"... on one of the golden worlds our long-range sensors have identified in Andromeda's Helius cluste

Then, it's simple for you... you'll not be playing this new game.  Why keep trying to discourage other people from enjoying it? 

You're not going to convince them to change their lore for this new game now.  You're not doing the original Mass Effect any favors either... which was full of holes and inconsistencies even on its own.  They started with faulty lore and now you don't want to let them depart from it.  How does that make any sense?

You think Bioware gives a good god damn what some people on a fan made message board say?

You want to show them "the error of the ways" or whatever, just don't buy their games.

But just like on the official BSN (may it rest in peace), the negativity man... the negativity is just a fucking downer. Like, honestly, isn't it exhausting being so negative literally ALL THE TIME?

Hell, they didn't care what people said on their own official boards!

My guess is that it's shorthand for the Goldilocks Zone. There's a lot more guesswork involved with extragalactic planets, so they can't be sure if a planet within the habitable zone is a garden world. I assume they have plans for terraforming.

Did people sleep through all their science classes in school (refuse to believe someone in a science college course you do that), because some of the misconceptions i keep seeing here are absurd.

It might just be a phonetic misspelling, just like some people write "should of" instead of "should have".

The Helius cluster is spelled "Heleus cluster"  in the orientation video help texts, and the AI website claims that we travel to Andromeda to establish a new home world at one point and because of resource rich planets at another. My guess is several writers and sub-optimal proofreading.

Did you consider that the REAL purpose of Andromeda Initiative is something else than "oh it's cool over there, so we go, trolololo" ?
Did you consider that this could be a freaking bullshit and part of a huge plot of the game ?
In any case, that's what Yanick Roy might have suggested on twitter.

And about the whole "fuck science and lore" thread.

Then, i guess there has always been fails in ME lore since ME 1.
So what ?
Does that means this was bad ? Hell no
Does that means Andromeda will be bad ? Hell why
Does that means that if you accept this inconsistency in order to enjoy the game, then you are a bad retarded/sheep/player who make work easier to Bioware ? Hell that's rude

It really bores me when i see such inconsistency in lore, because lore is meaningful to me. I guess we don't have the choice... or maybe yes, we have, we have the choice to enjoy the game after all =o

(and damn, give them a chance, the game is not even release =__=, as i say, you love the first trilogy after all, despites the same problems)

This is fine. The timescale for habitability on a planet can last millions of years, especially since the factors for habitability even now are only factoring in orbital distance and general chemical composition.

Scientists today observe potential habitable exoplanets with the Hubble and we call them presently habitable even though we are looking at images millions of years old. Life evolved over millions of years.

The scientists of mass Effect can also lol at the surrounding asteroids and stuff to just figure whether the destination planets are blown to smithereens by the time they get there calculating long-term trajectories.

Even if the life they saw potentially evolving in the historical data are extinct by arrival, there is archaeological value.

What bothers me more is the lack of explanation why such an expedition exists in the first place.
Timeline puts the project in a place where there wasn't even a general consensus of the Reaper threat.

With much of the freaking mass relay system still uncharted I don't see any point in scanning another Galaxy at all.

Yeah, yeah, you'll be disappointed in the end just like the people who voted for Hillary Clinton.

Or, you know, there's always the wild possibility that he won't. Stop projecting your own bullshit onto someone else.