Quote Originally Posted by alimdia View Post
A more likely thing to happen is an unskippable long cutscene summarizing the story so far. What you're proposing would cause issues with the story moving forward, too many branches.
Not particularly, it'd be like the Legacy Player/2.0 Player split. There'd be SOME difference to begin with but after a while your star would begin to eclipse your predecessor and people would treat you with the exact same respect they'd have treated them.