## King's endgame (arc 8/Gone with the Sun) [HSF][RST][FF][Mass Effect]

* Author: u/SCarinae *
* URL: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11492572/1/
* Score: 6

* Created: 2015-09-07T01:23:17

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> **u/SCarinae** [+1]  (2 minutes later)
> 
> Mass Effect portrayed the way Commander Shepard dealt with the Reapers he met. This latest (and last) post links to Arc 8 of that story, dealing with what the remaining 20,000 Reapers did on their holiday.
> 
> To recapitulate the earlier posts' 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. So imagine my shock when the recent E3 2015 trailer, "Mass Effect: Andromeda" was issued, also showing an N7 in Andromeda, obviously not Shepard but still. Hence the excerpting of the final scene as a prologue to arc 1.
> 
> The first (arc 1) was "Eternity", recapitulating the events of the Red Flash from other points of view.
> 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",
> arc 7 "Way of Life", and now;
> arc 8 "King's endgame"

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