Quite the reverse:Īnd then the kick in the nuts. This did not, it is fair to say, make Erik's commenter, Rob Munsch, happy. In this case, Shepard is credited not with defeating the Reapers, but with giving this future generation the opportunity to live in peace. Except instead of an old man - Buzz Aldrin probably being harder to get back for more voice recording than the endlessly professional Lance Henrikssen, who plays Admiral Hackett like, appropriately, a boss - there is a female voice, belonging to a member of some form of humanoid race. But this message represents the history of their war with the Reapers, and their accumulated knowledge of how to fight them.Ĭut to the epilog, where in a distant future an adult - the "stargazer" - and a child talk about "the Shepard" and how she saved the galaxy. Beneath the beacon, in an underground chamber, a hologram of Liara T'soni, Shepard's faithful and bookish companion, explains that the massed forces of the galaxy could not defeat the Reapers, and were defeated. So be it, says the child (in the voice of head reaper Harbinger, which seems significant but probably isn't - we already know that the child is the controlling intelligence of the Reapers, because it has told us) and we cut to a garden world, in which a beacon is transmitting. Better to choose one's own destiny than to be dependent on a glowing deus ex machina, she concludes.
Shepard now has the option to reject all three of those endings, and instead to decide that the options presented by the Crucible-cum-Citadel are unpalatable. There is a lot to be said about and against those endings, and I'll come to that in a moment.
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