![]() ![]() Sovereign refuses to divulge its motivations, stating that it is beyond the lesser races' comprehension. Every 50,000 years the Reapers sweep through the Milky War, annihilating sophisticated, space-faring civilisations, throwing everything into chaos***** and leaving other races untouched. The spacecraft, Sovereign, contacts Shepard at a critical juncture in the storyline and tells him (or her) that it is a sentient intelligence, a member of a race of entities known as the Reapers. Initially it appears that Saren and the geth are simply out for power and territory but Shepard, aided by allies from several races, uncovers evidence that Saren is being controlled by the ancient, alien spacecraft he is using as his flagship. 300 years ago, the geth drove their creators, the quarians, into exile on a fleet of spacecraft**** and took over their mutual homeworld, Rannoch. In the original Mass Effect, Shepard is pitted against Saren, a turian Spectre who has gone rogue and allied himself with the geth, a race of robots (or synthetics, in the game's parlance). The player's character, Commander Shepard (who can be male or female, and of whatever ethnicity, sexuality or appearance the player chooses), is in line to become the first human Spectre, an agent with wide-ranging powers to deal with threats to the Council races in whatever manner he or she chooses. As the trilogy opens Earth is campaigning hard for a senior seat on the Council, which is controversial due to the short period of time that Earth has been a player in galactic affairs. The Council is based at the Citadel, a massive cylindrical space station*** of ancient, alien origin. Through this mass relay, it has made contact with a number of alien races who have joined together to form the Council, an interspecies UN which mediates conflicts and regulates interstellar trade and diplomacy**. Mankind has discovered a device at the edge of the Solar system (disguised as Pluto's moon, Charon*) that permits instantaneous travel to distant star clusters. The Mass Effect games are set roughly 175 years into the future. The Citadel: 44km long, home to 15 million people and absolutely no public toilets visible anywhere. ![]() I would advise against reading on if you plan to play these games at any point in the future. Obviously, MAJOR SPOILERS follow for the Mass Effect trilogy. The problem is not that the ending is bleak (no matter which choices you make at the end of the game, quiet a lot of people ending up dying), it's that it makes little to no sense with regard to plot logic and is massively inconsistent with the themes and storylines developed up until that point.īacking up a little, this is obviously a blog mostly focused on books and many readers won't have a clue what's going on with this controversy. The reaction of the fanbase can be best described as one of total bewilderment and, in some quarters, outright rage. You can check what your current TMS value is by accessing the War Terminal within the War Room on the Normandy, so before you start Act 3 and pass the point of no return you should ensure that you've reached the level you require for your preferred choice from the Mass Effect 3 endings.Warning: spoilers for Mass Effect 1, 2 & 3 and Knights of the Old Republic.Īt the last possible minute, the game took a nosedive in quality unmatched since the final episode of Battlestar Galactica, and replacing that controversial episode in the "WTF just happened?" canon of bad endings. At a TMS of 1750 or above you can choose between those two options, and at 2800 or more the third Synthesis ending is also available. The Total Military Strength you've managed to gather during the course of the campaign will directly affect the Mass Effect 3 endings you have available, as with a TMS of less than 1750 you will only have one possible outcome – either the Destruction ending if Shepard destroyed the Reaper Base at the end of Mass Effect 2, or the Control ending ending if Shepard saved the Reaper Base. Make sure you're well equipped with the best Mass Effect 3 weapons and Mass Effect 3 armor to secure that EMS. ![]()
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