Andromeda Initiative briefings (6/6 Golden Worlds and Settlements)

OH YAY, NEW STUFF.

"Greetings, Recruits! I am Avina!"

Avina.

AVINA.
PREODER CANCELLED.

I've treasured an irrational hatred of Avina since ME1. Apparently I can get away from the damn Reapers, but there's no escape from Avina. Not even in a brand new galaxy. -raptor scream-

Seriously, it actually looks pretty cool. And if I can ignore/flee from Avina, I'll forgive this evil.

So far it does appear as if Bioware has messed up. But I reserve judgment until we hear more of the story. 

I'm beginning to wonder if you even played Mass Effect or read the codex.

All Sovereign had to do was kill the planners. Indoctrinated agents or geth would suffice. Or collectors or their agents. All of these were employed throughout all the Mass Effect story.

The Normandy was an example of the most advanced technology available. It could not make a 600 year trip to another galaxy due to many technological limitations - most which have already been mentioned in this thread and are also in the Mass Effect codex. Read them.

The Citadel and the Mass Relays were advanced technology we didn't understand and could not replicate. Even the Protheans had difficulty doing so, they only managed a small-scale prototype of a mass relay. The Reapers devised this technological mouse trap so that when civilizations started to approach understanding this technology - they would be wiped out roughly every 50000 years. Any attempt to escape this mouse trap - the Nexus - would have been stomped. 

Cerberus was anti-alien long before any indoctrination. That was their whole shtick... did you not pay attention to them being described in ME1? Or the conversation you could have with Miranda about them being anti-alien? They only approached cooperation with aliens when faced with the Reaper threat. 

Why would Sovereign worry about the project? it doesn't go against the Reaper plans, it doesn't compromise his presence and as far as he cares it wont be done by the time the Reaper purge begins, he could've sabotaged other projects, but he didn't, most likely to not alert the Milky way species to his or the Reapers' existence.

Why would they let anyone escape their mouse trap? It's all designed to catch races reaching a certain technological point and then convert them into a new Reaper or destroy them. What's the logic behind letting a race (or races) they're trying to convert or destroy escape to another galaxy?

No, things did not slip through. That was the whole point about the Reapers and what made them scary. The whole point of the Mass Effect trilogy was that the sentient technologically advanced races were doomed unless they could somehow defeat the Reapers.

These guys just flying away willy-nilly takes away all the doom. It's silly. 

...No I think that part has been made very clear.  And again.  I do.  

Already answered that, several times in this thread. 

I disagree. The prothean beacons slipped through as did the plans for the Crucible. The protheans themselves slipped through by hiding on Ilos even though they experienced technical difficulties that ended in their eventual extinction. And though we ourselves don't experience it in game, Liara said she has found evidence that a cycle was re-occurring where races were wiped out, and that there were other civilizations before the Protheans. If you choose the refusal ending, the next cycle finds your messages and defeats the reapers. So yes, things got through. The reapers are not as thorough as they would like you to believe.  Besides, the reapers have limited resources and actions they could do. As others have already pointed out, the Collectors taking any action against us would have drawn our attention and ruined the surprise that the reapers wanted by coming.

The ARK only holds 20,000 humans. There is no guarantee that they will even make it--or if they do, that they will survive. And with such a low number, I still don't think the reapers would even care. Their focus seems to be the Milky Way galaxy.

No, the Protheans didn't escape. They died as a result of what the Reapers did to their civilization, only leaving scraps of their tech behind, their Collector shells and sabotage of the Keepers. That's not the same as letting thousands of targeted species escape the galaxy unopposed. 

Again, this whole "The Reapers are not as thorough as they would like you to believe" is nonsense from the Mass Effect Trilogy perspective. They were very thorough and the species were very doomed. If this were not the case, there would be no drama for that series.