How can BioWare bring these two alien species into the next Mass Effect?

It’s been over three years since Electronic Arts and BioWare released the first teaser video of the game, and other than the N7 days of information crumbs per year, we hear nothing about Mass Effect 4, but in November, a mysterious figure appeared: a character in a long coat with a helmet covering his face. The poster shows a bar scene covering the lower half of the character’s body. Several species can be seen, such as the Angara and the Geth. The former lives only in Andromeda, the latter in our Milky Way and may be extinct…

The Geth were not part of the Andromeda Initiative, and the journey there from the Milky Way took about 600 years. If Mass Effect 4 is set in Andromeda, it could take place before Mass Effect 3, and the Geth could travel there, and being a robotic race, the long journey is not that taxing on them, but the teaser videos suggest that BioWare’s game could not be set there. This time it can’t be 600 years from the Milky Way to Andromeda, and it doesn’t seem plausible that 1200 years will pass between the Mass Effect trilogy and ME4. In that time, the Milky Way would be a completely different galaxy, but it doesn’t look like that much time has passed in the videos…

The 2022 N7 Daily Teaser, on the other hand, gave us a glimpse of intergalactic travel at high speed. A Mass Relay, much larger than the previous ones, appeared in the video, and the sound accompanying it suggests that humanity has risen up against the Citadel Council. Mass relay transport is nearly instantaneous in the games (shaving years, centuries off the travel time), but it would have to be about a thousand times stronger to connect Andromeda and the Milky Way. Since about 600 years passed between the trilogy and Andromeda, they could have worked out a solution in that time. And to go back you need a second relay, but it’d be easier if they made the first one…

If the Geth are alive in Mass Effect 4, then the situation is not very clear. If Mass Effect 3’s Control or Synthesis ending is authentic, then no problem, but the ruined Citadel, dead Reapers, and post-apocalyptic Earth in the original ME4 teaser video don’t suggest that. If the all-destructive ending of Mass Effect 3 (Destroy) was the basis, then it doesn’t fit with the Geth appearing in Mass Effect 4. A reason for their reconstruction must be given, or more extreme, BioWare can say that Catalyst lied or was wrong, the Geth may have partially survived the destruction, or it must be stated that the Extended Cut epilogue exaggerated how different the three endings are.

Or BioWare can drop the color-coded endings. In the Extended Cut DLC, we could reject Catalyst’s decision. At that point, the Reapers had purged the galaxy, and to ensure survival, Liara’s time capsule was not destroyed; the studio said the united galaxy could traditionally push back the Reapers. In short, this is no easy task…

Source: GameRant