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[N7Jamaican]

Will we also have a few animals from various planets on the ARK? 

[Andrew Lucas]

Yes, I work at Bioware, the team was discussing this during our artistic break.

[wright1978]

May make sense for ark to contain genetic material of domestic animals.

Don't think it would make much sense to physically transport live ones.

[N7Jamaican]

May make sense for ark to contain genetic material of domestic animals.

Don't think it would make much sense to physically transport live ones.

 

Yes it does make sense to contain the genetic material. I am serious about if they will try to *preserve* some species from their respective homeworlds in Andromeda. Would be nice to see how different a chicken and cow is in Andromeda than their Earthly Milky Way counterpart. 

[Totally Not a Poodle]

It largely depends on the size of the Ark. If it is absolutely massive, then possibly. If they include animals on the Ark, I would expect them also to have other areas of the ship dedicated to something other than military for example, a botony lab.

 

However, if the ship is not large enough to say, accommodate a large number of non-military personnel, then I would guess there wouldn't be areas dedicated to animals and plants.

[Quarian Master Race]

Livestock have an inefficient resource to calorie ratio. This was the primary reason quarians had a mostly vegan diet (only eating meats as a delicacy when stopping near alien systems). It wouldn't make sense to waste space on the ships bringing nonsapients, nor the resouces to keep them alive........

 

and yet we're bringing the krogan anyway.

[Ahriman]

Will we also have a few animals from various planets on the ARK? 

Mostly Thresher Maws, just to show that you don't duck with MW.

[Drakoriz]

Mostly Thresher Maws, just to show that you don't duck with MW.

 

that will be funny.

[pkypereira]

Varren are the Krogan's best friend so I would think they would also make it to Andromeda. Maybe a couple of pyjacks will have stowed away also. I also think there would be fish taken to Andromeda.

[themikefest]

Lions, tigers, rabbits, wolves, bears, horses, dogs. cows, pigs. Earth animals #1. Excellent.

[aoibhealfae]

..... wait, what are they going to eat? synthesized meat protein cells? 

 

oh, I saw a vid that they make meatballs with it and they tasted like regular stuff.

[Han Shot First]

The Reapers don't really set out to annihilate all life, they only set out to annihilate sapient space-faring life. If the Reapers succeeded in annihilating humanity it may even benefit the animal species of Earth, assuming that there wasn't a lot of collateral damage to the environment. Hundreds of wolves for example, now roam the Chernobyl exclusion zone and have hunting territories in places that used to be suburban towns.

 

I would imagine the ark colonists would bring some animals with them, but it would probably just be domesticated animals that are consumed or kept as pets. 

[pkypereira]

The Reapers don't really set out to annihilate all life, they only set out to annihilate sapient space-faring life. If the Reapers succeeded in annihilating humanity it may even benefit the animal species of Earth, assuming that there wasn't a lot of collateral damage to the environment. Hundreds of wolves for example, now roam the Chernobyl exclusion zone and have hunting territories in places that used to be suburban towns.

 

I would imagine the ark colonists would bring some animals with them, but it would probably just be domesticated animals that are consumed or kept as pets. 

 

Wolves you say...I would love to have a wolf as a pet following me on the ship.

[Han Shot First]

Wolves you say...I would love to have a wolf as a pet following me on the ship.

 

Wolves aren't really suitable for pets, but they are awesome. 

 

[Quarian Master Race]

I would imagine the ark colonists would bring some animals with them, but it would probably just be domesticated animals that are consumed or kept as pets. 

Dependent on how we get there, but if it's using conventional FTL generation ships and someone came along expecting bigger rations and more space because of their shedding, shitting furbag, I think they'd rightfully be airlocked or eaten. This isn't Star Trek where things like food and water can simply be replicated out of thin air, so unless the pet has some practical use on a spaceship, it's just going to be a frivolous drain on resouces.

 

Consumption isn't even practical considering that it takes far more input to grow an animal to a decent size than you get from eating it.

[SentinelMacDeath]

Mass Effect: Andromeda = Treasure Planet - The Game. 

[Han Shot First]

Dependent on how we get there, but if it's using conventional FTL generation ships and someone came along expecting bigger rations and more space because of their shedding, shitting furbag, I think they'd rightfully be airlocked or eaten. This isn't Star Trek where things like food and water can simply be replicated out of thin air, so unless the pet has some practical use on a spaceship, it's just going to be a frivolous drain on resouces.

 

Consumption isn't even practical considering that it takes far more input to grow an animal to a decent size than you get from eating it.

 

I don't think any of the colonists will be awake for the journey (including any animals they bring), and that the Ark is going to be the Citadel-like space station we saw in the concept art. 

 

I think the Ark is going to be a floating city basically, and probably the game's main hub. I could see there being some animals if the scale of the ark is as massive as what was in that concept art, though I doubt we'd actually see them in game, just as we don't see them in the Shepard trilogy.

[Beerfish]

No unicorns though they were too busy playing to get on the ark and thus they are extinct.

[Kabooooom]

Livestock have an inefficient resource to calorie ratio. This was the primary reason quarians had a mostly vegan diet (only eating meats as a delicacy when stopping near alien systems). It wouldn't make sense to waste space on the ships bringing nonsapients, nor the resouces to keep them alive........

and yet we're bringing the krogan anyway.

I mean...you really just ate meat paste through a straw...

[Quarian Master Race]

I mean...you really just ate meat paste through a straw...

Emergency induction port.
 

[Ibn_Shisha]

Kakliosaurs!

[Quarian Master Race]

I don't think any of the colonists will be awake for the journey (including any animals they bring), and that the Ark is going to be the Citadel-like space station we saw in the concept art.

I think the Ark is going to be a floating city basically, and probably the game's main hub. I could see there being some animals if the scale of the ark is as massive as what was in that concept art, though I doubt we'd actually see them in game, just as we don't see them in the Shepard trilogy.

meh, I still don't see how scale solves the issue. Designing or redesigning a Prothean stasis pod for fido instead of including another person who could work and help build the colony sounds really dumb, as well, not to mention the power drain (which was a problem for both Vigil and Javik's Protheans.) That's a civilization that has more vanity than sense.

Genetic samples makes better sense, but then you still have the question "why?" Do you not think there will be analogous nonsapients that can be domesticated? We already had sabertooth space dogs in the MW, and all the humanoids suggest that evolution usually comes to pretty much the same solutions in the MEverse no matter where you are.

[Osena109]

It would work if they had more then just 1  male and female. you would not at least 30 males and females of each species  for a  viable breeding population.

[BohemiaDrinker]

Kakliosaurs!

 

Yes!

 

And Yahgs! Yahgs make the best pets! They're really smart!

[Draining Dragon]

Yes.

Norwegian forest cats.

They are the only form of non-sapient life that is worth preserving.