User blog comment:Lancer1289/Mass Effect will go on, but without Shepard/@comment-2008379-20110831233205

''Shepard may not make an appearance in future any future ME projects, but the Commander will likely be referenced in a few. Logically, people would definitely talk about someone who saved the galaxy from an armada of sentient dreadnoughts bent on our destruction (that is, of course, if Shepard does succeed and there are still people alive in the galaxy).''