Mass Effect 3: After the End

[tov01]

This is my own head-canon for what happens after ME3. I have tried to stay within what happened in game, while at the same time make the endings just a little less depressing. It is still a work in progress, and I wouldn't mind everyone's opinion on how to flesh it out more.

Edit: Some new information has recently come to light from Pax, and I have

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[alias_sqbr]

I've been putting off reading this until I felt able to properly process it: very nice!

I've been poking about the wiki for my own speculations, but yours are much more detailed! How are you estimating travel times though? The only speed I could find for FTL travel implied that it's around 4000 times the speed of light, but your estimates seem to put it lower than that (which does make sense for longterm travel instead of short bursts)

Also: did you make up Devonia? I'm inclined to make up a convenient planet myself, poking around the systems to find a binary star with a habitable planet is way too much work given that one may not exist.

[tov01]

Yeah, it's a lot to digest at once, isn't it

[raelynae]

Knowing the inspiration for your planet names makes my day.

[tov01]

Thanks. I'm glad you appreciate it.

[alias_sqbr]

The wiki has exact distances to a lot (all?) of the systems, but it didn't occur to me to use an image of the galaxy map to get a rough idea which ones to look at. Combining the two should be good for planning/measuring routes (though now I've been distracted by working out the details for an Indoctrination ending, lol)

Yeah, I guess that was what you were doing with Denovia/Zoic after googling. The meaning behind Tantalus didn't occur to me though, nice.

[tov01]

I haven't found any mention of distances in the Wiki, at least not yet, so if you saw something I didn't I would love to see it. I based my initial estimates on the fact that the Horse Head Nebula is 1500 light years, which I estimated was 250 days travel away (which I rounded up to a year). However, I later noticed that the Hourglass Nebula is on the other side of the galaxy, when in fact it is only 8000 light years away. That clued me in that the scales are really out of whack. When I get around to redoing it, I will probably estimate the distances as a fraction of the diameter of the galaxy.

[alias_sqbr]

I poked about a bit, and it turns out I happened across one of the few places that does get a distance, most don't. But for example the Hourglass Nebula has it's distance mentioned: http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Hourglass_Nebula

[tov01]

Yeah, that is the distance to the real life Hourglass Nebula, which in game is no where near where it's supposed to be. So either there is another nebula going by that name, or Bioware screwed up their map.