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Besides all the "Andromeda" references and the ridiculous ODSY drives which are never mentioned or used in the trilogy despite their potentially revolutionary capabilities?

Hey, I admit if they modified the story some, it could work.  But the whole Andromeda galaxy was a rather transparent attempt on Bioware's part to have their cake and eat it too.  To continue the series without admitting their "Art" royally f*cked up the franchise.  They wanted to hit the reset button without actually resetting anything.

And it didn't work.

Can we? Can I decide it was standard-issue Destroy, or are you guys planning to still have the geth running around? Low-EMS Destroy looks to be off the table, as are many Control versions. All but stupidly-retconned versions of Synthesis go away.

You're proposing canonizing some thing and decanonizing others. Be honest about it.

But it will in a book which is canon.

True. But so what?

Putting new races in a book is cheap. Maybe we'll see new Andromeda races in the book too. And if not, we still know that there are plenty of new races in Andromeda that we haven't seen yet. It's not 9 vs. 2, it's 9 vs. dozens.

So how do you feel about the people in your camp who complain that Andromeda is too much like the Milky Way and yet at the same time want it to be even more like the Milky Way? 

They are ships with effectively unlimited range, not reliant on mass relays.  And small enough to fit on a frigate.  Yeah that would cause a new wave of colonization.

Not to mention the quarians would have LOVED to get their hands on that tech for the Migrant Fleet.

Plus the military aspects would be huge!  

I'm just trying to figure out what the actual problem is.

If we're talking about the races which we actually see and interact with, it's 5-2.

If we count races which we don't see or interact with, it's 9 to ..... dozens? Hundreds? We know that there are plenty of races that the kett have preyed on.

Yeah the quarians would have loved the tech, if they could have paid for it or stolen it. And I suppose the military would have refitted with the drive eventually. (This is an own-goal by the writers, since the Tempest would have worked just fine with normal drives and a fuel scoop. Drive charge could have been handwaved away the same way it was in the trilogy.) Even with that refit the Citadel fleets aren't much more competitive with the Reapers.

As for colonization, you have an implicit assumption that the existing drives didn't merely channel colonization efforts, but actively constrained them. This seems to be true for the batarians, but nobody else. The Alliance wasn't all that concerned with the fate of the Hugo Gernsback, for instance.

Fail,

People in my camp never wanted to goto Andromeda in the firsr place. So we dont want Andromeda to be like the MW, we just want out of the MW entirely and go back and explore the other 99% of the MW.

So that brings me back to my original statement....it is a contradiction for those who wanted out of the MW to explore new things but for some reason are okay with Andromeda being majority MW races.

Again...having the cake and eating it to.

Yeah skip a hundred years, just so the initative be more like the Milky Way?

Even if the majority of the races in Andromeda are not Andromedan?

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We've only explored one cluster of Andromeda, there are still plenty more races to be discovered.

Aren't a couple of those mysteries going to be solved in a book?