attempt to normalize living conditions on the surface:



An attempt at climate control, creating clouds - something we should have seen in ME:A, given its theme:



Gigantic mirrors to heat up frozen/ice planets for more manageable living conditions:



Imagine seeing something like 4 suns in the sky, would look pretty unique.


Maybe also huge transparent domes covering up cities as a protection from cold, dust storms, toxic rains etc:




Some settlements built with landed spaceships as a core:



Depending on how many years have passed after ME3, it is definitely imaginable that after some time certain ships would begin to break down or simply run out of fuel due to lack of infrastructure, resulting in the consideration to safely land them, if possible, and use their hulls as an immediate shelter.

An of course, the classic - building space stations right into gigantic asteroids due to lack of otherwise habitable planets nearby - or maybe due to a need of space base for whatever reason(communication, logistics, extraction of important ressources opening up useful space):




I also wondered if Reapers would sometimes use really powerful weapons leading to huge destruction far beyond what we've seen ingame, or that maybe some civilizations would just push their "Armageddon button" out of desperation or just to spite the invaders in the face of total annihilation:






I wondered what would happen, if Reapers would use some sort of biological warfare or if they attacked some super secret laboratories doing extremely dangerous biological research, releasing some absolutely devastating mutagens and just totally messing up the environment:





Salarians seem like prime candidates for that kind of chaos.

And of course, the biggest mess one could fear - a live Reaper. In this case maybe just the Reaper core - still active for whatever reason - without the outer protective shell, confining it to the surface of a planet, where it could hide in gigantic underground tunnels/bases, natural cavities, just between all the ruins or in whatever hiding places a gigantic robotic being could find for itself:

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They aren't bulky IMO, they are simply compact. IE the larger ship is missing the huge "wings" with engines that Normandy class or Tempest would feature. And concerning Tempest - it would look the same in terms of bulk if it was actually properly scaled, as it was either too small when viewed from outside or too flat in its shape to house two decks and a hangar bay.

I certainly would not mind a new iteration of Normandy, especially if implementing parts of Tempest design(ie generous transparent parts made of transparent metal alloys which allow view into space with little compromize in terms of protection, scientific compartments with analyzing devices, where you can further inspect the items you brought from the surface, being compact in size but not too small). But then again, we were presented the Mudskipper and the other spacecraft which looked fairly small, so maybe we won't be getting a Normandy-like spaceship at all? And in that case I'd prefer the designs above tbh.

Andromeda did a good job with the galaxy map, it's so beautiful to look around when you park on the orbit of a planet.

Visioning ME5 with Anthem style maps. Huh, wow.