Weird hentai ark, huh?
Hentai ark is best arc.
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Weird hentai ark, huh?
Well...
I'd fill the first with Quarians.
And dismantle the other two and make theirs even bigger so they're comfortable.
I do like Salarians as well, but we would need some muscle in there at least...
1. Salarians
2. Salarians
3. Garrus
Do to cost cutting measures you can only build life support units capable of supporting 3 different species, who do you pick?
Humans, Asari, Turians
Seriously, though; Krogans, salarians, and vorcha.
Based on their adaptability and sheer ability to propagate those three would be the most successful.
Can't wait to see all the scum who would prefer some aliens over their own kind.
For me:
Human, Asari, Turians.
Asari as the brains (Salarians don't live long enough)
Turians the brawn (Krogan are too aggressive)
Humans the "all around" (obvious reasons)
Humans
Turians
Asari
Amino Protein races only, good bye Turians and Quarians.
Space is minimal, goodbye Krogans, Elcor
We are the last of humanity we don't need Asari tempting the few humans left to become their sex partners to continue only their species, goodbye Asari.
Drell were likely all going to die out anyway, and their total recall ability is freaky. Goodbye BattleToads, I mean Drell.
Cost of maintaining some kind of ammonia based environment for you Volus is ineffective to our cost, go suck spaceballs.
Hanar, you are welcome to come with us... some of us might want sea food during the voyage.
Humanity comes first, we sacrificed our hero lord and savior TJ Lazer Shepard because you other idiot races didn't listen to his warnings for over 3 years. Goodbye Salarians, Vorcha, and Batarians.
Geth platforms that can redesign themselves to look like the EDI unit used aboard the Normandy are welcome to come, you take up less space and are visually appealing while not costing much anything to maintain, also we are going to need general crew to operate and maintain the ships for the hundred years or so while the rest of humanity drops in and out of cryosleep. Wake us up when we reach Andromeda.

Hanar
Elcor
Volus
This one looks forward to enkindling criminal scum in a new galaxy.
Badassfully, I have put off retirement several centuries to do this.
ffffsssk... This is your last chance, Blasto!
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Seriously?
Asari. They live long, and a few could even stay active to monitor the ship throughout the three century journey and still have long lives waiting. You need people with science and technical knowledge around monitoring things to make sure the cryo-pods don't malfunction. They're good at maintaining peace and keeping the economy going. This race is a given.
Turian. Reliable and hard working. Will be good soldiers protecting the colonies once we land. Unfortunately R-dna makes finding a world difficult, unless Andromeda is R-dna, and the L-dna is at the disadvantage. We don't know. Take them along to hedge our bets.
Salarians. You never know when you'll need another genophage to manage a species in Andromeda.
Asari and humans because they look good, and turians because they have sexy voices. Quite simple really.
Asari and humans because they look good, and turians because they have sexy voices. Quite simple really.
Batarians,
Humans &
Turians.
Everyone pairing levo and dextro species on the same boat is clearly not thinking very clearly in terms of cost considerations.
You're right. I change my selection to:
Humans
Asari
Geth
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Humans only screw the rest ok turians can come aswell.
Turian, Asari and Salarian
Why no Humans? because humans are vital for any story being told to humans so no matter what happens they have to be in Andromeda so this way humans don't take a 'seat' on the ark they get here on their own.
Asari - having a long lived race that can mate with any species means your colonies have experience and a species that can breed with any race means your birth rate can be stabilized in a crisis.
Salarians - Highly intelligent short lived means fewer resources required before they can start increasing the population of the colony
Turians - They are highly organised and Paragon's of 'order.' They also provide genetic diversity. What if dextro-protein based life was the "norm" for Andromeda you want someone to be able to thrive in this environment. Or worse what if the environments of most of Andromeda were hostile to levo-amino based life? And everyone you brought in the ark was levo-amino based life? opps. Better to have at both forms of life for the best chance of your colony surviving. Since quarians are tied to their homeworld for their immunity no point bringing them along. The costs of housing levo and dextro's on the same ship is worth the increased chance of survival and exploitation of both types of environments in Andromeda.
It isn't just about how cheap you can build the ark but what can you do to give the colony the greatest chance of survival when they get their as that is more important than the cost of transport.
Human, Asari, and Salarian
I wouldn't want to waste space/resources accommodating a dextro race sorry Quarian/Turians. Krogans are too savage, and I don't really care about the other Levo species.