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

When did he join the project? Up until that point he was part of the Alliance

I do hope the game answers the question what happens to Alec Ryder that he is replaced as the pathfinder by either Scott or Sarah Ryder

Before posing with Jien in that new fancy armor, I presume.

I agree with this I to am so against the whole dad story, because right off the bat he is experienced and will overshadow the player characters. The whole point is for Scott and Sarah Ryder to get out from under is shadow and become there own character's and get experience and they can't do that when their dad is around 

Obviously he has a higher level and drain all the experience point, so our character cannot get experience when we hang out with him.

Geez, it is like you never played any RPG.

Also I might have missed the point.

That was a joke.

Well Bioware loves daddy issues (and sometimes grand-daddy and mother issues)
Liara, Ashley, Tali, Grunt, Miranda, Jacob, Morinth, Thane's son, the entire Geth race and EDI.
Dragon age had some but Mass Effect 2 will always be remembered for me as "Daddy issues special edition".
Every loyalty mission was "What your dad did this time ?"

And with the Ryders, Cora Harper, and the brief info we had on Vetra and her family issues, ME:A might be a worthy successor.

Probably the case, we are not a military force and even if we were we could not take on the Khet without help.
But I don't think Daddy Ryder is captured but instead lost or in enemy territory, one of the first trailer show him taking action action a small band of Khett.

I don't get why it runs out of power. Isn't ODSY supposed to go in complect with helium scooper?
Also why don't just drop them on Nexus for a while or at least get some fuel there?

So the Catalyst says only Shepard can be the one to decide the fate of the galaxy because he/she is already "partly synthetic" yet here we have an entire team of people not only with robot bits in their bodies but a fully fledged AI integrated with their brains.

Too bad we didn't have something like this back in ME 3, I'll bet we would have thrown a serious wrench into glow-brat's rhetoric.

I think it's because Hyperion is no longer really able to move much at all.  It's seriously damaged.  If we take our lead from Shakespeare's Tempest, it might be a natural "storm" that devastates Hyperion... a few wake up, SibRyder is either still asleep with the other 20,000 souls Alec mentions in the Cinematic Trailer or injured in some way such that it makes the most sense for that sibling to stay aboard Hyperion and look after those 20,000 souls.  Also, SAM may be in jeopardy of being "lost" since Hyperion is steadily losing power... perhaps the first step is somehow moving SAM to Tempest.  I suspect Tempest is the only functional ship left in Hyperion.  It happens to be weaponless.  Dittto for the nomad.  They (i.e. the patherfinder team) "strike out on their own" and soon after encounter Arkcon and the Khett... more disaster... Alec is either taken or we're forced to strand him on the planet with the Khett... and so begins the game.  Just like in the one trailer (E3 or N7 day one), to survive we need to find, steal, or craft EVERYTHING... all we have is a ship and a nomad... and, initially, Cora and Liam.

That's my guess, anyways.