Ark Hyperion's Miscalculation

because their space magic geth telescope told them there live only gummibears in andromeda

Yeah, given the importance of the Pathfinder you'd think that would be reflected on his team.

I suspect they made the orignal team so incompetent just as to have an excuse as to why the don't appear beyond the prologue and having to explain why Ryder doesn't take these guys on his team instead. 

Alec wanted "dreamers".

Besides: the initiative isn't about military force

I guess the same reason why the vehicles have no weapons on them. 

I don't see what the joke is. I'd jump there right now if that were true. 

F*** it. Me too.

*Nods in Chaplin direction*

*Sips Ryncol*

Because it was not meant as a joke. If you go into the unknown, you go prepared. This is like so many other things with MEAs story, for whatever reason, they make us believe everyone around is just plain stupid. Someone said it already here in this thread, after humanity made their first contanct with another species it resulted in a full scale war, thanks to the council the Turians did not wipe the galaxy floor with humanity. The reasons are always the same: Better to have a gun and not need one, then to need a gun and not have one. They got a ton of handguns, but do they realy believe that is enough? Maybe their geth telescope showed no signs of civilization, but is this realy a reason to go unprepared? A lot of things can change in 600 years... look at us, what we got since 1417, look at what ME humans got since 1685. This is not about some "space magic" (we get that like all the time as plot device, project lazarus *cough*cough*), but that is not the problem, the problem is what we get afterwards: pure, unchecked stupidity.

Well, this is from the series that decided that a single frigate armed with a bunch of random b@dasses should charge the Omega IV relay knowing their stealth system is ineffective and without a clue how many ships, traps, or other defenses might be on the other side.

For that matter, their space magic telescopes should have showed signs of the Remnant, at least.

The Remnant weren't there then.  The geth space magic scans are 600+ years old data.  The scanner tells us the remanant tech we find is 300-400 years old.  None of that was there when we left the Milky Way.

Other than that yeah I agree.  Most of the galaxy throughout the MET were idiots, I mean look at the Council.  Idiots (at least in ME2 and 3). 

I was under the impression the Scourge came after the Remnant.

In any case, even if the scans didn't show anything it was stupid to come without a properly trained and armed security/military force and at least putting a few guns and defensive measures on your ark ships and the Nexus.  It is just naive to the point of stupidity to think everything would just "work itself out".

In the small excerpt from the comic with Tiran Kandros it was said the Turian Hierarchy was worried the Andromeda Initiative might be a covered attempt to build a private army. That's why they sent Kandros to investigate in the first place. So it makes sense the AI tried to keep a low profile and didn't build armed warships or trained their own troops. It would have provoked the Turians, or any other council race, to shut the program down. I am surprised Alec got away with SAM, that alone could have been bad enough.