Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation Discussion

Cora discusses that she can't call any reinforcements with Sam. Via qte implant. Yeah.

Cora never could become a Pathfinder, whether her body was ready or not. Alec adjusted his Sam to the point that it cannot sync with people having different enough DNA.

About Sam being able to turn implanted people into cyborg abominations via nanomachines and DNA modifications. But he doesn't, because it's not a cool thing to do and Alec blocked this feature.

Damn those Alliance secret researchers were trying to create a human analogue of Legion.

Never said he did, but he seems to approach non-humans going to Andromeda as tag-alongs that could help humanity, but the way he thinks about them is very us vs them.

Alec seems to believe humanity has nothing to gain from learning from Council and even non-Council races and that humanity is something super special. Cry me a river. It's not so subtly implied that he rejects the idea that there's still exploration to do in the Milky Way even if the Asari, for example, have been there before: There's still stuff to learn and things that even the Asari haven't done. I find it incredibly short sighted and whiny. Same thing with humanity's adaptation in using biotics, which is why Peebee makes the comment in Andromeda about humans being impatient wanting to fast-track their expansion into using it.

Cora's whole point is that her life experiences growing up on a freighter and her exposure to Asari culture IS exploration to anyone else that hasn't experienced it. When she made this point to Alec he was surprised. Meaning, this is a concept he hadn't really considered. She even makes this comment to Peebee when you put them in the Nomad together. Since humanity is new to the galactic society, any culture that isn't human is an adventure, and vice versa. Keep in mind humanity is still very new to other Milky Way species, too. I believe Liara talked about this in 1.

Addison also makes this comment multiple times during Uprising and the course of the game: First in explaining that she appreciates people who think differently than she does, yelling at Sloane over racist comments she makes, and verbally bitchslapping Tann for not wanting to hand over control of Heleus affairs to the Angara.

Broken down: Cora's question to Alec is, "why don't you just take the time to listen?" A bigger part of her questions is putting aside ego to do this since she had to while she was learning with the Asari. Alec seems surprised by this idea. It seems as though he wants humanity's evolution to take place apart from everyone else as though they are alone in the universe.

I agree with Cora and Peebs that evolution isn't something instantaneous nor is it always rooted in just physical adventuring. My opinion on this is: Too bad so sad. I think his view is flawed, too. Just because I don't empathize with him here, or Ashley for that matter (keep in mind, I went back to save her on Virmire), doesn't make either of them bad characters. I just don't agree with their viewpoints or their methods.