User blog comment:TheUnknown285/Things You Do and Don’t Want from ME4/@comment-24200891-20140613075000/@comment-24200891-20140613184845

Then I envy you your certainty. Besides if ME:Next has to be, then a story is needed and to be a story new problems are necessary. Problems can be competition for infleunce or increasing gangster activity in building their new empires. Elias Kelham became a big fish after the geth heretics slaughtered many big fish, so he took over thier influence after battle of the Citadel. I expect more ambitious and more competent opportunists than Kelham to deal with in ME:Next. In fact I rather be more independent than Shepard in the upcoming game, answering to no authority, I think being a warlord gathering influence would be fun.