Now that Andromeda made the last trilogy irrelevant

Right on... the travellers to Andromeda don't really know why their communications got cut... and it's just too far (another 600 years in stasis) to go back just to satiate their curiosity (or ours).  If the new story is a good one... personally, I'm not going to care at all if or how it might connect to the old one.

That's your opinion. 

Andromeda didn't make the last trilogy irrelevant. The catalyst did that to the trilogy long before that.

To be fair, our cycle would be fine with that. After all, the super-secret super weapon team responsible for saving everyone not on the Arks was just chatting with you the whole time. 

Yeah and the Reapers being cool with that is right up there with them not taking the Citadel immediately and shutting the relay network down. What's your point?

The point was that our cycle has made illogical and questionable decisions before, so you can't write them off as not doing so about this.

Eh, I don't really take the article having much weight, since that was before the game was even officially announced. Plus as I said between then and now there have been cases of them doing the opposite. The only thing in their that still rings true is that Shepard themselves and their companions will not be in the game. 

Scientific projects that shatter known laws of science?

These Arkships alone are like jumping from lashing a raft together to building an ocean liner in, what?  a few months?  Years?

And that's while sinking tons of resources into building the Giant Magic Wand.

No, I won't give it a rest until I get a satisfactory answer.

FTL exists, but only to a very limited degree. A few dozen light years before needing a discharge, tops. Reapers may be fast, but they don't have spacefold technology. 2.5 million light years is still 2.5 million light years. Yes, thy can go longer without discharging the static buildup. But it still accumulates for them, as the codex tells us.

And assuming they can make the trip (without killing any organic passengers), it's been heavily implied we are leaving before the Reaper War, so no dead Reapers to miraculously reverse-engineer in a few short months.

I admit to being curious myself. Just contrived an *sspull will the arks be?

Does anyone else here want to tell Crutchcricket what I posted about after ME2, or should I?

Sure, why not? They found a way to reverse engineer an engine capable of running continuously for centuries without refueling or discharging AND build and fit them on multiple dreadnought-sized ships in three years. Totally believable

What you're seeing is me saying not that there isn't a satisfactory answer, but that I don't see how there can be one. Backed by evidence from previous games that Bioware basically does whatever the hell they want to do no matter how little sense it makes and calls it "Art"

The object of someday going to a distant galaxy was not developed in a matter of months... we're thinking about it now (IRL) and we don't have Reapers barking down on our horizon.  We started with our moon, moving onto mars, sending probes outside our solar system, etc.  The idea itself and the ongoing development of technology towards eventually achieving that idea is what has driven exploration for centuries. 

That doesn't mean that groups could not have stepped up their support of such a project as the Reaper threat became more evident or that then the people who wound up on the ARKs themselves could not have left because they were fleeing the Reaper threat.  The idea of a Crucible weapon was only made possible by the discovery of the plan in the Mars Archives... so that project had to be developed quickly... making it a real strain to collect the resources for it and to unify the galaxy behind it.  I think Plan A was eventual evacuation to another galaxy (reworking and adapting exploration sciences that had been ongoing for decades and not discussed in the MET codex simply because they were outside the scope of that Trilogy... like, if I'm writing a codex about driving cars, I'm not going to put in details about secret NASA space projects that are in development.)  Plan B was the Crucible... because the galaxy had suddenly "run out of time." (per Anderson and Shepard's conversation at the beginning of ME3 - "We're not ready if it is them, not by a long ways."  At that point, the ARKs, even in a somewhat unfinished state could be boarded and leave just before the Reapers hit earth.  Maybe that the ARKs weren't really finished in time could be why Ryder wakes up surprised that they made it.

Perhaps this thread should be moved back to that section now.  I believe the OP has be changed radically from when I first read it... or maybe it's my "sometimers" acting up again.