Mass Effect: Andromeda N7 Day Trailer!

Yeah.. doesn't make much sense does it.

Not so sure about the idea of N7 being forever closed off. When you stand up a new aircraft ... there are no instructors, there is no initial qualification school house, there is no weapon school ... you might have some folks who are highly experienced in other aircraft, but other than the test pilots, no one has experience in the new aircraft.  And no one has operational experience.

But people know how to create new instructors, stand up an FTU (school house), stand up a weapon school. So you do it. The first instructors get trained by the test pilots ... they get anointed and become the initial cadre of instructors in the new weapon system. They create the school house to train new pilots in the new weapon system (the analog for N1-N6). Eventually they set up the weapons school. Weapons school is probably the best analog in this example, for training new N7s.

But we don't even have to do that. We already have at least one N7 in Ai, he can start up a new training program that eventually leads to becoming an N7. If you want to think of him as the equivalent of the test pilot ... sure. But this is a new galaxy, not a new program. So really, he's more like one of the senior pilots standing up a new squadron at a forward operating location, someone who will fill both a leadership role and the role of N7 instructor.

Not sure which Ryder I will roll first.

Ok as the time frame is the same as mass effect 2 could miranda lawson make an apperance because she doesnt age right?
Constructed to be perfect?- not human?
Or am i wrong ?

The Arks leave the MW during the timeframe of ME2, so considering she's still there in ME3, I doubt it.
I do wonder if and who will see from the first two games.

Ohhh, I like that. A lot.

Now, I have this image of the Ryders kids with TIM posters all over their cabin, ready to throw their panties (and virginity) at TIM like overexcited groupies. I'm not sure how he can retain his illusive nickname while being portrayed as a rock star.

Who else was reminded of this watching the trailer?

What's puzzling to me is that in the original trilogy, ships didn't really have the capability to warp to other star systems; they had to use the mass relays.

If the relays were never all that indispensable, that would put possibly the most annoying aspect of the ME3 ending (yeah, more annoying than starkid casper) -- that the relays went offline in all endings -- under an entirely different light. I thought that was the reason why BioWare was setting the game in a new galaxy in the first place; since a galaxy without functioning relays wouldn't work as an ME galaxy at all. However, that can't be right; because we'd still have questions like -  i) whether Andromeda would have a resource similar to the relays, to make it work as a feasible ME galaxy; and ii) how we'd get there.

So what was the deal with the relays enabling FTL travel in the first place? Has this aspect of the lore been retconned?

Also, if the rationale for the arks wasn't to escape the reaper invasion, then what was it? The reference to Andromeda's 'resource-rich' corner is pretty alarming as others have pointed out.

As to whether this is a 'private business' enterprise, or a council initiative, it's also puzzling that what we've seen so far suggests the former. The latter would have had the motivation to save galactic civilization from the reapers -- what motivation could the former have? Do we have an even more ambitious cross-species Cerberus in our hands? Milky-Way Supremacists? Why even use the word 'ark', then, with all the connotations that it has? If there's no 'flood', then why are these called 'arks'?

Did the reapers not know about this project, with all the indoctrinated sleeper agents they had all over the place? Why didn't they do anything to stop it? Including intercepting the arks on the way to Andromeda? The arks would contain plenty of species-goo to extract without effort.

Also, are the arks carrying anything other than intelligent species? Dogs, and cats, and smiling salamanders with gills extending out of their ears? If the goal is to terraform any planets, make it a new 'home', etc., you can't do that without whole ecosystems in place. I wonder whether the arks contain that sort of cargo at all.

I don't think it does. We have real life example of stuff that looks similar: