User blog comment:Leviathan2186/Mass Effect 4: Wish List/@comment-1341687-20130802052940/@comment-1341687-20130805060056

Ah. If set that far into the future with an assumption of Reapers winning, it wouldn't mean no mass effect fields. Because they would still be in place for the cycle. Also, we could then maybe explore the original idea of dark energy from the fields being the "problem". As far as "humans" I see no issue honestly. There would be differences, but things that we attribute to being human are mostly products of locations we grew in. Diverse cultures, languages, and religions. Similarities would occur. IIRC many scientists are of like mind that "real" aliens would closely resemble us, at least biologically. I don't see it being too much different than in the way elves are different from humans and dwarves in DA. Societal differences could and would occur, but still be understandable to an outsider. That and they could always take the cheap way out and have the Reapers fascinated by human diversity and re-seeding Earth as it were. There's more to that, but I think you will get my drift.