Uploaded November 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

---

Five years following the Reaper War, the galaxy is still rebuilding. At a key point in the recovery efforts, Mass Relays begin to mysteriously go offline. Ships on the furthest edges of the galaxy go missing, and as political turmoil divides races, the citadel government threatens to descend into chaos as resources and reconstruction efforts are spread thin. Follow the crew of the Arcadia as they uncover government subterfuge, a shadowy organization, and mysteries on the origin of the galaxy as they fight to prevent an ancient enemy from awakening.

Launching in early 2191.


- - - - -


In celebration of N7 day, here's a "teaser" for a theoretical storyline I have in mind, taking place shortly after the events of Mass Effect 3. As much as I'd love to make this a real full video, that is beyond my skill and requires time investment that I simply don't have. I'm still looking at other avenues for storytelling, so perhaps I'll find another way of telling this story. But until I figure that out, this will remain only an idea.


I ran out of time on this video. I originally wanted this video out on Halloween, but I underestimated how slow I am at "animating" so I delayed it to N7 day. But since I had to leave town for work early in the morning on Nov 5th, I only had a few more days. Even then, late in the evening on 11/4/18, I didn't have enough time to really polish it, like change a few things in the render, and add SFX over the backing audio which I completely forgot because HUEHRHRHR.

- - - - -

Rendered in Source Filmmaker
Models from Mass Effect 3, Eve Online, and Homeworld 2: Remastered
The model porting & editing, texture work, and skybox were all done by me.
Post processing and editing was done in After Effects with technical JJ Abrams as technical adviser.
Background audit is extracted from ME3:Leviathan, as well as from Elite Dangerous.