“We’ve intercepted some strange footage from one of the monitoring stations in known space,” Mass Effect 5 project director Michael Gamble writes at the close of BioWare’s N7 Day blog post (opens in new tab). “It could be nothing, but…”, Gamble teases… but if there’s one thing we do know, it’s certainly not nothing. The footage shows the image of some kind of new relay, and it’s already got my mind racing. In fact, the text in the corner reveals that what we’re looking at is a “Vacuum dock relay construction record”. And just to heighten the intrigue, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen this image.
