"N7 Day" 2015 video, from Bioware.
November 7 is celebrated by fans of BioWare’s Mass Effect series as "N7 Day," and the developer has released a stirring video to mark the occasion. The video, narrated by Commander Shepard voice actor Jennifer Hale, contains the first glimpse of what appears to be a very large spacecraft—presumably the "mothership" used by the protagonist in Mass Effect Andromeda—as he or she flits around the Andromeda galaxy. But there’s another subtle reveal in the video: a dogtag, visible only for a few seconds, inscribed with the name "RYDER."
That's the first hint we've had of the new protagonist's name, and the first name overall that we've had to go along with the images of the characters we’ve seen so far. This also could provide more context as to why the teaser video used Johnny Cash’s "Ghost Riders in the Sky"—it wasn’t just for the juxtaposition of an old Country and Western song over science fiction, but also for the now-apparent evocation of the player character’s name.
The last big bit of official information we got about Mass Effect Andromeda came from this year’s E3 conference back in mid-June, when Bioware released the first teaser-trailer for the game. Set to the tunes of Johnny Cash’s "Ghost Riders in the Sky," it included scenes of an N7-suited figure slowly flipping through images of different planets, then traveling via a faster-than-light jaunt to a new location; the teaser then showed a short shot of some vehicular action and ground combat.
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