Colonization and names

Oh man.. that's something I didn't think about. If these planets we're colonizing belong to some other intelligent race, I'm going to feel super guilty just waltzing in and taking their shit. :/

Yeah, it would be better if we could negotiate that sort of thing with the locals.

Milky Way Species negotiating with Kett and Angaran lol.

At least it would provide a good reason for the Kett to oppose us, just being evil because you need a villain doesn't do. Bioware did say there would be more morally grey choices, and if you had to choose between the AI's interests and the local's, that would certainly be more interesting.

How about long unpronounceable dragon names like Nihiztlydrah'aytcl to torture the tongues of the settlers purely for my own amusement? 

I'm really hoping for this I want the Kett and the Andromeda Initiative to be enemies because the Kett feel the milky way species are invading their territory, culture, and beliefs. Instead of some kind of oh the Kett are a super evil authoritarian military state the enslaves the other species of Andromeda.

They might just want us to get lost back to the Milky Way where we came from... 

It will be interesting to see how they handle this. If we find the "perfect" human planet, but someone else has a few scattered colonies, or maybe they inhabit just a tiny portion of the planet, would it be possible for humans to settle elsewhere without disrupting their lives? Or would we eventually become too invasive. Or would humans just expect the natives to accept and assimilate into our culture? I don't see the Ryders expecting the latter. At least not my Ryders. But maybe the folks heading the AI don't care.

And what about other sapient beings? Maybe there is some sort of sentient flora out there that we could inadvertently destroy because we don't know they have their own way of communication until it's too late.

Honestly, I believe we'll try to negotiate as much as possible, or find uninhabited planets. I don't know how many total planets there are out there, but given enough time we could probably find something humans could live on without a problem. It might not be ideal, but for the time being, maybe it could work. As for the other races coming along with us, well that's their issue. I could see the asari findint a planet with a primitive society, moving in, taking over and "enlightening" the natives.

Turians would take the same natives, get them in line, train them and put them to work. Salarians would move in and study the heck out of them.

Makes me wonder how many similarities in the story will we get to Pocahontas and Avatar

The people from the Milky Way will be called 'sleepers' (from the hibernation during the trip) and the newborns will be called whatever golden world they are born on/ near