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True! No word since 2021 and we get a 30 second spot of an unnamed N7 (which could just be liara in disguise or something) walking with fan service music to brighten it up.
I get that they don't want to shoot their load too early by confirming Shepard will/won't be back but we've had two trailers and some concept art since 2017, it's been almost seven years since Andromeda and there's so little to go on we don't even know what the next game will be about, when, or who will feature.
Personally I hope they just go the "we're fast forwarding to 2700'ish and only Liara and Grunt are still alive." Then have them mentor the next protagonist or something, idk. I think bringing Shepard back will be a colossal mistake, just let them rest. The story is over. You can only pull a Halo 4 from here and ruin the way it ended for them with a sub par follow up story.
I 100% agree. Bringing back Shepard would completely undercut the whole main theme of the original trilogy. The theme being "This is war, people die in war. You can't save everyone."
This was stressed to us in the first game with Kaiden or Ashley, the suicide mission in the second one, and the third one with previous characters dying because of your decisions.
I am just assuming this is like 300 years later, and Liara is a mature adult if not a matriarch.
I'd prefer the plot to be centered around Liara sending a QEC linked to her Broker lair on a drone ship to Andromeda after the Reaper war. She has the knowledge of the Andromeda Initiative's existence and knows they were a last ditch effort to save the Milky Way species, so they probably want to reconnect. The Pathfinder like ten years post Andromeda finds it once it gets there and crashes, and Liara gives them a blueprint to retrofit the Nexus into a galactic relay. Meanwhile she spends the next few hundred years building her own with the Broker's resources to connect to it.
Once you drop that plot structure you could fit en entire trilogy between 3 and connecting the two galaxies. I think it would be cool to connect them in climax of the first game and then have a story about the politics of fighting a war against the kett Empire while the Angara/Initiative struggle with new colonists and/or people leaving due to the war. That's just me though.