User blog comment:TheUnknown285/Bioware releases teaser trailer of Mass Effect 4/@comment-9753034-20140614162823

A couple of comments in response to various previous ones:
 * 1) "Referencing the trilogy" hardly makes it necessary to consider any characteristics or decisions of Shepard's: plenty of events occur regardless of player choice which can be equivocally alluded to, and affairs related to the Council and other Citadel species wouldn't matter much outside Citadel space.
 * 2) If the shape beside the galaxy map is Prothean, it is Javik in a post-trilogy scenario. Otherwise we were fooled and he was not the last Prothean at all, or (part of) the game takes place in the previous cycle. Doesn't really look like anything in particular to me, though.
 * 3) If the events took place in another galaxy, you might as well forget about the trilogy altogether. I don't think intergalactic travel was ever mentioned in the existing series -- unsurprisingly since that is on another level of impossibility. But we're supposed to be surprised by just how far they've gone with this, so who knows.