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

My point still stands. This maiden voyage is still not taking every species with it; it's only a super small number of select populations.

They did escape actually. However, they had trouble with their stasis pods on Ilos; thus, they ended up dying out.

You can ignore the evidence in game all you want, but it's in there even if we disagree about the protheans; the other things still get through regardless. *shrug* I've stated my case, which is based on things directly from the game.

The things that "got through": were a broken beacon here, a dozen scientists there, blueprints squirreled away in an underground archive, some cuttlefish crashing on Spongebob's couch.  Hints, bits and pieces of tech, clues that might interest archaeologists, but nothing to interest the galaxy in general.

We're talking about a major project involving tech that would allow the MW to escape the Reaper trap.  Possibly as many as a hundred thousand colonists can escape the Reaper harvest, establish new homeworlds, and continue growing and developing outside the Reaper cycles.  This is something that could defeat the very purpose of the cycles.  They'd be all over something like this to make sure it didn't happen.

Each ark still has the population of a good-sized town, and I imagine the Nexus has a similar population.  That's pretty major.  And again, if they establish colonies, they will continue to grow, develop, and, to the Reapers' minds, develop synthetic life.  Which will "inevitably" revolt, kill them all, and quite likely come back to the Milky Way and kill everyone there.  Even assuming the Reapers are only interested in in the MW, that is something that should concern them.

This. Ignoring facts doesn't validate your ideas, on the contrary.

IF everything had been according to their plans the Keepers would have opened the Citadel and the Reapers would have harvested everyone but that didn't happen. And then Sovereign second attempt also failed to achieve their objective and a few more years later they also lost their biggest assets inside the Milky Way, the Collector's, and their backdoor to the galaxy.

Reapers were powerfull but they weren't infallible. I don't see how them being unable to do something against the Andromeda Iniciative as a lore breaker. It's not like they haven't failed before like with the Crucible plans or the Leviathan hiding in Despoina.

Specially considering that the Reapers are either destroyed, controlled or merged with everyone else by the end of Mass Effect 3.

Specially considering that the Reapers are either destroyed, controlled or merged with everyone else by the end of Mass Effect 3.

As Almostfaceman pointed out, they didn't escape.  So many Protheans died there weren't enough to sustain the race.  The Reapers won.  At best, they got a Refusal Ending.

Keep in mind also, The Shepard ( ) isn't going on this trip.  And the Andromeda Initiative is not a secret set of blueprints hidden in an underground bunker.  Nor an underwater habitat hidden off the grid.  This is five massive star ships using tech that can break dependence on the relay network the Reapers so carefully cultivated.  This isn't a dozen Protheans hiding underground, this is tens of thousands of colonists fleeing the trap.

Which as has been stated they could not have done anything about that at that point anyways.

And that's been soundly refuted. They had indoctrinated agents, Collectors, geth, Sovereign. The Reapers always had methods of control in place to ensure they snagged the species at a certain point in their development, even without the legions presence. 

They wouldn't need to control the project even if they had an agent inside, because they would know that the project wouldn't be done by the time the citadel would've inserted the Reaper fleet into our galaxy.

They wouldn't need to control the project even if they had an agent inside, because they would know that the project wouldn't be done by the time the citadel would've inserted the Reaper fleet into our galaxy.

That's making an assumption that the Reapers wouldn't plan for failure when it would be so easy to plan for failure. Nobody was really aware of indoctrination on any wide spread scale, it would have been near impossible to prevent or detect for most of the galaxies inhabitants and organizations.