User blog comment:N7EagleEye/New Mass Effect 4 Details/@comment-75.134.152.41-20130724020832/@comment-64.134.127.115-20130724034026

Doesn't. .. feel right. We can already see the myriad alternative universes of Mass Effect through the power of the choice wheel and the alternative playthrough. Instead, perhaps we can go back, WAY back to the actual creation of the Crucible itself by some unknown race millions of years ago. It could be told via someone (they don't have to show who or what) stumbling across an ancient recording that tells the tale of how it all began. The ending to that story could have the protagonist or one of his allies explaining what EXACTLY the Crucible was meant to do (dependent on player choice through-out the game of course) before stranding themselves in an accessable but well-hidden specific nebula to become the first piece of what would become "The Crucibe". The ending shows us the accidental archeologist who, depending on the end choice, is either A. A human technicion salvaging the wreck, B. A Shepard mobile-platform maintaing the machine that changed it's (it moves mechanically, looks like a faceless suit of heavy N7 armor, and speaks with both Shepard's voices at the same time) life forever, C. An "Awakened" Collector and a synth-human tasked with keeping the vessel constantly emiting the nano- pulse for the benefit of future generations, or D. A terrifying  centaur-esque gelatious entity just as it pushs a haptic button while the Reapers begin barrageing the Citadel (the screen fades to black just after the button is pressed so we only hear the sound of the station cracking apart from the stress, we never know what the blobataur chooses). How does that overly complicatted mess sound?