BioWare has started the Reaper invasion before Mass Effect 3 has even been released.
Gamers who checked into Mass Effect 2 might have noticed a new Systems Alliance report that announces:
UTOPIA SYSTEM – A massive influx of batarian ships is raising tensions in the Exodus Cluster, putting Alliance forces on high alert. According to Alliance officials, the ships came from the batarian-held Harsa relay with minimal warning, some barreling right through. The Alliance reportedly fired on some of the ships with the intent to disable them.
“It’s a miracle any of them are still alive,” one human frigate captain said. According to the batarians, they are neither invaders nor defectors, but refugees. They claim a hostile species has attacked the Hegemony’s fleet, bombarding Khar’shan and other batarian planets.
With the Harsa comm buoy system crippled, communication is sporadic at best between far-flung batarians and their government on Khar’shan. Some refugees claim the attackers were Council. Others blame the geth or even the rachni. All report that the enemy, in whatever form, is blockading the relay, destroying most spacecraft trying to make it through. The refugees are not solely civilians. Hegemony Commander, Eruz Mathat, who is under guard while his cruiser is inspected, was blunt in his assessment of the situation. “I never thought I would say this to the human navy,” he said, “but we need you.”
This explains the presence of Cannibals on the first level of Mass Effect 3, which are Batarian-Human husk hybrids who, incidentally, eat the bodies of the fallen to regain health.
Mass Effect 3 comes out on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in North America on the 6th March, and worldwide on the 9th.
