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[Jen-Yu]

          what will be your reaction; if the ark theory is true and our new heroes will be the cowards who runaway from milkway

   like chickens, while everybody was fighting till the last drop of blood.

[KaiserShep]

Laughter maybe? I dunno. 

 

If super kill-bots were tearing ass across the galaxy, and someone asked me if I wanted to sign up for a super secret operation that would have us venture to a faraway galaxy, I might just sign my name multiple times. 

[God]

Not so much cowardice as practicality: running far enough away from the fight will get you away from it.

 

Anyway, they were probably commissioned and ordered by their respective governments to go along with it. 

[Chardonney]

          what will be your reaction; if the ark theory is true and our new heroes will be the cowards who runaway from milkway

   like chickens, while everybody was fighting till the last drop of blood.

 

Firstly, I do hope the journey is set to happen during ME3. Secondly, it has absolutely nothing to do with cowardice. Actually, I think it's brave what they're doing. They're are leaving and heading towards the complete unknown, just so that humanity and other races can have a chance to continue somewhere else. Calling that kind of people chickens is nonsense.

[Broganisity]

First I will throw my head back and laugh at the heavily-biased OP.

Ready?



Next, I will be indifferent. What other way are they going to Andromeda that won't have to cling to the Shepard Trilogy like the plague.

[wright1978]

          what will be your reaction; if the ark theory is true and our new heroes will be the cowards who runaway from milkway

   like chickens, while everybody was fighting till the last drop of blood.

 

I'd respect the ark-ers for the eminently sensible decision to try and salvage something of the galaxy in face of seeming total annihilation.

[goishen]

Yah, I mean...  

 

My very first reaction?  "SCORE!  I was right!"   The reaction soon after that will be, "Let's see what else BioWare has in store."

 

Surprisingly, there are only a select number of things that can fight the reapers.  Both from a tactical standpoint, but also a logistical one as well.  One person prolly wouldn't make a difference to anybody.  A hundred people prolly would.  It's just like on the Citadel after the Cerberus invasion started, "Would having groups of armed civilians running around shooting at anything that moves improve the situation?"  

[Spectr61]

Questions?

Who is Michael Maurer? And does he relate to Casey Hudson/Preston Watanmaniuk?

Answers;

Lead designers Porsche Panamera/ME3 ending. All are firmly ensconced in the "Epic Failure of Design" Hall of Shame.


Reaction to OP,

Bad. Wish we didn't have to go to another entire galaxy. We barely scratched Milky Way. But I understand why. See above.

[JAZZ_LEG3ND]

I have my doubts we'll hear about this galaxy and Reapers much at all, probably not at all in the case of the latter.

However, if we are part of an 'Arc', then so be it. If it's well written, it can work. There's no reason to assume the people who make it to Andromeda would be the same generation as the ones who left the Milkyway: Andromeda is apparently not so close by. So actually, the old galaxy and the original immigrants could be somewhat legend.

The myth tells how The Shepard saved the old home, but there’s no going back.

[Equalitas]

If the game starts with you in our galaxy as a prologue and you get to decide yourself how it is going to happen. 
And exploring unknown space is not cowardice. FU for even thinking that.

 

[Hanako Ikezawa]

If the game starts with you in our galaxy as a prologue and you get to decide yourself how it is going to happen. 
And exploring unknown space is not cowardice. FU for even thinking that.

 

Exploring space isn't. Leaving your friends and family to die while you try to save your own neck can certainly be seen as such. 

[Orthiad]

I will not like it. I can see the ark happening after the ending of ME3 but not when the whole galaxy is focused on fighting the reapers.

 

Edit: But now that i think about it that might be the only thing they can do. if they what all the ME3 endings to be relevant, since refusal ending was added in extended cut.

[AtreiyaN7]

My first reaction is to roll my eyes at the OP. *rolleyes*

 

Now that that's out of the way, I'll be perfectly happy to explore a new area with my protagonist who is clearly not a coward since volunteering to explore an unknown region of space while knowing that you have no way to contact home, no tech other than what you've brought with you, and no one else to rely on but yourself and the people around you, takes a certain amount of guts.

 

And if the Ark was a contingency plan, whether instituted by the Council or some secret organization or whatever, to save the various species from total annihilation, I feel that it was perfectly sensible and logical to have a backup plan. Given what was going on in ME3, the annihilation of all intelligent life in the Milky Way seemed imminent (and there was no way for everyone else in the galaxy to be sure that Shepard was somehow going to win the day again). The Ark program was an attempt to save lives, along with the collective history, knowledge, and culture of the various peoples who either volunteered or were assigned to the project, in case things went wrong.

 

How could something like that ever be viewed as cowardice by any sensible person? But then, your bias is blatantly obvious, OP. Just out of curiosity, were people who emigrated from Ireland during the Great Potato Famine cowards because they didn't stick around to die of starvation? Or did they show courage because they tried to save themselves and their families by leaving Ireland and going to another country where they had to completely start their lives over again (and endured a lot of hardships), etc.?

 

Maybe you should try to apply this amazing thing that I like to call "logic" sometime, OP. *rolleyes more*

[Hanako Ikezawa]

          what will be your reaction; if the ark theory is true and our new heroes will be the cowards who runaway from milkway

   like chickens, while everybody was fighting till the last drop of blood.

I'd be upset. To what extent depends on how we are allowed to RP our protagonist. If they are able to be upset and/or were forced to do it, then I'd feel better about it but if they have nothing but positive things to say about it I would be livid. 

[rapscallioness]

I'd be upset. To what extent depends on how we are allowed to RP our protagonist. If they are able to be upset, then I'd be better about it but if they have nothing but positive things to say about it I would be livid. 

 

That seems fair to me. I would hope they would allow for that kind of reaction. But it also depend on when the game opens. If it's a recent, or present event, then yes, allow the player to express their feelings towards it all.

 

If the game opens with us already there, and possibly there for generations, then the PC would not know anything else. Maybe, if that's the case, the PC could have a certain nostalgia because of the stories they've heard of the Milky Way? I imagine either way, the setting in Andromeda would not be as slick as the established pre-Reaper invasion society of the MW.

 

I can imagine a PC that would wax poetic about a civilization lost. And being stuck in some backwater province type of thing. Kind of like an idea of Atlantis. This shimmering, glimmering advanced civilization that once was, but now here we are.

[BatarianBob]

Not sure how cowardly it really is to try to save your species and culture from a war that you have every reason to believe can't be won. Particularly when it involves a one way trip across the intergalactic void into the unknown.

"Going down fighting" might sound good, but when the stakes are your whole species, it's a damn stupid sentiment.

[Hanako Ikezawa]

That seems fair to me. I would hope they would allow for that kind of reaction. But it also depend on when the game opens. If it's a recent, or present event, then yes, allow the player to express their feelings towards it all.

 

If the game opens with us already there, and possibly there for generations, then the PC would not know anything else. Maybe, if that's the case, the PC could have a certain nostalgia because of the stories they've heard of the Milky Way? I imagine either way, the setting in Andromeda would not be as slick as the established pre-Reaper invasion society of the MW.

 

I can imagine a PC that would wax poetic about a civilization lost. And being stuck in some backwater province type of thing. Kind of like an idea of Atlantis. This shimmering, glimmering advanced civilization that once was, but now here we are.

I really hope so too. With Dragon Age: Inquisition having the emotion responses in it, it is certainly possible. I would be surprised if they didn't allow that, considering how a lot of people seemed to like having it in DAI to determine how the Inquisitor felt about things. 

 

I suspect if they do this we will be one of the people who made the trip, but we've been in Andromeda for a few years. Perhaps you go as a child and now you're grown up and working for the Pathfinder Initiative. In that case, letting the player have different options for how their character feels about all this would be fitting since they were there.

 

If the protagonist was someone who was born in Andromeda then they really can't be upset about it in the same sense of someone who is from the Milky Way and then made the trip. In that case, like you said I could see their feelings on the matter being shaped by what they've been told of their old home, sort of like how the Quarians born in the Flotilla are with Rannoch. 

[Amplitudelol]

          what will be your reaction; if the ark theory is true and our new heroes will be the cowards who runaway from milkway

   like chickens, while everybody was fighting till the last drop of blood.

 

Best scenario in the almost impossible to solve situation, id like it.

[Kabooooom]

Seeing as how there was a destination labeled "ARK" in big, white letters, clearly visible on the right of the screen in the trailer during the destination selection part...

...well, I would say you'd best get comfortable with the idea, OP, or you wont enjoy the game.

[ExoGeniVI]

First 12 hrs of the game: OMG! I love my romance! she/he is soo sweet!

5 hrs later... OMG! my romance just died a cinematic death! i'm crying over 900k pixels right now

[General TSAR]

          what will be your reaction; if the ark theory is true and our new heroes will be the cowards who runaway from milkway

   like chickens, while everybody was fighting till the last drop of blood.

Honestly, I can't fault them for their contingency plans. Running away from genocidal immortal chuttlefish in order to preserve Milky Way civilizations is not exactly something I would consider to be cowardly.

[ExoGeniVI]

Honestly, I can't fault them for their contingency plans. Running away from genocidal immortal chuttlefish in order to preserve Milky Way civilizations is not exactly something I would consider to be cowardly.

I know this is off topic, but... I love your profile pic lol!

[SofaJockey]

what will be your reaction; if the ark theory is true and our new heroes will be the cowards who runaway from milkway like chickens, while everybody was fighting till the last drop of blood.

1. I think you presume too much 
2. It will be fine.

[Xaijin]

 

First I will throw my head back and laugh at the heavily-biased OP.

Ready?

https://www.youtube....h?v=nxXEPk3dzFg

Next, I will be indifferent. What other way are they going to Andromeda that won't have to cling to the Shepard Trilogy like the plague.

A theory where a stable Remnant wormhole is discovered and it turns out they simply didn't want to deal with giant biomechanical murder squids, so they sealed it from one end, and then a Vorcha super scientist found it.

As stated elsewhen and where, if this is done before Priority: Tuchanka, anything else literally doesn't matter as long as they find peaceable quarians whom aren't all A BLOO BLOO BLOOOOOO at the geth, every other story facet is immaterial, as volunteers could easily be found, if Salarian Spectres can tell their Dalatrass to stuff it in her cloaca, pretty sure there are some scientists who feel the same way, and fertile female krogans existed in Terminus outside of the normal krogan sphere, and that's even touching all the crazy **** Okeer had in his file that were conveniently turned over to both Cerberus and the Alliance that can also be hand-waved as Genophix.

They can even run a Arrival style Q and A where your PC is all loading the Ark up with ________ and _______ and there's all dramatical **** blowing up as Reapers dry hump the Ark facility; if you're on PC and have three saves it runs automatically, if you don't have three saves or are on console without a migration utlity, you simply click on all the things Witcher/DA:I style and off you go, never to go back to the Milky Way in this trilogy unless the end of the third game is coming home when BW finally realizes they can't marketing survey and advertorial doublespeak their way out of owning up anything and simply take the Deus Ex: HR route and incorporate elements of all three endings and move on.