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Originally Posted by creb

Edit: Oh, wait. Here's an Escapist article: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news...d-or-Shepard-2

I find this part of the article particularly interesting:

The decision to make the new protagonist not even "a soldier in the universe" is an interesting one, given the military focus of the Mass Effect trilogy.

This can actually mean anything. We had Mordin, Grunt (in ME2), Lisara, and several others that are not military soldiers, just people with their own occupation or situation. Exploring Mass Effect 4 as a scientist or an archaeologist could be interesting, but I'm afraid of how much exploration (as an archaeologist) versus action there would be.