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

I'm pretty sure that they will be the cutscenes that will cover the planet loading screen. 

Exactly.
Hence, the "seamless" transitions between the Tempest and surface of the planet you choose to land (or crash, lol) on.

Someone was complaining about contrails in space...why are the contrails in space....its called "Drama" and it "Looks" cool, if you want realism dont play Mass Effect go get involved with Star Citizen

Alec Ryder is an N7. At least he wears the insignia.

I hope these Briefings are toned as intentional in-universe marketing to a foolish extent by foolish people.

And that even the ending of MEA implies that the Tempest is getting some damn guns (after the game's story).

It'd be funny to look back on these videos for how much they expected Andromeda to just 'work out' for the AI.

Clearly, but that doesn't mean he's still active duty Alliance; thus falling into the private military category.

Everyone's known by their title of achievement and rank after leaving their post, so it doesn't mean that Alec Ryder still has to be actively serving the Alliance to be an N7 or still have his armor.

Regardless, as a private entity, Ai would get most of their personnel from the private sector and anyone who was military is either on permanent loan or joined the project after they left the military. The military wouldn't pad this with special forces, because then they wouldn't have special forces where they need them and would have to rebuild from scratch.

Just send your infantry out onto the hull of the ship and shoot the pirates 

"This is what you get for not doing the Green ending!"

The green ending would actually be more about complete peace

The two questions the briefing raises for me:

How will we be able to use the mining probes? will they be able to be deployed indepndently where you can say to yourself 'ok we are about to go into combat, quick lets deploy the probes,' and then they do their thing and come back? Or will we have to sit their and wait for them to do their thing?

And just how effective will the Nomad be in combat? Granted I would have assumed based on similar information it would work like the DA I horses but the fact that we have some defensive means to assault enemies suggest the Nomad has at least a little combat utility?

There's no point being armed to the teeth if you encounter hostile aliens like the Kett. Either way, you're screwed. 200k people do not stand a chance in hell against a cluster-wide civilization, being armed just delays the inevitable - run away, or die. It's a strategic choice. Your only choice, in fact, is to be sneaky. The colonists on Mindoir didn't stand a chance against the Batarians. It's the same situation here. The AI cannot prosecute a conventional war against someone like the Kett with a hope of winning. Furthermore, "does not have a main gun" is not the same as "has no defensive weapons".  Having many weapons just gives the illusion of choice/hope in your defensive strategy.  No amount of guns on the Nexus would save it from a hostile armada.

Also, plenty of people have made one way trips in history. The vast majority of colonists and migrants throughout history, in fact, made their one way journey knowing they would not return. I don't believe the physical distance has any real bearing on this. Rather, it's the mental distance. We know the AI plans to reestablish contact with the Milky Way. It's not much different to the thousands of Austronesians who left Borneo to settle Madagascar (this actually happened - and they really had minimal contact with their forebears until the Age of Empire). And what of the Asians who migrated across the Bering Straits to settle the Americas and eventually completely forget about all other humans? Even in modern times, there are tens of thousands of people who got duped by Mars One, the Ark doesn't have many more than that.

But yes, the cabin is a little large.