If you think the Andromeda Initiative made no sense, it does

 Ah okay, I get you now.  But I guess what would have been the point?  The galaxy already knew they were coming, element of surprise is lost, I guess they just said 'f it' and jumped straight into the reaping.

 Why couldn't that happen when first landing on Thessia when a missile is fired killing a number of asari?

Or was that put in the game because it looked cool?

In fact, shutting down the relays was the Reapers "Trump Card". Why didn't the Reapers shut down the Relays in our cycle? Why didn't the Reaper IFF we got in ME2 have any use in ME3?

I'll tell you why - shitty writing. Apparently Vigil had Reaper code all along and never knew it.

The whole point in going to Andromeda is some made up BS to escape the galactic dogfart ending(s) of ME3, plain and simple. Resources that could have been used to fight the Reapers should not have been wasted on this retarded venture of unarmed idiots who are now galactic invaders.

Have fun paying AAA prices for a pre-beta game. Unless it lives up the the standards of ME1,2 I'm not getting it.

Because the council already knew about Sovereign and ultimate destruction, that would simply embolden us if the reapers did attack and destroy the council first.  The reapers knew this, and thereby left the Citadel to instead go ahead and start fighting ground wars instead.

It seems obvious to me.

There's plenty in the entire series that doesn't make sense, if you think about it too hard.

This is why you can't trust Asaru.

They're all hiding secrets and you can't tell one from the other anyway to call them out on it.

People here keep conflating things not making any sense with things not making perfect sense and using that to wage this continued ridiculous protest about going to another galaxy that they started waging long before Andromeda came out.  My comparison is a valid one because, under those circumstances, they make choices... leave many people behind to face the galaxy-wide threat of the Reapers that Castellus had made them aware of... or bring a bunch of weapons that that 1) they might not need because aliens in the other galaxies might not be hostile or 2) might not work against whatever technologies those aliens had.  You are already bringing a pretty minimal population along and you are already being forced to leave trillions more behind to face the Reapers (a race of beings that have been successful at completely wiping out civilizations for millennia.  Under the circumstances, the persons "in the know" (i.e. Alex and Garson and perhaps a few other key people in the AI) can't possibly have any hope that anyone they leave behind will survive... so, they choose to leave the guns behind and take more people and more supplies for those people.

As for why the initiative starts... well, that is pure exploration.  If we waited for a global threat each time we decided to make a leap in technology, we would have never gotten anywhere.  What was the driving force of going into space in the first place?  It certainly wasn't a fear that our planet was immimently in danger of being wiped out by an alien species (although there are those who have long imagined such a scenario even though there is no evidence of it).

People also keep conflating the cost of this AI out of their heads.  Our referencce point is a global economy, not a galactic one.  In terms of a galaxy full of trllions of people operating within an economy larger than ours by trillions of resources, people, and credits... who is really to say that starting the "dream" of an AI is comparatively more expensive than starting the US space program was back when it began?  No one knows for sure what sort of income in that galactic reality would constitute wealth and what sort of initiatives and investment would be too extreme to justify that sort of expenditure.  Also, investments are not just made for immediate returns.  The return envisioned by the AI is not to Jien Garson herself, but to her great-grandchildren.  We also don't know much about her... maybe she has mated with an Asari and, conceivably, the return 600 years later would benefit her own children.

Of course, I don't expect to stop the negative nancies from continuing to espouse their notions of impossibleness... the bottom line is that they are just too resistant to quit complaining about it and deriding the game even now that the game is released.  They want to dis Bioware on many fronts and will likely continue to do so.  However, I feel that, given the choice 4 years ago that we were going to Andromeda and that a retcon would be necessary... I don't think this one rates all that badly... It leaves much of the lore intact.

A top secret reason doesn't explain why the common AI person would leave their galaxy. Specially when the milky way is mostly unexplored, and the ryder kids could find work on Synthetic Insights or other AI friendly company. It's not like having some bad rep cuts off opportunities everywhere on a whole galaxy. Ashley had some bias because of her grandfather, and yet she still was with the alliance.

So no this doesn't explain at all why your average joe would accept going to cryo and leave a whole galaxy behind. Instead of you know, moving to another cluster and explore/find a new job.

Don't tell me that you believe there has to be a singular reason for 100,000 out of Trillions to make an unusual decision.  The game clearly states that the individuals who did come along did so for a variety of personal reasons.  Even though our own population is less than 10 billion, one could probably find more than, say, 10,000 individual people here on earth quite capable of being "crazy enough" to leave earth if they were given the opportunity despite their never having personally explored even 1% of the earth itself.

all I can say is these drama queens should do the family secrets quest (or at least watch it on Youtube). I know they still wont be satisfied (because they never will be satisfied a single day of their lives), but MEA explains and has set up a lot more than they currently understand.

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must have felt it was directed at you.

again, if people would just complete the family secrets quest or watch a vid on Youtube, they will see the story is mucho grande. small minds cant see past their own noses.

can you read it now, or do you still feel I was pointing at you?