Size comparrison?

Still, it's huge, I wonder what kind of explanation BW will give us about funding of this.

Just shows how ridiculous this is as a concept in terms of taking less than a decade, being able to afford it, not being in the news, etc.

Interesting calculations on numbers of crew/expedition members

I have to say I didn't know what to think when I saw the thread title. I was half expecting a how humans compare to Krogans thread.

The Nexus is 25km long and all the arks are the size of the Destiny Ascension? Double lol.  MEA has broken my immersion before even playing.  Way to go Bio.

I was almost afraid to click on this.

Yeah I thought about that, but the gun runs along the ship. It's taking up at most 50% of the ship (it's probably closer to 30-35%). The ship looks like it's, ultimately, less available space then the DA but going off the assumption it's about the same your not going from 10k to 100k by just removing a large gun. If anything, that just means that's where all the cryopods are now taking up that space and the rest of the ships normal large ass ship that can accommodate 10k people.

Thanks! I'll check it out, again.

The Nexus' size definitely makes sense, if it is one day to serve as the heart of a mass relay to the Milky Way, as many of us immediately started guessing.

The Citadel is home to 17 million people. How freaking huge is the Nexus? I can see why some would question. Maybe the Nexus and Arks aren't as comparatively large as this image suggests?

This is what the creator of the image had to say on Reddit:

"Guesses, based on the "Join the Andromeda Initiative" video where it shows an alliance cruiser physically docked to the Hyperion. Then the Orientation video shows the Ark's scale to the Nexus. After that I used wikis and Troodon80's references on Deviantart for the other ships and structures."

https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/5cmk6m/meandromeda_starship_size_comparison/

Not exactly related, but I'd like some info on what kind of escort fleet is coming with the Initiative. It would be incredibly stupid/naive not to have at least a small fleet for each Ark/Nexus, but that would also render the project even harder to believe, resource-wise, seeing as how difficult it was for the Alliance to rebuild their fleet after ME1.

If they don't have an escort fleet, well, no wonder one of the Arks is immediately destroyed/disabled...

I was wondering whether they were going to wake everyone up on arrival - might make more sense to wake up some and keep the rest on ice (so to speak) until a habitable world is ready for them to inhabit.

Yeah I could see something like that, though they are expecting the planet they arrive at to be inhabitable. I'm sure they have some contingency plan in case the planet is inhabited already or was turned into a hostile environment during the trip or something.

Then you got some of those people may not even want to stick around and I'm sure most don't like the idea of being stuck in stasis while a skeleton crew 'finds a suitable place'. I mean putting your faith in the ship to get you there as a group is one thing. Being ok with other people deciding when your able to wake up is I dunno, seems worse to me somehow. Trusting a computer to just be like 'yeah we're here, everyone wake up' vs waiting for someone to find a place and flip the switch.

Then you have the Destiny Ascension 'fact' of nearly 10k 'crew members'. Not a crew of whatever plus a buncha civilians just living on the ship. Which leads me to think a ship that size probably needs a pretty damn big screw. I'd imagine it has multiple squads of engineers and people to deal with keeping the ship running in general. I mean if you think of Star Trek yeah you got some civilians on board (it has a lot of people) but the engineer team is huge. Not like 3 dudes are trying to run all over a small city keeping it working.

edit: I really, really hope we get to walk around on the  Hyperion prior to it going down. Looks like we where kinda sitting or chatting with the Asari doc prior to it all going to hell. Fingers crossed for something like that before... Booom.