so I was 99.999% sure that I deleted my ME1 save data a while back but sure enough, when I popped this bad boy in, I went to check just in case...and it was still there! Level 50 Earthborn, Sole-survivor Sentintel Paragon.
Hellloooo, free money and experience points I wasn't expecting.
So far I've only probed and mined a couple planets, and I've just recruited Archangel (hehe). I've spent about four hours on the game so far, about 1.5 of which was spent reading codex entries. here we go again.