So, why no one ever mentioned the Andromeda Initiative in the trilogy?

Seriously guys they could address all of this in the game you know, ain't none of us got a crystal ball.

From my perspective I was thinking of this - they started recruiting when Shep was dead right? A year later recruitment will be done and dusted just as Shep is awoken, fighting the collectors and working with Cerberus. That was an intense recruitment mission/loyalty mission time for Shep, most of it spent on the SR2 whilst being an 'enemy' of the alliance and not receiving intel from them.
Then holy shitballs Reapers, prison, quick save the world, who the fuck is that kid, dead. Or breathing.

The trilogy was told from the personal perspective of Commander Shepard, A LOT will have been missed in the telling. No doubt ya'll gonna shout at me and tell me why I'm totally wrong but I'm happy to believe something like that. This is a story, written by falable people, and some of you need to take it a little less seriously. If we all decide to disseuct these games so much not only will it stir up the endless well of internet negativity, but it would then inevitably lead to us picking apart the trilogy too. No doubt tonnes of that doesn't make sense either, but if you want a rich game world like ME you need to let some things slide.

But as I said, WE DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW YET.

Except the Quarians likely won't be allowed to participate because they are the pariahs of intergalactic civilization.  Well one of them anyways.  Again asuming they even know about them. 

This kind of argument is really weak.

It's like if I were to criticize ME1 because we never knew by then that Drells and Collectors existed...

Lots of racism towards them.

Plus, they created the Geth. And by the time recruitment starts/the ark leaves, the Geth are the official and most accepted cause for Sovereign's attack on the Citadel.

Furthermore, there's this whole thing about finding new planets and inhabiting them that the Quarians are not that great at.

Indeed.

Nobody discussed the Andromeda Initiative in ME1-3 simply because the writers didn't think of it at the time.

I think we have a winner...    

Yeah I don't buy it. There's racism, and then there's so stupid one's head would fall off if it weren't attached. Let's be real, racism towards quarians is more of the modern "ehh I kinda don't like these guys they're all [insert stereotype here]" and not the real old school "these things aren't people and are basically created for our amusement" kind of racism. You can afford the former in your nice cushy society where everything's provided for you but not when you're striking out in the unknown, where everything is more likely to kill you than not by its very presence, or absence. Quarians have become particularly suited for exactly the type of thing the Andromeda Initiative is setting to do. Casual racism cannot be afforded. Hell even the old school racist would probably bring them because "dem suit rat animals be useful for labor and I'll be damned if I salvage scrap or repair a hull seal like a damn space gypsy savage!"

And it's one thing to find a planet that a) has no insect life and isn't taken by someone already in a galaxy where known space is pretty saturated and quite a different matter entirely to do so in a brand new galaxy for other people who aren't as picky.

Unfortunately, given the time of departure it's unlikely the geth will be joining the expedition. A shame as apart from the quarians, they're the best suited to making the journey and minding the ships while the meatbags are in cryo. Unless of course



the AI was being constructed in the Veil this whole time and that's why the Geth never let anyone in!

Get out of here with these logical arguments!

This is my favorite post of the month; possibly of the new BSN, thus far. Well done, sir.

SofNascimento, you're determined to have an in-game explanation for a retcon, which on the surface seemed an unreasonably tall order. FireAndBlood has delivered. I'm glad this has been handled. I feel much better.

I bet it was in 2176.

By 2185 I bet it was news too if they left. Like I said at the top it's possible we didn't hear about it because Shepard was in a coma for two years after being brought back to life. 

It is quite possible for it to be classified and still be doing the need for recruitment. It could only be circulated to the Galaxy's elite and a very few specific individuals/ and their families amongst the science, explorartory, or military specialities.