"Why are you here?" (Angaran messages to the Nexus)

There is a lot of winking towards fans of old trilogy, with different level of elegance. This one is good.
I wouldn't expect (want) a Reaper DLC from it, but it's a good reference and logical question to ask regardless. Still some dark parts of the Initiative are going to be uncovered eventually, since it's already a thing in the game.

While i really like the reapers being one of the secret motivations for the andromeda initiative, i stil am concerned that the "official" reason given is just exploration. It's such a childish excuse that makes little no sense, and everytime someone attempts to be serious about it, it breaks immersion for me.

A better one could have been that the expedition was after some highly prized material, maybe one that had the potential of kicking out a technological revolution in the milky way. Say something that allows FTL travel much faster, so relays are no longer needed. The expedition's goal is to get this substance, stockpile and figure it, then come back, get rich, and kickstart this revolution.

It would explain the most logical reason people would join: for getting rich, besides starting a new life. There has to be a damn good reason why people leave their galaxy other than exploration - because the milky way is vastly uncharted yet.

This all but confirms to me that those thinking that MEA+ is never going to relate to the trilogy, are wrong. A fresh start is not a restart, or an eternal avoidance of the past, or whatever similar things. Its a way to clear the table, but not replace it. A way to more comfortably experience new things, not never experience the old again.

Of course its not a total confirmation. But it shows what can be on the writers' minds, on Walters' mind.

That said, it can easily also be a sort of thread to either never be followed up on, or that gets followed up on in another way as storylines change. Obviously, this sort of message can be interpreted in many ways, even if the most obvious is, well, damn obvious.

For me this sets up one very serious conflict with the original series.

Reapers entire setup is based on waiting thousands of years until the latest 'smart' biological's evolve.  Come in from dark space and kill them all off, repeat over and over.

The key is they HAVE to get everyone or else when they come back again there will be a really PO'ed race of people who have another 50,000_ years of tech gain not to mention the time to prep for the return.  It would be very bad news for the Reapers.

Now considering the scale of the Andromeda Initiative both in terms of construction, technology and total number of people there had to be tons of records left behind for the Reapers to find out about "The Great Escape"  If you were the Reapers you would have NO other choice but to chase us all to Andromeda.

Personally I want to be done with the Reapers, That story line is played out, I don't want to see them in DLC or another ME game.  But that is the kicker, even without that letter the races from the Milky Way have to know that Reapers could show up unannounced at any time, how can anyone totally ignore that?  Its another BW 'waving of the hands. just ignore another plot hole.  Siggghhhhh

We will never have another 'Reaper Invasion'. That's covered.

Yeah that s what I said.
Not only it would be counter productive to the franchise by rehashing the cosmic horror all over again but it s not even possible.Even if 1 or 2 Reapers were sent to Darkspace to investigate after the Arks ,they're only ones left. The others are either destroyed,controlled or merged...so no more reaper invasions for sure. But one reaper arriving in andromeda...the very last of its kind which we could meet and talk to,it would tell us what happened (red green or blue) and that it no longer has a purpose blah blah and we can either destroy or preserve it. Now that! I d love to see!

Only there was a 4th ending, if Shepard starts shooting the punk kid hologram, instead of picking a button, the game ends instantly with a Reaper victory.  So it is possible the Reapers in their full strength, start the process of cleansing the Milky Way only to discover "The Great Escape."  Giving them NO choice but to follow in large force to finish us off or risk their own destruction when they come back after the next cycle begins.