Space Heroes and Super Spies: The Miranda Lawson Thread

I have. I have no intention of getting Andromeda. Even disregarding the garbage that is ME3, the very premise of Andromeda goes against the level of technology available to the council races in the trilogy.

The Lazarus project has the benefit of not directly contradicting something that is outright stated to be impossible, in-universe. Unlike intergalactic travel. I can kind-of buy resurrection, considering the medical technology in ME is hilariously advanced, to the point where they can outright cure cancer. Intergalactic travel in ME is supposed to be literally impossible with the current level of space travel an ship technology. They can't even travel very far in THEIR OWN galaxy, hence the use of mass relays.

For my part, I've only ever done a single mass effect run start to finish. I went ash, miranda (because her looks reminded me of ash) back to ash. And that scene on the citadel where she asks if I was still interested in her and tolder he no, god I felt so bad. I almost re-loaded and said yes, but I had my plan and I saw it through.

If I ever do another one, I play to go (I can't believe I forgot the Asari's name, she becomes the shadow broker for crying out loud), tali, and then stick with tali while siding with the geth. more because I want to see if she would stay alive or not. Thats a terrible way to approach romance, but I am genuinely curious if she would let me save her or not.

Well, she wasn't there when I took out saren. Then ash found out I was working with Cerberus, and told me to kindly screw off. But after all that arrogance of Miranda, and my old feelings for ash, she was my girl of choice. If I ever manage to do a third play through though, I have every intention of sticking with Miranda through thick and thin. I might not even go for my old specter title, in that run through.

How does it not? Bringing back people from the dead is practically impossible in the ME universe. Even Bioware realized, by retconnetting Shepard's death (which is another ridicoloust thing, but I digress).
Cure cancer isn't already impossible now (not for all types, and not with a guarantee of being cured, but it's feasible), so it's not a stretch that it's more easily cured in ME. Death is howewer impossible. Nobody was brought back before. If it was possible, The other civilizations like The asari or The salarians would've surely found out. 

That's true. Which is why regardless of the fact of the premise (And its probably non satisfactory execution) I'm giving Bioware a chance.

From the lore, Reaper ships are said to be capable of travelling 30 ly in a day, about twice as fast as Citadel vessels.

If we go with Citadel vessels being capable of travelling at around 15 ly a day, then in a standard Earth year, they'd cover around 5475 ly.

If Andromeda is about 2.5 million ly away, Citadel ships could conceivably reach that destination within 456 years.

The main issues here are how the Andromeda Initiative could have enough Element Zero to power the engines for that length to time, they'd have to frequently drop out of FTL to discharge the static build up on the hull, the ship itself would have to be fitted with it's own discharging facilities (as there are no planets in Dark Space to use) and they'd need a means to keep the ships powered for over 450 years with the extensive drain on the system that stasis pods have been shown to have.

If those technical obstacles could be overcome, then it might be possible to do it with the current level of technology that the Citadel species have been shown to possess.

In ME2 it was shown that they reverse-engineered weapons technology from Sovereign, so they might have also picked up a few clues on how the Reapers generate power and allows them to enter into sleep-mode for several aeons and still be all tickety-boo when their alarm call goes off?

My suspicion is that the Arks will have just enough in the tank for a one way trip, but they'll be dangerously low on fuel when they reach the outskirts of Andromeda. At which point they'll shut down their FTL engines and devote all remaining power to maintaining life-support on the stasis pods. The Pathfinders will most likely be woken up early to scout for resources they can use to keep the Arks operational, which allows them to wake the rest of the crew and begin colonisation for any worlds that pass muster.

I can understand that, though In The other thread we discussed this I didn't deny that the execution/methods might probably not be on my liking, but Bioware/Walters going in this direction instead of trying to explain The galaxy switch in a reasonable way doesn't mean the premise itself is ridicolous or can't be explained reasonably. Of your problems with this premise is because you don't have faith in them in delivering on this in a decent way I understand your concern.

On the other hand, do you know how much Walters is directly involved with the writing in the game? As far as I recall from the role descriptions of the leads, posted in a blog two years ago, his role was more about supervising then being directly involved.

From Gaider's blog, I recall the lead designer and lead writer generally discuss this kind of stuff, I mean the premise of the plot. I don't know we can say for sure who came up with the idea unless they told us.
Also, even if he came up about moving to Andromeda, it doesn't necessarily means he thought on how executing this idea or coming up with an explanation for the means to go there. Maybe he delegated this to someone else.

We have to wait and see when they'll reveal the details, I guess.

The very nature of cancer makes it a disease that you can't exactly "cure". That alone makes the science in ME "bad", but it's science-*fiction* so I can live with it. And it emphasizes how much more advanced their level of technology is in comparison to us.

If they can cure cancer, why can't they bring someone back from the dead? Especially if their brain was preserved like Shepard's was. It's already shown that they can clone organs, so the base of the procedure is there. It's impossible in real life yes, but never stated to be impossible in the game. Unlike intergalactic space travel. Do you see my point? The fluff never actually says anything about resurrection, but it actually does say shit about space travel. One is inference, the other is confirmed knowledge. Even comparing the two is an act in futility.

I think it was actually stated he has kind of a lore guardian role.
I don't know if I'm necessarily optimistic. I simply want to wait and see what they came up with, as well as the possible improvments on the open world system.

If not, I'l won't buy it or wait for a discount. I might be too busy with another game regardless around February and March.
Because nobody actually do it in thousands of years. If it was possible why nobody tried it? The very fact that in ME3 they retconnetted Shepard's death was because of that, because they realized the resurrection was ridicolous. As it stands now, they decided to make it impossible to be achieved, so the premise of ME2 is ridicolous.

It's not like they really wanted to explain the resurrection either. They just wanted a plot device for making Shepard inactive for a bit, and be left behind by the Alliance and the Council.

There are dialogues that lead to believe that Shepard wasn't dead but comatose. Bioware seemed confused on what really happened to Shepard.

The point is that you believe that just because technology in ME is more advanced it's possible in theory to bring a person back. I don't think there is anything indicating that it was possible or that they reached that level. So for me there's no difference between the Lazarus Project or the Andromeda project, in the fact that both are supposedly projects more advanced then the current technology they possess.

Explaining the resurrection is necessary to make it believable, as a reasonable explanation for the Andromeda project is necessary to make it believable.