Could the Jardaan be AI?

I have to admit that I really liked the idea of going in this direction because it is new and interesting. We were at war with synthetics all MET and they tried to destroy us (while trying to save us). Seeing it from a different perspective where they try to save or create and they aren't inherently harmful would be a fresh approach. SAM is  the biggest hint that we are headed in that direction. Also, it sort of brings up the argument that it is man that is inherently the problem or rather organic life because organic life programmed/created the reapers. Geth were only violent to save themselves until some then sided with the old machines due to a logic error. And they have already begun with this theme of man being the problem (hinted at if not outright stated) in  MEA with the Nexus uprising and then on Kadara. There is a quest on Aya where a angaran doesn't understand why our people would  behave like that. You point  out that some of theirs do too and he's still angry and doesn't want to bother with us. 

It really looks like they are headed in that direction.

Bioware literally fled to another galaxy to avoid dealing with the endings of ME3. I don't think the posters above meant "synthesis" as in the green ending, just the general concept.

Conflict between organics and AIs has always been a big part of the ME universe. It wouldn't surprise me if the Jardaan were an AI. What's strange is that the only other AI shown in the game, except the SAMs, looks so very different than any RemTech. It is pre-Scourge, could be ancient Angaran, but she also hates the Angara with a passion. Weren't the Jardaan still around before the Scourge and why should they let the Angara build their own AI, assuming they really were it's creators in the first place?
That all sounds to me there something was going on inolving the Angara, the Jardaan and AIs, possibly the Jardaan being the AI. The Voeld-AI might have been built to deal with an AI opponent, either for defense or as a weapon. Hard to tell with this nut job, but I doubt that she was built to monitor the energy grid, as she claims.
Whatever the case, I doubt the writers will let go on the whole organics/AI topic in the future.

Why would AI need to terraform planets?

My pet "jardaan are AI" theory is: that the Jardaan were this galaxy/clusters version of the Geth. Their creators (the original angara) tried to kill them, they fought back, but instead of fleeing like the quarians did, the jardaan's creators fought to the death. Some of the Jardaan have an "Oh, crap! What did we do?" moment and try to recreate their creators. While others, the opposition, try to stop them and release the Scourge as a counter measure. The only problem with this theory is that why would the opposition create and release something that would destroy them too?



Possibly, but I would say SAM/Ryder already fits that bill. And to be honest SAM/Ryder and/or the jardaan being organic/synthetic hybrid race is/would be a lot more palatable than a magic green beam, IMO.

I personally think it's the eezo in all the remnant tech that the Scourge is attracted to. You find eezo deposits at every site on Eos that is being attacked by the scourge. And PeeBee mentions in the Eos vault that all remnant tech is threaded with eezo.

I hate the synthesis ending but both your ideas actually sound pretty cool to me. Approaching AI from a different angle would be great as I never liked the way they told it in ME3.

What I'm talking about has nothing to do with synthesis really. I'm just looking at it as the jardaan possibly being AI and that their task is to create and preserve life in a different way than the reapers did. The Angara are from my perspective likely some kind of clones. My guess is there might have been some reason why they needed to create them and they might have been created from genetic material from a previous Angaran civilization that was not going to survive some kind of event. Perhaps an extinction level even. Perhaps they already had AI as part of their culture and the tasked the AI with helping to save them. I'm not talking synthesis but perhaps cloning or using genetic material to recreate them though there are synthesis or synthetic hybrid theories about the angara.

The thing about synthesis as it was in ME3 was that it did come off rather revolting. Never mind the whole story that led to it and how that decision in that context felt kind of awful but also because you are forcing it on everyone and it feels like it turns the reapers into this all knowing good guy when they had committed countless cycles of genocide previously and were in the process of doing it again. That felt very wrong and icky especially from the stance of morally and intellectually superior AI playing god and believing it is a kind of god. 

But, if it for example the angara were going to die due to some event and they used AI to transfer their memories into another version of them that could be be a bit more like synthesis due to how they are created and that AI goes to another cluster and makes it livable for them that doesn't seem revolting. If it were done in a way like that, it wouldn't be revolting. If the Jardaan are AI and they are creating races, there's a reason why. I doubt it's because they want to make synthesis a thing which is what the Reapers wanted ultimately it seems. And in that case it was horrific. Here, it feels less so. It feels more like creating life than genocide but we don't know the full story yet. Could be genocide instigated it or was involved in it on some level.

Not for Andromeda.

I personally believe some have been holding a grudge against the poor guy since ME3 happened. They will pretty much use anything to fuel that.

So your suggesting some sort of weird time loop where some of the AI arrived in Andromeda in the distant past and then made all the vaults for the AI from our timeline to find an activate? Sounds more appropriate for Dr. Who, not ME