User blog comment:Stabber ApSig/Mass Relays Gone, ME3 ending/@comment-227314-20120312032902

After seeing the three endings and not really liking them completely I started thinking, what's next for the ME universe? While i don't have an answer for certain i've come to realize that not everything is as bad as it sounds, that does not mean that I like the endings though.

In a perfect world I would have gotten my perfect ending where Shepard survives, they rebuild earth and I hook up with Liara, perfect happy ending.

Since that is not the case (or at least not completely) and no matter what I do the mass relays are destroyed, it would appear that the galaxy is doomed completely, let me tell u this is not the case.

After this ending ME verse would turn to be more like Halo and Star Trek in terms of FTL, with ME FTL superior to UNSC FTL, but inferior to Covenant and generaly superior to Star Trek's. So in the near future you will have many empires being created more locally as opposed to as spread as they where due to the Mass Relays, similar to the Federation in Trek or the UNSC in Halo.

While it would appear that the Turians, the Asari or the Krogan are stranded on earth this is not true. In relative terms Palaven is a few months to a year from Earth at maximum FTL speed of 12 ly/day, with only 6 hours to discharge the charge build up every week or so. Not efficient, but not unheard of in sci-fi. The ones that have it the worst are the Quarians whose Homeworld is on the far side of the galaxy, so their only choice left is to colonize a nearby world that would be habitable to them. The Asari are only somewhat farther away from Earth than Palaven, so journeys would definitely take more than a year.

Since we assume that the true ending is the destruction of the Reapers, this means that all their tech is available for study, so significant advances in FTL drives can be achieved. The Reapers FTL drives clock at 30+ ly/day and they dont need to discharge, if this is because they have no organics to consider or not is never explained, but at 30 ly/day, a 120000 ly trip would take: 10 years, not necessarily fast, but way better than trek, where voyager assuming no shortcuts and at maximum sustainable warp would have taken 70+ years to reach earth.

Also since reaper tech is left behind it is possible that the mass relay network could be rebuilt, it would just be a many centuries undertaking, but certainly achievable, at the very least it would allow the major homeworlds to be reconnected within a short amount of time and then more added as needed.

These are just some of my thoughts on the future of mass effect.

Assuming no change in ending ME verse has not been destroyed, but it will most certainly change significantly in future instalments of the franchise, which we all know will be made.

Again as much as i disagree with the endings I can see the light at the end of the choices and maybe even changes that would allow for different experiences.