New Mass Effect Teaser Trailer

I think connecting the two galaxies via some kind of nearly-instant travel is not a good idea. Space already feels small enough as it is in the Mass Effect universe, it doesn't need to trivialize a distance of two and a half million light years on top of that.

While I get that some people liked Ryder and crew, Andromeda itself didn't bring much new stuff to the table. We met two new races and one brand of toasters, meaning the majority of species in the game actually came from the Milky Way, making Andromeda feel familiar instead of new and exciting. The trip to Andromeda only happened to dodge the dilemma created by ME3s ending anyway, and with the newly announced game not being afraid to return to the Milky Way, Andromeda's usefulness as a setting is greatly diminished, its only appeal being the reconnection with MEA characters that people liked.

Personally I don't like Andromeda enough to have ~650 years pass and millions of light years become nearly meaningless just so Ryder can make a quip again, but that's just personal preference. I'm happy with some mysteries there remaining mysteries and don't have to find out who killed Jien Garson or where the Jardaan went. But to some people this is important and I wouldn't want their wishes denied either.

How does it cement control and synthesis if the trailer is literally Liara walking up the side of a dead Reaper?

On Jardaan, they clearly have highly advanced technology for accelerated teraforming. That alone makes them only 2nd to Reapers and it's tech Milky Way would really desire a lot post-Reaper war. That war had devastated Milky Way civilizations and their planets, as Reapers had in every cycle made some planets inhabitable.

Yep its a big destroyed reaper far into future I'd still say

The problem with 600yrs tie passing is that you'd expect the technology difference between the MW and Andromeda to be huge.

Also everybody is talking about the reaper in the background but anyone else noticed that Liara is climbing one? is it just me?

I considered it, but honestly, the foreground just looks like a rockface with some wreckage on the front right side to me. I could totally be wrong, of course.

It is a Reaper and Mike confirmed it on Twitter.

Anyway, point is wrinkles don't always mean as much as we sometimes think they do.
I'm 31 and I've seen 20-year-olds with more wrinkles than I have. Maybe Liara has really dry skin or a bad skin care routine.

That never was an issue. We are using Liara's apparent age, for an Asari, compared to other thousand year old asari, to figure out at what time period this puts us in. We could be in the 3500s.