I have personal issues wth "Andromeda"

That is the problem with an 18-22 month built game.
All the details and explaining left out....
At least it completed in studio of Bioware for better or worse.
KOTOR 2 was far worse.

Well, it's a real problem if the Exiles have solved a supposedly insoluble problem. If Kadara can support them, it can support everyone. It's a whole planet, right? (The narrative is colliding with the game design need to present multiple environments here.)

Edit: more precisely, the need to have us landing on multiple planets. Single-biome planets are a problem in themselves.

Have you played the memory trigger storyline? It went like this:

- Jien Garson wants to go to Andromeda
- She runs out of money because as you say, it's a dumb idea
- Benefactor that knows about Reaper threat steps in
- Initiative is officially about science, but de facto a backup plan for the Reaper invasion

What I want to know is why don't people live in the twilight zone of Elaaden instead of the side where it's day time all the time?

The FTL drives that Citadel races use can travel about 12 light years in a day.

12 x 365 x 600 = 2628000 light years

the only problem is dealing with static build up and fuel that is why the arks have ODSY Drive Systems

The reapers have a FTL speed of about 30 light years a day.

Don't recall who says it, but the moon is tidally locked to the planet.

Would there be hurricanes with no clouds?

It would orbit into the planet's shadow sometimes, though.

The Andromeda Initiative was founded in 2176, ME1 take place in 2183.  The AI Mission actually launched in 2184, and the ME2 takes place in 2185.

Andromeda and the Andromeda Initiative was a mistake.

Look at the galaxy map in ME3 near the end. This is a representation of all the known systems, some of which are still mostly unexplored. It is also a representation of each and every star within this galaxy map which has no cursor and those stars, much like the Stargazer says in everyone's favorite scene of ME3, could be home to a different form of life and could contain anything we imagine. Our charted stars only mark 1% of the Milky Way, says the codex in ME1, yet in order to "explore" and go where nobody have gone before, you're telling me first stop is a one-way trip to a foreign galaxy with the most advanced and unbelievable technology for a rogue faction ever? Beyond contrived and hardly canonically acceptable but i suppose it is what it is.

I just have one plea however. The Andromeda Initiative was founded by few individuals on a note of preservation of organic life, but publically it was founded on stupidity and everyone who joined it believed in this stupidity, as do any fan that defends it. BioWare, leave these bunch of fools in the Andromeda Galaxy and go back to Milky Way. Acknowledge that this was a mistake and show confidence in your actual setting by continuing it after the RGB endings by subverting their ramifications, or simply make some prequels. Andromeda was a dud and continuing it isn't worth it, especially not if your next goal will be to salvage it and course correct the dumb plot of the first game. Be smart.

Didn't luketrevelyan just tell us exactly what the purpose of the AI was?

That never bothered me. Why would the other races put much of anything into building a fleet, they had the council to defend them. Humanity though just got off a war with one of the council races, so I can see them investing heavily just in case.  It was actually one of the few things that made sense IMO.  Most races would put virtually nothing into their military, I can see quite a few with literally nothing.