User blog comment:Ralok/The Future of the Franchise (mass effect 3 spoilers)/@comment-165.155.208.114-20120309154749

I like how you are thinking things out. I've barely played it yet, but I know how it ends. Personally, I feel that they ruined the ending, but canon is canon, so I'll have to base my fan-fiction on that. One aspect that I plan on incorporating into my universe is how after the destruction of the Mass Relays, each race would be hopelessly isolated from each other for a while, considering that there is no longer any FTL to connect them. If translight travel is when a ship is propelled through a mass relay and a mass effect field accelerates them even more, now that the relays are destroyed I'm guessing that all mass effect cores could only operate at sublight speeds. Perhaps it would take years just to reach Alpha Centuri from the Sol System at those speeds. Pockets of survivors would be present on numerous colonies, and worlds such as earth would be undergoing harsh environmental changes such as nuclear winters. One thing is certain, mass effect technology is now obsolete. They'll need to recover, and then they will need to find another method of FTL travel.