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

so how did the astronauts leave the moon with the eagle module still on its surface?

Well, we built the Crucible in only a few months, and that is bigger than Hyperion. Then again with the Crucible we had "everyone who can hold a hammer" working on it. 

By the way, i think it's MomRyder standong there alomgside with DadRyder. Otherwise why put one sibling and not both while at this point of the story it's obviously they a together.

Of course, I'm just saying if it was possible to make the journey with ME2-ME3 era tech, it would take 570 years.


By invoking the same powers of space magic ME:A is apparently running on.

Can't be, dumbasses have be able to use their idiotic cliche 'space magic' rather than using Occums Razor.

is it confirmed to be a monument at any point? Or is this just guessing to try and cover up BioWare's horrendous attention to detail?

Space is a pretty forgiving place to build big stuff.  I wouldn't assume that Dreadnoughts represent any kind of upper limit - warships need to be fast, but a civillian ship has no such limitation.  Even on Earth, there are a whole bunch of civilian ships that are bigger than any warship.

Not only that but that looks very like the Andromeda galaxy itself - which means it would have to be taken on the trip because once there you wouldn't be able to see all of it just as we can't see the Milky Way.

Isn't that the part that got left behind? There was a descent part and an ascent part.  Edit: there's a picture on the wiki. 

Also there's a video on UTube of the blast off of Apollo 17 here:

Well, I still think they are for escaping the Reapers. Remember the old ARKCON patch? Speculated to be short for "Ark Contingency"? I think somewhere along the line the devs changed it to Andromeda Initiative and targeted exploration as their marketing tag line in order to distance the game from negative associations with the Reapers and the ending backlash.

It might be that escaping the Reapers is a secret objective for what is advertised to the volunteers as an exploration mission, which we might only learn about in some optional codex entry or something.

By secret I meant hidden from the Reapers. It's just impossible for it to be built around the moon during ME3, if we consider the trailer canon. If it's not, then trying to date when the Arks are built is just baseless speculation, aka, what we've all done until now. If it's canon, and I don't see why BW would try blurring things like this at this point, then we can try and speculate what daddyRyder means by 'being part of the galactic community'. It would give us a narrower window. Is it after the First Contact war? Is it when humanity gets an embassy on the Citadel? Is it when Humanity gets a Council seat? I lean towards Council seat, even if it does leave very little time to build these massive Arks. Then again, it is possible they started building the Hyperion around the Moon, then finished and launched it somewhere else, along with the other ARKS, during some of the ME3 events.

Jesus Christ, that's a long ass post I won't be bothered to quote.

My point is that those folks add nothing to the topic, and their salt were watered down years ago, no point in discussing that Again. Period.