User blog comment:Ahalosniper/Getting a feel for it/@comment-1009967-20120427234513/@comment-1009967-20120428034038

Ah, I see how you could miss something there. While N7 is the Alliance's elite training program, of which Shepard is a graduate, in ME3, your multiplayer characters are part of a group called "N7 Special Ops", which was first led by N7 marines, and then came to include members of all species. It's an effort to make the multiplayer canon, and I see it as an area to expand on.