Why do people keep upvoting my original post if it was proven incorrect? I bet there's 3 (now 4) peeple feeling plenty dumb right about now.
IGN: Your Mass Effect 3 Ending Won't Affect Mass Effect: Andromeda
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#52
Posté 14 juin 2016 - 09:13
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Why do people keep upvoting my original post if it was proven incorrect? I bet there's 3 peeple feeling plenty dumb right about now.
Because very publicly building two giant money sinks above the capital world of a council species doesn't really fly if the public, and most of the governments of the different species, don't believe there's an imminent threat. Something about budgets, politics, gross misappropriation of alliance funds....
Sending people to colonize a diffrent galaxy makes no sense when most of the milky way is unexplored and unsettled if there isn't a VERY pressing reson to do so and calling those things normal colony ships doesn't work as cover either since, you know, most people could futureGoogle what an actual colony ship would look like.
#53
Posté 14 juin 2016 - 09:18
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Why does everyone assume that we're leaving from Earth? It would be difficult to hide such a big project there.
I think they built the Ark somewhere else, some colony maybe?
I'm glad the ME3 ending won't matter...or some of the major events there. That way, we can have everything that we love from the trilogy. This was a really good idea and it's a win-win for everyone. If you didn't like what happened in ME3, you can headcanon whatever you want. 
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#54
Posté 14 juin 2016 - 09:53
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I don't see a problem with the Mass Effect 3 ending not affecting Andromeda. If they depart before ME3's ending which they seem to have, then there is no reason for the endings to matter. It affected the Mass Relays in the Milky Way, not the entire universe.
#55
Posté 14 juin 2016 - 11:33
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I didn't know this was news? Most people should have heard of this before?
#56
Posté 14 juin 2016 - 11:39
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Because very publicly building two giant money sinks above the capital world of a council species doesn't really fly if the public, and most of the governments of the different species, don't believe there's an imminent threat. Something about budgets, politics, gross misappropriation of alliance funds....
Sending people to colonize a diffrent galaxy makes no sense when most of the milky way is unexplored and unsettled if there isn't a VERY pressing reson to do so and calling those things normal colony ships doesn't work as cover either since, you know, most people could futureGoogle what an actual colony ship would look like.
Who says that the ships were built above Earth? They seem to be there taking on passengers in the trailer, but it's a big leap to assume that they were built there. They may only have been in Earth orbit for a short while.
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Posté 14 juin 2016 - 11:41
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I didn't know this was news? Most people should have heard of this before?
I don't think we had it actually confirmed before, I think it was mostly speculation and assumptions before.
#58
Posté 14 juin 2016 - 11:44
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I don't think we had it actually confirmed before, I think it was mostly speculation and assumptions before.
Yea, I probably already pieced it together in my headcanon. That stuff can be pretty resistant. 
#59
Posté 14 juin 2016 - 11:54
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I do feel that contradicts their actions throughout ME2. I strongly believe the writers at that time did not have the intention of the council believing Shep. Their lack of action to address the threat would be criminal. But it's a minor retcon I guess I can live with.
Being incompetent as politicians is kind of part for the course for ME. Beyond that, in ME2, Shepard was actively working for, basically, anti-Council racial supremacists. Not putting out a kill on you is pretty generously supporting you. Because, again, you're working for space Nazis.
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#60
Posté 14 juin 2016 - 12:06
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Who says that the ships were built above Earth? They seem to be there taking on passengers in the trailer, but it's a big leap to assume that they were built there. They may only have been in Earth orbit for a short while.
Built there, stopped there... Doesn't really matter. appearing above ANY highly populated world, let alone earth, would make giant headlines. No amount of censorship is going to stop it from leaking on a massive scale, there are just too many people involved to silence them all. Political drekstorm would follow.
#61
Posté 14 juin 2016 - 01:00
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Yep, been discussing this in other threads. He wasn't even really cryptic about it - at face value, he is straight up saying that the endings don't matter and you can very obviously deduce from that a pre-ME3 ending departure.
The trailer showing the Arks in orbit of a non-burning Earth places further constraints, making a pre-ME3 departure most likely.
Pretty much. Now it's just a question what's the story excuse for the Arks themselves during "peace time" of ME1-ME2. Secret Council preservation project proving the Council wasn't completly useless and ignoring Shep? Or a scientific/research project completly unrelated to any Reaper rumors/threat?
#62
Posté 15 juin 2016 - 09:56
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Why would romance choices from the trilogy ever be brought up in Andromeda? "Hey Ryder, did you hear Shepard, the commander of another ship, is slipping the trouser maw to an Asari?"
Jesus Christ, dude, I said maybe.
#63
Posté 15 juin 2016 - 11:19
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Built there, stopped there... Doesn't really matter. appearing above ANY highly populated world, let alone earth, would make giant headlines. No amount of censorship is going to stop it from leaking on a massive scale, there are just too many people involved to silence them all. Political drekstorm would follow.
Betcha the pickup only happens right before the Reaper attack. A couple of big ships aren't going to be news after that.
#64
Posté 15 juin 2016 - 11:42
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Being incompetent as politicians is kind of part for the course for ME. Beyond that, in ME2, Shepard was actively working for, basically, anti-Council racial supremacists. Not putting out a kill on you is pretty generously supporting you. Because, again, you're working for space Nazis.
Again and again I address the same issue. It doesn't even have anything to do with Shepard*. The council didn't do anything to combat the Reapers. The size of the fleets could have been thousands of times the size they were in ME3 but instead they still had tiny restrictions on how many capital ships each species were allowed to have (which the Turians were considering abandoning if and only if Shep let the council die in ME1). The council was written in a way during ME2 that they did not believe the Reapers.
*Although the fact Anderson tells you they don't believe in the Reapers doesn't make sense if they did. Not telling you about an Ark is fine, I agree he wouldn't tell you about that. Lying about preparations to fight the Reapers though? No, complete nonsense.
