## Way of Life (arc 7/Gone with the Sun) [HSF][RST][FF][Mass Effect] * Author: u/SCarinae * * URL: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11442967/1/ * Score: 7 * Created: 2015-08-13T11:07:38 ### Post: [Link to content](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11442967/1/) ### Comments: > **u/SCarinae** [+1] (a minute later) > > "Way of Life" is the seventh story arc in the "Gone with the Sun" series, posted today. > > This latest post is Arc 7 of that story, dealing with new ships venturing into dark space. > > Earlier arcs were notified in prior threads; posted stories appear below. The first was "Eternity", recapitulating the events of the Red Flash. > > The opening chapter of the story proper is: > arc 2, "Queen's Gambit", followed in order by: > arc 3 "Grave to cradle", > arc 4 "Road to Nowhere", > arc 5 "Somewhere over the Rainbow" > arc 6 "Keeping faith", and now > arc 7 "Way of Life". > > To recapitulate the earlier post's description: > > The next ME apparently involves an N7 operating in Andromeda. > > Mass Effect 3 came out some time back, following which I wrote a 'rationalist' novel exploring the aftermath - posted for the canonical year and a day. It explored consequences of ME3's 'red flash' from the point of view of certain characters. > As it happens, the closing lines of the last arc had survivors heading for Andromeda. > > Imagine my shock when the recent E3 2015 trailer, "Mass Effect: Andromeda" was issued, showing an N7 in Andromeda, obviously not Shepard but still. Hence the excerpting of the final scene as a prologue. > > Each arc ends with a pointer to the next arc. ---