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

Both are in the military. If a uniform or armor have  been changed, everyone will wear the new style

It has nothing to do with Noveria

that depends I think on how fast and how quickly that new armour/uniform is rolled out though and he may have left the military in order to be part of the Andromeda Initiative so therefore may not have been eligible for an upgrade. I don't know though it's just a guess

Shepard has the N7 armor during the events of ME2, so unless there's an extreme number of N7's in the Alliance, I doubt it took a long time to roll out the new armor. If he left the military, why didn't he switch to the andromeda armor? 

One thing I forgot is that the Alliance is Bioware's military. They can do what they want even if I don't agree with it.

Anyone knows if there is a 1080p version of the video? I wanted to read what his bio says without straining my eyes.

Alec Ryder
Position: Pathfinder
Station: Hyperion
Born on Earth in 2129, Alec Ryder says his love of new frontiers was fostered by a childhood in the Sierra Nevadas. According to his service record he joined the Alliance military and was eventually assigned to Jon Grissom's historic expedition through the Charon Relay.
His experience made him a candidate for what would later be known as N7 training back on Earth. Alec continued military service, most notably on Shanxi in the First Contact War against the Turians
Assigned as a military attaché to the Citadel in the late 2160s, Alec became interested in artificial intelligence as a means of human advancement.

You're welcome. Glad I could help.

"Duurrrrrrr... Wha--!? Where am I? WhazzzZZ.....Zzzzz....zzz-*hic*! I'm drunk."

Nice to get info on all the human characters (aka the starter pack), interesting briefing. I wonder though how customizing Ryder will affect Dad Ryder? Will it be like Fallout 3 where you Dad's characteristics will try and change to somewhat match your look?

Of all things that need an explanation, the N7 logo is not one of them.

I hope backstories could give us different or additional dialog wheel options like DAI's race background. Also if we could use squadmates in cutscenes like in DA2 that would be cool too.

In the Orientation Briefing they gave us a few subjects for the next briefings. Now we did get Arks & Nexus and Tempest & Nomad briefings like they said, but the Pathfinder and Team was not mentioned in the Orientation.According to it we lack briefingson Outposts, Diplomacy protocols and weapons.
I am most interested in the outposts and colonies information as MEA seemed to be about colonization, finding a new home for humanity or others species what have you and yet we have nothing about that. I hope they did not drop the whole idea.