The Andromeda Initiative will be launched in 2185

I've just watched the first Andromeda Initiative video and the date in the top-right corner is July 2184. That would suggest that the arks left before the Reaper War even started, not during it like a lot of people assumed.

So... like... it was a big deal that Cerberus built one little frigate in secret during this time. But now another independent entity had the capacity to supercede any technology previously known in the same timeframe. "Ambitious undertaking from any Milky Way race". And it just had to be the people who've only been around 30 years.

From the site:

Yep, I just saw that and came back to edit it. I got a bit trigger-happy because OMG IT'S HAPPENING THIS IS REAL NOW OMG FANGIRL THE FUCK OUT.

This would put it during the events of Mass Effect 2 it looks like.

I knew it

How did you get the game so early, Hanako? Talk about overreaction.

What? The explanation is there in black and white. No need for the game since that tells us about it.

I used to think some of the nay sayers in this site were just a bit nit pickey but I have moved them over to straight out dumb, as in not seemingly to have a foggy clue about how info in any media is given.

"It was the best of times it was the worst of time....."

Well this is a disappointing book, the title days A tale of two cities and it is telling me nothing about the two cities, I always knew Dickens was a hack writer.

Until we know more, I, unbelievably, have to agree with Hanako. 9 years for a project of that size, price and new technology atop of that? Yah, sure.

Actually, it doesn't tell us anything we couldn't already guess (other than the year it left).

It's an idependent initiative- obviously, otherwise Shepard and co would've heard about it. Note, it says independent from the Alliance, not the Council or any other indentifiable group. Though I am troubled that it specifies Alliance for another reason. If this is primarily a human project, I will be disappointed.

Everything else can still fit- an esoteric exploration project repurposed, two years to work with Sovereign's remains... nothing's broken yet. I assume the game will fill in the details.

What, did you think one little blurb on a web site would give it all away?