User blog comment:SlasherNL/Liara, Bioware's chioce?/@comment-3061137-20120510035858

Yep cause she's going to be the tie in NPC for the next game. The next game will be set years, possibly centuries after ME3, earth has been re-colonised after it's near destruction with so many other people on earth after the battle with the Reapers the planet is no longer a human world but a world of mixed races, with the Mass relays gone people will have to rely on more mundane forms of travel and the race to develop new technology comparable to the relays will begin, then "something" will happen, some disaster or a new enemy will appear and the player armed with an experimental ship that can jump to different systems will have to track down the last surviving member of the Normandy crew, liara, because the "something" will be connected to the reapers or the protheans or something.

After all ths time the different peoples have changed significantly and the player will experience wonder and excitement as the get to know the new peoples of the universe. Krogans: under eve's leadership, wrex was on earth remember, the Krogan have mastered their rage becoming a split race like the vulcans, some follow the way of Eve and some follow the old ways. Quarians: making peace with the geth has lifted the quarian race up to masters of technology, the quarians have modified suits and live in a symbiotic relationship with the geth programs, legion is seen as some kind of legend, it isn't uncommon for quarians to replace parts of their body with tech. Turians: with so many lost to helping outsiders the turians become incredibly insular letting few past their boarders and focusing inward on their religion. Asari: cut off from other people and with few non asari on their home planet defects like ardat yakshi become more and more common as the asari have new genetic lines. Humans: willing to keep moving forward despite the loss of the relays the humans begin developing ways to replace the lost technology some succeed and others don't using the old stasis pods Human ships go on lengthy missions to re-establish communications and trade routes... because of the length of the journey the ships have become reliant on AI pilots based on a combination of geth programming and EDI's loyalty subroutines and ideals as well as her human form platform.