Do you think the Citadel Council races plus the Angara can liberate the rest of Andromeda?

Absolutely. Blockade them off, airdrop every Asari in the initiative, and give it 500 years...

All you need is two and three Asari/strong human biotic per ship and they can deflect Kett missiles right back at them.

Yes, I think so, but first they have to build a large army and navy. The Initiative/Angara have the upper hand in this, because it will be a long time before the Kett Arks arrive at Heleus.

Initiative don't have the numbers for going on full scale war and from what the game show the Angara seem less advanced technologically than the Milky Way explorers.

They can try to defend the Heleus Cluster but they will indeed need to build a fleet of warships, planetery defenses etcetera.

You have 200,000 - 250,000 people in the Initiative, not even subtracting exiles or people that have died. No way you have the numbers for war. If the Kett came in force, I doubt an Initiative/Angaran alliance would even hold the cluster. All of the AI aren't even soldiers, but even if they were. 250K troops aren't even enough to wage a full-scale war between two countries in the world today, let alone on a cluster-wide or galaxy-wide basis.

They don't even have the manpower to gather the resources and build a navy, or other military tech from scratch.

You'd lose on attrition alone, especially since your captured are going to be exalted and added to the enemy numbers.

if you're talking a straight up fight across the entire andromeda galaxy, as things stand no. not even close to a snowball's chance in hell. however, thanks to the scourge that likely won't happen, not for a while.
in this single cluster? not currently. the initiative is mostly civilians (as others have already noted), with a few ex-soldiers in there, according to lore most of the combat troops went rogue and left with the exiles, and we've likely already killed a lot of em by now. well, anyway... to compete with the kett militarily, the AI would have to build up fleets of warships, at this point they can barely make their planets self sufficient, let alone productive. so the infrastructure to support a large space faring military let alone building one from the ground up is just simply out of the initiative's reach.

if you're talking a carefully measured cluster-wide tactical campaign, asari style... that might just work; though there might not be an easy way to gather intel or execute recon ops. and that's how one would obtain the knowledge required to make a tactical war effective. the main problem is still the scourge, it makes a damn thick fog of war.

Actually, the Arks only had 20K per vessel. The Nexus had a similar number. The Ai was a 100K venture. While that's certainly enough to establish many viable colonies, it's woefully inadequate if warfare is introduced. Add in the Uprising and crazies, and things become pretty bleak.

I'm sure the Remnant tech was supposed to provide the needed advantages, but even that wouldn't work until the Scourge could be neutralized. It seems out remtech, making a bad situation worse. That's why the jardaan abandoned the cluster centuries ago. I would've liked to have seen how things would unfold. There is a lot of potential in the material, regardless of spotty execution in MEA.

Just let a fully levelled up god-like ryder take care of it.

The time it takes for Kett vessels to travel between clusters is an advantage for the MW & Angara alliance, as it gives them time to build, restore, and also to adapt and use Remnant technology. But they definitely need to find more allies in nearby clusters (or even within the current one, who knows how many other sapient species exist still this cluster that have gone undetected, there are thousands of stars in a cluster) and find ways to break the 'indoctrination' of those forcibly turned into kett.

www.universetoday.com/78112/star-cluster/



For it to be a cluster it has to, at the very least, have a few hundred.

Currently? No.

The initiative is small but brings tech from another galaxy so bonus. The Angara are severely diminished but have the intel. They're gonna need more boots on the ground (i.e find more Andromeda races) and/or some kind of super-stealthy-sneak-spy takedown and/or control of the scourge.

But there's the potential for a beginning there.