User blog comment:Rusty650/About the Idea of "Mass Effect 4"/@comment-109.112.40.126-20130628083013/@comment-72.49.149.251-20130628221311

I actually had a similar idea myself. Although they clearly stated that they did not want a "Shepard 2.0", I wonder if some organization or another could create an "imperfect" clone? As in, "they" recover DNA from the mutilated clone body, attempt to clone another, but fail due to degredation and are forced to seek (invasivly) compatible sources of material. The Pseudo-Shepard born from this has no idea who (s)he is, does not remember anything about the past Shepard, might not even look like the original Shepard, and might have little to no personality traits relating to the original. Sort of a "Shepard 0.5" instead of a "Shepard 2.0" ,eh?