User blog comment:James12708/Possibility of a Mass Effect 4/@comment-101.161.42.220-20120714085207/@comment-5291280-20120714110102

The First Contact War was 26 years before the first game of Mass Effect, so it couldn't be an ancestor. Father, grandfather maybe. But still, it is unclear which profile you chose to play with. if you chose the default, you played the Earthborn Shepard, which meant that you were an orphan and your parents were probably drunks or so.