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[Andrew Lucas]

I am curious as to why we're heading to Andromeda, we must know something about the place before heading there.

[Original Mako]

^ Some people think we are going there to escape the harvest of the Reapers in the MW Galaxy. This would likely put the departure sometime between the end of ME1 and Priority Earth in ME3.

 

Others think they are leaving because poor writing began to ruin the IP known as Mass Effect from the beginning of ME2. Things became un-salvageable with the ending of ME3. They are going to Andromeda in an attempt to save the IP.

 

Of course, they could just be going to explore. Or they heard Andromeda has:

- understaffed strip clubs

- weapons that need calibrating

- a prefab market with disproportionate number of long positions

- many aliens in need of another species to become best chums with

- aliens with daddy issues that need resolving

- no Quarians

[Medhia_Nox]

@Original Mako:  But even so, Andrew Lucas asks perhaps the absolute most important question the game presents.

 

"Why the Andromeda galaxy?"

 

Let's forget the preposterous nature of the Reapers and their ability to somehow detect all space faring life during a specific cycle - the amount of time, because of the amount of space - that all this would take is beyond silly. 

 

Let's forgot that either 1) the Reapers are dead 2) The Reapers serve Shepard or 3) All life is a loony composite of organic and synthetic creating a... what exactly...a utopia? 

 

What prompts this group of species to commit to what would, without any previous knowledge, but tantamount to simply throwing a message into a bottle into the worlds seas AFTER the oceans rose enough to leave maybe 10% of the land (and that's being generous) and hoping that this message just happens to find something habitable in the Andromeda galaxy.

 

The notion that we received "some" information prior to leaving... whether it is this ship concept, or some "other" thing... would really help toward the plausibility of this entire enterprise. 

 

Perhaps a ship didn't make it... but perhaps a probe detailing the presence of magical portals (wormholes) and impossible space ships (the Ark) was sent during the days when the Remnant were strong. 

 

NOTE: I still believe that the Remnant were destroyed by the Reapers - and that your choice in ME 3 will be made relevant in explaining why the Reapers simply won't be showing up to destroy the new races of the Andromeda galaxy (currently, the Khet is all we know)  This presents all new problems... sure... like, one group of Reapers performing their prime directed throughout the entire universe is just... no. 

[Rocks_and_shoals]

Travelling to Andromeda during ME1-3 was not a possibility. Nobody had any real idea how mass relays worked. They never even developed a prototype like the Protheans. And FTL could only travel a maximum of 30 light years before your ship explodes from a build up of energy in the core.

 

It would be easier for bioware to say that it is a few centuries in the future so they have overcome this technical limitation than to backtrack on ME lore and go against everything previously established in the ME universe. I know people talk about 'space magic' to move the plot forward but theres 'space magic' and then theres bad story telling. Bad story telling usually involved your story not being consistent with all the lore up until that point.

I don/t think Bioware would be so stupid as to cause other uproar like the ending of ME3 when they could easily say its a few centuries in the future to get around it.

 

 

I also don't understand what the big hangup is about the ME endings. You travel far enough into the future ( say about 500 years ) and they're not inconsistent anymore.

For example: We have three endings: Destroy AI

                                                             Synthesis

                                                             Control of AI

 

If you destroy the AI, it would have destroyed the catalyst ( the catalyst was an amalgam of the entire reaper consciousness) but the races still have access to reaper technology so they can use that to advance. You can invent some plot device like the destruction of AI only worked for active AI consciousness and the Geth survived because some of them from ME1 thaty believed the reapers were gods were captured by Geth and placed into cold storage for punishment. They escaped the destruction.

 

Synthesis: Man and machine are joined. The reapers help rebuild the galaxy with their technology and then the catalyst is taken offline willingly because it feels it has accomplished its task that it was set out to do. Again the reapers are dead and you use their technology to advance.

 

Control: Shepard takes control of the reapers and used them to rebuild the galaxy. Reaper technology is used to advance ME species. Then one day in the distant future the Shepard AI believes the reapers are no longer useful. The reapers are disassembled and the Shepard AI is stored until such time where it begins to degrade like other AI such as Protheon VIs we have seen and shuts itself down.

 

All three endings lead to the same universe....

[Iakus]

 

Others think they are leaving because poor writing began to ruin the IP known as Mass Effect from the beginning of ME2. Things became un-salvageable with the ending of ME3. They are going to Andromeda in an attempt to save the IP.

 

This one has my vote

[Original Mako]

What prompts this group of species to commit to what would, without any previous knowledge, but tantamount to simply throwing a message into a bottle into the worlds seas AFTER the oceans rose enough to leave maybe 10% of the land (and that's being generous) and hoping that this message just happens to find something habitable in the Andromeda galaxy?

 

^ Added the question mark, since I think you meant it as a question.

 

Maybe the "dark energy space magic" reason? Henceforth, DESM.

 

X numbers of years AFTER the Reaper Harvest/War (X can be a very large number, even 50,000 for those that chose the "no choice" option) the MW species notice that ALL the MW stars start to die out at a faster than expected WTFOMG rate. Like that one in ME2 that Tali was investigating. Some stars go all 'splody, others give off too much radiation to support life, etc. Basically, the MW becomes a rapidly dying galaxy due to DESM and the MW races decide to book it.

 

The trouble with this is the Synthesis ending. To accommodate all other endings is easy. With Synthesis, you would need to make it so that in addition to the Reapers being gone/controlled (off camera), you would need to make EVERYONE cyborgy at the level of DNA.

 

Maybe they could do that on their own, since it is the "ultimate evolution of life", or maybe they undid it once they realised it ruined their sexy times.