The Andromeda Initiative: Another Cerberus Project (or Unapologetically Awful Storytelling)

Nexus aka AI capital is controlled by the human. Others may "pitch in" and build their own Arks, but still be under Nexus authority. Does it feel more like Cerberus now?
Well, lesser creatures who got on Nexus could make a coup and demand Council-like representation upon arrival, but that would fit into Cerberus' remarkable history of failures anyway.

why does it have to be Cerberus that funded the project why can't every single major corporation/business be it Human, Asari, Turian Corporation/business that came together and decided to pool there resources into the Andromeda Initiative. Frankly I am of the believe that Cerberus is not involved that several major companies from different races came together and threw there resources/money into this project and I must say that I am tired of Cerberus and don't want nothing to do with them anymore

don't think I was thinking that in my message but it probably came out that way of asking why wouldn't every single corporations invest in a 600 year project, actually I do like the idea that all the corporations got together and said I know we throw all of our money/resources into this and select a group of people and they leave on a one way trip

Apparently sufficient money can resurrect the dead after atmospheric reentry in 2 years in the Mass Effect universe, is 9 years to plan a trip to another galaxy so much harder to believe?

You know what would have been a great troll of fans? If the tutorial at the beginning of Andromeda has the PC fight a bunch of Cerberus soldiers. Without any context, your PC is just dropped into a battle. The environment could even look a bit like Mars.

And then at the end of the tutorial, it turns out the whole thing was a holotraining exercise. Zing!

Diabolical. I approve. 

In all honesty, if I were king of Mass Effect I would have set ME4 in 2184 or '85 as well, but then again it wouldn't be about going to Andromeda, it would have been another story that happened to be in the same general setting as the first trilogy.  We had only explored a small fraction of the small fraction of the galaxy that had even been explored, so there was room to make it work.  And it wouldn't be a huge problem to avoid Shepard in the lost two years.

Yeah and the reason your building up that static charge isn't because your running a current through something. It's because of a conflict. Like running your head with a baloon, that baloon isn't super charged and it's adding a charge to your head. It's neutral, doesn't accept a charge but your head/hair is trying to pass one on. Causes a feedback, which builds up then you go touch something and zap.

I'm saying there reasoning for it building up (granted they give 'no' detail as to WHY it builds up, just that it does) and have no way of re-directing it with in the ship is bullshit. It sounds more like they hear NASA was scared of static electricity (which they where) but didn't bother to understand why or how.

Point is the how is very important, and when it has to do with something that can be solved just by creating a current it just seems... well it just seems like they didn't think it through. Shit you can disrupt a static electric charge by spraying water in the air.

That is what grounding is btw, connected current. Doesn't really 'require' the planet. Anyway, I still think the whole was BS and they just thought it sounded too. I still hold by any static electrical charge strong enough to 'try' it's passengers would fry the ships systems WAY before it ever got to that point (we're talking a lightning machine levels of build up like we use to test jets systems), and would ultimately of had to solved this issue 'just' to fly anywhere to begin with due to that.

you know, unless you wanted a buncha ships shitting them selves after an hour of FTL because all there internal systems shocked them selves to death and now you just have a floating ghost ship with a buncha alive passengers wondering why the hell they got on the thing in the first place.

I would remake the ME trilogy. Have the collectors be a long side mission in ME2 with the main mission getting to darkspace where its learn that to stop the reapers, Harbinger needs to be destroyed which takes place in ME3