Ryder Confirmed to be Brother/Sister

I swear if he cuts off Ryders hand with a red omniblade and says "Barla Von never told you what happened to your father"...

So the unchosen sibling will be a squadmate then?

Same but no bartending and is actually just an alcoholic.

They won't do that. If they were going to make an ending canon, there would be no reason to go to Andromeda. 

Having siblings in the game is one interesting approach. I would like something a little deeper than what we had in DA2, like having one sibling as the protagonist and the other as a permanent companion (with the possibility of screwing things up at some point).

Well, I won't speculate for now. But I am excited they are taking this approach.

Unless we leave before the end of the war, which seems to be what everyone is assuming. It seems like the Ark Project was the backup plan. It doesn't seem all that unrealistic for humanity to take such a precaution, especially since victory against the reapers didn't seem super likely.

Well, you've got me there.
But, the motivation is sound and, realistic or not, that does seem the be exactly what we've done.

Who knows, maybe it'll be explained in-game where we managed to procure this incredible and heretofore impossible technology. 

It's just as bad. And they both came from the mind of Mac Walters.



I like a lot of his characters, but I'm not going to go out of my way to defend him.

I don't know if I can convince you... you've already got an Andromeda avatar. These shitty DAI like graphics are bad enough to me...which somehow manage to look worse than 7 yr old ME2. I don't even have to mention this plotline.

Did Cerberus become an empire though?

Most of the time in ME3 they were conducting hit and run style raids before anyone knew they were there and could mobilise a response, we never saw their fleet in action until the assault on Chronos Station (which showed the Alliance was easily able to handle them) and they had years to build up their paramilitary division, which we'd already seen existed during the events of ME1.

Cerberus forces were probably far weaker than the Alliance in ME3. The threat however was because the Illusive Man had acquired a ton of knowledge over the years, knew how the Alliance operated and had various agents in their ranks, potential access to any recovered information that Liara failed to properly wipe when she scuttled the Shadow Broker ship, in addition to the element of surprise.

It's doubtful that Cerberus had any intention of holding the Citadel in ME3. As with most acts of terrorism, the goal was probably just to sow chaos and fear among the galactic community by proving that they could hit the Citadel if they wanted to.

The trailer shows Earth in good condition instead of seeing fires like in ME3. I would say the ships leave before the events of ME3

I've read posts from folks saying they can see the great lakes and other parts of Earth

Hmm....I wouldn't trust them too much. People sometimes see what they want to see no matter evidence in contrary. Besides a lot of worlds in the previous games were modeled based on real worlds from our Solar System, so possibility exists Bioware is still doing the same.