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

Which would then explain why that little 'Uprising' was able to gain so much traction, no one has any guns.

Well, if neither the Nomad nor the Tempest have anything resembling an effective main gun, then the Nexus better turns out to be some kind of death star. Surely we didn't ship 20,000 colonists to an unknown galaxy with only hand held infantry weapons to defend them?

Because of humanity's "genetic diversity", because of our ability to conceive other aliens to abandon their home worlds to come Take Back Earth despite it have no tactical significance, because it was only us humans who were able to unravel the mysteries of the Leviathans, track down the Shadow Broker, invent QECs; communication capabilities outside the Relay network; conceive of the concept for carrier class ships, achieve Spectre and Council status in less than thirty years, etc. 

BioWare will try and stack the odds against us, but every depiction of humanity in-universe has us as the undisputed ubersmench of the setting. It will come across as more of a forced attempt at seeing us as underdogs rather than a genuine plight and fear for our species (IMO).

I thought we were just gonna seduce them?

I can understand the Nomad having no guns from a developer's point of view, as it involves more work adding the game mechanics and balancing out combat. However, not equipping the ship with a main gun makes no sense. Most of those combat scenes are subject to cut scenes anyway, so it shouldn't involve that much more effort.

What's more, the sheer idea of an organisation visiting a different galaxy of which they have no clue what it actually contains, and simply have them assume their ships will be able to outrun or hide from any potential foe is laughable.

I think for the Tempest is more about it being a recon ship, although the Initiative as whole is shaping up to be too much optimistic, clueless or propaganda with their statements. Which is likely the reason behind the protests and separations.

I like the interrupt mechanic more compared to the trilogy. The animation of the whole scene was...meh. Hopefully it improved a bit.

Gentiles? I think you mean genitals.

Go, non-Jewish people! Seduce the aliens!

The Tempest looks cool, and our pilot looks like a fun character. I'll probably enjoy interacting with him.

Would have liked to see some of the other crew members, but I can understand why they wouldn't want to reveal so much of the primary cast at this stage. 

Our attempts at space exploration are based on the same concepts too. Of course the same argument can be made that they know that other species can be hostile but if exploration of the unknown is the main objective and they do not know what they will find, having more guns or less guns is irrelevant in a recon team. Also we do not know the shape of the military, we are not N7s so we run and do not engage most probably in space fights.