Leaving Between ME 2 & 3 and Shepard's Involvement in AI

I hope not. With all that is wrong about this initiative, I want Shepard having nothing to do with it.

I disagree, I think it was relevant to bring up in many conversations during the 3rd game. For instance, any time Shepard was showing their resolve weakening, it would have made a lot of sense to say something like "Well, even if we fail, at least we know that we have people on their way to Andromeda who can rebuilt and continue on. That's something."

Because I don't know about you, but if I was the spearhead of the resistance against the Reapers, I'd sure as hell feel as though an unfathomably large weight had been lifted if I knew I (and the resistance) actually wasn't the last hope of the Milky Way. The stakes are still incredibly high, but they aren't extinction. That right there is why it doesn't make sense for Shepard to either know or not know about the Initiative, and right now it's looking like they did know and the send-off is canon.

My Shepard knew about it. The Andromeda Initiative asked her if she would be interested in going. She declined, but recommended dad Ryder.

Confirmed on twitter to be the case.


@thread we should probably accept that things won't make sense if you're trying to merge the Milky Way trilogy TL, with the Andromeda TL. So I'm hoping there's no mention at all of any Reapers, if there even is a mention of anything Shepard related at all. Because AFAIC this as an AU where there were no Reapers. 

But that's if the Arkships don't turn out to be a conspiracy to escape the Reapers, without telling the passengers. *Fingers crossed*

It could work if it was confidential, yes, but that has its own problems. We haven't had confirmation of how public the endeavour was yet, but it definitely doesn't appear to be a secret given they're building an Ark in Luna's orbit. The general tone also doesn't seem secretive.

Oh, it was definitely a meta thing, I agree, but I don't think it was only a meta thing. It was dual-purposed.

Not disbelieving, but do you have a link? Phrasing can be all-too-important for these things. And I've been out of the loop.

Oh, don't worry, I doubt they'll mention they Reapers. But it's not an alternate universe.

Sorry no.

But I was served with the link after I tried saying Shepard must have been alive because of vid.

I think it was Aaryn Flynn who knocked it down. It's nothing more than a final goodbye to fans from Shep.

Lol'd.

Shepard didn't know because there were no Arks in his trilogies. That came latter.

Also, although the Arks are privately funded, there are clearly Alliance dreadnoughts guarding or helping to build it. So it's not like the Alliance didn't even care about the absolute greatest project the Milk Way races ever built.

I whole heartedly believe that Shepard s\he most definitely knew about the AI but chose to keep quite because it is not relevant to s
\he at all.

In my canon my shepard he most definitely knew and was offered a chance to join the AI but refused because he has work to do dealing with the collectors and the Reapers and it wouldn't be right to just up and leave

If it wasn't secret then the whole galaxy will know, & if the galaxy knows then the reapers will know, & if that's the case then our Andromeda bound travelers are going to get seriously unwelcome visitors 600+ years down the line.