Ummm... what if it was in fact that "...the council races did not publicly acknowledge the reaper threat before ME3." It would makes sense that they would take it seriously and in fact prepare for contingency plans while publicly denying the threat in an effort to avoid mass panic...
If they had acknowledged the threat privately they would have been a massive increase in the production of warships and general preparation. This simply didn't happen.
Except that saving a tiny portion of the population = saving the entire species. Fighting is fine, since it is unrealistic to save every member of a species, but lives ultimately dont matter in the grand scheme of things - only extinction.
Which is a viewpoint that our species currently lacks, by the way.
I'm extremely grateful that our species doesn't believe that lives don't matter.
I'm still of the opinion that the Ark left after the events of ME3, and that there's been a few hundred years since ME3.
That wouldn't really work because it fails to account for the various endings (even if a few hundred years later). Much easier for the writers if the Ark leaves before ME3 ends.
I'm extremely grateful that our species doesn't believe that lives don't matter.
Lol, oh please. Way to twist my words by leaving out the rest of that sentence. Obviously, for anyone that can read, I was saying that ultimately the survival of a species that is faced with extinction is, in the long term, what is important.
Not understanding that due to naivety or ignorance is what will probably cause us to go extinct by our own hands.
Lol, oh please. Way to twist my words by leaving out the rest of that sentence. Obviously, for anyone that can read, I was saying that ultimately the survival of a species that is faced with extinction is, in the long term, what is important.
Not understanding that due to naivety or ignorance is what will probably cause us to go extinct by our own hands.
I didn't leave out the rest of your sentence, I quoted everything you wrote. I see it as an incredibly cold blooded comment you made. I would suggest you re-read it and think if you should have written it in another way.
I didn't leave out the rest of your sentence, I quoted everything you wrote. I see it as an incredibly cold blooded comment you made. I would suggest you re-read it and think if you should have written it in another way.
I don't have any particular issues with the notion of the timeline.
However my impression based on the latest trailer is that they may not be going for such a premise, given how heavily they pushed the explorer theme rather than the desperate last hope one.
I would have them leaving during ME3, just before the final assault on Earth. I find it hard to believe that they would leave before ME3 because everyone in Milky Way is still thinking that the Geth were in charge of attacking the Citadel in 2185 so there wouldn't be any kind of contingency needed. Going along with this timeline, and if the trailer released on N7 is going to be included in the history codex then Shepard would have known about the ark and it makes some sense that Liara, bieng the Shadowbroker, would be aware of the ARKCON. It doesn't matter whether she is involved in the development or not, but since she is the Shadowbroker it makes sense that she would be involved, even if it is just a little bit.
I don't have any particular issues with the notion of the timeline.
However my impression based on the latest trailer is that they may not be going for such a premise, given how heavily they pushed the explorer theme rather than the desperate last hope one.
It's a contingency plan to what is happening in the Milky Way and it is only considered a "desperate last hope" while the ship is still in the Milky Way. Once it's out, it's a blank slate for the people on that ship regardless of what has happened in the Milky Way. There's no going back. Why go to Andromeda at all when you know it's a one way trip that will take hundreds of years without any way to call back home to say "hey we made it come on over!".
Once in Andromeda, there are no reasons to think back on what's happened back home... and exploration is a must - there are no other choices. What better reason to push exploration?
My bet MEA starts during ME3 when the alliance orders the ark to leave after they lost contact with shep in london thinking he lost the fight.
I just hope it isn't a prequel.
My bet MEA starts during ME3 when the alliance orders the ark to leave after they lost contact with shep in london thinking he lost the fight.
Not without some major retcons. Alliance FTL is not fast enough to outrun the Reapers. The ark has to launch well before the events of the trilogy in order to escape the crucible wave.
I'd still prefer the timeline to be during the events of Shepard's death. I think there's a better story in that.
My Shepard didn't die... 
My guess is it launches between ME1 and ME2, or takes place even before the events of ME1.
We don't know how far they have to be to be out of range of the Crucible wave and we don't know where the Ark would be starting from.Not without some major retcons. Alliance FTL is not fast enough to outrun the Reapers. The ark has to launch well before the events of the trilogy in order to escape the crucible wave.
As I've said a few times. I believe the ark/ship/whatever leaves before the events of ME3
Yup... only way the story makes sense!
My Shepard didn't die...
More importantly, a member of the ARK carries with it the Shepard VI which evolved into Shepard AI and took charge in ME:A.
Welcome back Commander Shepard 
So...does the ARK have to leave the Milky Way prior to the end of ME3 for the choices in ME3 to be irrelevant? Has anyone come up with a working hypothesis as to how it could be set far into the future, but not be burdened by the green/red/blue choice?
I am thinking of the Matrix for some reason...the children of Zion versus the folks who wake from the battery sleep. They are different, but related. Is it possible that even with a green ending, you have some "normal" folks...naturally born who do not identify with their syhtnetic+living ancestors? Who want a new life in a place where they belong?
I just think it would be cool to be real explorers...not running for our lives from the reapers or some other galactic doom. Why can't the group be a mish-mash of misfits seeking adevnture? Is there a way to do it that does not require a canonized ending?
So...does the ARK have to leave the Milky Way prior to the end of ME3 for the choices in ME3 to be irrelevant? Has anyone come up with a working hypothesis as to how it could be set far into the future, but not be burdened by the green/red/blue choice?
I am thinking of the Matrix for some reason...the children of Zion versus the folks who wake from the battery sleep. They are different, but related. Is it possible that even with a green ending, you have some "normal" folks...naturally born who do not identify with their syhtnetic+living ancestors? Who want a new life in a place where they belong?
I just think it would be cool to be real explorers...not running for our lives from the reapers or some other galactic doom. Why can't the group be a mish-mash of misfits seeking adevnture? Is there a way to do it that does not require a canonized ending?
Simple:
Travel to the edge of the Milky Way using a Mass Relay prior to the Reaper's arrival. Then catapulted towards Andromeda. ARK goes on auto pilot, go radio silence, crew put into hibernation only to be awaken when they are close to or arrive an Andromeda hundreds of years later. All records of the ARK is erased. All this is done so that the Reapers and the indoctrinated wont find out about the ARK.
So they could be far enough from the Milky Way when the RGB event took place.
I don't know. The PR machine is life matters but I suspect most governments have a oh crap plan where continuation of humanity is planned for. They might be dusting off Cold War plans but I bet they are there.
You give governments too much credits. Believe me if some sh** happens, it's over.
Everyone's did. Beginning of ME2, which is the timeline I meant. Probably should've been more clear on that.
I prefer to think of Shepard as mostly dead, all dead and there is nothing anyone can do about it except go through his pockets for loose change.
Honestly it was pretty ambiguous in most descriptions, so I go with almost dead, maybe died for short periods here and there, but my brain breaks at a true ressurection.(okay raise dead he lost levels)
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