The problem with #SaveTheQuarians

It was at 36 hrs that I generally got so crazily philosophical I drove everyone around me crazy. I couldn't shut up apparently...not that I have any clear recollections about it. I'm pretty much loony tunes at that point.

"So what's this I hear about the quarians settling inside a vault?"

"Haven't you heard? The remnant killed most of them and drove them off the planet."

"lol"

"lol"

[clink glasses]

I think the problem isn't so much where the Quarians (and Turians, for that matter) might live after the dextro world turned out to be a giant low-gravity racecourse, but why a sizeable portion of the Quarian population should want to leave the Flotilla. I was under the impression there weren't so terribly many Quarians left compared to other races, though I admittedly have no idea how are still there. They also seemed to be a rather tight-knit community and if around 20,000 of them, like the other MW species, should leave, it might weaken the remaining Quarians. Just a small number that tries to find a new home in Andromeda wouldn't change much for their race, neither in a good nor in a bad way, so the whole endeavour seems a bit pointless for them (yeah, fan service, I know, but still).

I also wonder what the Quarian (plus Elcor, Hanar and the rest) Ark might look like. The four Arks of the council races were designed to be integrated into the Nexus and serve as power supply, permanently, I presume. But there seems to be no docking site for a fifth Ark, at least not at the center where the other Arks go. All considered it's likely a much smaller vessel, carrying only a few of each species. Better than nothing, I guess, but it would still be quite the shitty treatment for the non-council races.

In my opinion, the Quarians or the Admiral Board concluded that the Reaper threat was real enough that the Quarians could face the very real possibility of extinction. Sending some of your youngest Quarians for a chance to inhabit a whole new galaxy that would have roots sounds very appealing. Just my thoughts on the motive and the reasoning behind it. Also, the more Tali sends back data to the Flotilla, the better the picture the Boards gets of the Reaper threat. I am pretty sure at least two Admirals were already on board for an eventual plan that would allow the species to thrive elsewhere. The Reapers were monsters with OCD. 

I can't say for sure the Arks were meant to stay connected to the Nexus after they have served their purpose, just speculation on my part. They don't really look like they were designed to land anywhere and the Nexus folk seemed quite eager to finally connect an Ark into their power grid when the human Ark showed up, so I thought it was part of the plan to integrate them into the Nexus all along, but I could be wrong, of course.

The whole Andromeda Initiative would make more sense if the MW species had been aware of the Reaper threat. It's hard to tell if the Quarians really new enough to come to such a serious decision. Who knows, maybe Bioware will wrap up the Benefactor/Garson's murder/the Initiative's dirty secrets- story thread in the Quarian DLC (if these things are even connected to the Reapers) but with the information we have, it doesn't seem plausible to me to make a 600-year-trip to Andromeda, especially not for the Quarians.

I hate dangling plot threads.

In Mass Effect: Ascension, it mentions a growing desire to do something about their lack of a home and that the Migrant Fleet was starting to buckle under its own population. I doubt it would have been hard to convince 20,000 to join the Ai.