How do you feel about the premise not happening due to the Reaper invasion?

Have you guys tried read the official site...

99% of the Milky Way unexplored,

And the Andromeda Initiative's raison d'etre is to find a resource rich settlement and establish a reliable route to a destination 2.5 million light years distant? That takes 600 of our years to even travel to one way?

Riiight.

Fantastic logic. Who came up with such brilliance? Possibly the same guy that dreamt up the equally fantastic trilogy endings?

Same here. The reasons while illogical I can understand since not everything is done logically(after all in ME3 we throw everything into a superweapon we can only guess will even work) whereas the tech is more set in stone lorewise so makes a bigger issue to be curious/worried about. 

Agreed. I find the exploration motive to go Andromeda absurd, but there's so many things that people do and I don't understand so, ok, whatever... My Ryder probably only signed up because she was worried about her dad and her brother, or something like that, and I'll be just fine

The viability of the project tself and whether it  makes sense or not in the MEU, that's another thing, I understand concerns with that.

I'm going to roll with whatever they give us, though, because I really want a new BW game... I'll just try not to think much about it all, maybe stop reading the reasonable objections people who know lore well can come up with, since I usually don't get half of those on my own   Ignorance is bliss


Exactly

I don't see this as a reboot at all and the assertion that this tech doesn't exist or would cause dramatic changes is also wrong, in my opinion.

As far as I can see the tech does exist. The Citadel and other large space stations have their own discharge facilities. So it stands to reason that if you bring a big enough ship to carry it's own discharging facilities you can discharge whenever you want along the way. Even if they invented new tech to handle discharging it still wouldn't dramatically change anything. Nobody needs tech that allows them to go to places over several years when they already have an all you can eat buffet of unexplored places to go in the blink of an eye! In fact, if you didn't care about the time taken we already know they can use cryo and travel whereever they want using conventional propulsion without a Mass Effect core. If you can wait years, you can wait centuries right?

Not that it would be that difficult to believe that the AI came up with new tech. One of the biggest rewards for missions like the Apollo lunar landings was in all the technical innovations that it led to. Man's constant striving to explore further and further has always been the driver for human ingenuity and new technology.

The only thing you'd need for that tech to not matter to the status quo is if it required a ship the size of the Arks. Because those things would be prohibitively expensive if you weren't a billionaire eccentric willing to spend every penny you had to leave the MW behind.

People are just seeing issues that aren't there and having problems with a motivation that is 100% a real thing and ascribed to some of the most awe-inspiring accomplishments of human-kind.

I love Star Trek, but this is not Star Trek. Star Trek is all about parables and drawing narrative juice serially in each world it encounters with little consistent drama or arc within the ship.

Mass Effect is a much more coherent storytelling media. It's not serial or anecdotal. A continuous story is required, so the driving force within the arks and behind their initial departure is more important.

"Just 'cause exploration" is far too weak imo.

I agree, but I'm sure motivations and directives within the Initiative will be revealed during the story: we can't expect to know that much (or want to know I reckon) before release.

It will be super interesting if the launch was expedited due in some part to the perceived Reaper threat...it's a really interesting part of the Mass Effect timeline when they launch. Arrival hadn't happened yet but the Collector threat and Battle of the Citadel had, so there was a lot of rumor and speculation abound regarding Reapers/Collectors, whilst most were still disregarding it as myth and poppycock.

Exploration and expanding galactic reach is a great reason for a journey like the AI, it will be even tastier if there are some hidden motives tucked underneath the shroud of "Cause Exploration"....can't wait to find out.

1) I agree with this 1000%

2) Prediction: 2025 we get ME6, after 2 highly successful entries in the Andromeda galaxy, the Mass Effect series returns to the Milky Way after the successful reconnection of the 2 galaxies at the end of ME:A2. This game will require a VR interface with a minimum of 64GB of RAM... and will likely be promoted in tandem with the SteamVR4 headset, also Half-Life 3 is still no-where to be seen.....




/endprediction.

If we say we have a conservative 25 light year range (50 hours between charges, 12 light years per day), then we already know about a good 20 systems with planets within that.

Those trips doesn't even begin to compare with the AI. They were logical and had profit in mind.

Add to that compare the two technologies, for the Andromeda Initiative to reach another galaxy might as well be wooden ships trying to sail around the globe.