Nobrandminda wrote...
My theory is that that message is a glitch and you're supposed to get that before the game starts.
Read it again with that context in mind. Doesn't that sound like something you would say to a friend who's under house arrest? As opposed to a person who may or may not be alive on a planet you may or may not be on?
That was the general conclusion when it was brought up last night.
There are issues with that conclusion. For instance, Ashley's version uses the word "skipper", which isn't accurate until after you leave Earth at the start of the game. And also, the time window in which the message would actually apply (it would have needed to be sent BEFORE the Reapers attacked) is about five minutes - i.e. when VS learns you're alive and when the first Reaper lands on Earth. You'd have to assume that VS decided to visit you, got permission, and sent the message all in the space of that five minutes.
But it's also possible that whoever wrote the message wasn't thinking about the logistics of the situation when they wrote it.