User blog comment:The Milkman/The Next Effect/@comment-5008642-20121124060216

ME4 takes place in the future, Cmdr. Shepard is found sipping Pina Coladas on a beach on Thessia with Liara in his lap. He survived the Crucibles firing after Master Chief tossed him into a Warthog and Cortana opened a portal sending them onto a nearby ship that escaped. Afterwards they both are frozen and in the year 2374 they're are found on a distant planet where they are unfrozen and used as super-weapons to fight the Chapratean Empire, a race of fanatical zealots and rascists that worship a Reaper named Jazuud. That should be ME4's storyline, haven't seen anything better and nothing worse.