At least the premise makes SOME sense now...

Yup, I think so too now... 

For once I hope that her boring story is the truth,  I don't want to see TIM and Cora being related.  There's too many random cameos as is,  Kandros, Verner,  Massani, Yes it's OK to have the odd cameo and easter egg referencing the original trilogy,  but this was supposed to be a fresh start in a new galaxy,  600 some years after the OT.

Sometimes I think some people are just too attached to Shepard and the original trilogy.

So far,  obviously andromeda doesn't stack up to the OT,  But it deserves a chance.  and it doesn't have to be constant fan service to something that happened 600 years ago in lore,  and coming up on 5-6 years in our own time.

Well it's not like big galaxy has many high places with a lot of random people. When Ryder is not dealing with side-quest nonames, she's dealing with people who're there for a reason. 

I feel like originally it was supposed to, but through re-writes and writers leaving I think that got lost. Between her name, a lot of the Cerberus weaponry available to you, the AI, sheer ridiculousness that a non-Cerberus human group would try spearheading this project when humans are like 30 years into galactic travel and can barely seem to establish colonies inside the MW...

Probably, I mean TIM was obsessed enough with his dead lover to make sex-bot (the body EDI is later using in ME3) look like her (well, the biological shell anyway), so I wouldn't put it past him to keep some genetic material from her (or even her whole dead body in stasis) and pull a "Lawson" to make himself a "perfect" child (strong biotics, intelligent, longer lifespan than the norm, healthier that most people etc. etc.)

Hell, Cora kind of has the same issues Miranda has, too (people fear her for her biotics and she kind of stopped trying to fit in and felt more at home with an Asari commando unit that with most humans!)

As for the premise making sense - yeah! Still I don't get why they had the A.I. leader killed (now that TIM etc. are dead for hundreds of years, why does that secret have to be kept (unless TIM himself came along and only left a clone in the MW? I mean he did clone Shepard as a backup!)) and if TIM is involved:

Why is the A.I. equiped so crappily (the Nexus needs the Arks for power, the Arks aren't self-sufficient either because they don't have equipment and materials, their vehicles and ships are unarmed (and you don't even get the option to make yourself weapons for either the Nomad or Tempest, despite the fact that in the ME-Universe making some jerry-rigged gun turret istn't really that hard, I mean we carry deployable turrets with us for fuck's sake...at least for the Nomad I mean, armind the Tempest should not be that hard either and after meeting the Kett this should be one of the first orders of business: Equip your vehicles, the Nexus and even the Arks (once people are out of cryo turning the Arks into warships should be something they consider!) to fight, otherwise the A.I. stands not chance even in a small battle (much less a straight up fight!))

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ps: Sadly you never get any of that fear of biotics in the games (people don't treat you differently, even if your Shepard is a biotic...neither is Ryder treated differently, even if your starting out training is biotics!), except when dealing with those screwed over biotics in ME1 (I think it was 1...)

Why? We know that other people knew something was coming or even knew it was the Reapers specifically other than Cerberus. For example the Shadow Broker knew. 

I absolutely don't think that a Secret Benefactor is someone from Cerberus. He wouldn't give a damn for aliens well being in that case.

As well we seen a few Cerberus defectors in ME:A, who despise Cerberus for various reasons. Couple of them despise Cerberus due to Illusive Man not being evil enough in doing pointless, dangerous and evil experiments on aliens.

So, I doubt severely he or she is part of Cerberus. Maybe connected to them, but nothing more then an associate.

I got the feeling Cora was weird cross or Jack and Miranda.

A Cerberus vanity/genetic engineering project that result in a super powerful super aggressive human biotic, but instead of lashing out when she ran away from Cerberus the Asari touch her discipline and how to use her anger in combat.

Harper may be her real name, or my be a name she took from TIM because she doesn't know hers or even have one.

Garrus's father also says that the Council was aware, just didn't officially admit.


The question is: couldn't have the Council secretly supported the Initiative behind the scenes?
While everything seems to point at Cerberus, they are the only other group I can think of for having the necessary resources, awareness of the Reapers's arrival and motivation to get as many people as they could out of the Milky Way. If somehow the councilors began moving money to help the Initiative take off, that wouldn't be so far fetched. They are known for having their own personal dirty secrets.

They could be the secret benefactor, but that only creates more mysteries, as to why Garson was assassinated or what the asari councilor meant when she said: "continuity of civilization has to be considered", or even their support for Alec's SAM.
But I still think it will be cooler if it's someone we've never heard about.

Yeah, even with all the income EDI claims Cerberus gets, resurrecting Shepard, building the Normandy and backing the Initiative almost by themselves, then later (after suffering a heavy blow in one of the novels) be able to have an army with Petrovski to take Omega and still fit a lot of indoctrinated soldiers to fight in the Reaper War and even try to capture the Citadel, it's too much. 

Wasn't the shadow broker also aware of the reapers by ME2 start? It could explain Jien Garson murder as one agent of him doing it. If you ask me, i think the promotion of Tann is fishy - if Garson didn't die in an accident, then the other sucessors could have been dealt with too.