How would you Write the Kett out of the series?

Haha! Sad but true. The Miranda Ass-cam immediately comes to mind. She's a good character that's cheapened by such nonsense.

I think the long-term goal of connecting Heleus with the MW, specifically for commercial purposes, was outlined on the real world MEA Ai website. That was a fun bit of clever marketing. It was fun to watch the "course material". (I'm using my hard-earned Andromeda Elite Helmet at present on my Level-19 Scott.) I'm not sure if the hoped to build a connecting relay or develop some new tech in Andromeda. Maybe they hoped the extra 634 years on the MW side would allow plenty of time to develop options? Ultimately, it seems running from the Reapers and getting SAM out into the universe were the real goals. Who knows how much of the rest was pure propaganda? People always find a way. Eventually, someone will reconnect the sundered groups.

While I disagree with this approach, I do think the gif is excellent. 😆

Well, at least you're trying.

But if we grant your premises, the discussion is pointless. The more effort we put into answering "how to remove the kett," the more we just call attention to something that you think needs to be swept under the rug. The logic of your position is that a dopey handwave will do, and then we just hope that whatever the new writers come up with distracts everybody from how we got here.

Yes, there have been gazillion benefactors throughout history. It is just a term. I hope. 

Seems too coincidental.

In truth they don't need a civilisation ending threat to be a villain over the Kett, the best stories in ME tend to be those that involve smaller plots. We've already had a civilisation ending threat before, so it makes more sense to focus on local threats, the threat of another nation or religious/ideological conflicts as they can force different types of drama which help to prevent the series from repeating the same plots.

However, the Jaardan had some kind of ancient enemy, so they're probably the big threat. 

Good point well made. Although I would argue that they were merely Saren/Sovereign's hired henchmen at the time and could have been replaced with krogan, Batarian mercenaries or Kett and it wouldn't have affected the plot at all. I agree in so much that if the central narrative and cast of characters to service the plot in the next game is stronger it shouldn't matter who you shoot or toss around like rag dolls in principle as long as the core is solid. That said I did not ever buy them as a convincing threat which is a major stumbling block for me.



I have always been more interested in the milky way inter-species internal/ geo-politics and would have much preferred the story to have been centered around the outlaw rebellion, Nexus Uprising would have been a more interesting concept for a Mass Effect game/story than MEA imo in hindsight.

Perhaps Kett are more of a symptom of trying to apply the BioWare boiler-plate to a game-design philosophy it is at odds with and eschewing the overarching linear conventional BioWare big bad and moving towards a more character driven ME2 style collection of smaller stories on different worlds might be a better direction for the series that would offer more potential for role-playing and would be more compatible with free-roaming exploration at your own pace game-design and environmental storytelling they have been striving towards but falling short of lately.

The Geth were never the main villain though, they were always foot soldiers.  The only reason they got fleshed out was to add some complexity to the Quarian/Geth conflict so it wasn't a black and white, Quarians good, Geth bad situation.

Saren was the main antagonist, and he was using the Geth.  Saren was fleshed out and engaging, almost tragic.  He found out what was coming, and genuinely had good intentions in the beginning only to never realize he had become indoctrinated and was now a pawn.  He was also one step ahead of you all game, offering you frustrations and setbacks.  He murdered someone, bold faced lied about it and got away.  He beat you to the cypher on Feros, and even though you stopped him on Virmire it cost you a squadmate, maybe two.  Then he succeeded in letting Sovereign through to attack the Citadel.  Finally depending on your dialogue choices he realizes he was wrong and was indoctrinated and breaks free for a moment.

The reapers were built up as formidable from the start and you didn't know anything about them.  Only that if one can do this, what would a thousand do?  Same with the Collectors.  I didn't know much about the Collectors other than they blew up my ship and killed me, and now I have to get stronger because I can't beat them as I am now.  

Now the Kett, their portrayal in the story cut their legs out.  You overrun them and take what they're guarding in the prologue and they offer really no resistance to anything for the entire game until the very end.  You took their facility from them and blew it up, while taking their prized prisoner.  A handful of people ran them off of an entire planet for goodness sake. 

The Archon divided the Angaran leadership, turned them against each other, conquered some their worlds and has been in control of the cluster for decades, but he can't beat a handful of exiles, or a group who has about 50K people out of Cryo?  They wouldn't just need to flesh the Kett out, they would have to rehab them in some way.

Why not in the first scene, just have you find the vault first and then the Kett arrive, and if your father had to die, it could have been to Kett as he covered your escape.  Now the Kett have shown they're strength, and they've killed your father.    

Reboot/abandon is a reasonable answer to the OP's question, I guess.

Sure. I'm on record as being a skeptic of the entire premise of the thread, so that works for me.

I think the point is:
1)In MEA we see that the AI started as a false dream and it notes some dark realities.
2)In a MEA2 we could see the dream come alive (so this includes a bridge to MW, along with the potentials of the new government and Meridian) while we address the dark realities (so this includes learning such things around the Reapers unless Bioware swears off it, and it includes SAM elaboration and some dangers).