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[x2seeybir]

The Chance to find hints for Andromeda is higher in the Citadel dlc i think. Its temporally closer to the main production phase of MA:A.
There are many named and unamed unknown NPC who could make appearance in MA:A

Also clones.

[In Exile]

If it isn't what she was referring to....it should be.

The devs probably didn't know they were going to set a sequel in Andromeda while developing ME3, but that line is perfectly suited for being tied to the sequel. The project that gets colonists to Andromeda should be something the Council set up during the Reaper War.

Only if the hypothetical Ark is a council endeavour rather than a private affair. Mac seems to be generally anti-government competency so I wouldn't expect this to be a government project.

[Killroy]

Why didn't the Protheans think of this

Maybe they did? Maybe Andromedan Protheans will be an enemy faction?

What, just because they were more united, advanced, and already tried something like it on Eden Prime, what makes you think they'd try an Ark if it was feasible?  

The Protheans weren't more united and their supposed technological superiority was irrelevant since their cycle's reaping went according to plan. They never saw it coming so the first thing that happened was the hub of their civilization was taken from them, scattering the Prothean empire to the wind. That's the whole point of the Citadel. Shepard stymied our cycle's reaping, screwed up the Reapers' plans and potentially gave us years to prepare an ark before the Reapers even arrived.

[themikefest]

Shepard stymied our cycle's reaping, screwed up the Reapers' plans and potentially gave us years to prepare an ark before the Reapers even arrived.

It was the Prothean scientists that altered the signal that gave this cycle a chance. Had that not happened the reapers would've harvested this cycle like all cycles before 

[Salarian Master Race]

Javik said it took 100 years for the Reapers to defeat the Protheans.

 

Plenty of time to come up with options.

[Killroy]

Javik said it took 100 years for the Reapers to defeat the Protheans.

Plenty of time to come up with options.

While being hunted down, disorganized and your movement limited?

[Salarian Master Race]

While being hunted down, disorganized and your movement limited?

 

Space is an awfully big place.  Why, you could even build a Crucible in a matter of weeks without being discovered.

[Dantriges]

IIRC it was even 300 years.

[Ajensis]

Javik said it took 100 years for the Reapers to defeat the Protheans.

 

Plenty of time to come up with options.

 

The war was likely lost within the first couple of years. It simply took 100 years for the Reapers to clean up the left-overs.

 

Space is an awfully big place.  Why, you could even build a Crucible in a matter of weeks without being discovered.

 

Without proper supply lines, communications and keeping it hidden from Reaper forces and indoctrinated Protheans? Very doubtful.

 

Although the blueprints they stored on Mars implies they probably tried. They just had too many obstacles in their path to succeed.

[Iakus]

The war was likely lost within the first couple of years. It simply took 100 years for the Reapers to clean up the left-overs.

 

 

Without proper supply lines, communications and keeping it hidden from Reaper forces and indoctrinated Protheans? Very doubtful.

 

THey found time to build an underground bunker capable of holding a million Protheans in stasis though 

[Iakus]

Didnt one of the bioware produziert say they go to Andromeda becaus the milkyway galaxy is to "known" in the original triology so the can't made this Explorer Themen there.

Yeah, we've seen all the Milky Way.

 

 

Except the hundred billion or so stars we missed ...

[Ajensis]

THey found time to build an underground bunker capable of holding a million Protheans in stasis though 

 

Well, sure, if you've got a hundred 'OH **** OH ****' plans, a few of them are bound to see some degree of success but even those bunkers didn't fulfill their main objective - keeping the Prothean species alive.

[Salarian Master Race]

Well, sure, if you've got a hundred 'OH **** OH ****' plans, a few of them are bound to see some degree of success but even those bunkers didn't fulfill their main objective - keeping the Prothean species alive.

 

Should have gone to Andromeda!

 

Oh well, hindsight is always 20/20.

[KaiserShep]

THey found time to build an underground bunker capable of holding a million Protheans in stasis though 

If the technology already exists, it's might have been feasible for them to build a facility capable of supporting them in a matter of months.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

After Thessia falls, the asari councillor says "they must take precautions to ensure continuity of civilization."

Now I don't know much about the ark theory or what people been saying about the ark theory, but do you think that's what she's talking about?

No, since they had no plans on making more games when Mass Effect 3 came out. 

[Killroy]

Space is an awfully big place.  Why, you could even build a Crucible in a matter of weeks without being discovered.

Didn't ME3 take place over the course of a year? BioWare is terrible at communicating the passage of time so it feels like a rapid chain of events, back to back, but I'm pretty sure it was a long period of time.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

Didn't ME3 take place over the course of a year? BioWare is terrible at communicating the passage of time so it feels like a rapid chain of events, back to back, but I'm pretty sure it was a long period of time.

On Earth, Shepard tells Tali it's been a few months since the Reapers invaded. So half a year to a year is about right.

[Drone223]

I hate how people claim that line is foreshadowing such a concept because.......

 

1. Bioware didn't come up with the idea at the time the ME3 was being developed.

2. It tells us nothing about such a project since its vague at best and could mean something else entirely.

3. If Bioware was building up such a project they wouldn't rely on one vague line they would have put more effort into building it up.

4. Its one line in a 30-40 hour game.

[Drone223]

Yeah, we've seen all the Milky Way.

 

 

Except the hundred billion or so stars we missed ...

Indeed how can the whole MW be known when the vast majority of it is still unexplored.

[Dantriges]

I think they meant it more like: You can go to unexplored space in one day and sip tea on Ilium tomorrow. Something like civilisation is too close or so. I hope you know what I mean.

[Drone223]

I think they meant it more like: You can go to unexplored space in one day and sip tea on Ilium tomorrow. Something like civilisation is too close or so. I hope you know what I mean.

That's a terrible excuse, most of the unexplored regions of the galaxy aren't in the relay network a game can be easily done in the MW without going back to places in the trilogy.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

I hate how people claim that line is foreshadowing such a concept because.......

 

1. Bioware didn't come up with the idea at the time the ME3 was being developed.

2. It tells us nothing about such a project since its vague at best and could mean something else entirely.

3. If Bioware was building up such a project they wouldn't rely on one vague line they would have put more effort into building it up.

4. Its one line in a 30-40 hour game.

 

Who is saying that?

 

We're saying it is using a line to justify the Ark. Come on. They made Leviathan after the fact to justify Starbrat. Leviathans, billions of years old should  have been part of the fossil record. But they weren't. They needed them because they screwed up the ending so bad and then compounded the problem with the EC.

 

So this one line is an ass pull, but unlike Leviathan, it has some merit. It's no worse than any of the other crap we saw pulled during the trilogy. It's no worse than Vigil giving Shepard the magic data disk that overrode Saren's commands in ME1, in fact it's better than that because something like this could have been in the works.

 

We all know that Bioware had no intention of writing another ME game after ME3. That ending was a "torch the franchise" ending. Even Mac Walters all but admitted it in February 2012.

 

Q: "Will there be any post ending DLC?"

Walters: "No. Why? It's a wasteland."

 

There was a 10,000 year dark age. We stopped the reapers but we blew up the galaxy.

 

Now, by popular demand, we get a new game. No one wanted a prequel or sidequel, so we get ME: Andromeda. And how does it get this way?

 

ARKCON. Ark Theory. "Continuity of civilization must be considered. I never thought this day would come."

 

Ass pull. We leave before the ending so we don't ever have to deal with the ending. Go for it.

[Quarian Master Race]

 

Why didn't the Protheans think of this

or the *insert name of a species from one of the other 20,000 or so cycles*

Actually it is pretty obvious. Prothean (and every other cycle's) contingency plans simply involved hiding in obscure places in the Milky Way instead of some absurd Andromeda boondoggle, because they didn't have an RGB ending and "muh choices" to deal with if they stayed.

Or the whole project like all other great things is the quarians' idea (likely stolen and presented by salarians tho), and the Protheans didn't think to ask the quarian cavemen what to do in their own cycle.

[Killroy]

Indeed how can the whole MW be known when the vast majority of it is still unexplored.

Get over it. The game is in Andromeda because they ruined the Milky Way.

That's a terrible excuse, most of the unexplored regions of the galaxy aren't in the relay network a game can be easily done in the MW without going back to places in the trilogy.

You can see the Crucible's effect spreading throughout the entire galaxy. And what sort of asspull reason could they come up to justify keeping us out of charted space that you wouldn't complain about?

[Farangbaa]

I noticed this ages ago when MEA was still ME4... and I don't think we even knew ME4 was going to happen yet. Not sure about that though

I jokingly uploaded a screenshot of it when playing through ME3 and said something like "and here we have ME4"


(And I figured it was way easier to type this out than actually look for my post)

Oh and also

*pats self on back*